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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: miko2d on January 08, 2002, 12:09:00 PM
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What is the best way to get down a cat that was (apparently) chased 50 feet up the tree and is reluctant to come down since Jan 4th?
A guy in a cherrypicker just scared him to a higher branch temporarily.
The tree trunk is about 2 feet diameter and the lowest branch is 40+ feet.
Is there a hope the cat comes back by himself? Starves into unconciousness and falls?
The weather has been below freezing in the last few days.
miko
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The cat was scared by a cherrypicker that approached from above and decsended then jumped down!
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Hahaha what a stupid cat.
Anyways why dont you try throwing rocks at it?
Are there vultures in your area?
Or maybe you can make it come down with a water hose?
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Open a can of wet catfood. Place at bottom of tree.
dh
(Wrist Rocket works, too ;) )
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12 guage.
kidding!
cat's don't climb upside down or backwards, at least not 50 feet in the freezing weather.
call the fire dept.
or, get a bb gun, and a bunch of friends with blankets at the bottom of the tree.
footballs work too.
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Mason is right, they can't/refuse to climb backwards.
This same thing happened to a neighbor's cat about 4 years ago. No matter what the old woman did, the can would not come down.
First, get the owner out of the area. Then, get two pairs of guys with blankets ready under the tree. Third, knock the cat down, catch it in a blanket.
I say two pairs of guys because we tried it with 4 guys, each with a corner of a big comforter, and it is just too tough to coordinate moving around in the 1 second that you have before the cat hits the ground. We failed in trying to catch it in the blanket but we managed to break its fall enough that it was not injured. He sort of bounced off one end of the blanket.
Unfortunately, your tree sounds REALLY tall.
[ 01-08-2002: Message edited by: Mickey1992 ]
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Leave the damn cat alone....he'll come down. When's the last time you saw a cat skeleton in a tree?
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Most attempts to get a cat to come down (if attempts from the ground) will only make the cat go higher to get away.
If you have access, I suggest a helicopter to come and hover over the top of the tree about 300 feet over it and slowly desend. As the chopper gets closer down to the tree, the cat is bound to get scared and want to climb DOWN away from the chopper.
While doing this, keep the bottom of the tree clear so the cat is frightened back up by something on the ground (like people yelling, "come here kitty")
I hate cats, so I would just let the bastard starve to death up there. If I wanted to be humane about it, I would shoot it with my AR-15 and a hollow point bullet :D
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My cat will climb back down the exact same way she went up the tree. Towards the last 5 feet, she would turn totally around and jump to the ground.
-SW
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Originally posted by Tah Gut:
Leave the damn cat alone....he'll come down. When's the last time you saw a cat skeleton in a tree?
LOL,
man just when I start not liking you because of your democrat views you go off and say something like that.
:)
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A female kitty costume might work. If the tree bound fluffball is a male. Vice-a-versa if not. After that depends on you're acting ability :)
I personally would go with setting the base of the tree on fire. Then again I chuckled at the 12 guage remark (PULL!) ;)
Good luck!
Westy
[ 01-08-2002: Message edited by: O'Westy ]
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Lessee suggestions others have made so far:
A. Get the Blue Angels to do a flyby. Barring the blue angels, get a team of assault helicopters to buzz the tree.
B. Set the tree on fire.
C. Whack the Cat out
D. Do nothing. It hasn't come down by itself in 4 days, so it must be fine.
E. Coat the leaves with Agent Orange-Juice.
F. Find a cat in heat (if cat is male and still has necessary hardware)
G. Induce heat in cat (if cat is female)
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Here's the problems:
It's a _big tree_
It's really cold
Have you tried calling a vet before asking your video-game buddies?
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When it gets hungry/thirsty it will come down. Cats never come out of trees with a bunch of wierd looking humans staring at it from the bottom of the tree. It takes you for an aggressor.
If all else fails, nail it with a rubber baseball. Cat's always land on their feet. :)
-SW
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It will come down if it gets hungry enough.
By the way if you knocked it out or it fell out, it probably wouldnt get hurt. Cats have incredible ability to survive falls.
I read an article once in a science magazine about cats and how they fall on their feet and such. They had stories about cats surviving falls from like 5 story buildings with little or no injury. They hit on their feet and they use their legs like shock absorbers apparently. It was very interesting. The funny thing was, according to this article, what killed some other cats that fell from tall buildings like that was the fact that they had full bladders. So I guess if you are a cat, and you fall off a 5 story building, you better pee on the way down so you wont get hurt!
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I would use some food and a net.
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Hairball did this once.. (once!) She was just a kitten.. terrified, mewoed piteously, made me half sick with anxiety.
I finally got a chainsaw and cut the tree down. Hairball jumped just before the tree hit.. kinda like jumping outta yer plane seat just as the airplane crashes. :D
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If the cat falls out of the tree and lands on its feet, it will be ok. Heres my reasoning- When the cat hits the ground, I assume the impact will about 40 Gs. Cats have 4 legs. Thats only 10 Gs per leg. Humans can survive up to 40 Gs (for about 1/1000th of a second). Cat will live (unless it lands on its head).
