Cat Survives 11-Story Fall at Alaska Apartment

[Tuesday Afternoon]

JUNEAU, Alaska September 6, 2013 (AP)

A house cat in Alaska learned the hard way not to chase mosquitoes after following one out a window and falling 11 stories.

The 2-year-old cat, named Wasabi, survived but suffered a fractured leg and broken bones.

The Juneau Empire reports the cat was chasing the mosquito Monday in her owners' apartment in Juneau, about two blocks from the state Capitol.

The mosquito escaped out a window, and Wasabi went after it. Stephanie Gustafson says her mother watched the female cat fall.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/cat-survives-11-story-fall-alaska-apartment-20181838

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Information from: Juneau (Alaska) Empire, http://www.juneauempire.com

[steve2470]

1. poor kitty, poor owners nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. and damn pesky mosqutios!!

[mockmonkey]

3. One of my cats almost went through the screen

I heard a big commotion in the other room and I looked around and saw nothing. Later I was outside and noticed one of my cats was on the window ledge now without a screen.

I think Jake the cat tried to get at something and ran into the screen and pushed it part way out and then that made him panic and run and hide and then Cappy Dick went to the window and knocked it out completely.

Cappy is not the smartest cat so I was really worried when I got back upstairs that he might jump out. It was the 2nd floor and he's a big cat and maybe he would have been alright if he had jumped.

I would have freaked if my cat had fallen 11 stories.

[alphafemale]

4. I had a friend who's cat fell from an 11th floor window.

Kitten, actually. About 3 months maybe.

The fall was actually ten floors though because it landed on a one story part of the building at the base.

That part caused more panic for my friend because she had to find a way to get to the top of that roof and it was around midnight or later.

Then finding an all night vet....

She cried all the way.

Turns out the cat wasn't even all that injured.

I have seen theories since that they spread out sort of like a flying squirrel.

But after that I nicknamed the cat Thud.

[hunter]

5. I hate to post this, but cats reach "terminal velocity" at 5-6 stories.

Higher up they tend to hit the ground in nine-lives mode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-rise_syndrome