How High can a Cat Fall from and Still Survive?
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In the video today we're looking at how high a cat can be dropped or fall from and still survive. Turns out, there's a reason our feline friends are said to have nine lives. :-)
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Uhhhh, I free fell 30 feet out of a tree & survived! Don't get me wrong, there was an F-ton of pain, but what Simon prolly shoulda said was '...either that, or gather around your hospital bed because you're now in a full body cast!' Nutshell: My life didn't flash before my eyes so I knew it was gonna hurt!
love from egypt
We were noting the point at which you are more likely to die than to survive, as in after the threshold a greater than 50% of dying. People have survived falling from thousands of feet as noted. :-) Also if you fell from a tree and hit any branches on the way down, that further increases your chance of survival. -Daven
Oh, you missed the disclaimer about no animals being harmed during the making of this video. Now you'll probably suffer a tidal wave of tirades from cat ladies and PETA people. Which suggests a new video about how likely they are to survive falls from great heights without injury. Perhaps done in accompanyment of a very methodical scientific study? No? Well, something to consider in your ever branching video empire.
Would you do a video about the wing suit crowd and what determines the best "wing" size ? The wings seem too small. Why aren't they bigger?
I watched a Cat fall 220ft or 22 storeys and survive. I went and picked it up and found it had blood coming out its mouth, so I called a Vet out. It had only bitten it's tongue, and had a little shock. They are amazing animals
Lmao I love cats and the only reason I laugh is picturing the cat like "it's all good, just bit my tongue"
James, you're a champ for taking that cat to a vet
Bro fist
Cat: Falls 22 stories and bites it's tongue - no fuss
Me: Doesn't fall any distance but bites my tongue - big fuss
Holy crap you are great.
Who's cat was it? Did you give it back?
My grandmothers cat fell from her balcony high up in an apartment building... They couldnt find her and assumed she was dead... But a few days later to their amazement they found her unscathed hiding in some bushes scared and they took her back in. That cat never tried to walk the edge of the balcony anymore...
And that's why they say cats have nine lives :-)
That's mad trauma right there...
My mother's cat fell 14 stories and was fine. The cat was 13yo at the time too.
My family Adopted a tuxedo cat from the shelter. He has 3 legs because the previous owner’s kid threw him off a balcony. We named him tripod and he’s the sweetest cutie ever.
I wanna drop that person off a balcony 😳😢
Aww. Thanks for giving him a good home! Phooey on the POS who did that to him.
@Tl2aV never made a typo?
A person throwing a cat of a balcony isn't a person anyways
@@stephjovi
To be fair, you don't know how old that kid was at the time.
@@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou wtf? Old and big enough to throw a cat over a balcony obviously. I've had cats since I was 3. There's never an excuse for that
When I was in first grade the neighbors cat fell off their balcony, their 8th floor balcony. The husband went down to look for the cat, or he figured the cat's body, and found no cat. Two weeks later as the wife was coming home from work the cat walked up to her in the parking lot with an attitude of "Oh, hey, my adventure is over. I'm ready to go home now." They took the cat to the vets and besides having lost a little weight the cat was totally fine.
Part of my brain is finding this interesting, the other part wants to know who the hell is throwing cats out the window!
Edit: Apparently I need to add the disclaimer that I was not being serious...
Same
Me
evil scientists
tiki trash not evil, I’d say its avoiding morality for science and factual knowledge 🙂
Cats fell of their own accord. -Daven
"You'll be there in body but not in spirit," would have been a good one for your funeral joke.
The joke would have been lost on people like me, who do that on a daily basis.
@yondaime500 Do what on a daily basis-suppress any all senses of humor and irony, even the most obvious?
@Cognitive Impact It did certainly seem like a missed opportunity in the video. So much so that I just kinda filled it in for Simon.
@@acridineorange EXACTLY! My brain filled in the punchline before he finished the sentence.
My 20 pound bengal fell from my balcony on a 4th floor and was as if he had jumped from the table. No injuries at all
I’m amazed at the amount of people in the comments who think the scientists threw the cats out of buildings.
Same
Aw your saying they didnt?
