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[–] FluidBeef@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago

The trick is to ignore them. My cat got halfway up the tree in our yard before deciding he didn’t like it, then did some crazy Free Solo shit to climb down, including swinging from a branch over to the main trunk from a claw hold. He’s never gone up again.