Neo, Prince and Samantha
The pace of summer rescues has slowed down quite a bit, but it hasn't stopped. I know at least three kitties who managed to get stuck in a tree recently, and the first one was Neo, a sweet, sociable, ten-month-old girl kitty in Denham Springs, Louisiana. She was stuck for one night at the top of a small tree immediately next to a large Pine tree. I climbed the large Pine tree and pulled myself over to her, and she had no reservations about me at all. We introduced ourselves to each other, and then I lifted her out of her perch and placed her on my lap. I had already spread the bottom of the cat bag over my lap, so all I did was give her some reassuring pets and then pull the sides of the bag up around her. After a short ride back down to the ground, she was safe and happy back inside. After that was Prince, a sweet, eight-year-old kitty in rural Zachary, Louisiana who I had rescued once before eight months ago in the same tree. Similar to Neo's situation, Prince was in a small ...