Cat up a Tree!!

[poo at Paul's]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54339204

Day four of a rescue involving Fire crews, tree surgeons and now scaffolders and Cookie the cat remains in the tree!!

Brilliant!!

[fido]

The little branch used to keep the scaffolding upright doesn't look very secure?

[Deathmole]

It's hiding from Covid.

[eharding]

poo at Paul's said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54339204

Day four of a rescue involving Fire crews, tree surgeons and now scaffolders and Cookie the cat remains in the tree!!

Brilliant!!

Audio Recording said:

"Wheeeeeeeeooooooshhhhhh"

"Here Cookie....nice kitty....just come a little closer....."

"Meeeeeeeoooooowwwwwwurrghghghghghggh"

<WhuuufBangTinkle>

"Oh st"

<Thump>

<Thump>

<Thump>

<Thud>

"Ow...Ow....Ow"

That's the sound of Jet Pack Paramedic coming to the rescue, cat being enticed out of tree, cat being ingested by a jet engine, jet engine flaming out and the turbine shattering, Jet Pack Paramedic hitting every branch of the tree on the way down, and finally coming to rest at the bottom.

[poo at Paul's]

They need a webcam on it, i reckon!!

Cat's probably thinking "look at all these dopey buggers"

[poo at Paul's]

eharding said:

That's the sound of Jet Pack Paramedic coming to the rescue, cat being enticed out of tree, cat being ingested by a jet engine, jet engine flaming out and the turbine shattering, Jet Pack Paramedic hitting every branch of the tree on the way down, and finally coming to rest at the bottom.

i did put the two stores together in my head also!!

Come on Cookie, you can do it.

1. Prayforcookie

[louiechevy]

Call the Russian fire brigade!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOGs-dhqOAw

[Sophisticated Sarah]

louiechevy said:

Call the Russian fire brigade!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOGs-dhqOAw

Poor cat, although I’m amazed at the flexibility to right itself as it touched the ground

[dandarez]

'Yeah, that's correct, Cookie is my Misses. Nah, it wasn't a domestic, she's just terrified of covid -
anyhow, shouldn't you be wearing a bloody mask?'
'

[poo at Paul's]

dandarez said:

'Yeah, that's correct, Cookie is my Misses. Nah, it wasn't a domestic, she's just terrified of covid -
anyhow, shouldn't you be wearing a bloody mask?
'

[Biggy Stardust]

dandarez said:

'

[drmike37]

When will people learn? Cat's don't get stuck up trees. They just don't want to come down now.

[dudleybloke]

Cat rescue Russian style!

https://youtu.be/V_Nr31Lv6H8

[Gareth79]

And for people who might complain about wasting fire service time - a) the fire service only do this sort of thing using spare resources (if there was something else they'd leave immediately), b) it's practice/training anyway, it could be a child next time.

[Murph7355]

Jasey_ said:

drmike37 said:

When will people learn? Cat's don't get stuck up trees. They just don't want to come down now.

This.

Our current cat went onto the neighbours roof and proceeded to meow like mad all night and half way into next day.

Builder came round with long enough ladder - got onto roof - Cat took one look at him and ran down the roof and launched off the house.

Came in the house to see Mrs Jasey who was relieved to see him - he bit her and ran off.

Little b@st@rd .

Absolutely - South Wales Fire and Rescue Service need a good slap/budget cut.

My OH asked me to get our younger cat out of a tree. No chance - as soon as it's hungry, it'll come down.

Sure enough, a few hours later it was scoffing it's food.

[anonymous-user]

No problem, ma'am.

[RichB]

Gareth79 said:

And for people who might complain about wasting fire service time - a) the fire service only do this sort of thing using spare resources (if there was something else they'd leave immediately), b) it's practice/training anyway, it could be a child next time.

How often does a child get stuck up a tree?

....

[anonymous-user]

RichB said:

Gareth79 said:

And for people who might complain about wasting fire service time - a) the fire service only do this sort of thing using spare resources (if there was something else they'd leave immediately), b) it's practice/training anyway, it could be a child next time.

How often does a child get stuck up a tree?

....

Depends how far up you throw them.

[eharding]

RichB said:

Gareth79 said:

And for people who might complain about wasting fire service time - a) the fire service only do this sort of thing using spare resources (if there was something else they'd leave immediately), b) it's practice/training anyway, it could be a child next time.

How often does a child get stuck up a tree?

....

In Russia, only once. Apparently.

[Corvid-2020]

Gareth79 said:

And for people who might complain about wasting fire service time - a) the fire service only do this sort of thing using spare resources (if there was something else they'd leave immediately), b) it's practice/training anyway, it could be a child next time.

Many years ago we had cat stuck for four days on our roof. Eventually RSPCA turned up having had many calls from neighbours. We hadn't called them as it wasn't our cat and as far as I was concerned if it had got up there it could damm well get down, or die and fall off. As a human, you could get to our top roofline via two lower roofes and ou neighbours annex roof and an 8ft ladder at the rear of the property....but I wasn't making this easy route in for burglars public knowledge. It was November in the near freeze of the 2007 winter so I was expecting a quick demise. I did leave a bowl of cat food on each roof each day to tempt the cat down but some other cats had joined in on the game and were getting there first.

Day four of calls from neighbours, RSPCA called fire service.

I turned up just as fire service were about to from the ground "jet" the cat onto a lower roof. I made the fire service lads tea and got biscuits whilst we discussed the issue that we had an unlined 200year old slate roof and that would flood into my roof space if jetted from below and slates got knocked (as it did in a bad wind in a rainstorm. So an approach is decided on using the smallest ladders they have, the smallest reservist who'd just started his training (still replaceable) and a gentle crawl up the 45 degree roof the the cat began. Four day old hungry panic mewing cat, fluffed itself up, showed its teeth and claws, fluffed itself further into the Tom that it was and charged at the reservist on the ladder, cleared him with one jump, scratched the arm of the RSCPA fellow trying to catch it and ran off into the road....at warp speed.

RSPCA fellow "aren't you going to call your cats name?"

Me "Why would I call it, never seen the cat before it was stuck on my roof".

Fire chief "Oh, so the bill for the call out isn't for you then Stan, Mr. RSPCA, you called us, have you a £345 check for a unowned cat please".

RSPCA bloke got really arsey at this point that "We'd called him to get a our cat off our roof". I told him to prove it..........if it was our cat wouldn't it have had a nametag on its collar, rather than no collar, or that he could catch it better then his missed attempt and see if it was tagged. At this point, with perfect schadenfraude, our ginger Tom pops onto on of the lower roofs I'd left some cat food on, looks at teh empty bowl and then jumps up onto the now vacant roofline and in front of myself, my wife, 6 neighbours, two fire engines and their squads (my tea and biscuits were popular on a quiet Friday) sprays the roofline with urine as if to say "thanks guys, saved me a fight". Only slightly gutted the local rag had no one spare to send out that day and this was a bit pre Facache / Twuntface being mainstream in over 40s.

RSPCA were quite arsey with us after (threatening letters to recovery the fire brigade cost a bit like private parking cos) and I have never advocated supporting them as a charity ever since.