Kitty Marooned on a Roof is Finally Rescued… After Two Months?

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.care2.com/causes/kitty-marooned-on-a-roof-is-finally-rescued-after-two-months.html



Photo credit: Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter

by Susan BirdJuly 8, 2014 5:30 pm

No one knows how she got up there, but they could hear her cries for days. So why did it take so long for anyone to do something about it?

A small black cat about a year old somehow got herself stranded on the roof of a one-story medical building in Watsonville, California. She meowed. She meowed some more. Lots of people heard her and saw her. Unfortunately, lots of people also assumed she was perfectly fine.

Some kind soul eventually realized the cat’s true predicament — she wasn’t basking in the sun and visiting that rooftop every day on a kitty frolic. She was marooned up there.

A call to the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter brought responders to the building on Sunday, June 22. People living and working in and around that building told the shelter that the cat had been up there a long time – possibly as long as two months. The shelter was doubtful of this claim at first.

FULL story at link.

[Warpy]

1. My cats always got down in a combination of head first, then tail first

and they'd jump the rest of the way when they were about 8 feet above the ground.

This kitty is unusual in that she didn't manage to get down far enough to jump when she started getting really hungry.

I'm glad people were shooting cat chow up to her. I'm also glad the poor thing finally got rescued.

I've never called anybody for a treed cat. One of the big lessons every outdoor cat has to learn is to get up and then down, otherwise they're going to be coyote food. The lack of trees festooned with cat skeletons is proof that most of them do learn.

[mnhtnbb]

2. A one story building? And nobody brought a ladder to see if they could coax the cat down?