Cat in a tree

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Hi

Our new next door neighbours have moved in this afternoon and somehow their cat has got out and disappeared straight up our very large leylandi.

It will obviously be scared, even more so by our puppy, it doesn’t even know which house it belongs to and their son keeps standing in our garden very upset. Our ladders aren’t long enough to reach it.

Any advice please? I know people will say it will come down when it’s hungry etc but it doesn’t know where to go! We’re also having a garden party tomorrow which won’t help!

Keep your puppy indoors at the other side of your house if you can.

If all else fails, the fire brigade do come out for calls to rescue cats up trees, it is part of their job description to assist animals. They have big ladders.

presumably you’ve told your neighbours?

if not, make that your focus as they will likely be much better able to get the cat down

If it were my cat it would come down for the shake of a treat tin?

Fire service turned me down when our stupid cat was stuck up a tree because "you never see cat skeletons up a tree do you" ie it'll come down eventually. However the issue with leylandii is that it can be very dense for a cat to climb down through.

Can you ask on Facebook if a neighbour has got any longer ladders?

Radical response, but can you climb it? We had leylandii in the garden growing up and spent all summer climbing up and down them and from tree to tree. They're surprisingly easy to climb once you've forged your way into the middle as they've got so many branches and no foliage inside. You just have to keep really tight to the trunk.

On the plus side it should also be very easy for the cat to get down, when it chooses to. You could keep the dog away, indoors, away from windows and get the neighbours to put some smelly tinned fish down to try and encourage it down.

A window cleaner may have a long ladder you could borrow. If you ask on Facebook I'm sure you'll get someone willing to come and help :)

Thanks for all the responses!

We have been out. No sign of the cat, so not sure if it has come down, gone higher up or run away! I would have hoped the neighbours would let us know rather than leaving us looking up the tree. So we shall see. I think if needed then a window cleaner will be our first shout.

Happened to my nephew.
He rang the fire brigade who refused to come out.
He ended up ringing a tree surgeon who got the cat down.
Hope you find your cat soon.

Well the neighbours have sent their son round again asking us to look up the tree again. So it obviously hasn’t made it down!