Cat Rescue

We found it very odd when Theo wasn't around for breakfast one morning, then he didn't come by for dinner. The next morning a stray male cat was in our backyard thinking he had found new undiscoverd territory. Joy and the boys began to miss Theo and his involvement in the classroom outside. Where could he have gone? Was he injured or worse, killed? He had already suffered a small abscess on his ear and then a scratch across his eye, but had healed from both of these. The third morning, Joy heard a meow when she went out front to feed Max and it wasn't the usual Max meow. She looked up in the big tree over our driveway and there was nothing up there. She went back inside and asked Brett to look. Brett shook the food and followed the sound of the meow across the street to a very tall juniper tree. There was Theo stuck up in the three, fortunately at the height that a large ladder could reach him. Brett invited Theo to come down, but he clung to the branches, so Brett had to lift him out by the scruff, with his claws firmly wrapped around the branches. After clearing the branches and assuring his balance was intact, Brett descended the ladder with Theo rescued. After a brief time of cleaning up his claws and getting all the juniper parts off of them, Theo was back to enjoying the benefits of being a backyard cat.



Daddy reached in and grabbed Theo out of the tree.

We were happy to bring Theo back and feed him, he sure wanted to make up for the six lost meals...

Content again in the backyard.