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 23ehul2uoj3i9 on January 12, 2011 at 11:31pm

thats funny

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Permalink Reply by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on January 12, 2011 at 11:46pm

don't encourage him to cook and / or eat kitties... not nice...

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on January 12, 2011 at 11:54pm

I'm more of a pickled ginger man, myself.

Throw in a little side of kimchee...yum.

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Permalink Reply by Firewriter on January 13, 2011 at 12:14am

I will let sleeping dogs lie and dead cats sleep in the limbs of the trees from which they were never rescued, 'kay?

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on January 13, 2011 at 12:35am

...and the apples shall lie down with the oranges.

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Permalink Reply by Michael D.Penick on January 14, 2011 at 3:20pm

We are a small rural department. We don't have animal control for calls such as these. In my 30 plus years we have rescued deer from mud bogs (we have a hovercraft to go places like that), trapped dogs, exotic birds, and went on cat rescues. We depend a lot on fundraisers in our community and a little PR goes a long way. With many of the cat calls, just our showing up, even if we don't do anything, goes a long way for funding, whether it be from support of our small tax levy or our fundraisers. None of it ever interfered with our responses to emergencies but we don't run EMS, just fire and rescue.

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Permalink Reply by James Burton (Jamie) on January 16, 2011 at 2:55pm

My Department rescued a cat from a tree last summer, Got stuck about 50 feet up and would not come down, the elderly owner asked for assistance from the local PD, they said to call the Fire Department. Although an odd request that will proberly never happen again in my fire career, it was really good PR for the Department.

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Permalink Reply by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on January 17, 2011 at 2:51pm

APPARENTLY my cat got the memo of cat being the other white meat... and she wanted to give it a try...

since I woke up this morning to find my kitty, Zegerah, in the salad bowl on the kitchen counter

(pissed because I woke her to take her picture for all of you)

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Permalink Reply by Patti Walz on January 17, 2011 at 2:53pm

How cute!

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Permalink Reply by Sarah on January 17, 2011 at 3:06pm

You think your cat was pissed...

My poor hands :(

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Permalink Reply by Patti Walz on January 17, 2011 at 3:12pm

Sorry Sarah, but when I see these pics I can't help but giggle, not at your hands but the looks on your cats faces...

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Permalink Reply by Fabulous Heather Days of Summer on January 17, 2011 at 3:27pm

HEE HEE Sarah - yes I see I forget International Dress Up Your Pet day - I will have to back track and get to that...

and yup - your kitty is pissed off...