A couple weeks later he ran up a pine tree and got stuck for 4 days again. This time I fashioned a pole and just knocked him off the branch. He fell about 20 feet into a pile of leaves and pine needles and was fine.

I wasn't 11 but as a young man, newly purchased home owner and father I was struck by an epiphany that I was able to get a cat after years of never ending moving and renting.

So I went out and got the greatest cat I could ever find. A grey and white tuxedo.

Well within a month this idiot had climbed a Norfolk pine tree. A good 20 plus feet, right to the fricken top.

For 6 hours he meowed and meowed. My daughter meowed and begged for me to get him. Now I was by no means a tree climber but I wasn't gonna leave em and he clearly couldn't work out how to get down.

So up that tree, sap, pine needles, webs, all in my fucking mouth, I climbed until I got to the top and grabbed that idiot. It was fucking terrify (I hate heights). I shoved him in my hoodie and somehow got down.

Thus he became forever known as stupid cat.

That said he wasn't that stupid that he ever repeated it. Never went higher then the first branch of a tree again.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's a great story, I appreciate your sharing.

I want our species to be judged by how far out of our way we go to help those who have no impact on our own lives, and how much we value even the smallest lives and the connection between us and other species even.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Hard to judge the entire species when some people will murder other humans without a second thought while others wouldn't hurt a fly. We're complicated.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I am also terrified of heights. I think I'd just cut the tree down.