Warning to tree-climbing cats. Do not do it.
It only ends in embarrassment
One of the first things a good mama cat should teach her kittens is not to climb trees. No matter the reason.
It only ends in embarrassment.
Now admittedly. cats can shake off embarrassment in a matter of seconds but still the tale of how you got stuck up a tree and had to be rescued will live on thru a majority of your nine lives.
Especially if the fire department had to be called to rescue a cat. The story may even hit the public news.
Oh sure, there is the odd high IQ feline out there who can figure out how to get down by backing down the tree, pole - whatever. But they are a minority.
Far too often a cat decides to chase a bird, or a squirrel. The prey in question will flee to the safety of a nearby tree or wooden power pole and laugh at the feline on the ground.
The cat takes it as a challenge and starts up the tree - mind only fixed on what it considers will be a meal or trophy to bring home and present to a horrified human, or worse, a traumatized for life child.
The memory of the feline’s blood stained paws and mouth will remain with that poor child for life, with the exception of Trump or one his ilk. They will use the story to fundraise.
The lesson - mama don’t let your kittens grow up to be climbers.
Next time we’ll discuss cats and drape climbing.
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I’m Jack one of 19 previously feral kittens that were fortunate enough to be rescued by this nurse named Karen. She got all of our medical needs taken care of including some private stuff, if you know what I mean. She tried to tame us so we could be adopted but only had time, and energy I suppose to, to successfully tame and adopt 4 of us out. Anyway, we are all grown up and tame now, and she really does take good care of us. I will get to my point now though. It’s in response to your advice on climbing. We have a lot of really tall trees. After all we live in Oregon. The trees are full of squirrels and they tease us. So we have to climb the trees. Then we act like we can’t get down and enjoy watching Karen get out the ladder and try to climb up to us calling our names. We love the attention. Now if she called the fire department, which I have heard her threaten, that would be embarrassing. But we already figured out how to back down the tree trunk and enjoy watching Karen’s facial expressions while we shimmy down. So thank you Tom for allowing us to discuss climbing. We also enjoy climbing the curtains when we are in the house. Which is most of the time now that there is a foot of snow outside.