Conference misery::feline_v1

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Note 2423.0                 Cat in Tree for 25+ Hours                 No replies
WILLEE::DAVAULT "PLEASE DON'T CALL ME SUE"            0 lines   2-MAY-1989 13:14
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    Hi,
    
    I'm hoping someone can help me or at least make me feel better about
    the following situation.
    
    Scenerio:
    
        Yesterday morning at 10:00 a.m. my loving dog chased a cat up
    a tree in my front yard.  I've tried putting out food, coaxing,
    etc., but the cat still won't come down.  I did call the animal
    rescue department in my town, so that if someone is missing an
    orange & white cat they will know where she/he can be found.  The
    lady at animal rescue said that it was not unusual for a cat to
    stay in a tree for 25+ hours.  Additional info, my cat who is 1
    1/2 years old climbed the same tree last fall but came down in less
    than 2 hours.
    
    Thanks for any help,
    Susan

    The cat probably doesn't want to come down because it is quite sure
    that your dog is lying in wait.
    
    Monroe once climbed too high in a tree and was stuck up there for
    two days.  We called everyone we could think of, but no one could
    help.  The fire department said that he would come down by himself
    and not to worry about it.  They also said,"you don't see any little
    kitty skeletons at the base of trees, do you? They always come down
    eventually..." Well, they were wrong this time.
    
    Monroe had injured his paw on the way up, and couldn't climb down.
    After two days of trying to rescue him some other way, Ken bought
    a huge ladder, and then climbed up to Monroe.  Monroe was very
    grateful, and never went near the tree again.
    
    He also became in indoor cat shortly afterwards, but that is another
    story.
    
    Moral, you may have to help the cat down yourself.
    
    Good Luck.
    
    Jo

    How high up in the tree is the cat?  Do you have a long enough
    ladder?  Our neighbors considered renting a "cherry picker" in
    a similar situation.  Please let us know what's happening.
    

    I agree that the poor kitty may have to be rescued.
    My mothers cat, (won't tell you the name because it's
    real bad, befitting an anwry cat...) got out by accident
    the other day, and the very first thing it did was climb
    the neighbors 50 ft pine tree...all the way to the top.
    
    Then it got hysterical and began to scream...  This
    was going on for several hours. My father, a big softy,
    got very concerned, and called my brother who ended
    up climbing the tree and rescuing the cat, but paid
    for it with a multitude of scratches the cat gave
    him from fear. You may have to consider a rescue attempt.
    
    Good Luck!
    

    Many years ago when I was living in an apartment in a house, Schnitzel
    decided to climb a tree in the backyard, which was not unusual.  She
    went up, she came down.  However, this one particular day she decided
    to investigate some branches.  These branches hung over a neighbors
    garage....two story garage!  I came home from work and heard this awful
    crying.  I called and called.  Finally I saw her.  There was no way she
    was able to get back down.  I called the fire department.  They told me
    they don't rescue cats from roofs...  My landlord came home and saw the
    dilema of Schnitz.  Now, he always tried to make me believe cats were a
    nuisance, but way down deep he was a softy.  We tried all the coaxing
    we could think of, but to no avail.  He went in his garage, got a huge
    ladder, climbed up, got on the roof as Schnitz had run back, finally
    got her and carried her down.  She screamed the whole way and had
    firmly implanted her claws in his shoulder.  I must say he was very
    good about it, but also let me know if she ever did it again, she could
    stay there!
    
    There are situations where, like humans, the little furfaces panic and
    just can't be coaxed down.  They need assistance.
    
    P.
    
    

    
    
    Mine got stuck up the front lawn tree the other day..  (this is
    mumma who only goes out for about 20 min. at a time..) its awful,
    because when they are stuck they look at you for help, you can just
    feel it!  I think maybe because she is an older cat.. she had the
    guts to come down, then again she slipped and me who was standing
    on tippy toes kissing this tree reached up and grabbed her - being
    the mello type she didn't flip out and let me half carry/half drag
    her down..
    
    But, I have had young cats that got stuck up trees and roofs.. 
    I can only put up with it for about two hours.. and then I feel
    so sad I have sometone help me or climb the tree to get them down..
    Usually they will come down, but I do agree that they need help!!
    
    In the case of one kitty, the firt brantches (sp) were so high up
    that I pulled my car up to stand on top of it and then get on a
    branch and then get the kitty down... theres an idea..
    
    How is the little kit doing today?
    
    F.

    One of our cats (Sasha) got caught in a tree last summer. 
    Unfortunately, we didn't discover it until 8:30 at night when we heard
    this pitiful mewing outside our bedroom.  Jim and I went out and called
    and called, but we couldn't tell where she was.  It was dark out, and
    with so many trees, we couldn't decide which one she was in.  We even
    walked out in the river because from the way the sound bounced, we
    couldn't even tell if she was on our side of the river or on the other
    side.  (That was when the crawdad thought my shoe would be a good place
    to live.  Yuk!) Rusty (our ginger cat) finally saved the day.  We asked 
    him where Sasha was, and he climbed up the tree in which she was stuck
    until we could find her with the flashlight.  
    
    Then the fun began.  We tried and tried to coax her down with water and
    food, but she would have none of it.  The poor girl just sat there and 
    cried. Finally we got a ladder that we leaned against the base of the tree,
    Jim climbed up as far as he could, and then I handed him the 2-foot cat
    scratching post.  He held it upside down so Sasha could reach the 
    wide base, and she finally inched her way down.  All that time she
    hadn't dared come down until she felt she had firm footing.
    
    I haven't seen her in a tree since then.  Instead she's content to
    chase the others through the weeds and the ivy.
    
    Jill

    The same situation happened to a neighbor of mine a year ago, and
    I called the Humane Society in Bolton, and they came with a high
    ladder to get it down, but by the time they got there, the neighbor
    hood boys had climbed the tree for me, and got it down.....
    
    we used a ladder to get up into the tree, because it was much too
    high to reach the branches and climb the tree otherwise.
    
    Good luck
    

    Well, is the cat down yet?
    
    K

    Our cat got stuck up in a tree last fall.  She was really high up
    (about 60 or 70 feet up there).  She was up there for 2 1/2 days.
     I called the fire department, the vets, the animal rescue league,
     everyone I could think of..    But the people who came to the
    rescue was the phone company of all people!  They brought their
    truck with the bucket, and one of the guys got in and had the other
    guy raise the bucket till it was close enought for him to grab the
    cat.  It was great!  What a nice bunch of guys, you might want to
    give them a try.
    
    

    Yes, thanks to my son climbing up the tree with the aid of two of 
    his friends the cat was rescued.  Mr. Kitty was very wet but very glad
    to be back on the ground.                                    

    YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!!!