To knock on a door at 7am on a Sunday

[CatRescueNeeded]

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

I think calling the fire service is irresponsible. The fire service is for responding to fire-related emergencies and a handful of other emergencies where their equipment would be useful/vital (e.g. serious traffic collisions), a cat up a tree is not an emergency, that is like calling the police and telling them your 8 year old son won't go to bed on time.

This.

The Fire Brigade will help

I wouldn’t be impressed if you knocked on that early, I’d be concerned there was an actual emergency.

Given the fact the cat made it down very quickly shows how unnecessary disturbing the neighbours would have been!!

I don't mean to be rude and I know its probably all done now but... you can't go calling a tree surgeon for someone's tree! I assume they don't want bits chopped off their tree!?

I wasn’t planning to chop bits off their tree! RSPCA recommends contacting a local tree surgeon as someone who has the skills and equipment to navigate tall trees and rescue cats!

He somehow got down on his own though

I know it is sorted now but they would have the equipment, sure early on a Sunday morning I doubt it would have happened instantly but not a bizarre option

As fire-fighters say "You never see cat skeletons in trees". Your cat will find a way down.

Tree surgeons can rescue cats stuck up trees - no chopping needed! They just have the required long ladders and safe climbing equipment. Sometimes cats won’t come down on their own - there was one near me recently who a tree surgeon got down after days and days of it being stuck!

So glad to read this had a happy ending @CatRescueNeeded (and if it was my cat I would have absolutely knocked at whatever time of the day or night!)
Beautiful cats x

Glad to hear-and see-there was a happy ending to your post. Fingers crossed your kitty won't be so daft as to go climbing such big trees again!

Cats claws only work when going up. They can't swivel their claws like some wild cats can to come down forwards. If they've climbed up in a rush they would not have the confidence to come down backwards.

Actually they do. If you ring the non-emergency line, it counts as community engagement

I'm not a morning person but if you knocked on my door at 7 AM because your Dcat was stuck up a tree, I would not mind stall. Poor little cat. I hope s/he is down very soon.

So, OP, did your cat come down? I was hoping he's OK.

Why do you assume a tree surgeon would start chopping bits off a tree to get at a cat? The point is they'd have all the climbing equipment to get up the tree to rescue it .

I don't see how chopping it up would help.

Unless a cat is up a 60ft palm tree it's non swivelling claws ate unlikely to be an issue.

Most trees have branches that the cat can graduate down though. Cats just don't like climbing downwards (preferring to jump down). Bit of food and their person will help them brave it and discover they can. As this cat did.

I did laugh that it was a ginger cat. I'm still waiting to meet a ginger that's not an (adorable) idiot 🤣.

....wow... all this about a cat stuck up a tree!

Are you 12?

Are you suffering from post Lockdown depression?

Can't you get a man?

Are you into Wicca?

Doesn't your mother love you?

Or is there something else troubling you?
If none of the above apply, then please, please grow up.