🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 02:09:50 GMT, David Scruggs <bcfd36@aol.com>
wrote:

>Has anyone out there ever taken a cat out of a tree? It came up in a
>local newsgroup I read. We don't, and I don't know if we have ever had
>the opportunity.

Yeah, I tried and failed.  However, I was about 13 years old at the
time and suspect the cat was enjoying the spectacle of me trying to
climb up the tree.  The cat climbed down a few minutes after I
collapsed on the lawn.

In Ben Lomond, we have an arrangement with the local squirrels to
train the cats in the art of tree climbing.  The squirrels tempt the
cats to chase them up the tree.  Of course, the squirrels are much
faster and more agile than the cat.  They apparently find it amusing
to watch the cat clumsily back down the tree after the requite hours
of whining.  

For a nominal charge, I can supply some of the local training
squirrels to any fire department that is plagued with excessive
cat-in-tree calls.  Within one or two generations of cat, they should
all be properly trained, and the cat-in-tree calls dramatically
reduced.



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