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   Carolyn (cstamp@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 02:29:10 JST Carolyn

   • Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

   The cat is down!!!! But now the concern is if it's ok.

   https://bc.ctvnews.ca/cowichan-cat-stuck-in-tree-for-days-is-finally-down-1.7111076

   @persagen

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     petabites (houstondog@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 02:53:12 JST petabites

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     • Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

     @CStamp @persagen
     
     Fire Departments stopped responding to calls to rescue cats around 1975 ... when they realized nobody ever saw a skeleton up in a tree for at least a century 🤷

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     Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 03:07:46 JST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     • Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

     @HoustonDog @CStamp @persagen

     the Fire Brigades in UK and Europe still turn out to cat rescues if the animal is stuck for 2-3 days (usually after a referral from animal protection charity) - partly to discourage untrained humans from attempting rescue (and getting into danger themselves), but they also treat the rescue as a training exercise and it counts towards training hours (so if nothing else is on fire, multiple appliances might turn up)

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     Carolyn (cstamp@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 03:45:38 JST Carolyn

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     • Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

     @vfrmedia @HoustonDog @persagen Under that article, I posted another, in which BC firefighters did successfully rescue another cat a few months ago, so it's still a thing in at least parts of Canada.