CatBuzz TV Channel

[moss]

That news article and video made its way onto our local news website as well, congratulations on becoming famous across the country!

Cool! That's awesome, need to get more climbers going after cats, so I don't have to do so many! ;-)

 

[moss]

Excellent video. I'd hate to smell your rope after a couple summer cat rescues involving tuna! Do you need to do rope washes more often?

Rope never seems to get involved in the tuna ;-) It was a white pine, rope smells only like white pine after a climb in that species.
-AJ

 

[moss]

Ok, not a cat. Essentially flying cats!

Was called to get two probable dead great horned owl young out of a nest on the chance that one or both were still alive. Mother was on the ground dead bled out from SGARs poisoning (anticoagulent rodenticide). One of three young was alive on the ground bleeding out of most parts of its body.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/massac...oned-by-pesticides-that-kill-rodents/39854854

Turns out two in the nest were alive, the adult male AWOL presumed dead. They were sitting on a thick mat of rotting small mammals including several nearly whole rats.

Excellent rehabbers from Cape Ann Wildlife (CAWS), Gloucester, Massachusetts took over once I’d lowered them to the ground. The worst off of the owlets required 3 days of Vitamin K injections every two hours around the clock to counter a potent mix of anticoagulents (SGARs) typically used in baited rat control boxes. Touch and go for the owl, finally in the clear today. The other two were poisoned less severely and are now doing well under the rehabber’s care.
-AJ

 

[moss]

This weeks' cat-in-a-tree adventure, long vid, more of a "go with me on a cat rescue" experience. Some good demos of the Captain Hook and RW style adjuster used for short movements and positioning. The cat riding on my two-wheeled cart is not to be missed! Just fast forward towards the end if you're otherwise bored or have no time ;-)

I got schooled in why I need a catch net paired with the pole on this one ;-) Main takeaway is demonstrating approaching away from and above a cat (when possible) when it is clearly identified by description and observed behavior as a "runner". What's not captured in the video is the cat going out further early in my climb, then coming back to her original spot, after I waited her out and of course talked to her. A cat's head movement tells you what it wants to do next. Hard to see in the vid but every time she looked further up and away from me I'd try my best to disrupt her train of thought and turn her face back towards me. Worked well along with careful, slow movements to keep her effectively "frozen" in one spot.
-AJ

 

[surveyor]

That was great. The initial throw line shot was perfectly recorded. Do you think it would work to lower the cat to the ground with a rope on the end of the catch rod first, and then descend on your line?

 

[moss]

That was great. The initial throw line shot was perfectly recorded. Do you think it would work to lower the cat to the ground with a rope on the end of the catch rod first, and then descend on your line?

Sure that would work. Going forward I'm going to be putting the "cat on a stick" in a drawstring capture net, get the snare loop off then either lowering the net or bringing it down. Probably bringing it down, cat owners so want to get close to the cat after rescue, they don't realize the cat is temporarily insane in extreme survival mode and could bite them through the net if they go to it so better for me to stay in control of the animal during the different phases of the rescue.
-AJ

 

[moss]

Cat in what passes for a swamp in Massachusetts. No throwline access for this situation, climbing the trunk with alternating choked anchors:

-AJ

 

[oldoakman]

As usual, you are the cat whisperer. I really enjoy your. Ideos.

 

[moss]

As usual, you are the cat whisperer. I really enjoy your. Ideos.

Thank you, glad you're digging it!
-AJ

 

[moss]

Tricky situation, no one seemed to know what was going on except two teenagers. It was not “what it was” when I was told an “unknown” cat was stuck in a tree for ten days. Truth always surfaces ;-)

Rare Moss interview at the end for you die-hards!

-AJ

 

[moss]

A little DMM Cap’ Hook action getting a cat out of a Norway maple…

 

[moss]

Getting Kamar the cat out of a brushy leaner white oak…

 

[moss]

My continuing misadventures getting cats out of trees. After I rescued Spoops I went to a second rescue site and got another cat down after sunset. When I was setting my Captain Hook to make a final traverse approach on a cat named Cinco I landed it in a wad of cat poop which of course got all over my gear. The Hook did stick though! I had to say that ;-)

Spoops the cat!

Willy the barn cat, time to come down buddy!

-AJ

 

[moss]

Cats always go up, they don't always come down on their own. This orange cat was up two weeks. I rescued the same cat 2 years ago, the owner knows my skills but decided to wait it out. Finally a neighbor called me to get it down, was driving everyone in the neighborhood crazy meowing for 2 weeks. And the kids and adults were upset that the cat was suffering. Shortly after the neighbor called the owner called with the same request. People are sometimes more of a problem when cats get stuck than the cat.

-AJ