Thursday, March 22, 2012

Perfect

"High rise syndrome" refers to the feline ability to land feet first. Anatomy of cats mid-fall has been studied to determine that cats have a tendency to land on their feet because in the midst of a fall, especially a longer versus shorter one, a cat's body spreads out like a parachute, in essence slowing the speed of the fall and giving the cat the opportunity to land feet first.

 

Sugar the cat, as pictured above, is worthy of the new alias, "Geronimo" because Sugar the cat recently flew (i.e., fell) from a height of 19 stories. A fellow tenant (this one human) of a Boston apartment complex noticed a white blur flash past her second-story window and went outside to investigate. It pays to be an eyeful neighbor; the woman found Sugar in a pile of grass and mulch and alerted animal physicians (i.e., a local vet) who confirmed that other than some pulmonary bruising, Sugar was a.o.k. Via microchip, the amazing cat-ro-bat was reunited with her owner who was at work at the time of the incident and did not understand why the last text received from Sugar had read "bombs away."

Life sometimes can be perfect.
Perfect: --adj.
  exactly fitting the need in a certain situation or for a certain purpose