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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

"R ESTEY" <restey9690@AOL.COM> wrote in message
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> mkivela@snet.net (Matt) wrote in message
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> > 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.