Cat refuses to come down from tree

[The Snark]

Been up there 3 days now. 72 hours. Tried all pedestrian methods, cajoling, tempting with food, different people trying to talk it down.

The tree is huge, over 100 feet across with all branches over 30 feet off the ground. The cat was initially frightened by the dog but likes to play 'can't catch me' games at random. She also seems somewhat demented and a dim bulb in the light factory.

Anyone have some odd suggestions, bright ideas? No properly trained monkey available.

 

[RolliePollie]

22 long rifle. It ALWAYS works.

 

[Toxoderidae]

RolliePollie, that's not funny.

 

[gypsy cola]

laser pointer?

 

[gypsy cola]

if not, you may need to adopt the tree as a your pet and accept the cat and tree are now one.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

Here in the '80 (mostly) the Fire Department guys helped solve those situations. Do nothing, cats are smart, they know best. Had one female that went down after a week 20 years ago.

 

[The Snark]

laser pointer?

Tried it several times. She's like the ultra dumb dog where you throw a ball or stick and it just sits there staring at your hand.

if not, you may need to adopt the tree as a your pet and accept the cat and tree are now one.

That sums it up pretty well. The tree is a spirit tree for our property and the land about. The cat is along the lines of a rather ugly and obnoxious ornament that is trying to get in on the act.

Here in the '80 (mostly) the Fire Department guys helped solve those situations.

We definitely do not want the local FD getting in on things. At best they are a comedy routine and a hazard to themselves and the community when unsupervised and left to their own devices. If they ran the rescue I would not be at all surprised if the tree got cut down and there was extensive damage to our roof. These are, after all, the folks who tested the depth of our local river with the service truck, TWICE!

 

[The Snark]

Okay, problem solved. Dog 1, Cat 0, Humans -1. If there ever was a time when a video should have been made.

Cajoling the cat. She's looking down from her perch, interested or brain dead or both. Dog comes careening around the corner of the house, looking for entertainment. Cat startled, jumps backwards forgetting she's on a tree branch. She grabs, hanging on the front claws. Dog barks. Cat panics and lets go.

She falls about 30 feet then tumbles down the bank into the river. Dog pursues. He's on her before she can gather her wits so she bolts, straight into the river. Dog, who is part crocodile, is absolutely delighted. A river romp with a cat to worry! It's christmas! Splashes and mud slinging.

We attempt to shoo off the dog. He backs off slightly, his presence keeping the cat in the river. We fish her out. If I had been holding a bowl of gravy about then I would have poured it on her and tossed her to the dog. He tries to worry her, worrying her and making her try to climb on top of my head as I slowly scale the steep river bank.

Tossed her out on the upstairs porch and got cleaned up. Gave her food and water out there. She was already eyeing her escape route once more. Need to deal with that today. Either take her to the vet and have her spayed or to the university for dissection and determining how an animal can exist without a brain.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

They are that bad the local FD man? Ah ah i was trained by the Italian FD long time ago, lovely guys.

 

[The Snark]

They are that bad the local FD man?

MUCH worse.
Visualize. Trimming trees away from power lines, one of their non FD duties. Getting shocks from the cherry picker truck for over 15 minutes. None of them thought of moving the crane arm just a few inches, away from the electric wire it was touching.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

MUCH worse.
Visualize. Trimming trees away from power lines, one of their non FD duties. Getting shocks from the cherry picker truck for over 15 minutes. None of them thought of moving the crane arm just a few inches, away from the electric wire it was touching.

Maaan, what would happen then (hope not, really) if a disaster like Bhopal (India) happens if the FD are so unprepared?

 

[The Snark]

There are neat little 4 inch across holes punched in the asphalt roads all over our district. How they came to be is a mystery. All look and shrug their shoulders and shake their heads. Nobody has yet, in 8 years I've been watching, equated the holes to the foot missing on the outrigger post of the cherry picker truck.

Steve Martin's movie Roxanne sums these guys up very well.

 

[Chris11]

There are neat little 4 inch across holes punched in the asphalt roads all over our district. How they came to be is a mystery. All look and shrug their shoulders and shake their heads. Nobody has yet, in 8 years I've been watching, equated the holes to the foot missing on the outrigger post of the cherry picker truck.

Steve Martin's movie Roxanne sums these guys up very well.

Man, where is OShA or NIOSH????
Dont worry, i know where theyre really at...

 

[The Snark]

In application, Murphy's law supersedes ohms. In the third world, graft and kickbacks supersede OSHA, NIOSH and, usually, common sense.

I need to get some good pictures of their service truck. A one banger deisel engine cobbed into a home made vehicle. When sitting in the cab you have a smoking hot engine to lean on with drive belts and a massive flywheel a few inches from your bod. You don't want to sit like that... or that... or lean there... better yet, slide as far as you can away from that thing. Wear hearing protection too. And no loose clothing.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

A question: those seems funny guys but they do know at least what the fire triangle is? Ah ah

 

[The Snark]

A question: those seems funny guys but they do know at least what the fire triangle is? Ah ah

Thanks for reminding me. New addition in the Watering Hole on these guys.

 

[The Snark]

Took me a few moments to remember the fire triangle. In the fire service we use the tetrahedron and the 6 (7) classes of fires. Ash, Boils, Conducts, Decomposes, Electrical, Fats and oils, Gone to hell (radioactivity) or Gasses
(Our acronyms became so obscure and complex the 'clear speech' rule was imposed. IE, nice. Cooking Oils are now class K?)

 

[Chris LXXIX]

Took me a few moments to remember the fire triangle. In the fire service we use the tetrahedron and the 6 (7) classes of fires. Ash, Boils, Conducts, Decomposes, Electrical, Fats and oils, Gone to hell (radioactivity) or Gasses
(Our acronyms became so obscure and complex the 'clear speech' rule was imposed. IE, nice. Cooking Oils are now class K?)

I still think sometimes about what those poor mans faced during the Chernobyl disaster in those dark USSR times back then. Here in Italy, more or less like you said... thinking even today (more than yesterday) again at the radioactivity/fallout part.

Here still is class A, the classic (wood, other solid stuff, paper, rubber and derivates etc)
class B (enter liquid stuff here)
class C (enter propane now and stuff, acetylene etc)
class D (hell now ah ah, a chemical one is the lesser of evil)
class E (easy, electronic stuff mostly)

 

[The Snark]

Well, for clarification, the universal fire extinguisher code:
FORMERLY
A, anything that leaves Ash.
B, anything that Boils: flammable liquids
C, anything that Conducts. Unclear and a misnomer. Refers to burning insulation or components with electrical conductors transferring the heat.
D, Decomposing materials that provide the Oxygen side of the fire triangle by self decomposition. Certain metals.
E, Saturated fats and oils. Do NOT use water except as a fine mist. Otherwise, use a C class CO2 extinguisher. Beware of potential steam explosions.

PRESENT
A, Ash
B, Boils - flammable liquids
C, Flammable gasses
D, Flammable metals
E, Electrical, all
F, Cooking Fats and Oils.

Boiling liquids fires are now grouped together and should only be suppressed by low pressure oxygen preclusion agents, BC type extinguishers, ammonium phosphate, purple K, CO2, Halon etc.

The K rating for fire extinguishers, for Kitchen, is under debate and is, in many fire fighters opinions, idiotic.