Cat Falls 26 Stories, Lives to Purr Again
Do cats always land on their feet?The unbelievable tale of a cat named Lucky — who fell 26 stories and survived — doesn’t quite prove the myth but it comes pretty close.
In early May, Keri Hostetler was readying her lower Manhattan apartment for guests who were coming to visit. She cracked the window of her home office a few inches — something she “never, ever did” — just to air the place out. She left the door to the room ajar and got to work on her laundry.
Her beloved cat Lucky, a 3-year-old gray-and-black striped male who Hostetler describes as “a lover and a hugger” was wandering around the apartment. Or so Hostetler thought.
“I came back up from doing laundry and saw that the room where the window was open — the door was open,” she told “Good Morning America Weekend Edition.” “I rushed in to the window and saw the window washers kind of waving for me.”
