Two men were slightly injured yesterday in Amstelveen while trying to save a cat from a tree. It concerns a firefighter and the owner of the cat, both of whom were bitten on the hand.
The cat had been in a tree for two days when the owner decided to call for help from the fire brigade. He drove to the street In De Wolken around 7:45 p.m. last Tuesday, where they saw the cat sitting in a tree next to the Ararat flat.
The firefighters parked their ladder truck next to the tree and climbed up. He chased the cat out of the tree with a wooden stick. “The firefighter gave the cat to her owner,” the spokesman for the fire brigade told NH. “But when he tried to put his pet in the carrier, the cat ran away.”
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A little further on, near the Groenelaan, the cat climbed another tree. This one was even higher. And so the fire brigade moved the ladder truck to the eight meter high tree. Together with the owner of the cat, he decided to climb up. “They managed to get the cat out of the tree,” says the spokesman for the fire brigade. “But the cat apparently didn’t like that very much.”
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When the men got hold of the cat, they climbed down the ladder. The cat bit the hands of both the firefighter and the owner, then ran away. “They were shocked,” says the fire service spokesman.
The firefighter and the owner went to the hospital to have the wounds treated. The firefighter also received a tetanus shot. “The imprint of the cat’s teeth can still be seen in the hand of the firefighter,” he says. “But other than that he’s doing well.”