A Bengal huh? What are they like (besides annoying?) ;o)

Your story reminds me of yet another cat in the tree story…

When I was a kid, I was good friends a boy that lived next to me. one summer when we were probably 12yrs old, we both ended up getting kittens from a garage sale. Mine was named Spunky and he named his Punk.

Ok, fast forward a year or two… Punk ends up stuck in a tree probably more like 50ft in air. No amount of coaxing helped and the fire dept. did not offer assistance either. That poor cat stayed up in that tree for almost a week! Yes, he finally came down on his own though…

The moral of the story is that cats DO eventually come down out of trees on their own, but it’s really hard for their owners to just ignore them till they do. )

We had a cat, an expensive little thing at $500 a pop, but cute as a daisy as it was Bengal (think baby leopard).

Anyway, Zeffa, the cat, had started to annoy me being inside, so he had spent a few nights in the garage which had a catflap.

So, back to the story…. It was about 9:30PM one evening when I heard a cat meowing incessantly. I looked out the back door and could hear this cat, but couldn’t see a thing…and it was just starting to rain. Well after five minutes of investigation I came inside and got the torch and started trying to follow the sound with the beam of light (Sorry Jules, just a boring rechargeable!). Sure enough, there was Zeffa (stupid cat!) about 25′ up the neighbour’s (who I do not get on with at all) tree.

She was scared and she was stuck, but no amount of coaxing, calling or cajoling was about to move this cat AND she was meowing AND it was raining.

There was no way I could get my ladder, haul it over the neighbour from Hell’s fence, scale a tree in the dark and the rain, so I stood there and said “Hey Stupid Cat….stay there all night for all I care” and expected I would be treeing climbing before breakfast the next morning.

Well, next morning arrives and to the back door strolls Zeffa, meowing for her breakfast like nothing had ever happened! How she had gotten down I don’t know. For that matter, what she what doing up there I don’t know, but she got herself figured out. Stupid Cat!

Murray

Once, my cat got stuck in a tree very, very high up in the air. I was worried at first, but we just let her come down on her own. She didn’t jump, thank goodness…instead, she came down tail-first. It took her about 10 minutes to come down, but when she did, she came right to the door and ate.

After we moved to a house closer to the road, she’s been scared to go outside. Thus, she only goes outside when she needs to use the “facilities.”

How do I know this? Well Isis used to skitter up a cedar tree and beg for rescue. After getting my foreams shredded by aforementioned claws, I vowed never again. Next time, it took her 8 hrs, but she came down for dinner.