To knock on a door at 7am on a Sunday

Well, aren’t you a charmer??

That photo is a photo of a very smug cat!

You'd get short shrift from me if you knocked the door before 10am on a Sunday for any reason other than imminent risk to life.

The cat will work out how to get down on its own given time, and it will be fine for a few hours.

I'd be fine anyone knocking any time for an animal in distress but would rather they tried without waking me up

The Fire Service will probably charge, and the Tree Surgeon is for climbing up to catch puss I suspect. Not to cut it down!

Another reason to

• stop house building in the countryside and build flats in towns
• Don't pull trees down in your gardens, plant them ( really p…… off first thing buyers of our old house did was fell all the trees….a ton of mature trees )
• stop using crappy plastic grass
• stop making concrete driveways
• plant hedges not fences
• plant insect friendly plants
• and bird friendly plants
• install nesting boxes, log piles, bee homes and bat boxes

I think we all get the drift 😃

No.

If you're fine with it, sure. I'm not. An injured animal, fine. A cat that is stuck up a tree can wait an hour. I don't sleep well, I almost never get to sleep till 7am. If it's one of the blue moon occasions I get the chance then God help anyone who tries to wake me up except in an emergency, which an uninjured cat up a tree is not.

I got up for some injured wildlife at 2am two weeks ago and didn't mind at all. I have a lot of sympathy for animals for a cat up a tree can wait.

Awwww, what a mean thing to say. 😢

A lot of cat haters on this post. Nonsense. A lot of people who are indifferent to cats, and don't want to be woken up because of one. A cat is just a cat.

Which is interesting.
SoThe odd bark …no big deal it’s not like it goes on and on.

The odd one off door ring at 7am because of a distressed cat and owner…not a big deal, it’s not like it goes on and on and will happen ever several times a week. Hopefully

That’s what I thought

It's just a little bit to let me know, then they're quiet (and they aren't actually that loud). They'll only carry on if someone lurks around the property oddly - like if you were standing at the bottom of a tree talking to your cat. It's a great security system. If someone is trespassing on my property I don't care who it annoys. I want to know.

It’s not only just built.
There is absolutely a link to the number of cats that come into my garden with the decline in birds.
The trees, bushes and hedges are the same ( more of them if anything) and they aren’t worried about cars or humans as they have stayed the same.
Theres countless studies to show the link between cats ( even the presence of them) and decline in bird species. Australia and Scotland have considered limiting them haven’t they. Nothing against cats per se but they don’t work well for wildlife in concentration.

How did you manage it....was the neighbour cooperative? As a cat lover/owner, being woken early would not have bothered us in the least.

So a brand new estate, only just built and rapidly increasing occupancy, the ONLY reason for wildlife reducing is the number of cats?

@WinterFrogs I can think of much worse, like one place we lived that people were racing cars up and down our road into the small hours

Sympathies, this happens here too. Mopeds with exhaust cutouts racing around suburbia at 2am almost every night.

The neighbour isn’t a tree surgeon. It’s where the cat was.

It might be distressed but really it's not the tree surgeon problem. He is a neighbour the Op has never spoken too.

You have no clue what else is going on in the guys life, he could have still drinking at 2 or up at 3 in the morning collecting young adult kids for all we know.
Getting a stranger up at 7am on a Sunday for a cat is a bit selfish.

The cat had been up the tree for a day or so, another couple of hours isn't going to make any difference.

@Allergictoironing
I’m not overestimating. I know all my neighbours.
And I was one of the first on my estate so I know what was in my garden and what has been the effect of my neighbours increasing the car population.
And I’m just in one corner of one estate in town of many.

My new build estate has two cats per house on my road alone. When I moved in it had every type of wild bird wrens, sparrows, tits and robins. Cats have reduced this to pigeons, magpies and crows.

So nothing whatsoever to do with trees and hedges being cut down, months or years of building works, people, cars, kids etc having any impact on wildlife in the area?

I also think you may also be over estimating the number of cats in your road (possibly to make a point) - 2 per house, really? I can't think of a single road I know where there are 2 cats in every house, out of the 12 houses in my terrace and the opposite one there are a total of 2 houses with 2 cats (one being mine, who are indoor only) and 1 with 1 (indoor only) cat. There's also around 15 dogs between those 12 houses (admittedly 10 in one house).

I see a couple of other cats coming in my garden but they come from the road over the back of mine

Wow, mindblowing selfishness

Wouldn’t bother me knocking at 7. If it was every week then yeah.

I'd be very annoyed to be woken up at 7.00 am any morning of the week, especially a Sunday, for a cat. A cat! A child in crisis, okay; a cat, never. FFS

To be clear, to all the people who've quoted me, I probably wouldn't go knocking on anyone's door early on a Sunday, but I wouldn't mind if someone knocked on mine if they were worried about a pet.
And re shift workers and the like, you might equally be met with fury at any other time of day.
I'd probably look for signs of life before knocking unless I was really worried.
I was more surprised at the number of people saying they'd be outraged at being disturbed. I can think of much worse, like one place we lived that people were racing cars up and down our road into the small hours, keeping the whole family awake. In comparison, a quick knock at the door to ask permission to get a distressed cat out of my tree would barely register. If I wasn't working, I'd just go back to bed.

A tree surgeon seems very rash. Surely once you're allowed access to the garden you can lure the cat down with treats and positive calls? He got up there, so he definitely is capable of getting down again on his own. I've seen it so many times.
7am is not reasonable. I'd put a note through the door. Then if they don't text you or call you by about 10 I'd try their door.
Can you speak to/call the cat from your property? Get the dreamies out! I'm sure he'll come down without a tree surgeon.