Mr Lee Feng can be seen in this screenshot of a Facebook video dropping his cat, named Laifu, in front of his students.But a teacher in Taiwan is learning the hard way that holding a cat over your head and then suddenly dropping it onto a hard floor, in front of dozens of students, may not be such a smart thing to do.
In other words, cats shouldn’t be landing on their feet if they aren’t pushing off anything, say a wall or the hands of the person dropping them.Scientists explain that a cat has a natural balancing system called the “righting reflex” that allows it to quickly reorient itself and land on its feet. Ms EKimi Chan, commenting on the same page, said Mr Lee should have performed his little experiment “in a safe environment”.Ms Joan Maltby-Hicks said Mr Lee should be charged with animal abuse, while Mr Zeng Li Ren remarked: “I can imagine him demonstrating jumping off a building to prove some science principles.”Cat survives 6-storey fall after landing on car, smashing windscreen in Bangkok“As the owner of Laifu, I ignored the physical and mental harm to it brought by the experiment.
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