Posted on 03/31/2009 10:25:30 AM PDT by JoeProBono
West Haven (WTNH) - A West Haven cat remains stuck in a precarious place.
Tigger has been stuck high-up in a tree on Canton Street. His owner, Chris Green, told News Channel 8 the cat climbed up there on his own this past weekend and is now too scared to come down.
The cat is clinging to one of the huge tree's thinner branches, around 100 feet up, and all the while he's crying out, apparently frightened.
"I've been trying to shake food, get up on a ladder," said Green. "I called police, fire, the humane society. They said it got up, it will come down."
That’s because the exhausted, hungry, dehydrated cats get so weak that they fall out of the tree and die or are mortally injured on impact. The lack of cat skeletons in trees is hardly a reason to take a “don’t worry about it, he’ll come down somehow” approach to a cat stuck in a tree.
I had a Great Dane when I was a teenager. That dog was one tough mofo! I used to wrestle him (being on the High School wrestling team), and that dog and I would whoop up on each other. At times, he would get really mad at me and come at me, at that point my only escape was to climb the 15 foot chain link fence nearby to get away from him! Truly feared for my life, can’t imagine him against someone he DIDNT know..
Good dog!
I have another story about that Dane. Once,an accident occurred behind my house, on a busy street. Turns out, the cops were chasing some guy, and he lept over my block wall, into my yard, the cop in hot pursuit. The dog went screaming out of the covered patio, and went after him. Unfortunately, the dog caught the cop!
He didn’t hurt him, had him by the arm, and I was right there in about 30 seconds and called him. LOL
I love Danes, with every fiber of my being. I’ve had three. This one, who was adopted from the scene/house of an elderly lady’s natural death, was my first. He was, we think, about 5-7 years old, and lived for another 5 years before passing one night in his sleep.
All of my Danes were named “Duke”. :O)
my dear old daddy used to ask us (when we’d plea for help for that kitty in the tree) “How often do you see cat bones in the tree from them dying up there?” It’ll come down when it’s ready to and NO, we don’t need the fire department to show up for a photo op. It’ll just waste gas!
Ours are all gone now and being stuck ina too small house to have one right now. This is the first time in probably the last 25 years that we haven’t had one. I so want another bridle female. I always loved when people would ask if it was a tiger? LOL
Sorry to hear that. I feel your pain. When my last Duke got Cancer, I put him down, not wanting him to go through the agony he was already starting to feel. That just crushed me, and I still haven’t been able to think about getting another Dane.
I still have two beautiful little girls (dogs) to love, though. And a mean old cat. LOL
YAY! So glad there was a rescue and a happy ending!
Truly. Here’s hoping that cat is now an indoor-only cat.
Thats funny!!!!
There was a large limb there and he got on the limb. My granddaughter then asked me if I could get a rope over the limb. I got my bow out, fired a light line over the limb and then we pulled a rope over the limb. She then revealed her plan.
She tied a basket like affair onto the rope and we pulled it up to the cat. The cat immediately stepped into the basket and we lowered the cat down to the ground. He climbs like a rocket now but he is full grown. I have told my granddaughter that her brain is working on all eight cylinders, I did not think that cat would get into the basket!
Congrats on having a V8 granddaughter! Is she turbocharged too?
She is 15 now and many of the boys she goes to school with apparently think so!
A reason to LOVE FR. Threads like this one. I’m glad it’s my day off so I didn’t miss it. We love our puppies and kitties.
Speaking of which, it was exactly nine years ago today that I found my little terrier / lab mix dumped out on the side of the road, the vet said she was about six months old at the time; her previous owners had not protected her during her first heat, and then, when she started to “show”, they dumped her on a country road. I was driving home from work and found her. She whelped five weeks later. We got her fixed, so that was her one and only litter. She was jet black back then, she had one white pup, three brown, and one black. Now, she’s got quite a bit of gray. I love her intensely and cannot bear to think of her not being here anymore. She’s healthy, so hopefully I won’t have to worry about that for a long time.
Thanks again for the laughs.
I’ve never seen cat bones in a tree.
Glad i had my FR-endorsed Snort Guard (with accessory drip-catch tray) in place to keep the Mountain Dew off the monitor this time.
If you create a news story out of it, the likelihood increases that the tree service will do the deed for publicity’s sake. You might call that freeloading, I think it’s smart on the cat owner’s part.
Heh heh!
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