Hungry Cat
One night while I was cat-sitting my daughter’s indoor feline, it escaped outside. When it failed to return the following morning, I found the beast clinging to a branch about 30 feet up in a spindly tree. Unable to lure it down, I called the fire department.“We don’t do that anymore,” the woman dispatcher said. When I persisted, she was polite but firm. “The cat will come down when it gets hungry enough.”“How do you know that?” I asked.“Have you ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree?” she said.Two hours later the cat was back, looking for breakfast.