The problem is that they didn't. That's why there is so much doubt about the validity of the statistics. Perhaps they should perform a controlled experiment. 😲😲
Your right
Well scientists at least of old do not have a good track record. If scientists can take 20 orphan babies and hold 10 of them and talk to them as they are fed and the other ten only hold the bottle for the babies but not hold them or talk to them to find out what would happen. I do believe all ten of the no contact babies died even though they got enough food......well then maybe they can throw cats out window stories up
"Blackie," my brother's cat jumped out of our window in trying to catch a pigeon. We live on the 13th floor, he survived the fall. That's over 130ft he fell, though he did bounce off my downstairs neighbor's air conditioning unit on the 12th floor and he and the AC Unit fell the remaining 120ft together.
Epic!
LOL I'm imagining the neighbors trying to get their insurance to pay for a new air conditioner "A cat fell on it and knocked it down. Yes, we do live on the 12th floor."
@@limiv5272 To be fair, if a light cat landing on it would rip it out, then it was only a very short way from a gust of wind doing the same, and lucky nobody was on the ground where it hit.
Was the air conditioner OK?
I remember watching a documentary several years ago about cats landing on their feet. The documentary in question also noted the higher injury rate from shorter falls. They explained that the shortest of these falls often resulted in greater injury due to the cat having less time to properly right themselves (as a cat falls, it twists its body to get its legs and feet underneath it, so regardless of what position they began falling in, they tend to "always land on their feet" as the saying goes). In other words if the cat was unable to rotate their body in a way that allowed them to land on their feet, which was more common in shorter falls, their potential for injury was much higher, even with a shorter falling distance.
I found out which paw was dominate with my two cats when I spied on them and watched what paw they held the pen/pencil in to make withdraws from my bank account to by 'catnip'...
Reminds me of the story of Jack Lucas. He was in the battle of Iwo Jima in WWII at the ripe age of 17. During a fight he jumped on a grenade and pulled a second one under his body to save 3 other Marines. He survived.
Later, to conquer his fear of heights, he joined the 82nd Airborne Division as a paratrooper. During his first jump of 1000 feet neither of his parachutes deployed. He survived.
My father left a Lancaster sans parachute, as it, along with the plane, were well ablaze. He woke up in an Austrian hospital 6 weeks later, after being found, apparently dead, in a snow bank under a pine tree. Morgue doctor listened, found a heartbeat, so he got a hospital bed. Back burnt all over, broken neck, broken jaw, broken collarbones, broken ribs, broken arms and broken legs, but he recovered well.
He found out from the nurses that, once well, he was to be transferred to a concentration camp, Auschwitz, so decided, with a little help from the nurses, to escape, along with another British POW in the hospital as well. Borrowed an Adler staff car, and they went for the Swiss border a few kilometres away.
SeanBZA wow! That’s phenomenal. What happened after that?
@@tjj2040 Made it to the Swiss border, but they wanted to send them back as German deserters ( dad spoke fluent German, as he had been living in Germany till 1939 going to school there, but was in the UK when war was declared. British passport) so they hit the policeman and tossed his ink pot onto him, so they went up before a judge the next day instead. got the confirmation that they were UK POW's later on, and got repatriated to the UK.
Every time he went to Switzerland after the war he had to tell the Customs that he had a Swiss arrest warrant, and explain the story again. If they asked he would turn and show his back, all one massive scar from the skin grafts the Austrian doctors had put there to save his life.
@Mr Lesir Nah, they blew. At least one of them did.
Main character right there
Our cat fell from our 8th floor apartment, onto concrete. No injury, lived for years after the incident.
When I was a kid. I watched a cat role off a third story window ledge, fall, bounce about two feet off the ground and take off like a rocket ..
One of the craziest things I've seen .. lol
I pictured that entire story and thought....."yep...I could see that!"
When I was a kid I saw a cat on a tree branch at about 15 mt. trying to jump to the roof of a nearby house but misjudged the distance and fell. I was about 50mt. away and from there I heard a funny hollow noise like a *kook* when the poor cat hit the ground and landed on his head, it just sprang up and ran like hell. I always wondered if that cat was ok after such hit in the noggin.
lets see... for science.
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according to a study..exactly how did they perform this study..lol
@@JohnSmith-kz8yo By throwing cats from different heights. How else do you think science is achieved? Same goes with what temperatures can kill a human, how long can people hold their breaths underwater and other experiments documented as war crimes.
Terminal velocity, not to be confused with termination velocity.
How did they get the data for this study? I'm imagining scientists chucking cats out the window.
