Damned cats

[booboo]

While waiting to pick up my Chinese take out order for my folks and kids tonight, I get a call from a good friend. Seems that "Buddy" is up a tree and won't come down. After a quick dinner, I head over and find Buddy about 45' a large oak leaning way out over a lake. Gonna be dark soon and it's raining. Up I go...Buddy was not a happy cat. No major issues, Buddy rescue was pretty easy but...here's the good part...my friend tells me that he's got his canoe ready and if I want to, I can just knock Buddy out of the tree into the lake and he'll go pick him up with the canoe. I'm grinning right now at the thought of the stupid cat taking a 45' freefall into the lake. Can't make this stuff up!

 

[mckeetree]

While waiting to pick up my Chinese take out order for my folks and kids tonight, I get a call from a good friend. Seems that "Buddy" is up a tree and won't come down. After a quick dinner, I head over and find Buddy about 45' a large oak leaning way out over a lake. Gonna be dark soon and it's raining. Up I go...Buddy was not a happy cat. No major issues, Buddy rescue was pretty easy but...here's the good part...my friend tells me that he's got his canoe ready and if I want to, I can just knock Buddy out of the tree into the lake and he'll go pick him up with the canoe. I'm grinning right now at the thought of the stupid cat taking a 45' freefall into the lake. Can't make this stuff up!

I have never seen a cat skeleton in a tree. They come down on their own.

 

[Shagbark]

That had to be worth the climb.

 

[dingeryote]

Garden hose. spritz cat untill cat jumps. Landing net. crack beers.

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[Grace Tree]

I have never seen a cat skeleton in a tree. They come down on their own.

You just haven't looked in the right tree
Nice kitty, kitty, kitty
We gave him a nice chipper funeral and a memorial decal

 

[booboo]

I have never seen a cat skeleton in a tree. They come down on their own.

Yeah, my thoughts exactly, and I'm not a big fan of cats. But these folks are good friends and were pretty upset about the idea of leaving the cat in the tree overnight...And we did crack a beer to celebrate Buddy's safe return to ground level...

 

[gr8scott72]

You just haven't looked in the right tree
Nice kitty, kitty, kitty
We gave him a nice chipper funeral and a memorial decal

Got any bigger pictures? lol

 

[Sunrise Guy]

While waiting to pick up my Chinese take out order for my folks and kids tonight, I get a call from a good friend. Seems that "Buddy" is up a tree and won't come down. After a quick dinner, I head over and find Buddy about 45' a large oak leaning way out over a lake. Gonna be dark soon and it's raining. Up I go...Buddy was not a happy cat. No major issues, Buddy rescue was pretty easy but...here's the good part...my friend tells me that he's got his canoe ready and if I want to, I can just knock Buddy out of the tree into the lake and he'll go pick him up with the canoe. I'm grinning right now at the thought of the stupid cat taking a 45' freefall into the lake. Can't make this stuff up!

Sorry, I need clarification, here. Did you actually send Buddy into the drink?

 

[booboo]

Sorry, I need clarification, here. Did you actually send Buddy into the drink?

Just re-read the original post and realized it wasn't clear. No, Buddy didn't do a swan dive, I just had the green light to send him if necessary. He came down clamped onto my arms and legs pretty tight. I wore heavy pants, a long sleeve shirt and a hoodie expecting that he would try to claw me. I did tell the owner that if he started scratching too bad that I was going to just toss him into the lake, which he said was fine too. Still grinning thinking about the long slow fall and splash...Did I mention that I'm not too fond of cats??

 

[Grace Tree]

Got any bigger pictures? lol

MEOW
GOOD KITTY
REST IN PEACES

 

[gr8scott72]

See if this works

Nope

 

[Tree Pig]

Nope

Hard to tell but from the fur that may be a raccoon... One of these hillbillies may have shot it for lunch and it didnt fall from the tree.

 

[Grace Tree]

Nope

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[Tree Pig]

My website resizes them automatically. Snapfish only work for me. I reposted them. See if that works.

Nice chipper... Can I have it?

 

[Grace Tree]

Sorry, can't have the chipper. It wasn't a coon. It was a very large house cat. When the climber yelled at me and pointed I thought it was a coon too and told him to cut the section out and we'd get rid of it later. After we chipped the brush I looked at it and it was a cat. It was a narrow crotch and it must have gotten caught and could back it's way up and out of the crotch. I don't know why the homeowner didn't hear it because the tree was right outside their bedroom window. It was also not far from their septic system and they must have thought the smell was coming from there. I'd say it had been in the tree at least a few weeks. It smelled so bad that when I picked up the wood and the cat and ran for the chipper I started gagging and dropped the whole thing. The climber picked it up and threw in the chipper but the crotch was too wide to go through so it started bouncing up and down against the feed wheel. The climber picked up a chainsaw to cut the crotch and a volunteer who was there helping us started jumping up and down and yelling. I guess he thought the guy was going to saw the cat in two. Anyway, the cat got chipped and hauled away. We never told the homeowner because it was a volunteer job we were doing for a guy who was having open heart surgery while we were doing his tree and we figured he didn't need deal with the drama of a dead family pet. It's a true story with some dark humor and whenever anyone says that you never find a dead cat in a tree I just point to the sticker on the chipper tell them they're wrong.
Phil

 

[Tree Pig]

Sorry, can't have the chipper. It wasn't a coon. It was a very large house cat. When the climber yelled at me and pointed I thought it was a coon too and told him to cut the section out and we'd get rid of it later. After we chipped the brush I looked at it and it was a cat. It was a narrow crotch and it must have gotten caught and could back it's way up and out of the crotch. I don't know why the homeowner didn't hear it because the tree was right outside their bedroom window. It was also not far from their septic system and they must have thought the smell was coming from there. I'd say it had been in the tree at least a few weeks. It smelled so bad that when I picked up the wood and the cat and ran for the chipper I started gagging and dropped the whole thing. The climber picked it up and threw in the chipper but the crotch was too wide to go through so it started bouncing up and down against the feed wheel. The climber picked up a chainsaw to cut the crotch and a volunteer who was there helping us started jumping up and down and yelling. I guess he thought the guy was going to saw the cat in too. Anyway, the cat got chipped and hauled away. We never told the homeowner because it was a volunteer job we were doing for a guy who was having open heart surgery while we were doing his tree and we figured he didn't need deal with the drama of a dead family pet. It's a true story with some dark humor and whenever anyone says that you never find a dead cat in a tree I just point to the sticker on the chipper tell them they're wrong.
Phil

lol maybe I am just a sick fook but thats a great story. But as bad as that cat smelled I guarantee you its nothing compared to a rotting human corpse . Once you smell one, that smell will never leave you. But just to make everyone feel better I have never found one in a tree... well at least not doing tree work.

 

[A. Stanton]

This reminds me of an animal story profiled on tv. Someone's pet iguana fell into a swimming pool and developed hypethermia due to fact that it can't regulate its body temperature.

 

[blueatlascedar]

I learned the hard way on my first cat removal not to climb directly under them. The first one I retrieved unloaded his bladder on me. I guess he was scared an all, but sheesh to unload on your rescuer. Now I try to come in from above (the preferred method) or at least from the side.

 

[Kansas]

I'm grinning right now at the thought of the stupid cat taking a 45' freefall into the lake. Can't make this stuff up!

bobo you have absolutely no class whatsoever fact you suck as a human in my book to even talk about being cruel to any animal shame on you pos!

Kansas

 

[olyman]

bobo you have absolutely no class whatsoever fact you suck as a human in my book to even talk about being cruel to any animal shame on you pos!

Kansas

is this humor, or serious??