Cat Rescue Guy

I had two rescues to do this afternoon: one 45 minutes north of town and the other one 30 minutes south of town. The kitty north of town needed to be done first because she had been stuck in the tree for five days while the other cat had been stuck only two days. I was hoping that the first rescue would be fairly quick and easy so that I would have enough daylight and energy to do the second one. The first rescue was for Titty the kitty in a rural area near Ethel, Louisiana. Titty was 40 feet high in a large Pine tree in a wooded area, and her brown tabby coat blended in so well with the color of the bark of the tree that I had a very difficult time seeing her even after I knew precisely where she was. Titty is an inside cat, but she does get short, supervised visits just outside the door on occasion, and it was on one of these occasions that something unknown suddenly motivated her to run out to this Pine tree and climb it. Anna did her best to get her down or find someone who could, ...

How about this little cutie. This is Fred, the sweet, one-year-old orange tabby boy who belongs to Kristin and Kalil in Abita Springs, Louisiana. We don't know why he climbed this tree in his backyard, but he was stuck about 40 feet high for four hours before I got the call to rescue him. He looked pitiful when I climbed up to him, but he was calm and cooperative and made the rescue easy for me. He walked into the carrier with no trouble, and I brought him down. He was happy to be back inside with his canine siblings.

Most people would take it as a bad sign when they go to a shelter and learn that a particular kitten has been adopted and returned to the shelter twice, but Margie was not deterred. This little black and white kitten was the only one who stuck his paw out of the cage and patted her on her face, and once that connection was made, Margie made up her mind and took the kitten to her home in rural Bogue Chitto, Mississippi with her husband, Andrew, and their children. They named him Clark, and he settled into their home and has been a perfectly wonderful and well-loved cat for three years now. When Clark and his canine brother are inside, they get along just fine, but when they go outside, his brother tends to chase him. That is what happened recently, and this chase got a little out of hand as Clark was chased into the woods across the street where he escaped by climbing a Pine tree. Clark kept climbing upward looking for a limb where he could rest, but he climbed 55 feet high before he fo...

Girl is an inside cat in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, but something spooked her when the door happened to be open, and she ran outside and across the street where she was chased by two loose dogs into a wooded area. Girl escaped by climbing up a Pine tree and settling on a small limb about 35 feet high near the top of the tree. Girl escaped the dogs, but she could not escape the tree and was stuck there for six long days during some cold weather, including one near-freezing rainy night. She was miserable, and she cried loudly and constantly to let everyone know. Girl became scared when I climbed up to her, so I went slowly and tried to reassure her every step of the way. She was clearly uncomfortable, but she was also clearly too tired to react and never moved from her position the entire time. She sniffed my hand but had little reaction to it.  When I petted her, however, she relaxed a good bit and felt reassured. She had no interest in the carrier, so I put her in the bag instead ...

I didn't know what to do with Suki. I thought this rescue was going to be simple, quick, easy and pleasant. Suki was on the lowest, dead stub of a limb in a tall Pine tree in her next door neighbor's yard in Denham Springs, and she was pleading for anyone to help her. She is a sweet, one-year-old girl who looked ready to cooperate with me to get her down, even though she had been in the tree only eight hours or so. I climbed up to her, and she readily greeted me and made friends with me. She was ready to go; all I had to do was bring her down. I pulled the carrier up to her, but she seemed a bit uncomfortable with that. Rather than risk her climbing higher in this tall tree, I just put the carrier away. No problem. I will just bag her. I prepared the cat bag on my arm, and then I learned that Suki HATES the scent of any other cat. I don't typically wash my cat bag between rescues, so the bag held the scent of several cats that had been rescued prior. Suki could smell the sc...