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Common variation of this trope is that the cat [[Unwanted Rescue|really dislikes whoever's coming to rescue it]] and goes all [[Looney Tunes|Tazmanian Devil]] on the rescuer in a whirl of claws and enraged meow-shrieking.
This is [[Truth in Television]], if not as common as media would have you think. By the by, if your cat does go up a tree (or on a roof), call a tree service or your local animal control department/shelter/what have you. The fire department has better things to do. Like, you know, [[Captain Obvious|putting out fires.]] If you do call these agencies, they'll tell you to leave
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In episode 1 of the UK version of ''[[Who Wants to Be a Superhero?]]'', in the final round auditions before Sam and Mark chose the 13 who would enter the lair, the kids were given a task of building a contraption to get an old lady's cat down from the tree. Safely.
* [[The Andy Milonakis Show]] puts an interesting twist in the "cat up a tree" scenerio: instead of a cat, it's [[Full House|John Stamos]] that's stuck in a tree.
* Used as a dating ploy by Hilda on [[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina, The Teenage Witch]]: she convinces Salem to plant himself in a tree in order to get a date with a firefighter.
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* The first dispatch mission you can send recruits on in ''[[My Sims]] Agents'' involves a cat up a tree.
* In ''[[The Sims]]'', if you had the ''Superstar'' and ''Unleashed'' expansion packs, you could read a story in the tabloid paper saying a movie star had gotten a cat down.
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* In ''[[Mitsumete Knight]]'', this situation can happen during a date at the Tree-Lined Path. Most of the girls will get a favourable impression if you volunteer to get the cat down.
* In ''[[Okage]]: Shadow King'', Stan decides to get a start on terrifying the townsfolk of Tenel into submission by a display of his awesome power by rescuing a trapped kitty.
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== Webcomics ==
* Subverted in ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=716#comic #716].
* And in [http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF061-Kitty_Stuck.jpg this] ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]''.
* Appears in [http://buttersafe.com/2010/01/28/the-tragic-life-of-annabelle/ this] ''[[Buttersafe]]'' strip.
* ''[[Hark! A Vagrant|Hark a Vagrant]]'' shows us how [[Wonder Woman]] [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=225 deals with this]!
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== Real life ==
* There are some comical posters with images of cats hanging from a tree branch and messages that read "Hang in there, baby."
* Parodied in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131029044521/http://www.streetwithaview.com/ Street With a View] project: [http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.457426,-80.00882&spn=0,359.995177&z=18&layer=c&cbll=40.457513,-80.008852&panoid=A1Z-2srducKbCKzzWX-o3Q&cbp=12,273,,0,24.32 see here].
* Rescuing cats from trees (or tops of telephone poles, chimneys, etc) is pretty standard fare on Animal Planet's various animal-rescue reality shows. Acknowledged as a genuine life-and-death emergency rather than a gag, particularly when power lines are in close proximity.
** One of these involved the cat being stuck up a extremely tall palm tree and requiring a trained tree surgeon to climb the tree with his equipment and grab the cat.
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** In another case, a stray cat got into a distribution transformer ([[Completely Missing the Point|not as "climbed a pole", but more like "stepped down into it" the transformer being in a basement]]) and the [[Squick|transformer shorted out and blew up,]] [[Downer Ending|taking the animal with it]].
* Fire departments have been known to refer to non-emergency calls as C.I.T. (for "Cat In Tree") reports.
* A [[Inverted Trope|reverse case]], which doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for the cat [https://web.archive.org/web/20180903020622/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5067912.stm
* In ''[[Rescue 911]]'' one fireman mentioned that he always told people "How often have you seen a cat skeleton up a tree?" when asked to do this. As it turned out the cat in question had its head caught in a hollow branch.
* The Zoo Neuwied once had a ''cheetah'' stuck in a tree. For cats they are not terribly good climbers. Rescue involved hay bales as emergency cushion if it fell, a hydraulic platform from tree services, and sedative. The lower branches of all trees in the cheetah enclosure were removed to avoid repeats.
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