Fact: Cats get up poles on their own, they can get down on their own.
How many cat skeletons have you seen in trees or on telephone poles?
In the movie Roxanne Steve Martin gets the cat out of the tree
with a can of cat food.
actually we had a cat up a tree for three days and growing weaker.
We finally got her down.
was not our brightest cat...but sweet.
If they died, they would fall to the ground.
Have you ever seen what happens to the bodies of animals in real life?
They are scavenged, usually by birds or smaller animals.
This results in the carcass being dismembered and with smaller animals the bones are scattered during this process. It would be extraordinarily rare to find a cat skeleton.
Larger animals are sometimes a different story -- I have found skeletons of cows in the woods, but most of the bones are too large to be carried off by a crow, raven, or even a vulture. But even deer carcasses are scavenged and scattered. I find leg bones and sometimes a pelvis part.
When we hunt elk, we strip the meat off the carcass and pack it out, but leave behind the bones, skin, entrails, and whatever meat we can not strip off. Within days, all that is left is bare bones and they are always scattered to some extent.
None because they're usually rescued by firemen before the cameras arrive........LOL!
Saw one in a tree when KI was a kid...neighbor girl was looking for her cat and we helped her search...was up in a tree impaled by a sharp branch - evidently a wind storm got things moving pretty good and the cat was in the wrong place at the wrong time....other than that, you are correct...cats are good about getting down when they wish to be down...sometimes a bit of tuna at the bottom will speed up the decision....