He said at the beginning of the video of that this data was compiled from various veterinary clinics and other sources that report cats falling from various Heights. He also mentioned the unknown factor leaving to a questionable margin of error in these findings
My cat fell from my 7th floor apt window and survived with a sprained ankle that took 2 weeks of nursing to heal
Mine 4 floors and also sprained foot poor lamb cost me 2k but that’s nothing to have her still with me
Smaller object => Higher surface area/mass ratio. This has two primary effects which reduce impact forces. First: a higher drag coefficent/gravity ratio (lower terminal velocity), second: lower stress during an impact.
Are you saying people with dwarfism are more likely to survive a fall?
"if your cat wants into your room see what paw they use"
Does vocal cords count as paws? because mine just meow till i get annoyed.
When I'm playing a videogame my dog sits down next to my feet and stares right into my eyes until I give her attention. She can keep that up (without moving at all) for about an hour. Now, just staring might not sound so bad, but it's the type of piercing stare that you can feel in your bones that you'll feel even if you're not looking at her.
@@torvamessorem6686 At least your dog has respect. i only have 1 cat that has that kinda respect, pretty sure shes a dog. all the others just crawl on top of me till i toss them off my lap. She'll sit there at my feet while im watching something and either stare at me or watch tv with me while on the floor till i tap the couch and she knows shes allowed up. She only does that if im sitting on the couch. otherwise she just climbs on it.
When I'm sleeping, my cat hops onto my computer desk and starts knocking stuff over until she finds something to make a loud enough bang to wake me up. 😂😂😂
@@DeannaJacksonDJsDelectables you have one of THOSE cats.
My parents got hearing problems, so they installed a wireless doorbell at cat height...
Imagine out there, somewhere, there's someone writing his dissertation on spreading peanut butter on cats' noses and seeing which paws the cats use to rub the smell off. Yes, my good sir, that person has won life!
Alinity: See guys? The cat wasn’t even hurt when I threw it
Yes
I've "thrown" a cat off a table before, as with dogs as well. her "throwing" a cat was more of a drop from maybe 4 feet. i've seen cats jump way higher than that and survive. how about the spanish youtuber who literally slammed his kitten on the ground? now that's a throw.
I wouldn't consider myself an animal abuser just because i picked them up off a table and tossed them off. (most of the time i just push them off till they jump down, but no different than picking them up and pushing forward while letting go.)
If a human can survive a fall of 4 feet, a cat can survive it too. if you die at 4 feet, you might just be the worst animal possible. i know insects that survive that.
7 stories is ~70 feet. humans die at about 2-3 stories if they land on concrete or water. (Usually...some survive way more out of luck)
A 3-legged dog limps into a saloon and says. "I'm lookin' fer the man that shot my paw"
Man, that is funny!!! 💖💖
oh lord..I heard that one in elementary school..
In case you didnt want to watch the video
Magic.
Cats are magic that's why
Dark magic
@@chadfalardeau9162 the best kind.
So that's why cats are associated with witches..
deceleration trauma
because it's not the fall that kills you but the sudden stop
Our first cat once jumped off our fourth-floor balcony and escaped without a scratch to her body, but severely shocked (she never tried that stunt again). Our present cat regularly runs up trees up to three stories high and, once the coast is clear and the neighbours' dog had been shooed away, jumps down with perfect agility and ease, and still manages to bring a dead mouse or two onto the dinner table a short while later.
But you will attend the get-together after that tumble. After all, you're the guest of honour and you even get a nice casket to rest in.
Tiddles did a swan dive from 8 floors, onto the concrete pavement, after failing to negotiate a jump from one window to another. He survived, though he did break both front legs and his jaw. Lived a good number of years afterwards, just was very wary of windows then.
SeanBZA did...did you name you cat after the Monty Python skit were graham chapman flinched a cat into a bucket? Cause its name was tiddles.
@@Celica-DGM Was not my cat, but the neighbour above. I just so happened to be at the ground floor when Tiddles completed his jump, and rushed out to find him, lying there. Picked him up gently, and carefully took him up to his owner, who rushed him to the vet. Next day Tiddles was wearing a pair of plaster casts, had a shaved jaw with stitches in there and was very unhappy.
@@horrificpleasantry9474 Better than "Tiddles pooched the jump"
My uncle had a survivor. Sebastian took 22 floors and walked away living to the ripe old age of 18.
