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Once when I called the fire department about a cat up a tree I was told "Lady how many cat skeletons have you seen in trees." I guess they do get down but injury and starvation are real possibillities. Glad this young woman decided to help. Good for her.
Glad the cat was rescued, and it's too bad that this lady had to do it on her own. I know that some fire/rescue dept. will respond to these types of calls, but many will not. My local FD won't. I suppose they can argue that they can't risk typing up personnel in case a more urgent call comes in. To me that's a lame argument, especially in a small town like I live in. They just aren't called out that often, so the odds of them being up a tree & getting a fire call is pretty slim. I've read comments before where fire dept people have said they respond to animal rescue calls because (1.) they have the time & equipment to do it right & safely, and (2.) it's good training. I just wish every FD in the country looked at it this way, but maybe that's asking too much. In some places pets & other animals just don't have a high enough priority.
Once when I called the fire department about a cat up a tree I was told "Lady how many cat skeletons have you seen in trees." I guess they do get down but injury and starvation are real possibillities. Glad this young woman decided to help. Good for her.
What an jerk that guy was to say something like that.
I remember about 20 years ago or so, a friend of mine was renting a room with some friends. The friends had a cat who went up into a tree and couldn't get down. The cat let the entire neighborhood know that he couldn't get down-ALL NIGHT!! We tried putting a can of tuna on the ground next to the tree but that cat wasn't budging and still let everyone know how unhappy he was in that tree. They finally called the fire department. We all joked how clichè for the fire department to rescue a cat up a tree-but they did.
Many years ago in Michigan, an indoor kitty, about 2 years old, got scared by something and jumped out of an open window. Once in the yard, she was chased by a loose dog and in a panic, climbed to the top of a telephone pole. This happened in June or July, as I recall.
The fire department wouldn't help, and it was a Friday night. No one answered at the phone company.
The kitty was up there two days and two nights!
On Sunday morning, some relative of a resident who lived in the neighborhood showed up with several ladder extensions and climbed up after the kitty. He was a house painter by trade. The kitty peed on him, totally soaking him as he lifted her up and carried her down. She was also shaking violently and wouldn't stop.
The owner wrapped the kitty in a blanket and took her to the emergency vet. The kitty was dehydrated but fine and lived another 12 years or so.
That cat would've passed out and died if he hadn't gone up to get her. She didn't have the skills to get down on her own.
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