You dont need spell check when Eric VW is on the forum. I unfortunately dont have that on my netbook.
Not enough coffee yet. My aging brain knows what i wanted to say but my fingers do something else! No red squiggly line under "that" word!
Glad it all worked out Yawner! I have to admit, I was a bit worried after your last post yesterday regarding using a ladder. And you definitely added to the suspense with no posts till this morning! I like your list of tools you took with you, and the thinking you put behind them. It amazes me that a cat lives in the chicken pen, and presumably causes no ill effects. A cat was in my chicken pen years ago at the old house. When I walked out there I wasnt "prepared" for an intruder. Didn't matter anyway, I didn't know a cat could climb a metal woven fence at supersonic speeds like that (dog kennel panel). The "look" on the cat's face and it's ultra hasty evacuation told me it had ill intentions. Never saw it again, luckily for both parties.
Thanks for your concern. As for the cat and chickens, the only time it has been a concern is when a hen happened to have little ones. We think we lost one or two one time. But I think that was another cat. Now, when chicks are hatched, they are kept in a separate pen. This cat was young when she arrived, so, I suppose the chickens are peers!
Glad the cats ok. I would have cut the tree also. After 7 days it’s plenty apparent it’s not coming down on its own. A word of warning about felines. They have the dirtiest mouths of almost any animal. My mom just got out of the hospital from a cat bite last week. Stubborn woman wouldn’t let the ER give her intravenous antibiotics. Next day it was all infected and the ER had her admitted for two days. 28 years ago I learned the same lesson which is why I harped on dear old mom so much. Docs at the same ER said I was close to losing my hand from not getting a bite treated. One of the reasons cutting the tree makes the most sense. I’m not getting my hand near a cat to save it’s life.
Glad to hear that you saved a cat from what we now all learned is a certain death. (sarcasm smiley linserted here) But, I have to give it to you on the point you have posted above. Cats are unable to crawl down from trees. You now have me wondering just how many of those bobcats, cougars and bears, for that matter, have died in the trees that they climbed into for whatever reasons, and were unable to come down. I'll have to be more observant before I cut trees while I'm out in the woods. Can't tell you the number of times I have scared bears up a tree and got tired of waiting for it to come down, so I just left it to it's own certain demise. Heck, even a racoon figured out how to climb and then climb down from trees without retractable claws! And those equally filthy animals are bright enough to turn around and come down backwards the last few feet .....just in case they need to hurry back up the tree! The important news is that you aren't injured or hurt!
Chased up a tree, raped, starved of both food and water, and exposed to the cold and the elements. I can’t think of what was keeping poor kitty from jumping I have one that climbs trees right now. The first time, after being so worried she had ran away and having to console the kids, just to find her in a big oak about a 100 yards from the house, I got her down with the use of a ladder and some long sleeves. By then I was so pizzed about the cat taking the family on an emotional roller coaster, I swore to my wife I’d never look for the darn thing again. She climbed a couple more trees and spent the night or more out in the cold, but she always ends up coming down. I’ve never seen a dead cat in a tree
