To knock on a door at 7am on a Sunday

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Hi

My cat has been missing since yesterday evening and I’ve just found him up an incredibly tall tree up the road. I’ll contact an emergency tree surgeon asap. How early is it reasonable to knock on a neighbours door on a Sunday? AIBU to knock at 7am? They live a few doors up so I’ve never met them

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.

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

@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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Awwww, what a mean thing to say. 😢

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.

No.

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 😃

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

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

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.

That photo is a photo of a very smug cat!

Well, aren’t you a charmer??

tree surgeon right way to go - not to chop it down but scale it and collect, hopefully in a cloth bag or similar so can safely transport

If it was my cat I’d knock on the door when I found said cat - and if it was my tree, I’d want you to let me know ASAP even if it was waking me up - I’m an animal lover though. If it wasn’t an animal in trouble I wouldn’t want to be woken lol

The fire service absolutely do come out to rescue cats from trees. A quick internet search will bring up umpteen such stories - apparently London's Fire Service rescues "hundreds" of cats per year.

you're a fine one to talk

Yes. MEAN! 'They are just cats' is a MEAN thing to say.

MEAN!

Did I say it was mean?!

All your posts are rather mean-spirited on this thread!!!

Oh yes they will! We had them out for our cat stuck in a very small space between house and a garage. They did send a bill afterwards though

Glad he found his way down & home safely