Now what is the deal? I spent all these years being totally indifferent to the plight (is that how one spells it?) of cats. Not cruel, merely not wishing to get into the whole "Snookie hasn't eaten her favourite prime tuna chunkie-wunkies....etc etc". Now I spend most of the night wading through similarly minded newsgroups to find out how long the latest operated on cat, should wear one of those plastic lampshade things, to stop it chewing it's stitches. Releasing it's bowels, in probably the most literal, and wrong way possible!

And from my research it seems that YES, cats CAN survive a long fall.