Qu’Appelle residents spent three days trying to coax a frightened, black cat out of a tree, and on Wednesday they finally found success.
It was when resident Shelley Weinberger took her own cat out to her backyard that she heard a cry. After walking around the yard trying to locate the sound, she looked up and noticed a black cat perched 60 feet up in a tree.
Weinberger was not sure where the cat came from or who its owner is. She first tried tempting the cat down with Temptation treats and Friskies soft food, but eventually reached out to the town administration for help.
But the town didn’t have anything that could reach a cat that high up.
“Different people around town have tried to contact people they know, people with machinery or ladders or things like that, organizations that deal with animals such as the Humane Society, Animal Protection,” said Weinberger.
Finally, on Wednesday afternoon, Jeromy Desjarlais travelled out from Regina with a solution. With a ladder leaned against the tree, Desjarlais stepped up the ladder as high he could before clipping on a harness and climbing the tree the rest of the way.
Once safely on the ground with cat in hand, the pair was greeted with clapping and cheers from concerned residents.
