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marg and jon wrote:
> 
> Never bothered with cats in trees.  Leave em alone and they will come home.
> How many cat skeletons have you seen in trees?
> Stay Safe
> Jon

I have never seen a cat skeleton in a tree, but some strange claw marks
that look like Bald Eagle talons.  The never did find the cat, but I'm
sure that, somewhere, a little eagle family is happy :-)


> "R ESTEY" <restey9690@AOL.COM> wrote in message
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> > mkivela@snet.net (Matt) wrote in message
> news:<c09625aa.0201271545.7fa70740@posting.google.com>...
> > > Unlike most responses, yep, we do that...with (lots) of caveats that
> > > come down to officers/members discretion.
> > >
> > > I'd say those include
> > > -- At our convience.  Don't even think about calling at 4am, or will
> > > find Thomas D. Horne to sick on you...
> > > -- Which usually means sometime late in the afternoon, or the
> > > following a day or two.  By which time problem is usually self
> > > rectified.
> > > -- Aerial only.  If we gotta raise a ground ladder, ain't gonna
> > > happen.  To many things could go wrong to risk going up a ground
> > > ladder against a tree.
> > >
> > > Let's face it...the typical Cat will jump from the tree as soon as the
> > > firefighter is close enough for the Cat to realize just how ugly they
> > > are.
> > >
> > > There is a lot of extra little services we have done over the years
> > > because we were asked.  If they're reasonable, they're done.
> > > Sometimes it's sorry, we can't help you with that.
> >
> > Had call several years back - elderly lady saw cat in tree and call
> > our department to get it down.  One of our engine companies responded
> > (we are a
> > small volunteer department).  Tree was in location not easily
> > accessible to our
> > aerial.  What they did was take turnout coat and held it out like a
> > net.  Took
> > booster line off engine charged it and using strem knocked cat out of
> > tree
> > and (fortunately!) caught it in coat.  Cat jumped off coat and took
> > off
> > (probably scared 8 of 9 lives from him!).  Lady was so impressed sent
> > in $50
> > donation to department.  Another job well done.