To knock on a door at 7am on a Sunday

Fire service don’t do anything they need tree surgeon with the equipment to climb the tree and rescue the cat.

Not denying humans are also a issue.
Domestic cats are a massive problem given the over population in residential areas.
I don't hate cats and if I lived rurally I would have one.
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.
One action that has decimated nature in my area. Apparently not appreciating cats makes me a animal hater but actually the opposite is true.

Why? Lots of people are shift workers and lots of people need a lie in on their non working days if they're up early every weekday.

A cat up a tree isn't going to come to any harm if it has to stay there another couple of hours to a more reasonable time of day. It's not like anyone is expecting it to be stuck there for another day or two!

A lot of cat haters on this post.

Glad he came home and didn't cost you a fortune!

I would get a huge fright if someone chapped my door at that time but I would get over it quickly if it meant helping an animal. I feel sorry for the people on this thread that sound like they'd lynch you for it. It's easier going through life being nice than it is being a dick.

I would be really annoyed if woken up at 7am on a Sunday morning for a cat. And even more irritated if there was an unnecessary fire brigade or tree surgeon in my garden.

The cat got up there, the cat will get down without any unnecessary drama, nonsense or interruption.

Honestly, have people zero resilience or ability to problem solve anymore.

For those stating that if the cat got up there then they could perfectly easily get themselves down, here's an extract from the Cats Protection website -

"While cats are good at climbing up trees, they’re not so well built for climbing back down. Their instinct is to climb down facing forwards, but the curve of their claws makes it difficult to grip the bark. They also struggle to co-ordinate their back and front legs. Other animals, such as squirrels, are able to rotate their back feet. This means their claws are facing upwards for better grip. Cats cannot do this."

So no, it isn't "easy enough" for them to get themselves down. And we may know they aren't all that unlikely to injure themselves badly if they jump from not too high up, the cat probably doesn't if they are 20-30 feet up above the ground.

Yes, I know, I've been told this by a few people and have retracted!

Nobody said anything about chopping a tree down. Tree surgeons tend to be rope trained so can get much higher up tree than most. It was to get him to climb the tree not chop it down.

Depends on the neighbour I suppose. I'd have been fine with being woken for that reason.

Glad he came home. Also glad you didn't have to call out a tree surgeon (I imagine the cost would have been astronomcal)

Bloody cats!!

My sadly no longer with us cat had a few instances like this over the years. She managed to jump over to a neighbours terrace and couldn't get back (middle of the night, newly moved in, 7 months pregnant... eventually we managed to get a ladder to her)

Same cat also scaled the highest tree she could find when she managed to escape the night before she was being spayed. It's as if she knew!! She went up about 7pm and eventually came down at 3am.

Miss that girl.

I've woken my neighbour at midnight, 3am and 5am over a similar thing.

I wonder if all the people on cat threads who go on about "bird decimation" as a reason for their dislike of cats eat wholly organic food, have read Silent Spring, are members of the RSPB, WWT, local Wildlife Trust or similar, boycott certain holiday destinations in the Mediterranean, boycott netted fish, and boycott fish caught on long lines given that pesticides, reduction in habitat, the fishing industry and the shooting of migrating birds in the Med also "decimate birds"

(which they do of course. I'm not arguing with that. But it seems as though cats are an easier target on which to vent their wrath than agriculture, fishing and general human activity.)

It's just a thought.

I’m assuming OP didn’t want to trespass without permission.
Id feel the need to ask before I walked on someone’s property.

especially as anothe MNetter here stated their dogs would start barking and wake the whole street up

It isn't empathetic to wake neighbours up unnecessarily before so much at opening a tin of food to fetch the cat down, no. I assume that's what you meant?

Thank you for the heads up!
The thing is, I like cats. It's just the daftness of thinking a picture of the cat in the tree would 'help' PPs to be able to give advice on cat removal...

Glad your cat is safe OP. I’ve woken my neighbours before at 7.30am on a Sunday because my house cat had got in their garden, was panicking and heading off in the wrong direction. Not sure they were very happy about being woken but my cat was my priority. I wouldn’t mind being woken because of someone’s pet being in distress.

pet is not in distress, its up a tree and grumpy

Lots of research in this area

What a little beauty, glad he's home ❤️

Or we could look at it another way of course

Outbreak of common sense? Remarkable, I know.

If the cat cannot make their way down because they're entangled in some way, you call the RSPCA to help, who then call the fire brigade only if they can't get the cat down themselves.

The problem is with that is that the RSPCA frequently demonstrate that they don't give a fuck about animals unless there's a nice opportunity for a prosecution.

I like to sleep in on a weekend until well past 7 am. I struggle to sleep during the week and I'm always shattered by the weekend.

I'd be annoyed at being woken at 7 am but not at OP. I would be annoyed with the situation, I'd be annoyed at being awake but I would more annoyed and upset if I found out someone had waited and left an animal in distress because they didn't want to wake me.

I'm glad your cat is safe now, OP.

Honestly you should have done it when you first knew it was there. If you don't "need" anything from them then surely they won't care anyway

Just read all your posts OP. Very glad your cat is safe.

It did make me chuckle though. Cats are such arseholes! Which is why we love them and worry about them.

Perhaps people should read all the OP's posts and then lighten up?