BANGKOK – A tomcat in Bangkok, Thailand, made it through a six-storey fall without any serious injuries regardless of making a huge hole on a car’s windshield.
The owner of the car, who passes Apiwat Toyothaka on Facebook, shared on Saturday that he was notified about the event by his condo’s management at 7am.
The digital developer, who likewise owns a cat, said he might not snap when he saw the scared cat, which was concealing under his car after leaping out of the huge hole of his damaged windshield.
The cat, Shifu, is supposedly called after Master Shifu in the Kung Fu Panda movies, according to The Nation.
Closed-circuit electronic camera video reveals the 8.5kg feline hanging briefly from the terrace on the 6th flooring prior to falling off. It briefly strikes the third-floor terrace prior to crashing on the rear windshield of Mr Apiwat’s car.
Mr Apiwat said X-rays carried out on Shifu revealed no damaged bones, and it lost just 2 claws.
He likewise said on Monday that Shifu was consuming and excreting well after the event.
He was likewise able to declare for damages to his car from the insurance coverage company.
Mr Thanakorn Jongjaemfah, the supervisor of the condominium situated in Soi Sathupradit 49, said the event reveals why citizens are prohibited from raising family pets, reported The Nation.
He included that Shifu’s owner was fined 1,000 baht (S$39), and has actually assured to move her cat to a relative’s home.
Cats are understood to have actually made it through falls from fantastic heights.
In 2021, a cat in Wenzhou, China, fell off a property building while attempting to take meat on a veranda. It arrived on a parked car and shattered the front windshield prior to scampering away.
Another cat in Staten Island, New York, likewise made it through after falling off a veranda and harmed a car’s front windshield in 2012.
