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Poor Kitty

pontifex

pontifex

Lifer
there's a cat stuck in a tree in the woods by my house. We don't have a ladder that will reach. poor guy is stuck in the Y of the tree.

he's been there since yesterday afternoon at least. i guess when he gets hungry enough he'll find a way down, hopefully. when he knows you're around he meows.
 
Call animal control, sheesh. Don't let the poor kitty suffer. It's scared, hungry, thirsty, and probably has to go potty pretty badly by now. The weaker it gets the greater the chance it will just fall out and really get hurt. 🙁
 
We had a cat in our barn shortly after we moved in. Whenever we went out to the barn, and it knew we were around, it'd meow. I told my wife not to feed it; just ignore it and it would move on to someone else's house/barn. A few months later, while I was remodeling, I found the source of the meows. It had gotten stuck climbing through a hole. I've felt horrible about it ever since.
 
Originally posted by: Azraele
Call animal control, sheesh. Don't let the poor kitty suffer. It's scared, hungry, thirsty, and probably has to go potty pretty badly by now. The weaker it gets the greater the chance it will just fall out and really get hurt. 🙁
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Go potty? Hahaha.
 
Originally posted by: MazerRackham
You should call the Fire Dept. They take cats out of trees all the time...
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unless they use a portable ladder, there's no way a truck would get to this tree
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
there's a cat stuck in a tree in the woods by my house. We don't have a ladder that will reach. poor guy is stuck in the Y of the tree.

he's been there since yesterday afternoon at least. i guess when he gets hungry enough he'll find a way down, hopefully. when he knows you're around he meows.
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So he's dining at the Y?
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: MazerRackham
You should call the Fire Dept. They take cats out of trees all the time...</end quote></div>

unless they use a portable ladder, there's no way a truck would get to this tree
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So it's better to let it suffer?

For pete's sakes just call animal control. At least then you'd have tried.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
We had a cat in our barn shortly after we moved in. Whenever we went out to the barn, and it knew we were around, it'd meow. I told my wife not to feed it; just ignore it and it would move on to someone else's house/barn. A few months later, while I was remodeling, I found the source of the meows. It had gotten stuck climbing through a hole. I've felt horrible about it ever since.
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Starvation's a heck of a way to go.
 
Originally posted by: Azraele
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: pontifex
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: MazerRackham
You should call the Fire Dept. They take cats out of trees all the time...</end quote></div>

unless they use a portable ladder, there's no way a truck would get to this tree</end quote></div>

So it's better to let it suffer?

For pete's sakes just call animal control. At least then you'd have tried.
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the melodrama is strong in this thread.
 
One of my cats climbed a tree, and he's declawed in the front. He whined for an hour or so before coming down on his own and sauntered nonchalantly over to us.
"Yeah, what? My voice carries better from up there."
 
Originally posted by: sandmanwake
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: DrPizza
We had a cat in our barn shortly after we moved in. Whenever we went out to the barn, and it knew we were around, it'd meow. I told my wife not to feed it; just ignore it and it would move on to someone else's house/barn. A few months later, while I was remodeling, I found the source of the meows. It had gotten stuck climbing through a hole. I've felt horrible about it ever since.</end quote></div>

Starvation's a heck of a way to go.
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I'd think dehydration set in first. During the first few months we lived here, several people apparently dropped off cats with litters of kittens. The cats would inevitably move into the barn. I told my wife not to feed them or we'd end up with a barn full of cats in no time; if she didn't feed them, they'd move on to someone else's house where they were more willing to feed them. We were temporarily storing furniture and a bunch of other things in the barn; I didn't want things sprayed by male cats. (We're still temporarily storing things, but since it's been 2 years, I think I can safely throw out/garage sale everything that's being stored.)
 
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