TT

Lillian had been searching for her cat, TT, for five days when she finally found him in a neighbor's large Oak tree. She called me right away, but I was busy with another rescue and could not get there until the next morning. One-year-old TT spent a total of five nights in that tree in Zachary, Louisiana, but at least he was on large branches and wasn't nearly as uncomfortable as he would have been in most other trees. Even so, he was mighty desperate to get down, and his pleading cries for help were heart-breaking to hear when I arrived.

Even from the ground, I could tell that TT was going to be friendly and cooperative, and I was right. His rescue was easy. I simply held an open carrier in front of him, and he stepped inside for an easy ride back down to the ground where Lillian was waiting to carry him back home. What made the rescue interesting and worthy of a video (below), however, was his initial reluctance to come to me when it was clear he wanted to do so. He kept looking off to the side as if there were some danger there that he didn't want to approach. It took me a few minutes to figure out what was concerning him so much, and it became clear when he began to raise his paw to swat at my rope which was circled around the branch. I am guessing he thought it was a snake, and he was wisely cautious about it. As he was preparing to swat it, he appears to understand that it isn't a snake after all, and then he relaxed a bit more and was ready for a rescue. I have never seen that reaction to the rope before, or perhaps I just never recognized it, but I found it very cute.

https://youtu.be/tntZMrg_XnI