(CNN) Winston is one lucky pooch.

The French bulldog beat the odds Friday night when he plummeted from a six-story building in Manhattan's Lower East Side, only to crash through the sunroof of a car parked below.

Winston was taken to an emergency vet hospital with minimal injuries. Emma Heinrich, the dog's owner, was shocked that he survived.

"I'm still trying to wrap my head around the astronomical odds of him walking away from this fall with nothing more than a few cuts and scratches," Heinrich told CNN.

She had just finished walking Winston when he escaped her grasp and ran away. She said the dog bolted up a set of stairs and out onto the roof through a door that was left open.

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