A Wayland firm with a giant ladder rescued the cat on the very prime of a spruce tree on Valentine’s Day.
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MARLBOROUGH, MA — A gaggle of space residents put a variety of coronary heart right into a kitten rescue on Valentine’s Day in Marlborough.
The young cat had climbed to the highest of a tall spruce tree alongside Mechanic Street and had been crying for days — probably way back to Saturday, based on the Buddy Dog Humane Society.
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On Wednesday morning, residents turned to native Facebook teams — together with Residents of Marlborough and Massachusetts Lost Pet Locator — to hunt assist. They had been in a position to get in contact with Carlisle-based tree climber Andrew Joslin, who has carried out excessive angle pet rescues earlier than. Meanwhile, Buddy Dog contacted Wayland’s Lynch Landscape & Tree Service for assist after seeing how excessive within the tree the kitten was. The firm introduced a bucket truck to the scene tall sufficient to achieve the highest of the spruce.
Neil Irving, a Lynch worker, rode a bucket to the highest of the tree and introduced the kitten all the way down to security on Wednesday afternoon whereas Joslin captured the occasion on video. Buddy Dog took the kitten to its shelter in Sudbury and gave her a brand new, holiday-appropriate identify.
“Using their gear and Neil’s appreciable cat wrangling expertise, [Lynch employees] shortly reached the chilly, frightened however very grateful kitten now often called Valentine!” the Sudbury animal shelter wrote in a Facebook put up. “After a veterinarian examination, she is resting comfortably in a heat mattress for the primary time in at the least 5 days!”
Here’s Joslin’s video of the rescue:
Young Cat Stuck in a Blue Spruce from Andrew Joslin on Vimeo.
