Posted on 12/30/2008 9:57:06 AM PST by Fawn
Blog editor's note #2: While cats usually do come down, if the cat has been up there for days, it's already quite hungry and it's not likely to find its way down without help.
> Cats are prone to hepatic lipidosis (fatty liver disease) when they don't eat for several days. Lacking food, the cat's body starts sending fat cells to the liver to process into lipoproteins for fuel. Cats' livers are not terribly efficient at processing fat, and much of the fat is stored in the liver cells. Left untreated, eventually the liver fails and the cat dies.
> In cases where cats have starved to death before figuring out how to come down, there wouldn't be skeletons in trees, because when the cat dies, it's no longer able to hold onto the tree.
“Michael said the officer told him he was concerned that if someone got hurt while trying to get the cat on his property, he would be liable.”
The officer was 100% correct. Any private individual, organization or group that got hurt on his property could sue him for everything he’s got if they fall out of the tree and break their necks.
And you know that’s exactly what their lawyer would do no matter how “nice” they seemed up front.
Let the guv handle it, they can’t sue you for performing a public function on your proprty.
Happy New Year to you too....I’m not bored at work but I do miss Rushbo.....Hope all is well....
I just use Havahart traps.
Why didn’t the cop try to get the cat himself instead of acting like a crazy man flashing a gun. I believe that’s against the law....even for a maniac cop.
They work good for ‘possums, too.
I say if it's roaming, it's a wild animal and it's subject to being shot on sight. If it's a pet, keep it indoors or contained on your own property. One or the other.
DOGZ RULE
<FLAME RESISTANT SUIT ON>
Semi-Official Semi-Legal Notice: This is only a test. Had this been an actual anti-cat post, there would have been far more violence. And cow bell. And dog poop.
The cat ‘got away’ from the owner....didn’t you read the article? That happens ya know...a cat will escape ....I have an escape artist at home too....try to keep my eye on her but she also has plans.
I have some sympathy for both parties. While I don’t hate cats, I do hate a lot of cat owners. My neighbor, for example, has a cat that eats fish from my pond, craps in my flower beds and steals dog food and then phones the police when my dogs bark at it. If my neighbors cat was stuck in one of my trees I would do the same thing.
I’m reminded of the original “Police Academy” movie, where the lady alerts the cop that her cat is stuck in a tree, and the cop promptly pulls his service revolver and BLAM!...the cat is out of the tree!
Looks like an editor has been playing with the article since it was posted here. Some corrections have been made.
Yes, they come down eventually, but often get seriously or fatally injured in the process. They are capable of getting up (usually being chased up) into places they can’t get down from safely, because their claws allow them to climb vertical tree trunks, but not to stabilize themselves on the way back down the same trunk. By the time they’ve waited a few days, they’re weak from hunger and dehydration (and in some cases, may already be irreversibly on the way to the often deadly hepatic lipidosis), possibly with frostbitten paws in winter, and are very poorly equipped to brace themselves in a hard landing. A cat that breaks its spine or pelvis when falling out of a tree doesn’t end up as a “cat skeleton in a tree”, but ends up dead anyway (hopefully having been found quickly and taken to a vet for euthanasia, but depending on the location, it may die slowly and in pain without being found).
Thank you for that bit of information. So, I can shoot birds, neighbors dogs running loose down the road, possum, snakes, neighbors kids crossing my yard and it's all legal huh? Good.
Of course’as long a’s they follow this rule:
Every word ending in “S” with a consonant before it requires an apostrophe. If the word is a subjugated compo’nd, superlative with a comma no apostrophe is required unless’ it add’s clarity to a question’. In case’s of hyper’bolic refracting conflagration’s the apostrophe may substitu’e for any letter of ‘th alpha’’’’’’. (20)!
How does that effect you negatively? Cats pretty much keep to themselves and are pretty quiet for the most part.
Yep, I’ve caught them before, and a raccoon or two.
Cats hate you, too. Nanny nanny neener neener.
I read the article and am familiar with that part of town. I bought my dog from a lady who lived a couple blocks from there. I had house cats and know they can get loose, but I don’t know the history with that particular animal, whether or not the owner lets it out at night or keeps it under lock and key.
running wild is not being on a leash.....
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