Tried calling this morning to see if Loki was still in the tree. he is. I told the girl about an idea that Mike had to get on the local radio station and ask for someone to take their climbing gear and get the kitten out of the tree. She said her boyfriend told her not to call anyone anymore because there were so many people gawking last night he got upset. I told her I would call and she said she couldn’t stop me and I had to do what I had to do.
Then her boyfriend calls me and tells me off and accuses me of calling the police- which I didn’t, and of calling the radio station (which I didn’t) he insisted he heard the ad! He told me if I keep harassing him and his girl friend they will have be arrested and if they see my truck in the park he will call and get me on trespass. Are you friggin kiddin me? I lost my cool and told him that if he had the cat neutered- nine times out of ten this would never happen. He shouted “I don’t want him neutered!” Then I just blew up threw in some expletives and told him he didn’t deserve to have this kitten at all. I hate ignorance. Sounds to me like they are planning to go target practicing later. I pray I am wrong. I pray this kitten gets out of the tree today on its own power. But I can do nothing now except to pray. He had the audacity to tell me he heard me call the police last night. I didn’t call someone else did. But I am getting the blame for it all. Once again, I hate ignorance.
You’ve done your best. You just have to pray for the poor cat and hope he receives what is best for him.
What happened to the guy who was getting paid to go get the cat down from the tree?
I have no idea. He won’t answer his phone. He has always been so dependable in the past for me. But now, I can’t even get him to pick up the phone. I have to wonder if there was a confrontation between him and the boyfriend because he did show up to access the situation. I wasn’t there at the time. But after being exposed to the type of person who called me this morning. I have to wonder and maybe Travis decided not to waste his time?
Mike said when I was out earlier- the boyfriend called and told him the kitten is gone. Out of the tree and vanished. Do I believe it? no, but I can’t do anything about it except concentrate on the cats I can save and that is what I am going to continue to do. I try to educate along the way, but sometimes, people won’t listen. I tried to get them to climb the good ladder, put a trail of wet food just slap it on the trunk of the tree going towards the ground but no one would do it. I am deathly afraid of heights and couldn’t do it- but it has been a trick that has worked in the past to get cats out of a tree. Also when I was there last night watching all of this- they did put food under the tree in a cup! Not even on a tray or a plate where the cat could see it or smell it- but in a drinking cup! I took Coopers water basin out of the truck and poured half a bag of dry food in it and took the wet food and slathered it all over some rocks at the base of the tree. I guess somehow I must have threatened this kid’s masculinity or something because he was really being a dirtbag with me. His comment really got to me- I own this cat, I own my girlfriend and you will stay away from all of us.” All that effort to be nasty for what reason? I should not have blown up like that. But I just couldn’t let him get away with his attitude as if it was just mere words because I fear he acts on them.
I’m sorry this has happened but you did everything you could.
We find people like that in life, and others actually put up with them. His girlfriend must be like a blender or an ottoman, if he owns her. And she’s probably fine with that. It’s too bad innocents get caught up with rubbish like that. You did your best, as you always do.
Can we neuter the boyfriend First?
LOL! With a rusty blade maybe? One of my friends lives in the park and he went over last night and looked and looked and called and no kitty in the tree. Said he didn’t see anything out of the ordinary so maybe my covering those rocks with the cat food and leaving the basin got the kitty down out of the tree that night? I hope so and if that kitten was smart he would have made tracks to get as far away as possible. He did call and tell me “Mary Anne that guy is NOT nice!” I guess we will never know what actually happened.