Other Behavior Issues

Q.: I have a large tall willow tree. My cat gets up the tree and won't come down. We have always rescued it. The last time we had to have someone in a bucket truck come over to get the cat. He was scared enough he scrambled down on his own. He is up there again. This time it has been four days.
He was about fourteen feet from the ground to start with. Now he is at the very top. Help!! The vet says he will come down. It breaks my heart but if I keep rescuing him, he will never learn. I can't keep going through this.

A.: An old, very experienced leader of a Danish Cat Rescue once said: "Cats always climb down from trees sooner or later. Ever noticed how few cat skeletons you actually see in or around trees?".
It may sound tough, but as you say yourself: he will never learn, if you keep helping him down. Console yourself that this problem is almost exclusively a "teen-ager problem". He'll come down before he starves to death!

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