The cat has finally catapulted itself down and taken off, but this is the palm tree in which it spent two days .

Cats have a habit of getting themselves up to high places and then feeling incapable of getting themselves down! A cat 20 metres up a palm tree couldn’t be persuaded down by Jacqui, and the Fire Department didn’t have a ladder long enough to reach it. It had been up the tree for two days, having been chased there by dogs, and was getting seriously dehydrated. The answer was to use a fairly powerful hose! The water was turned on slowly, and when the cat heard the hissing sound it gave a huge leap, plummeted down and landed safely on the grass. It then jumped over a five-metre wall, fled across the front lawn, over another wall, and disappeared!... more reports »