
<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><div><div>"You fall nineteen stories, what do you get</div><div>Another life gone and a trip to the vet</div><div>Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go</div><div>I'll owe my soul to a screened window."</div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Courtesy of Animal Rescue League of Boston at:</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><a href="http://home.arlboston.org/2012/03/22/cat-survives-19-story-plunge-from-high-rise-window/"></a><a href="http://home.arlboston.org/2012/03/22/cat-survives-19-story-plunge-from-high-rise-window/"><a href="http://home.arlboston.org/2012/03/22/cat-survives-19-story-plunge-from-high-rise-window/">http://home.arlboston.org/2012/03/22/cat-survives-19-story-plunge-from-high-rise-window/</a></a></div><div> <br><span>----------------------------</span></div><div><span></span><br><span><h1 class="topHeadline" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(30, 94, 156); display: block; letter-spacing: -0.02em; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><h1 class="entry-title" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-weight: 400; font-family: proxima-nova-1, proxima-nova-2, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.3em; font-size: 24px; letter-spacing: normal; ">Cat Survives 19-Story Plunge from High Rise Window</h1></h1></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>BOSTON -- A veterinarian says acting like a flying squirrel may have saved a cat from serious injury in a 19-story plunge from a Boston high rise.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Sugar the cat had no broken bones or cuts, just some bruising on her lungs after the fall from a window owner Brittany Kirk had opened to enjoy the recent unseasonably warm weather.</span><br><span></span><br><span>The Animal Rescue League estimates Sugar fell between 150 and 200 feet.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Kirk tells WBZ-TV she thinks Sugar used up "one or two or maybe eight" of her nine lives.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Veterinarian Hugh Davis says in falls from high places, cats splay their legs in a "flying squirrel position" which slows their descent.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Kirk calls Sugar's survival a "miracle" and says building management has since installed a screen in her window.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span></span>---------------</div><div><br></div>Many thanks to Rescue Services and Boston Veterinary Care’s Dr. Hugh Davis for their great work yesterday. Thankfully, ”Sugar” is okay after her ordeal.<div><br></div><div><img src="cid:B4B57AED-22BB-488E-8514-EECB95DA50A0" alt="image.jpeg" id="B4B57AED-22BB-488E-8514-EECB95DA50A0" width="600" height="358" apple-original-width="600" apple-original-height="358"><br><span></span><br><span>----------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Seeya Sunday, Moscow.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Tom Hansen</span><br><span>Wallace, Idaho</span><br><span></span><br><span>"If not us, who?</span><br><span>If not now, when?"</span><br><span></span><br><span>- Unknown</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br></div></div><div></div></div><div></div></div><div></div></body></html>