Rescuing Cats from trees?

We had this HUGE discussion in school about firefighting, and the first words my friend (he's from another country) said about Firefighters is that they put out fires and rescue animals from high places.

Has your company gone to rescue a cat, or maybe even a dog, from a high point?

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on January 12, 2011 at 10:16pm

That's not within the parameters of the discussion, because it's just a little difficult to drive fire apparatus through floodwaters to rescue the cat.

Then there's the little problem of the resources being tied up rescuing people who are trapped by the flood, since human life is the priority in that situation - and every other situation.

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Permalink Reply by Jack/dt on January 12, 2011 at 10:20pm

What color is your cat? Do you shave your cat? Favorite cat recipes? All great topics.

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Permalink Reply by Firewriter on January 12, 2011 at 10:21pm

Do you shave your cat? Isn't that getting a little personal?! Geeez!! Do I ask if you shave your dog??

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Permalink Reply by Wade Seely on January 12, 2011 at 10:25pm

cough! cough! sorry hairball

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Permalink Reply by Jack/dt on January 12, 2011 at 10:26pm

It was a rhetorical question.

I don't shave my dog, but I will on occasion trim him, sometimes in interesting designs or styles.

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Permalink Reply by Firewriter on January 12, 2011 at 10:28pm

Ralph ... you are just not right!!

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on January 12, 2011 at 10:30pm

What they accept makes no difference. I have the power to close the door with them on the other side.

I don't even have to use my superior human intellect to beat them - just my opposable thumbs.

Plus, I control the kitty food bin and water tap...

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on January 12, 2011 at 10:31pm

Target-rich environment. I'll have to stand back to prevent richochets off of the rocks.

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Permalink Reply by Firewriter on January 12, 2011 at 10:54pm

Ben, the question was, "Have you ever seen the skeleton of a cat in a tree?" My answer said, yes - during RECOVERY. There was no active rescue at that point; the floods were over and we were doing recovery work.

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on January 12, 2011 at 11:09pm

That was the literal question. The literal context was in running isolated cat-in-the-tree calls during normal day-to-day operations.

The context is equally as important as the question. If you're going to interpret the question literally, you need to do the same with the context.