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Leave the damn cat alone....he'll come down. When's the last time you saw a cat skeleton in a tree?
This was stolen!
Funny thing, I related almost an identical story a few weeks ago somewhere here on the BBS. I used rocks, sticks, climbed atop my wife's van and reached with a pruner, BB gun- nothing worked. The cat eventually came down on its own.
And yes, I really did use that line on my daughter. ;)
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Unintentional really Keiran. I know I heard it somewhere. Mea culpa.
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An Ostwind would get it down
:D
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Do I detect mockery at my idea! I'll have you know that concentrated little ball of dogbait will love it. For it will be warm!!
Well. If the fire safety ordinance in your town forbids any such thing then stare the puss right in the eyes and ask if it knows what cat origami is.
Westy
;)
(j/k... kinda ...of course <G> )
[ 01-08-2002: Message edited by: O'Westy ]
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Originally posted by SWulfe:
Cat's always land on their feet. :)
-SW
Reminds me of something I read a while back. Someone invented perpetual motion machine: cat with buttered toast (butter side up) tied to it's back and dropped from 5 feet. Just spins, never touches the ground.
:p
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fdiron, that would still be 40'gs for the cat's neck and backbone.
*SNAP*
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really, if you've never been a bored teenager with a willing kitten, you wouldn't know that it is an impressive animal, capable of landing on its feet regardless of the situation it's thrown into. Now, I never did anything that would hurt the animal, and 50-foot drop does sound threatening, but as long as its tail is unobstructed (the captain and QB of the Bonn H.S. football team asserted the "tied tail" experiment results, so don't pin that on me), it will land on its four shock-absorbing feet.
Will it be enough? I dunno. Kitty frostbite is pretty rough though.
<S> Hangtime for a violent and yet somehow noble solution.
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LOL! AKIron...that sounds true... :D
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So is the cat still up the tree, miko?
The blanket and knocking the cat out of the tree seems like the best bet to me... but it sounds like it might be too far up to knock out...
Hope you get it down :(
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So the tree has no branches until you are very near the cat? Maybe you can get some pole climbers and a sling, climb up to the branches with some food, and coax the kitty over to you, shove it in your coat, and descend.
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I once read and email that some scientist did an experiment on cats. They can survive a fall from a building as long as its over 8 floors high or less up to 20 floors. They said it take a cat about eight floors to relise whats happening and get in position to use not only it feet but its rib cage which is very flexable. Got a video of a cat jumping from top of a telephoner pole and surviveing. they can jump a long way.
Dont count on the email be right or anything but the cat will come down. Just leave it alone as long as it thinks its beeing wathed it wont come back. Come to think of it if you ever watch a cat fall its legs are not extended they are kinda out to the sides, maybe for guidance or something.
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Thanks for the replies, guys.
The cat is not mine but one of my coworkers'. Otherwise I would have felt compelled to hunt down and seriously hurt some of the posters here for the tone of their notes. ;)
The cat is still stuck on the tree. He is residing on or above the lowest branches and there are no branches at all until 40+ feet - too high to throw anything or even use a bb-gun.
The fire department in the area does not rescue tree-bound cats anymore after one firefighter lost an eye in such operation.
miko
[ 01-09-2002: Message edited by: miko2d ]
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They will usually come down on their own within 2-5 days, typically at night when nobody is around. However, a few won’t, especially if they are not used to climbing. Since it’s been 4 days already, I would probably call animal control.
As an aside, injuries caused by falls are well documented in cats. This is quite common in urban areas with apartments and is called high-rise syndrome. While it’s true that cats can survive many falls, critical injuries can occur with falls from heights as low as 2 stories (24 feet). The severity of injuries increases linearly with height up to about 7 stories and then becomes constant, as Indian indicated. This is because cats reach terminal velocity (aprox. 60 mph) after falling about 60 feet. Beyond that, they are no longer accelerating, their vestibular system is no longer stimulated and they assume a relaxed posture. This probably increases the surface area of the deceleration forces, much like skydivers are taught to fall. Nevertheless, serious injuries, including chest and spinal injuries are a real risk with such falls -- so knocking the cat out of the tree is not a good idea.
I hope everything works out well for your kitty.
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The cat is now a celebrity (http://www.newstimes.com/cgi-bin/dbs.cgi?db=news&view_records=1&id=21207)
Rescue (http://www.newstimes.com/cgi-bin/dbs.cgi?db=news&view_records=1&id=21272)
The cat is finally down!
miko
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"Suggestions ranged from burning the tree out from under the cat, playing soft, classical music to sedating him using a medical dart gun.[/B/]
wOOt!! I made the news ;)
Westy
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Happy the cat made it :)
Bonden
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Good to hear it!