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Ah, sweet kid! I have climbed trees, shimmied into drain pipes, etc. to save animals too. Boo on the FD. They could have grabbed the cat while they were there. FD's have always been utilized for animal rescue. Just google for the never ending list of them.
And yet in my entire life I have never seen the skeleton of a cat up in a tree where the cat climbed up and couldn't climb down and sat up there and starved to death.
Leave the cat alone long enough and he will figure out how to get down by himself when he gets hungry enough.
I'm OK with the fire department getting stuck boys out of trees, but it is a waste of tax dollars for them to go out and take cats out of trees.
Maybe the cat owner who was so upset that the fire department didn't rescue her cat should consider making the cat an indoor only cat so the stupid thing doesn't go out and get itself into difficult situations.
yes - I had a feral mom cat have her kittens in one of our big trees. She would climb up and down several times a day to feed them. Eventually she brought them all down. She would go backwards until she could jump.
I'm not sure if that cat was stupid or smart.
I have heard of cats having kittens in odd places but never a tree.
They couldn't drive a fire truck on the soft ground. They had to rappel the boy down out of the tree. The cat was in no distress, and wasn't interested in coming down.
It's a 60,000 to 80,000 pound truck. If it sinks into the ground and gets stuck, it would cost at least a thousand dollars for a couple of heavy duty wreckers to get it out. Plus the fire truck would be out of service until that could be accomplished. That is not something that fire departments like to gamble on, if they don't have to.
It's a 60,000 to 80,000 pound truck. If it sinks into the ground and gets stuck, it would cost at least a thousand dollars for a couple of heavy duty wreckers to get it out. Plus the fire truck would be out of service until that could be accomplished. That is not something that fire departments like to gamble on, if they don't have to.
I don't fault them for not using the ladder truck, given the ground conditions. But I do fault them for not trying to rescue the cat while they were up there, once they got Owen safely down. Or, alternately, couldn't they have requested help from the local electric utility? They have cherry-picker trucks that weigh much less than a fire ladder truck. Obviously it's doable, since the arborist was able to do it with whatever kind of truck he had available.
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