--- title: Canada: Cat Escapes 17-Story Fall Unscathed description: Cleo the cat fell from her owner’s 17th-floor condominium in New Westminster, Canada — and survived canonical: https://time.com/3321526/canada-cat-escapes-17-storey-fall/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-11T04:49:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:06.788Z og:title: Cat in Canada Survives 17-Storey Fall og:description: “She’s only got a couple left," says owner on the number of lives his pet has used up og:url: https://time.com/3321526/canada-cat-escapes-17-storey-fall/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cat in Canada Survives 17-Storey Fall twitter:description: “She’s only got a couple left," says owner on the number of lives his pet has used up twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Cleo the Cat Escapes a 17-Story Fall Unscathed by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Sep 11, 2014 4:49 AM UTC by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Sep 11, 2014 4:49 AM UTC A cat [fell](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cleo-the-cat-survives-17-storey-jump-from-new-westminster-balcony-1.2762606?utm%5Fcontent=buffercb281&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twitter.com&utm%5Fcampaign=buffer) from her owner’s 17th-floor condominium in New Westminster, Canada, on Sunday night — and survived. Joel Isfeld panicked when he realized his Savannah cat, Cleo, had snuck onto his balcony and leaped off the edge, local TV channel CBC News reported. “I didn’t know if she was O.K. … if she was injured. I was in tears,” Isfeld said. Since Cleo wasn’t on the ground beneath his balcony, Isfeld went floor by floor through his building looking for her. He posted his concerns on Facebook the next day and got an overwhelming response, with several people offering help and support. He finally found his beloved pet at 11 p.m. on Monday — a bit shaken up but otherwise alright — after he heard she was seen on the terrace of an adjacent building. “She’s only got a couple left. She is a pretty cool cat,” Isfeld said in response to the inevitable question about how many of her nine lives Cleo had used up. \[[_CBC News_](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cleo-the-cat-survives-17-storey-jump-from-new-westminster-balcony-1.2762606?utm%5Fcontent=buffercb281&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twitter.com&utm%5Fcampaign=buffer)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3321526/canada-cat-escapes-17-storey-fall/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3321526/canada-cat-escapes-17-storey-fall/"},"headline":"Cleo the Cat Escapes a 17-Story Fall Unscathed","datePublished":"2014-09-11T04:49:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:06.788Z","description":"“She’s only got a couple left,” the owner said when asked how many of the feline's nine lives were used up","url":"https://time.com/3321526/canada-cat-escapes-17-storey-fall/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Canada","cat","survival","fall"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3321526/canada-cat-escapes-17-storey-fall/","name":"Cleo the Cat Escapes a 17-Story Fall Unscathed"}}]}] ```