• MBech@feddit.dk
      631·
      2 months ago

      I have tried to help cats in the past, and it usually end with me being more stuck than they looked to be, and them casually jumping away. Those pricks can fix their own problems.

      • ahornsirup@feddit.org
        30·
        2 months ago

        Just open a can of tuna and put it on the floor. 9 times out of 10 the “stuck” cat will happily come down.

        • MBech@feddit.dk
          7·
          2 months ago

          Have you seen the price of tuna lately?!?

    • Stern@lemmy.world
      393·
      2 months ago

      Haven’t ever seen a dead cat in a tree or on a roof in my life. Some folks need to let nature be nature.

      • theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
        654·
        2 months ago

        Oh ty your preferred flavour of sky daddy! Since you have yet to see such a thing it musn’t be a thing!

        Well, I did! I had to climb on my pops roof to get it down

        • natebluehooves@pawb.social
          28·
          2 months ago

          It’s a relevant point if you have seen a cat dead on a roof before. You acting like a cunt is not.

    • Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 months ago

      If this is regular height roof the cat can simply jump down and land on its feet, or it can use the drainage pipe for support. In my experience cats always check very carefully whether they can come down prior to climbing up. Only exception might be kittens.

      • Case@lemmynsfw.com
        10·
        2 months ago

        I wouldn’t say ALL cats check the physics before leaping.

        I mean, they’re impressive as a group… but individual outliers exist. My wife and I have 4 of them, lol.

        • Lemminary@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          Can confirm. We also have 4ish and one of them is so adorably and inexplicably dumb. 😹

            • Lemminary@lemmy.world
              3·
              2 months ago

              LOL Well, the cat momma of our unexpected (and dumb) third is a bit of an oddball. We’ve tried to keep her indoors, but because she grew up outdoors, she wants to go outside or gets a little roudy with the other cats or starts rummaging and breaking stuff. But she’s also perfectly content staying inside for a few hours while she naps, so we often let her in when we get home or when the weather is awful. She’s with us but she’s not really with us, but we treat her just the same.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
    62·
    2 months ago

    He got so much attention, love and affection the last time he was up there, no wonder he did it again.

  • Pnut@lemm.ee
    61·
    2 months ago

    Were we the only family that said “the cat will be fine” in literally every scenario? She’s gonna fuck off for a day. She’s on the roof. She’s sleeping in the engine bay of the car. Who cares? She’s a cat. She died quietly in her sleep at 16 years old by the way.

    • gens@programming.dev
      27·
      2 months ago

      I got goaded as a kid to get a cat off a tree. My uncle scolded me because you should’nt do that or the cat will never learn.

      • Doom@ttrpg.networkBanned
        11·
        2 months ago

        That made me laugh so hard but makes sense also

  • MeatPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    413·
    2 months ago

    Was redoing the floors in one my rooms, I had all the air vent covers off. Guess where the cat decided to go?

    Was like the god damn scene from poltergeist where you could hear it all over the house but didn’t know where exactly the meows orginated from echoing through the ductwork.

    I forgot how I coaxed it to an exit, but I do recall grabbing it by the scruff and yanking it out as the cat tried to scamper back in. Went to go clean-up my scratches and the damn thing knocked over what I blocked the vent with and squeezed back in.

    At that point I was tempted to just turn on the furnace heat and call it a day. But didn’t want to deal with the stink.

    • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      just open a can of wet food and the cat will crawl to you like solid snake

    • Hazzard@lemm.ee
      4·
      2 months ago

      We had a similar experience with our cat when she was a kitten. Got in the ceiling through our little maintenance closet, was quite an experience hearing our cat pacing and meowing in the ceiling, while trying to lure it back to the way it got in with taps and treats.

    • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I’m sorry I’m imagining my big orange dummy doing this and I can’t stop giggling

  • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    My cat Parker ran up the tree out front. I just looked at him and said “ok fuckface, see you when you decide to come down”.

    He could sense my tone of voice, and just shimmied his ass back down. It was hilarious.

  • LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 months ago

    The cat after being brought down: aw shit here we go again

    You after seeing your cat got back on the roof: aw shit here we go again

  • grue@lemmy.world
    3623·
    2 months ago

    Cat shouldn’t be outside to begin with.

        • zarathustra0@lemmy.world
          212·
          2 months ago

          I think you are missing something. You can keep those weaker birds alive and avoid keeping cats cruelly locked indoors. You could just avoid keeping cats entirely.

          • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
            91·
            2 months ago

            My cat is perfectly happy being an indoor cat with supervised outdoor time. She’s more upset when she gets closed out of the bedroom than she is about not being able to go outside whenever she wants.

          • Lemminary@lemmy.world
            81·
            2 months ago

            I don’t know what kind of cats you’ve met but mine are perfectly content with being inside.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
    10·
    2 months ago

    My cat got half-way up the tree in our yard, and then slowly shimmied down by hanging and swinging between the two main branches. He’s never gone up again once though.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 months ago

      My Dad was a firefighter fpr 35 years, and his go-to line when someone wanted help gettong a cat down was, “Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree?”

      • Revan343@lemmy.ca
        61·
        2 months ago

        Well it’s not being in a tree that kills you

    • turtlesareneat@discuss.onlineEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Mine went missing for a day, and then at 2am a neighbor started pounding on the door - was this our cat wailing keeping them awake?

      So I climbed about 30’ up a pine tree in my boxers, in the dark, unwrapped the cat from the tree, wrapped it around my bare chest (it’s terrified fully extended claws made this a snap, right into my flesh) and down we went.

      She never tried that again, but did enjoy annual escapes onto the roof until the arthritis got too bad.

      • percent@infosec.pub
        6·
        2 months ago

        Why didn’t you put some clothes on before climbing? Personally, the pine sap and cat claws would be a pretty big motivator for me to wear clothes.

        • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          Brains don’t work great at 3am. Less so when a beloved feline is potentially in danger.

  • slappypantsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    The first question is how did it get out while you were sleeping?

    • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      You ever had a cat? When unobserved quantum state takes over and they are everywhere and nowhere at once.

      Screen doors and old storm doors from the 80s are also notoriously bad at keeping a fat orange cat inside when the brain cell is too busy to understand the barriers to keep the outside out also are meant to keep the inside in.