When I was younger, I used to always tell my mother that our cat could survive jumping off the balcony. I’m very happy.
My dad used to tell the story of a cat that loved to jump between the balconies of his housing complex. One of tenets screened in their balcony and didn't bother to tell the cat. He fell five flights and survived, but he was a mean cat after that.
His cat used to run around in circles in the living room before running into the kitchen and sliding on the smooth floor. One time he heard him revving up and hid behind the door in the kitchen. When the cat hit the kitchen floor, he yelled , "BOO!" The cat leaped straight up, flipped around, came down facing him, and went, "Rowr". My dad absolutely lost it! :-)
Hands down the best thumbnail you've ever had on a video. Simon looks freaking hilarious.
Does this remind anyone else of the commercial with cats skydiving and forming a hald held circle while i believe i can fly was playing? Lol
My grandpa was actually a DVM, who took part in one of the earliest studies of "High Rise Syndrome". They had some *really* crazy theories about how the cats survived the larger falls...
Well, I suppose if I lived in an apartment and had a cat, I can feel slightly less nervous about them being on the balcony. Slightly.
Request... Why is weed illegal (or was in some cases) when there are apparently no recorded deaths by use yet almost every other legal or illegal drug has recorded deaths against its name.... Bonus request 😉 - i heard a dude died from a huge amount if weed landing on him, myth or truth?
It was made illegal because some guy claimed it made white woman want to sleep with black men. (No, I'm not joking) and the answer to the second one is yes
@@Warigar That may be the case in 1 country but not all. I think that is also a part story. I believe it was mainly scaremongering but " 1 guy said" isnt the full story. Ive read quite a bit about the history and uses of weed but never checked the research or thier sources.
Appreciate the reply amigo.
@@acehighjohn1759 I just know that was one of the main cases if not the main one that made it a schedule 1 drug which meant scientists couldn't research it. They also claimed it had no medical properties yet they also patented a bunch of compounds found in weed as for the lack of better word "medicine"
Mom and I thought if a good question for you: Why don't women have the same heart attack symptoms as men?
While I am truly interested in knowing the answer, my fear is the answer will be "their pesky hormones get in the way".
@@rachelb4398 maybe, but my Aunt was about 70 when she had hers. She thought she had the flu.
I have a feeling the answer would be "we don't know yet". I'd love to know though
@@limiv5272 me too.
Hmm, Ralph Garman was just talking about this on the Ralph Report.
Not from a plane; but I had a cat who squeezed out of our 9th story apartment window, and all she sustained was a broken hip. At the vet (in Manhattan) we learned that they had seen a cat that fell 33 flights who hadn't gotten any injury at all.
Not surprisingly they said these were the injuries that came into the clinic at night. We noticed the cat was missing, noticed the window was open a crack, and found her outside, below the window, at about 9:30 PM. The vet said if not for falling cats their would be no need for 24 hour medical service for falling cats.
So how many cats do I need to leash on me to survive?
Unfortunately, the act of tethering oneself to a cat does not rub off their survival abilities to you. However, the cats might have a nice, fleshy human to land on (you), increasing *their* chances of survival.
@@macsnafu I guess that *entirely* depends on who lands on top...
How many fluffy kittens would cushion my landing?
@@Sleeping_Insomiac They'd probably claw you to death before you reach the ground
@@limiv5272
*HA!*
They can't!
Since cats will always land on their feet, I'll be absolutely safe from their claws!
I'm a genius!
Would you do a video about the wing suit crowd and what determines the best "wing" size ? The wings seem too small. Why aren't they bigger?
Idea for a future video: if we regenerate our skin (and other related tissue) rather quickly, why do we end up with scars?
To remind us to not do that again
There's just something about "smashing" that like button, as opposed to hitting it, that makes me kinda giggle.
@Mycel Bell rung.
There is a naughty implication there 😅 I never noticed that!
@Mycel TeeHeeHeeHeeHee! :-)
@Mycel I don't know how to feel about it, either. And I'm more than three times seven, and we'll leave it at that.
Uhhhh, I free fell 30 feet out of a tree & survived! Don't get me wrong, there was an F-ton of pain, but what Simon prolly shoulda said was '...either that, or gather around your hospital bed because you're now in a full body cast!' Nutshell: My life didn't flash before my eyes so I knew it was gonna hurt!
