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"Hello?"
"howsobraryu?"
"Sorry?"
"howsobraryu?"
"Sorry, what?"
"H.O.W S.O.B.E.R A.R.E Y.O.U ?"
"Oh... Not very. How sober are you?"
"I just got a call from ******. There's a cat stuck in a tree. It's been there six days. Can you deal with it?"
"Probably not."
"OK, I'll keep looking."
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Y'know, I don't know how many trees I've climbed (hundreds surely) but they all seem to have one thing in common: The complete lack of cat skeletons anywhere. It's funny. people call us everytime their cat gets "stuck" in a tree, but after 6 days I've had cats still full enough of energy to try very hard to tear me open while I attempt to "rescue" them. Most will even climb higher to get away.
I know of at least one tree climber (and I am sure there are others) who, when bitten by a cat, for whom he was in the tree to bring safely back to it's fretful owner, reacted by throwing the poor animal from the top of the tree. It consequently landed on it's feet and scampered away. One guy I know, a fire-fighter we work with on occasion, loves it when people (usually older women) call the fire hall looking for someone to save their poor kittie. The conversation apparently goes something like this;
"Hello, ************* Fire-hall #X."
"Hello, I need you to come get my (snookums) out of a tree."
"Is the tree on fire ma'am?"
"What? No!"
"Well give us a call when it is."
The fact is cats climb trees. They have done it for eons. In the African savana park rangers never have to call for a tree guy to come rescue their lion. Why? Because that would be silly. No matter how stuck they are a lion will come down, will find a way down, when their hunger finally overcomes their panic. And so will old Tom stuck in the top of missus Wiloughby's Douglas-fir. It seems to me that too many people refuse to give thier pets enough credit for handling their problems themselves. It's not surprising that a fantastically large number of people treat their children the same way.
Just one of my many observations on human nature. Feel free to disagree.
That's all for now,
Brendan
"Hello?"
"howsobraryu?"
"Sorry?"
"howsobraryu?"
"Sorry, what?"
"H.O.W S.O.B.E.R A.R.E Y.O.U ?"
"Oh... Not very. How sober are you?"
"I just got a call from ******. There's a cat stuck in a tree. It's been there six days. Can you deal with it?"
"Probably not."
"OK, I'll keep looking."
click
Y'know, I don't know how many trees I've climbed (hundreds surely) but they all seem to have one thing in common: The complete lack of cat skeletons anywhere. It's funny. people call us everytime their cat gets "stuck" in a tree, but after 6 days I've had cats still full enough of energy to try very hard to tear me open while I attempt to "rescue" them. Most will even climb higher to get away.
I know of at least one tree climber (and I am sure there are others) who, when bitten by a cat, for whom he was in the tree to bring safely back to it's fretful owner, reacted by throwing the poor animal from the top of the tree. It consequently landed on it's feet and scampered away. One guy I know, a fire-fighter we work with on occasion, loves it when people (usually older women) call the fire hall looking for someone to save their poor kittie. The conversation apparently goes something like this;
"Hello, ************* Fire-hall #X."
"Hello, I need you to come get my (snookums) out of a tree."
"Is the tree on fire ma'am?"
"What? No!"
"Well give us a call when it is."
The fact is cats climb trees. They have done it for eons. In the African savana park rangers never have to call for a tree guy to come rescue their lion. Why? Because that would be silly. No matter how stuck they are a lion will come down, will find a way down, when their hunger finally overcomes their panic. And so will old Tom stuck in the top of missus Wiloughby's Douglas-fir. It seems to me that too many people refuse to give thier pets enough credit for handling their problems themselves. It's not surprising that a fantastically large number of people treat their children the same way.
Just one of my many observations on human nature. Feel free to disagree.
That's all for now,
Brendan
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God, I want to climb a tree...