My cat fell from the second floor and I thought it was the lucky one: the vet explained why a short fall breaks more bones than a sixth-floor one
A cat tumbling from a second-floor window seems luckier than one plummeting from six stories up—but veterinarians often see the opposite. Cats falling from lower heights frequently arrive with worse fractures and shattered jaws, a counterintuitive pattern rooted in physics, reflexes, and a scientific debate that’s only now being fully resolved.