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My father was a firefighter, and his go-to quote every time someone wanted a cat rescued was "How often do you see a cat skeleton in a tree?"
They eventually jump down. They can generally survive terminal velocity falls without injury so long as they land well, which they generally do when they jump out of the tree. But it's still scary, so it may take them a bit to build up the nerve for the jump.