Cat survives fall of six storeys

A pet cat in New Zealand escaped with only three broken teeth and a fractured jaw after falling six storeys from an apartment balcony on Auckland's viaduct.

Graeme and Alison Pike are surprised tabby Camo didn't fall on to someone's plate in one of the restaurants on the waterfront.

The cat lives with the couple on the fifth level of the Auckland Waterfront Serviced Apartments they manage on Princes Wharf.



Mrs Pike said neither she nor her husband had seen the fall but guessed Camo must have either jumped on top of the glass balustrade surrounding their balcony and fallen on to the tarseal between the building and the harbour, or ducked under it and fallen off a concrete ledge.

Her fall may have been broken by a balcony on the bottom floor which juts out further than their one, Mrs Pike said.

The couple received a call from the Princes Wharf security saying Camo was hiding under a sofa at Limon restaurant, about 30m further along the wharf, and had a bleeding mouth. But when the Pikes took Camo to the vet, she only needed three of her teeth extracted. Her fractured jaw was left to heal on its own.