Posted on 06/03/2019 10:51:39 AM PDT by ETL
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The train system which operates the bridge even planned to close the tracks to rescue her, while the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) was also present.
But when firefighters had decided to give up for the day, vowing to return Thursday, the cat, who had been missing for two weeks before turning up on the bridge, returned home on Wednesday night, according to the Plymouth Herald.
Kirsty Howden, Hatty’s owner, said the cat walked into the garden of her home in Saltash.
She said the cat had just “strolled past fire and media crews”. ...”
“She is a bit skinny and smelly, very vocal and has now headed upstairs and put herself to bed.”
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Fire fighters who save cats work shifts and are paid a salary, not by the job.
Had they not been called out to save the cat, they would have been in the firehouse polishing their trucks........getting paid for doing the same........LOL!
What about using tax $ to save tweakers, criminals and other assorted losers, wasters and ne’er-do-wells?
Well, there is that. And I tend to agree regarding their putting a price on this in the way they did.
We are all sinners doesn’t have anything to do with the situation at hand. And cruelty to animals is a sin, btw. Kindness to animals is a virtue.
Heh... years ago, in some major US city (I forget that detail, just humor me) the new fire chief announced that the FD would no longer conduct cat rescues, stating that one never sees cat skeletons in trees. As part of his public relations campaign, he went on some fire calls and practices, and within weeks of his earlier announcement, while scaling a ladder that was partially within a tree, he noticed a cat skeleton. :^)
I don’t partiularly like cats, but a live in GF got one and it went up in a huge tree next to my condo. It was making a racket and a crowd gathered. My GF was going crazy.
I was able to get up in the tree off of a 3rd floor balcony and tried to get near the yowling cat. I damn near killed myself when a branch broke, but I was able to catch hold of another branch as i fell.
As I said a prayer for me and a curse for the cat, it got bored and wandered down the tree, leaving me to find a way down.
Lol! Cats sure have some sense of humor!
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Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse. - Heinlein
God made the cat to give man the pleasure of stroking a tiger. – François-Joseph Mery
The smallest feline is a masterpiece. - Leonardo Da Vinci
A loving cat can mend a wounded heart. - Anonymous
‘No Heaven will not ever Heaven be; Unless my cats are there to welcome me’.- Epitaph on an ancient tombstone in England
< One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.- Pam Brown
What greater gift than the love of a cat? - Charles Dickens
Time spent with cats is never wasted. ~ Colette
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer
It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can’t see. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. - Mark Twain Notebook, 1894
The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.” — Carl Van Vechten
To respect the cat is the beginning of the Aesthetic sense. — Erasmus Darwin
For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat. - Anon
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau
There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat. - Tay Hohoff
With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats? - Fernand Mery
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. ~ Robertson Davies
There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats- unknown
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Winston Churchill
There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it...The cat covers it up if he can... - Paul Gallico
Beware of people who dislike cats. - Irish Proverb
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