To knock on a door at 7am on a Sunday

I’d be fine with someone knocking at 7am to let me know that someone was coming out to climb my tree. Your cats meowing might have been annoying them all night anyway. I’d see it as a bit of an emergency and wouldn’t appreciate someone in my garden without my knowledge

I'm glad he's home, but I'm gobsmacked that you seriously entertained the idea of sending a tree surgeon round to chop down someone else's tree without permission

There's a section on mumsnet called The Litter Tray.
Never go there....

Would that be because your neighbour wasn’t capable of boiling a kettle and opening a tin of tuna themselves?

I wouldn’t be nasty to the OP - but I would be pretty pissed off at being disturbed. That doesn’t make me a horrible twat.

As opposed to people talking about all the other really, super, extremely important stuff on here? MN is like 90% people asking random questions and 10% profound conversations. 😂

If you hate cats, just say that.

Really?
My kids were early risers, usually around 6am. Eventually they outgrew that, but we still had to get up early at weekends for football. Since last September my younger son’s football matches are now in the afternoon, so finally, after nearly 20 years, I get a Sunday lie in. I’d be furious if I got woken at 7am, especially for a cat that was clearly perfectly capable of coming down on its own when the food appeared!

I'm surprised by the replies. If someone woke me up at any time because their cat was in distress I'd be out there straight away trying to help them and offering the owner a cup of coffee. The same would apply for any animal or person, unless I felt unsafe.

Same.

If someone knocked for a parcel at 7am on a Sunday I would be a bit disgruntled... But for an animal need? Of course it's okay!

I bet if it was a dog in need everyone would be saying different though. There's a huge difference in how people view the importance of cats vs dogs. It's pretty awful.

Get some branches from another tree or planks of wood or a ladder.. prop it up.. put food at the bottom... it will eventually come down. Might have been scared by a dog or a squirrel... had cats my whole life and they have climbed some very high trees.. . You say it went missing.. but it might not have been up the tree all night..

Cats were outside way before they domesticated themselves.

Humans do far more damage to wildlife. Why don't you stay inside?

Great news - I'm glad he's home safe and sound.

I'd have no issue with someone knocking on my door early to help a distressed animal. That's much more reasonable than the Amazon driver who knocked with a parcel at 7:30am a few Sundays ago!

Or my neighbour, who leaves for work around the same time on Sundays and has apparently never heard of car de-icer. Instead, he just revs his engine under my bedroom window for 10-15 minutes until the windscreen clears 🙃

Least we got pictures!

Doesn't anyone else feel for the poor birds that were using that tree. Roosting or nesting?
Tons of posts on not cutting trees and hedges as its nesting season but support that someone's pet is allowed out to decimate the population.

I'm so glad he found his way down. What a beautiful cat as well 💜

Unfortunately they don't always make their way down. I hate to be that one poster but on the local cat pages in our city on fb, one lady saw one that was deceased in a tree. The cat was stuck or wedged somehow in the tree. Neither the fire brigade or the council would help so she could get it down and checked for a chip. It was awful. Someone eventually helped and checked at the vets it was deceased. 😭 Unfortunately I don't know if the owner was ever found.

Yes, I feel the same as would my DH and DC - poor cat!

Heh, my dogs would be the first thing you'd have to deal with if you tried to get to my door at 7am on a Sunday, because they'll know you're coming well before I do. I'm usually up at 6am on any day of the week, so if I get a surprise and manage to sleep until 7, I really don't want it disturbed. If you can tell I'm up at 7, by all means knock.

I did help an animal during the night two weeks ago, btw. And didn't mind a bit. But your cat can wait if it's not injured.

Cat went up tree. Cat came down tree. Is this the most stupid boring thread EVER?

7am?

Jeez.

You have to ask?

No. I would not open the door. And if I found out you'd knocked at that time, I'd be less unhelpful and amenable due to your lack of consideration.

Aww glad he's home all curled up. He's probably knackered poor thing.

They see it as a training exercise.

I think they will come out for this.

An indoor cat a few doors down got out and went up a tree and the local fire service came out and fetched it down in a cat carrier using their extending ladder in exchange for a cup of tea all round.

No, not before 10 am on a Sunday. YABVVU.

Kitty has been down a few hours now, and is snuggled up at home. 🤗

🤗 Awww, sometimes I don't think things through either! To be honest calling a tree surgeon wouldn't even enter my head. People have explained why - because they have ladders/experience of going up trees, but that thought would not have entered my head.

I would have done my best to do it with ladders, tuna, cat treats, calling my cat etc, and failing that the fire brigade. As pps have said, they don't mind as it's good practice for them