History Main / CatUpATree

** ''Sim City 3000'' had a news ticker headline: "[[InvertedTrope Tree stuck in cat]]. Firefighters baffled"
** ''Sim City 4'' has driving missions, and one of them is to get a fire truck to save cats stuck in trees. [[EvilCounterpart The evil version]] has you [[CatsHateWater hosing down cats.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'': In "Where There's Goof, There's Fire", Goofy and Max become volunteer firefighters. One of the distress calls they answer is getting a kitten out of a tree. Goofy does so by using an axe to chop the tree down, causing the tree to land on the kitten's owner's house.

* Parodied by ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' in ''Less Than Hero''. Leela becomes a superheroine and comes to the aid of a distressed alien whose cat is stuck in a tree. After she gets the cat down safely, its owner promptly eats it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022'', one of the tests Professor Marmalade gives the Bad Guys is to save a cat stuck up a palm tree. It doesn't go well at first, with the gang just scaring the cat further up. Later that night, Mr. Wolf successfully lures the cat down with kindness, serving as his HeroesFrontierStep.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{DC Super Hero Girls|2019}}'': In "[[Recap/DCSuperHeroGirls2019S1E10SuperWho #SuperWho?]]", Superman rescuing an old lady's cat up a tree getting more attention from the public than Supergirl [[JumpingOnAGrenade jumping on a bomb]] just earlier proves the last straw for her.
* ''WesternAnimation/DenisAndMe'': In "Up A Tree", Sir Meows-A-Lot ends up stuck in a tree after chases cucumber aliens up it, and Denis needs to find help in getting him down.

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

** Implied in ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen2019''. In the middle of an interview on his "secret superpowers", Superman disappears. A few minutes later, he reappears, holding a cat, and his only explanation is that he suddenly needed to do something unspecified.

* ''Film/ArmedAndDangerous1986'' has Frank Dooley reluctant to indulge in this trope, only to relent when the little girl starts crying. He gets stuck up there too and has to be rescued by the fire department (with the media watching).

* Film/{{Superman|The Movie}} rescues a little girl's cat from a tree during his first movie.

* Inverted in a non-comic way in ''Literature/TheFamousFive'' book ''Five get into Trouble''. Anne climbs a tree, and while she is up there, Dick is captured by two villains. Anne is too upset and frightened to climb down, and has to be rescued by Julian.

* In ''Panda Up!'' a short story spinoff of ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Miriam rescues a kitten stuck on top of a wall.

-->Call the fire department\\

Me!

* Mocked mercilessly in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' when Generator proposes using PersonOfMassDestruction Tennyo as "Radioactive Condor Girl", claiming that if Radioactive Condor Girl tried to save a cat in a tree, the cat would get irradiated to a cinder.

* ''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. its sequel, ''112 Operator'' adds a level to them. For example, hanging up on someone calling for a cat up a tree may result in that person trying to rescue the cat themselves, falling badly in the attempt, and then needing an ambulance.
* Flash game ''African Detroit Cop'': the list of crimes committed by Eddie.

* ''Stuntman: Ignition''. In the trailer for the film Aftershock, the first scene features firemen trying to get a little girl's cat out of a tree.

* Papa Bear does this in ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'': has this as almost a running gag. Despite initially trying to be "normal" Clark spends so much time ''whooshing'' cats out of trees faster than the eye can see, that he's apparently attracted the attention of at least one tabliod. Before he's even started as Superman.

* The magical pest exterminator LoveInterest's first appearance in Creator/TomHolt's ''Literature/JWWellsAndCo'' nevel ''The Better Mousetrap'' has her being employed to rescue a cat from a tree. When she breaks her neck, TheHero (who is employed to save her life to prevent an insurance company from paying out) ends up playing a brief game of XanatosSpeedChess with a magical device known as a Better Mousetrap, which keeps finding new ways to get her killed.

* In episode 2 of ''Anime/{{Jewelpet|2009}}'', the Persian cat Garnet gets on a tree simply to make it more difficult for Rinko to capture her. Since Garnet is a mage with her own {{flying broom|stick}}, she can get out whenever she wants.

* ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'': Recurring puzzle in the series.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'': has this as almost a running gag. Despite initially trying to be "normal" Clark spends so much time *whooshing* cats out of trees faster than the eye can see, that he's apparently attracted the attention of at least one tabliod. Before he's even started as Superman.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventureswithSuperman'': has this as almost a running gag. Despite initially trying to be "normal" Clark spends so much time *whooshing* cats out of trees faster than the eye can see, that he's apparently attracted the attention of at least one tabliod. Before he's even started as Superman.

* A quick way to gain some points in ''VideoGame/{{Nightshade}}'' is to coax "Tibbles" off of a telephone pole and return him to an old lady.