What affects us affects cats
This super looking mackerel tabby cat hanging on to his rescuer’s leg for grim death while he climbs down a ladder indicates to me that the cat is frightened of heights. I’ve just reminded myself of an article I wrote years ago about a cat thousands of feet up on a light fitting outside …
Firefighters in West Yorkshire, UK have made a public announcement on Twitter that they do not deal with issues of animal welfare and therefore they will not rescue cats from trees. They ask people to contact the RSPCA instead. “We need to keep our focus on preserving life, protecting people and dealing with matters …
This tabby-and-white domestic cat was chased up an oak tree when he was a kitten more than six years ago and he has not come down. Firefighters have tried to rescue him but he refused their help. He is fed by the locals. The obvious question is why they can’t simply grab him, place …
Would nature and evolution have allowed domestic cats to get stuck up trees? I don’t think so. So why are they?
This is a particularly nice ‘cat stuck up a tree rescue’ with a happy ending. The cat dives off his tree as if he knows that it safe to do so as there is a safety net below. I think the firefighters could have held the tarp a little tighter but it did the …
Cats, like humans, don’t naturally go into reverse. They don’t like walking backwards. They may do so for a short distance to avoid something, a hostile object or creature, but beyond that they aren’t very good at it. We know that cat’s claws point backwards. They point towards the rear of the animal when …
News media on the Internet is full of this story. It’s about a mountain lion which they say was stuck up a tree. The cat was perched on a branch 15 m above ground. For some reason or other, somebody decided the cat was stuck there just like a domestic cat might become stuck …
Canopy Cat Rescue fill a need because there appears to be a dearth of professional tree climbers who are committed to rescuing cats stuck in trees. These two guys appear to be highly professional and they rescue cats from trees almost full-time. They say that they have other things to do but most of …
