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12-14-2007, 03:39 PM
[Cat-sitting]
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One night while I was cat-sitting my daughter's indoor feline, it
escaped outside. When it failed to return the following morning, I found
the beast clinging to a branch about 30 feet up in a spindly tree.
Unable to lure it down, I called the fire department.
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"We don't do that anymore," the woman dispatcher said.
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When I persisted, she was polite but firm. "The cat will come down when
it gets hungry enough."
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"How do you know that?" I asked.
"Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree?" she said. Two hours later
the cat was back, looking for breakfast.
`
One night while I was cat-sitting my daughter's indoor feline, it
escaped outside. When it failed to return the following morning, I found
the beast clinging to a branch about 30 feet up in a spindly tree.
Unable to lure it down, I called the fire department.
`
"We don't do that anymore," the woman dispatcher said.
`
When I persisted, she was polite but firm. "The cat will come down when
it gets hungry enough."
`
"How do you know that?" I asked.
"Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree?" she said. Two hours later
the cat was back, looking for breakfast.