HELP! Our cat is stuck up a tree!

[speeder]

Never have seen a cat skeleton in a tree. Seriously, just lasso the tree somehow and shake it until the cat loses its footing. It will fall, but grab branches on its way down and survive. Might have schit stains on its shorts when it's done, but it'll be comedy to watch and the cat won't climb up that tree again.

Film it and post the video here. I guarantee it will survive. Thrill of his life, like one of us getting to drive an F-1 car.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Shoot, I'd just climb up and get it.

[Tim Hancock]

Cat will come down when it wants to. If the meowing was bothering me, I would probably take some shots at it with a bb gun, but that is just me. Our cats climb our trees often and always come down on their own.

[Rusty Heap]

BB guns, .22's, and shot guns? tsk tsk, you all should be ashamed at your puny thinking...........I say go right for the bottle rockets and 4th of July motor shells.

(grins)

[Jeff Higgins]

I don't think my dog has ever been stuck up a tree.

[targa911S]

Originally posted by Moses
I've never, ever seen a dead cat in a tree. I gotta think the cat will find a way down.

I'm with Moses. It will find a way down sooner or later.

[notfarnow]

Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
Hmm, 40-ft ladder. That's an AWFULLY big ladder. I climbed onto the roof of my old townhouse once with the roofer's ladder. That thing had to be about 30-ft, and it scared the heck out of me.

+1

I get the wim-wams on a 30 ft ladder leaned against a HOUSE.

I'd get a new cat before you'd find me atop a 40ft ladder, leaning against a tree branch, with a cat clawing at my eyes.

Sounds like a newspaper headline just waiting for ink.

[Moses]

Originally posted by notfarnow
+1

I get the wim-wams on a 30 ft ladder leaned against a HOUSE.

I'd get a new cat before I you'd find me atop a 40ft ladder, leaning against a tree branch, with a cat clawing at my eyes.

Sounds like a newspaper headline just waiting for ink.

No doubt. I've been atop a 30 foot ladder before. Did not want to let go with either hand. Scary. Grab a cat from that height? Not a chance.

[TerryH]

"Man on 40 Foot Ladder Falls into Crowd; 3 Dead! Cat in Tree Comes Down to See What the Fuss is About."

[KFC911]

Originally posted by TerryH
"Man on 40 Foot Ladder Falls into Crowd; 3 Dead! Cat in Tree Comes Down to See What the Fuss is About."

[widebody911]

Get one of these - works every time.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

High ladders aren't all that scary to me - it's the ones that wobble, sway, dance around and otherwise could twist free and come crashing down that scare me. I suppose if you tied it off every few feet as you ascended it wouldn't be so bad. The fiberglass ones kinda' scare the crap out of me.

Find some professional roofing guys or ironworkers - those dudes are certifiably nuts - they'll be up and down with your cat in no time.

[sammyg2]

Be careful. When I was in my 20's I fell off a 40 foot ladder.
Good thing for me I was only on that first rung ba da bump.
But seriously folks.... Don't forget to tip your waitress.

[Super_Dave_D]

I fell out of a 40 foot tree once - not a single scratch!

[74-911]

Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
High ladders aren't all that scary to me - it's the ones that wobble, sway, dance around and otherwise could twist free and come crashing down that scare me. I suppose if you tied it off every few feet as you ascended it wouldn't be so bad. The fiberglass ones kinda' scare the crap out of me.

Find some professional roofing guys or ironworkers - those dudes are certifiably nuts - they'll be up and down with your cat in no time.

or find a sailor who has some "ascenders" (what the tree trimmers use). Anyone who has been to the top of a 55' mast and the mast is swinging through a 5 or 6' arc will not be bothered by a 40' tree. Reaching out and grabbing a strange cat at that height is another story however.

[legion]

Man...when I worked as a house painter I had to paint a house with 3rd story dormers. They brought out the 50' ladder to the property. I had the fattest guy on the crew sit on the bottom of the ladder, I had another guy standing and holding the ladder from the backside, and I had the ladder tied to one of the columns on the front of the house.

I don't know that I would go up a ladder like that now...

[targa911S]

Originally posted by widebody911
Get one of these - works every time.

LOL I just blew iced tea through my nose!

[johnco]

a paintball gun, a few well placed shots and the cat will probably decide to come down.

[Danimal16]

SEND CHOPPER UP THERE!


Chopper is a 105 pound Cane Corso-pit Bandogge who is going for the world high jump record. He is bred with the worlds toughest, and strongest Cane Corso's and a touch of pit-bull"

[pwd72s]

Cane Corso...isn't that the dog breed that killed the lady in San Francisco?