Zsa Zsa the cat has used up eight of her nine lives. That's the way her London-based owner, Andrea Newman, figures it.
A few weeks back the cat fell out of the third floor window of Newmans apartment and plunged 60 feet to the sidewalk below.
I looked out and she was in the well by the basement flat, said Newman. She was looking up and crying.
The cat suffered five broken bones and a burst lung but lived.
Its amazing she survived, said Newman. The cats doctor agreed.
Zsa Zsa was very lucky the fall would have killed most cats, said David Kydd, a veterinarian who is helping the cat recover.
Newman said the cat jumped out the window after she opened it to vent smoke from the apartment. She said her flat filled with smoke when she burned food on the stove.
Posted: Feb. 22, 2006, 5 a.m. EST