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We were noting the point at which you are more likely to die than to survive, as in after the threshold a greater than 50% of dying. People have survived falling from thousands of feet as noted. :-) Also if you fell from a tree and hit any branches on the way down, that further increases your chance of survival. -Daven
I spent a week getting my dog to repeatedly sign his name to find out which is his dominant paw.
Turns out he can't write.
Journalist Gordon Baxter wrote a story for an aviation magazine about a cat that liked to skydive without a parachute. The pilots even gave it a tube to slide through
I had a cat who climbed an electrical post when she was fairly young. When she realized there were no branches, she went higher, and every time she stopped she acted confused and went higher. Of course she couldn't safely come down, and when she was near the top she just hung and cried. I finally went to my neighbor's (no one was home) and borrowed a 40-foot ladder that was in his yard. Habibti was a little nervous, but she knew what to do from there, and never climbed an electrical post again. When I had another kitty several years later who got himself stuck in a tree I had a better idea how to help him out of it.
My step-mother's cat fell from a high apartment window and came out of it as far as I know completely uninjured. Fascinating that this is evidently not that out of the ordinary.
I wish you had explained the term "terminal velocity." From context, I'm assuming that once something reaches that velocity, they stop accelerating.
9:30 When I told my mom I was “going to run some test on the cat” she took him to my dads
Reminded of a quote discussing how terminal velocity changes and makes falls less survivable as you get larger and larger.
A rat dropped down a thousand foot mine shaft and it will scamper away unphased.
A cat is shaken.
A man is broken.
A horse splashes.
I think most cats would die of a heart attack before they landed....😂
We just bought a house with a deck. My cat who is 3/4 blind but I still see him debate jumping off all the time wanting to explore the new back yard.
Thumbs up for the brilliant segue
Listening to him talk so scientifically about falling cats is fascinating
He means south paw, if they if they like their left.
That was always my greatest terror when living in a 17-story building with a balcony... the cat I adopted would try to get out and perch, usually on a remote ledge just out of reach. I'd probably still be terrorized today, though, under the same circumstances, even knowing he'd likely survive falling from that height... (that's a long ways down...)
If you listen carefully it really doesn't sound like a cat would probably survive. A good part of this is hypothetical and as pointed out, based on pets brought in for medical care. A dead cat just gets buried so the stats are very skewed. I live 15 floors up and my cat isn't allowed onto my balcony.
My mother's cat fell from 3 and a 1/2 stories up because I left a window open. Hit the ground. Bounced!(atleast from my vantage point it sure looked that way). She ran under a bush. I ran down expecting to find a dead cat(me soon to follow). To my complete shock and utter relief she was completely fine! Wow. Oh, she definitely fell spread eagle. All four paws were straight out.
The title is so funny because I tell people my kitty is a retired sky-diver! I rescued her in China after she was seriously injured falling out of a building. Not sure how far she fell, the building was 30 stories. She was just 3 months old and had to spend the next 3 months of her life in a cage recovering from her injuries and surgery.
I suspect this is just an excuse to share more cat pics on the internet,
Keep it up we have a quota to meet.
😂😂😂
I love the thumbnail!! Bwahahahaha!!!!!!! Nice goggles Simon!! 😂🤣
My cat survived a fall from an 11th floor balcony with nothing more than a broken rib
I would imagine that a fall into a pile of cement would be much more survivable than say onto a concrete sidewalk. This assuming that you did not inhale too much of the cement...
It depends in the surface tension of cement. It could be that, like water, if you are falling too fast the liquid can't spread away from the falling body fast enough, and it will be like falling into cement.
So when free falling from a plane, aim for a bush. Check! Thanks Daven & Simon!
i love cat !!!
I know right!? Me too!!
Me too. Tastes like chicken.
@@tomcat8662 For the record, that's not what I was going for when I said: "Me too." Just wanted to clarify that, you know in case a future potential employer stumbles on my comment history. Things could get awkward.
Wesley Bennett
Nonsense! If a future employer should ask, tell them you identify as Chinese. In which case they can’t discriminate against you because of where your culture chooses to source their protein.
@@tomcat8662 *WOW!* (Me Clapping Slowly)
Kurzgesagt explains this well, the difference between an elephant falling from a great height (big mess) or a mouse falling from the same height (scampers away)
BEST SEGUE of the YEAR AWARD goes to SIMON WHISTLER! It's so versatile you can literally go from dancing elephants to brilliant.org with a simple "Speaking of gravity...."
