Aww…poor kitty…and poor tree guy!! I was attacked by a cat once, hurt like hell, and that was only on my leg. I can’t imagine the same thing happening to my face. I hope he went to the hospital to get checked out, those kind of wounds can be serious.
I wish people would learn to spay/neuter their pets, and keep them inside where it’s safe.

Also, for future reference…nothing gets a treed kitty out of a tree faster than calling the local news and getting some media attention.

What a heart warming story. I’m tempted to take up a collection and “tip” Robbin’s tree service.

This is a wonderful story! Just last week I was walking through my apartment complex and heard this horrible distressed meowing. I looked everywhere before I noticed this tiny kitten stuck on the roof of one of the apartments – 3 stories up! I called the fire department, but they wouldn’t come, and animal control was voicemail only and the way this poor thing was crying I just couldn’t bear to wait.. I called the apartment complex, and they had one of our very own maintenance people get a ladder and get the poor little guy down. I still check that roof everytime I walk by just to make sure he didn’t get stuck again..

LOL at the duckling in grandma’s rack!

I didn’t even know ANY fire departments would do this anymore. Thank goodness for a compassionate (or broke) tree man!

Slackerjax, yes, that is the tree service.

I was wandering through my neighborhood, and spotted a small kitty on top of the roof of an apt. building. He was crying, and obviously couldn’t figure out how to get down. I called the apt. office and they said, “He’s done that 5 times, we’re not fetching him this time.” but I ran into the maintenance folks later in the day, and asked them about it, and they did go get the kitten off the roof. They’re good guys. Kudos to the tree service guy! Also, I third or fourth or fifth the props to the fire dept. I’m sure they would have come if they could.

It’s one thing to rescue a family cat, but he was placed in serious danger trying to rescue a stray, possibly feral cat. He was very brave and very nice not to charge you even more.

Kitty must have been very scared by those dogs I really dislike it when dogs do that

Man. I feel for the tree guy. Still, good on him for making the drive and going up there, scratches and all, to save the little cat. Fifty bucks probably barely covered his fuel and time costs, and I hope he didn’t catch cat-scratch fever in the end. Good man. As Sandy said, he’s going to Heaven for sure.