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steve2470

(37,457 posts) Fri Feb 7, 2020, 07:38 AM Feb 2020

Cat skyscraper rescue deserves a round of a-paws

https://nypost.com/video/cat-skyscraper-rescue-deserves-a-round-of-a-paws/

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Cat-astrophe averted! An old-fashioned ladder wouldn’t have worked in this cat skyscraper rescue in Chattogra, Bangladesh. As firefighters used a cherry-picker to carry a kitty off the ledge of a high-rise building, a crowd gathered below cheered the over-the-top efforts.

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Cat skyscraper rescue deserves a round of a-paws (Original Post) steve2470 Feb 2020 OP

It appears they sent the cherry picker up unmanned. Smart kitty to have gotten on... hlthe2b Feb 2020 #1

hlthe2b

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1. It appears they sent the cherry picker up unmanned. Smart kitty to have gotten on...

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Feb 7, 2020, 07:46 AM

Feb 2020

Nice story. This was in Bangladesh, btw and that would have been a costly undertaking. I have to wonder if such efforts would have been undertaken in NYC or elsewhere in the US. I'd like to think so.

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