Now that's a cute vintage airplane costume for a cat ☺️
Actually, um.. (adjusts glasses) the term is "aviation" in this context, not "airplane". Snark, snark...
My daredevil cat regularly jumps down from our second story balcony
I think this further proves that cats are in fact a living super fluid.
Cats are demons, man... that's why they have conquered gravity...
This is why I want combine Human & Cat DNA together, so we can create girl with car ear. Uh ho, sorry I mean so we can create superhuman...
I could watch your videos for hours, and between all your channels I often do.
In most cases, when humans fall from more than about 30 feet or about 9m, the majority of times what will happen is your family and friends will get together, shortly thereafter in your honor, but you’re unable to attend.
If you ever make a quote compilation or a channel trailer you need to include: "Obviously cats that die on impact scew the results"
All I can think of is the terror that the poor cats must felt when they were launced out of the window against their will. WTF???
So who calculated the LD50 by throwing cats out an airplane?
There’s a huge oak tree in my yard, probably 100 feet and my dog chased a squirrel up it, for some reason when the squirrel got to the top and ran out a limb, he just jumped, I figured he’d die when he hit the ground but he hit and ran away before the dog could catch him.
The thumbnail alone was already brilliant
I like this video to show the sample profile in statistics. The old example I used to use was regarding helmets. More people were going to the infirmary when wearing helmets in war. Well because fewer went to the morgue.
Wait, does this mean the movie physics of using trees to break your fall is accurate when you see someone fall through a large selections of branches and giant leaves?
I'm not even a minute and half in and I'm picturing veterinarians punting cats out of skyscrapers just to see what happens. I should probably go to bed. I think I'm tired enough that my brain indulging in some creative interpretation.
From personal experience: *not* from 10 stories up. Was in college at the time, at a party in an apartment building that catered to students. Window was open. The stupid cat leaped out from the back of a couch, and that was that. Apparently, the cat would do the same thing in the house it was used to (at ground level). Splat! Poor thing.
If they're healthy, no joint or synovial problems, they can survive any fall around a 10 story building.
I saw it live once. Scared the shit out of me.
you know what would be really funny? if this video was sponsored by either Friskey's or Meow Mix
I live with two cats that fell off third story. No injuries.
About the bonus fact more precisely about finding out if your cat or dog is right or left pawed:
Im right handed. Ill shake hands with my right hand, to reach something higher then my head ill use my right arm, if I have to get something from underneath the table or bed ill use my left hand, i knock with my left hand, to get something covered Ill use my left hand to pick the thing up and use my right hand to take the thing I was looking for, if something slips away from me Ill use the closer hand to grab it... Do you see what I mean. Those tests mentioned are irrelevant.
When did stores start staying open for 24 hours? Plus when did we start working 24 hours? Why?
Kitty Crocheter Capitalism and the desire for more profit
@@HellenKellerHas1 Yup but it sure has a toll on my body and soul.
My cat fell from the 14 floors (13 actually since there was no 13th floor) and survived with a broken arm and leg. She jumped after a pigeon and fell.
My cat definitely has a preference for her right paw. I've been doing clicker training with her for almost two years. Always wants to high-five with her right 🐾
I'm trying to imagine Simon saying "smash the dislike button" on this channel, and I just cannot conceive of it. This is a different Simon. A calmer, less Blazy one, if you will.
Before I read the commends, I thought there were scientists throwing cats out of windows.
Silly me. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go put peanut butter on my pet.
How does 3-D printed houses work and when will it be commercially ready?
My cat paws at your arm/hand that you pet her with if you stop with her right paw, but will reach for lost toys with her left paw, but picks her food out of the bowl to hand feed herself with her right paw.
We all knew that Simon was a cat person :) And I'm morbidly amused at the idea of studying cats falling out of windows. We got the cameras set up Rick! Toss 'em out!
Not the cat in the thumbnail. That cat would go splat.
It appears some cats were hurt in the making of this :P
Did anyone else immediately remember the old flash game 'Kitten Cannon'?
imagine the scratches you get trying to throw a cat out of an airplane
My cat is 15 years old. I'm not going to be testing this theory. As for predominant paws, when my fiance and I are going to open a can of wet food, she uses her right paw to try to bring it closer to her.