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Tree kitty at Day 8 in a tree on 14th Avenue. Note the milk mustache.
Bret Hartmann / Tribune
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March 20, 2008
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There’s no more cliche animal story than the cat-up-the-tree scenario.
Under ordinary circumstance, I wouldn’t give it a second thought, figuring the cat would find its way down, which invariably they do.
Mike Peters, our ace Tribune reporter, said a Greeley firefighter once colorfully commented about a forlorn tree cat and the vexed resident who reported it: The firefighter said, “Look around, lady, you don’t see any cat skeletons hanging from trees, do you?”
The woman wasn’t amused.
But back to the kitty-in-plight at hand. It’s now Day 6 for a Siamese that climbed up a tree in my brother’s backyard. Animal Control has been called. An attempt to get the cat down with ladder and pole failed earlier this week.
Still the cat sits, scowling down at passersby.
Here’s what I find interesting: First, the dark-faced cat has a distinctive cream-colored marking above its mouth, like a comical milk mustache.
Second, the cat’s plight falls during Holy Week, and, appropriately enough, involves a tree.
Now I’m not going as far as to say Greeley has a Kitty Messiah in its midst, but stranger things have happened. What happens if the cat expires on Good Friday? It will have been without food or water for a full week by then.
It’s been mocked. This morning, I saw a bird on a branch just inches from the feline’s face tweeting vigorously.
The kitty sat still, apparently too weak to strike.
I don’t know if the Groucho Marks of Cat-dom has much longer. It seems to have no desire to come down.
If it ends up rising to Kitty Heaven imminently, I hope there’s a dish of milk and a plump wingless bird waiting for it.
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