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That's no way to save a cat, officials say
By CAMILLE C. SPENCER
Published March 24, 2007
HUDSON The folks at Animal Control couldn't believe the story. Not the part about a stray cat stuck in a tree for five days. The part about some guys using a chain saw to hack off a limb, dropping the cat 30 feet. "I was so appalled that people would be so ignorant as to cut the limb the cat was standing on," said Denise Hilton, services manager for Pasco Animal Control. "A fall like that could have killed the cat." The cat had been in the tree for five days when JoAnn Black called the Fire Department Monday. Someone there told her to call Animal Control. Animal Control told her to call the electric company, which owns bucket trucks. The electric company referred her to the Sheriff's Office, which said it didn't rescue cats. So Black called Chuck's Tree Service. After failing to lasso the cat or lure it down with food, Chuck Johnston got out his chain saw. His nephew Jerred Johnston climbed a 28-foot ladder and cut the branch. The cat fell and ran away. On Friday, Hilton sent James Wheelock, an animal control officer, to find the cat. And now that they have the cat, Hilton has a theory about why it ran up the tree: The cat's in heat. A high oak tree was the ideal hideaway from pushy tomcats.
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by Carla
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03/31/07 11:04 AM
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Oh My God!!! How does animal control even BEGIN to think they should open their mouths in this case.
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by Susan
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03/24/07 01:30 PM
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the cat would have come down... Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree? No
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by cogitator
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03/24/07 12:50 PM
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Animal Control fails to do their job, then has the unmitigated gall to complain about how someone else did things. A tree service knows how to trim trees, they have no special expertise in animal rescue. Only a fool would have sent them on that task.
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by PJ
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03/24/07 08:05 AM
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If Animal Control is concerned with HOW an animal is saved it should have gotten involved, insead of refering them to somone else.
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by Allison
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03/24/07 03:33 AM
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Animal control has no right to complain about how the cat came down becuase they were unwilling to help when they were called, instead they gave the "thats not our job excuse." They were unwilling to get involved then so they need to butt out now.
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