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Just taunting you at this point
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The cat got up there, the cat can get down.
I have tried to help cats in the past, and it usually end with me being more stuck than they looked to be, and them casually jumping away. Those pricks can fix their own problems.
Just open a can of tuna and put it on the floor. 9 times out of 10 the "stuck" cat will happily come down.
Have you seen the price of tuna lately?!?
Unopened empty can of tuna also works. Those idiots can't read
Unopened empty can of tuna
I call shenanigans!
Haven't ever seen a dead cat in a tree or on a roof in my life. Some folks need to let nature be nature.
Oh ty your preferred flavour of sky daddy! Since you have yet to see such a thing it musn’t be a thing!
Well, I did! I had to climb on my pops roof to get it down
It’s a relevant point if you have seen a cat dead on a roof before. You acting like a cunt is not.
If this is regular height roof the cat can simply jump down and land on its feet, or it can use the drainage pipe for support. In my experience cats always check very carefully whether they can come down prior to climbing up. Only exception might be kittens.
Were we the only family that said "the cat will be fine" in literally every scenario? She's gonna fuck off for a day. She's on the roof. She's sleeping in the engine bay of the car. Who cares? She's a cat. She died quietly in her sleep at 16 years old by the way.
I got goaded as a kid to get a cat off a tree. My uncle scolded me because you should'nt do that or the cat will never learn.
My cat got half-way up the tree in our yard, and then slowly shimmied down by hanging and swinging between the two main branches. He’s never gone up again once though.
Mine went missing for a day, and then at 2am a neighbor started pounding on the door - was this our cat wailing keeping them awake?
So I climbed about 30' up a pine tree in my boxers, in the dark, unwrapped the cat from the tree, wrapped it around my bare chest (it's terrified fully extended claws made this a snap, right into my flesh) and down we went.
She never tried that again, but did enjoy annual escapes onto the roof until the arthritis got too bad.
Why didn't you put some clothes on before climbing? Personally, the pine sap and cat claws would be a pretty big motivator for me to wear clothes.
Brains don't work great at 3am. Less so when a beloved feline is potentially in danger.
My Dad was a firefighter fpr 35 years, and his go-to line when someone wanted help gettong a cat down was, "Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree?"
Well it's not being in a tree that kills you
My cat Parker ran up the tree out front. I just looked at him and said "ok fuckface, see you when you decide to come down".
He could sense my tone of voice, and just shimmied his ass back down. It was hilarious.
And before that he was thinking "Come 'rescue' me, you poor fuck."
Oh yeah, he was totally in rascally play mode. I love rascally play mode, but not when it's bring out a ladder and go through the motions of rescue play mode LOL
I had never seen a cat's ass just wiggle itself backwards down a tree before, always more of a "suicide dive" while kind of running down the trunk, and then sprint to safety when they land
I guess Parker could sense when I started to turn my back on him that I was not having any of it that day lol
He got so much attention, love and affection the last time he was up there, no wonder he did it again.
A couple people here have suggested wet food to lure the cat down, but when mine found a spot abouve the cabinets that was much easier to get up than down that solution crossed my mind for only an instant before I realized it would probably only take one more go for him to realize there's a huge incentive to risking injury.
He would do this thing when he was angry where he would howl like a dog to make sure everyone within earshot understood the severity of whatever great injustice had taken place, and not taking him down when he wanted to be was definitely one of those cases. I'd give him maybe an hour to get his screaming in before getting around to helping him.
Was redoing the floors in one my rooms, I had all the air vent covers off. Guess where the cat decided to go?
Was like the god damn scene from poltergeist where you could hear it all over the house but didn't know where exactly the meows orginated from echoing through the ductwork.
I forgot how I coaxed it to an exit, but I do recall grabbing it by the scruff and yanking it out as the cat tried to scamper back in. Went to go clean-up my scratches and the damn thing knocked over what I blocked the vent with and squeezed back in.
At that point I was tempted to just turn on the furnace heat and call it a day. But didn't want to deal with the stink.
Should have put a second cat in there to chase the first one out
May even nedd a third or fourth.
Cat shouldn't be outside to begin with.
It must be exhausting being you.
Yeah, cage those animals! Dominate them!
Free the cats! Billions of birds must die!
I think you are missing something. You can keep those weaker birds alive and avoid keeping cats cruelly locked indoors. You could just avoid keeping cats entirely.
My cat is perfectly happy being an indoor cat with supervised outdoor time. She's more upset when she gets closed out of the bedroom than she is about not being able to go outside whenever she wants.
this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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