Cookie climbed up an apple tree while I was picking up windfalls for the sheep. I heard him yelling at me and took a few minutes to locate him in the tree. He told me he was stuck and needed to be rescued. After taking his photo I told him to calm down, he could get himself down. He hollered some more and tried to look helpless and pathetic. I explained to him that there is an old saying, “you never see cat skeletons in trees.”
When I was a kid I recall being very upset about my Blackie being stuck in a tree. It was dark out and I had been looking for him to come in for bedtime. I finally located him when I heard his meows coming from high up in a tree. I went back to the house, crying, begging my dad to help me get him down. That was the first time I heard the saying. My dad went to bed without helping. I went back outside and tried to talk Blackie down. He just kept meowing for help. Mom yelled out the door, reminding me I still had to do the dishes before I went to bed. I cried almost the whole time I was washing the dishes…. Until I heard the unmistakable sound of Blackie jumping onto and hanging from the screen door. (This was how he let us know he wanted to come in. That poor screen was nothing but shreds by the time I left for college.)
Anyway, by the time I finished my story, Cookie had gotten himself down and had moved on to other things. I guess he just doesn’t appreciate my words of wisdom. It’s true, though. In all my 47 years I have NEVER seen a cat skeleton in a tree.
Usually, they back down. Somehow. We had one who went up a very high oak and was never seen again. I’m betting she came down and decided to find a home with better vittles.
My dad’s cat was stuck up a very high tree 3 days. Eventually we had to get the RSPCA to come and rescue him. It’s easy to climb up but sometimes not down.
That look on his face is priceless!
Beautiful picture
Great point. Loved the ending.
me too! =^^=
Years ago one of our cats, still of kitten age, climbed up very high to the top of a Douglas Fir tree in our yard. So distressing for both of us! One of our neighbor’s son, who was a logger climbed up and rescued him for us. The next day that silly kitty climbed back up to the top again. Needless to say, we let him figure it out the second time. And he did.
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I have never had thoughts
about a skeleton of a cat on a tree. Lol
We had a cat that climbed on tbe neighboring roof. My dad always got her down. One day, dad wasn’t home. We didn’t save her and she got down, herself. She had him, trained.
Many years ago I had a few indoor-outdoor cats and one of them, Feather, climbed up a tree and got stuck. She cried and cried and I was calling to her, when one of my other cats, my “absent-minded professor” cat Mars, walked over, looked at her for a minute, then climbed right up to her and led her down the tree.
🙂
I’m amazed at how they manage to get themselves all the way up there!
Love your blog❤️ glad Cookie got down all by himself.
Haha ? so cute x
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adorable
That’s a great saying, never seen a cat skeleton up a tree. So true!
Cookie is such a cutie! <3
While humans often struggle with the concept, Cookie was simply embracing a broader perspective… 😉
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