New York's Bravest rescue cat on high-wire act in Staten Island's Port Richmond section (with photos

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A stray cat in Port Richmond was frightened out of its wits on Treadwell Avenue late Monday afternoon, bolted higher and higher up a telephone pole, and spent the night and part of the next day clinging to overhead utility wires until a pair of New York City's Bravest carried out a rescue.


Theresa Sparrow-Suffern found the cat on her front porch when she came home Monday, and as she opened the front door, "my dog comes flying down the stairs," she told the Advance.

The dog, an 11-month-old mixed-breed named Chappa, and the cat "did a few laps around my yard, and the cat finally jumped over the front-gate fence. And then it started climbing up the telephone pole."

Mrs. Sparrow-Suffern brought her dog inside the house, "but the cat would not come back down the pole," holding on with a combination of claws and splayed legs, she recounted.

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