History Main / CatUpATree

* ''Film/KickAss'': Kick-Ass attempts to rescue a cat from atop a billboard. The cat's name, "Mister Bitey", should have been a warning. Kick-Ass gets the cat down, but is a bit worse for wear.

* The Zoo Neuwied once had a ''cheetah'' stuck in a tree. For cats they are not terribly good climbers. Rescue involved hay bales as emergency cushion if it fell, a hydraulic platform from tree services, and sedative. The lower branches of all trees in the cheetah enclosure were removed to avoid repeats.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' rescue a cat from a tree. It's a RunningGag because it's the same little old lady with the same cat every time. There's also the occasion where the cat was the episode's BigBad. He ended up in a tree, stuck, but nobody came to help him because he was a Bad Kitty.

* In one episode of ''WesterAnimation/SushiPack'', Tako and Maguro save a boy's cat from a tree.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': In the Tickle Me Land segment of ''Series/Elmo's World Elmo's World: Firefighters'', Elmo saves a cat from a tree.

** Aby's ex Manxwell ends up chased up a tree...by a ''shark''. Granted, said shark was one of Herd Thinners' lawyers, but ''still''.

* In ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'' Naps found that his heritage helped him shimmer up telephone poles when placing his illegal wiretaps, but [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20071122.html getting down]] is another matter.

* WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck is a victim of the "whirlwind of claws" variety of cat rescue.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'', "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E53HeroForHire Hero for Hire]]": One of Launchpad's first "heroic" acts is trying to get a cat out of a tree. He falls out of the tree.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Invoked by Rainbow Dash in "Suited For Success" with Rarity's cat, Opal, in order to get the [[TenMinuteRetirement then-despairing]] Rarity out of her house.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''

* Papa Bear does this in ''Literature/BerenstainBears'' while campaigning for mayor. Specifically, in the PBS version, there's an old lady whose cat keeps getting stuck up the trees in her neighborhood because her cat keeps getting stuck up them. Papa Bear first rescues the cat and places a smelly fertilizer around the tree that not only keeps the cat away, but is good for the tree as well.

This is TruthInTelevision, if not as common as media would have you think. While cats are typically ground-dwellers, they have some rather impressive arboreal tendenices, and will regularly climb up tall objects to get a better vantage point - indoors or outdoors - and trees are no exception to the things they'll climb. The main issue cats face getting down from trees are that they can't climb down headfirst, and the stress from having to climb down without being able to see where they're going tends to scare them into staying put.

* An episode of ''Rescue 911'' involved a racoon stuck up a tree. The trope with lampshaded with the usual advice being to let the cat come down on its own, as "When was the last time you saw a cat skeleton up a tree?" However in this case the racoon had its head trapped in a broken stump of branch, so someone has to climb up and cut it down.

* In ''Series/Rescue911'' one fireman mentioned that he always told people "How often have you seen a cat skeleton up a tree?" when asked to do this. As it turned out the cat in question had its head caught in a hollow branch.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': At one point in the episode, "Beshte and The Beast," the main Lion Guard (Kion, Fuli, Bunga, Ono, and Beshte) and Shujaa, a silverback gorilla who DoesNotKnowTheirOwnStrength, find a cat who is stuck in a tree that is home to galagos (a small primate also known as bushbabies). Unlike almost all other examples, the cat in question is a serval. Shujaa saves the serval carefully, but accidentally flings the galagos out.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': At one point in the episode, "Beshte and The Beast," the main Lion Guard (Kion, Fuli, Bunga, Ono, and Beshte) and Shujaa, a silverback gorilla who DoesntKnowTheirOwnStrength, find a cat who is stuck in a tree that is home to galagos (a small primate also known as bushbabies). Unlike almost all other examples, the cat in question is a serval. Shujaa saves the serval carefully, but accidentally flings the galagos out.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': At one point in the episode, "Beshte and The Beast," the main Lion Guard (Kion, Fuli, Bunga, Ono, and Beshte) and Shujaa, silverback gorilla who DoesntKnowHisOwnStrength, find a cat who is stuck in a tree that is home to galagos (a small primate also known as bushbabies). Unlike almost all other examples, the cat in question is a serval. Shujaa saves the serval carefully, but accidentally flings the galagos out.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': At one point in the episode, "Beshte and The Beast," the main Lion Guard (Kion, Fuli, Bunga, Ono, and Beshte) and Shujaa, silverback gorilla who DoesntKnowHisOwnStrengh, find a cat who is stuck in a tree that is home to galagos (a small primate also known as bushbabies). Unlike almost all other examples, the cat in question is a serval. Shujaa saves the serval carefully, but accidentally flings the galagos out.

* ''VideoGame/NineOneOneOperator'': You can get calls about this "emergency" alongside a few more false positives for each emergency service (i.e. someone suffering from indigestion believing it's something way worse and that they need a medic) to provide contrast with the genuinely serious reports.

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In ''Pleasant Goat Fun Class: Sports are Fun'' episode 23, while ice skating carelessly outside, Wolffy finds a cat in a tree and jumps up to it to save it. Wolffy falls over before he can save the cat, which jumps out of the tree itself.

** The opening scene of the ''Boyzarro'' storyline has a splash page of Bizarro (the Multiverse Htrea version, not the ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'' one) surrounded by scenes of his reverse-heroism, including two appalled children watching as he threw dozens of cats into a tree.

* Music/{{Sparks}}' song "Here Kitty" is from the point of view of a fireman who has to rescue stuck cats, and ends up going after tiger during a circus fire after its trainer offers to sleep with him.

This is TruthInTelevision, if not as common as media would have you think. By the way, if your cat does go up a tree (or on a roof), call a tree service or your local animal control department/shelter/what have you. The fire department has better things to do. Like, you know, putting out fires. If you do call these agencies, and the cat is not in any danger or a danger to others, they'll tell you to leave it — it got up there, and it will find its way down when it gets hungry. A very common question asked by responders to these situations is: ''"How many times have you seen a cat skeleton in a tree?"''