Filled with firs, cedars, maples, and spruce, Canada’s Vancouver Island is a wonderland of trees. With all those fat trunks for scratching and lush limbs for climbing, it’s a forested paradise for cats. But for all their cavorting and climbing in trees, kitties sometimes find themselves in a sticky situation, and it’s not pine sap. Though it’s easy for a cat to climb a tree, it’s not so easy getting down again. But lucky for the cats of Vancouver Island, arborist Kyle Hobbs, owner of , can be found hanging out in trees too. And it’s not just his climbing gear that helps kitties put their paws back on land.
Turns out his crane is pretty handy too!
Just ask a Colwood Creek Estates cat that found himself stuck in a tree for nearly 36 hours. It was certainly no fun affair for the kitty or his parents. And when the cat’s family saw Hobbs’s crane jutting high in the sky just down the road, they enlisted his help in rescuing their cat.
Hobbs has rescued plenty of cats in trees before, but this mission would prove a bit different. Hoisting snowmobiles from a backyard, Hobbs was using his 110-foot, 30-ton crane. Not his first choice of equipment for helping a cat out of a tree.
But there are some moments you just have to on hand,
So, Hobbs asked one of his crew how he felt about hanging onto the crane’s ball to pluck the cat out of the tree, and “he said: ‘Let’s do it.'”
Raising his crewman about seventy feet in the air to meet the cat, Hobbs said the relieved feline jumped right into his rescuer’s waiting lap.
From start to finish, the rescue took about thirty minutes. Once on the ground, the cat went into a carrier and headed straight home.
Caught up in the rescue, Hobbs didn’t notice the crowd that had gathered to watch the rescue unfold.
Because Hobbs didn’t know they were being photographed, he joked on Facebook, he and the cat “didn’t ‘Pawze’ for a picture.”
Picture of the cat or not, extended their thanks to Hobbs and crew via Facebook.
We agree!
