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Posted by creative1985@gmail.com on November 8, 2009, 1:20 pm
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> >A few days ago the neighbours little black kitten decides to
> > climb a 60' pine tree in our back yard, it's near the top where
> > the tree is ~1" thick, and of course our cute neighbour is an
> > animal lover, so she comes over to get permission to put a
> > 'cherry picker' in our backyard to get it, but there is no road,
> > so she'd may need to build a road. (Kitten is whining as I
> > write).
> > She calls Fire dept, SPCA, they won't help, and wants now
> > our permission to lop off the top of the tree.
> > Fun stuff.
> > Ken
> Call a priest.
> A cat climbed a tree and went up to the top. =A0The owners were told to p=
ut
> food and water at the base of the tree. =A0They were told that the cat wo=
uld
> get hungry and would come down on it's own. =A0Two days went by and the f=
ood
> and water remained untouched. =A0
Around here that grub would have been gone in 5 mins.
*Something* would have disappeared it.
So they called the fire department to see if
> they could get the cat down. =A0The tallest lader went up but fell 20 fee=
t
> short. =A0The cat didn't budge. =A02 more days went by and still no luck.=
=A0They
> called and called for another couple days. =A06 days now and the cat was
> looking feeble. =A0With nothing left to do they figured they might as cal=
l the
> priest to pray for the cat to come down. =A0Another 2 days... =A0By now, =
a large
> crowd had formed a vigil and TV crews had shown up. The cat's owners figu=
red
> the cat would die up there and fall down. =A0It was desperate. =A0But the=
priest
> had an idea... =A0he went up to the base of the tree, looked up at the ca=
t and
> swung his right hand across horizontally then vertically in the sign of t=
he
> holy cross. =A0You could hear a pin drop at the morose scene during this
> vigil. =A0Then, just like that, the cat calmly came down, scratched behin=
d his
> ear and cuddled into the owners arms. =A0Some people screamed "A miracle!=
=A0A
> miracle!" People and TV cameras swarmed around the priest... =A0They aske=
d
> him, "what did you say in that prayer?"
> The priest shrugged his shoulders and repeated his hand motion, "I told t=
he
> cat, if you don't come down, we're gonna cut the tree"
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> climb a 60' pine tree in our back yard, it's near the top where
> the tree is ~1" thick, and of course our cute neighbour is an
> animal lover, so she comes over to get permission to put a
> 'cherry picker' in our backyard to get it, but there is no road,
> so she'd may need to build a road. (Kitten is whining as I
> write).
> She calls Fire dept, SPCA, they won't help, and wants now
> our permission to lop off the top of the tree.
> Fun stuff.
> Ken