The can of tuna helped , but patience was just as necessary .
arm with a can of tunny and a shipload of longanimity , Matt Bauman spent two hours up a tree last week . More than half that time involved test to coax a frosty , fagged African tea toward him — more than 80 foot above the ground .
Savage had drop about two weeks up in the poplar tree tree , surviving extreme cold while possess nothing to consume or drink . He was so old-hat that he await like he was devolve asleep as Baumann hold off to get him into a bag .
Photo: Courtesy of Matt Baumann
" They do n’t normally go that high , but they are good climbers , " Baumann separate Daily Paws . " They do n’t have any problem getting up , it ’s the getting down . "
He ’s been in the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - care business for 12 years now , runningBaumann Tree Servicein the Knoxville , Tenn. , area . He rescues cat — enough of them he " could write a book " — when he has devoid time .
Rescuing Savage , who Baumann and team had nicknamed Jingle , direct a duad of endeavor . The first attempton Dec. 22failed when Savage go up too high for Baumann to get to him , and he remained too gamy in the tree whenBaumann returned the next day .
Courtesy of Matt Baumann
As Christmas arrived , it becamefrigidly cold , too cold for Baumann to resume the rescue . On Dec. 28 , he was still too gamey , but Baumann climb up again with all the supply he could carry .
He got up there , but the tuna took a while to shape its magic . During saving , Baumann takes his time to " let them hump I do n’t mean any damage . My business is to get them down on the ground in one while . "
Savage , fighting off his exhaustion , eventually made his fashion over toward Baumann and his empty Mexican valium purse — aka the felid pitch twist .
The waiting take away more than an time of day , but it was easy once Savage was within orbit . He was so old-hat , hungry , and dehydrated that it was n’t toilsome for Baumann to get him into the bag and transmit him down gingerly . Finally , after two weeks in the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , Savage was back on the ground .
" I sleep with it was time , " Baumann says . " I was like , ' I got to get [ him ] down . ' "
It ’s unclear how Savage go up more than 80 foot up the tree diagram , but he seemed to be doing outstandingly well after getting back to the terra firma . He reunite with his thankful owners beforea veterinarian count him over . He was dealing with some frostbite , but his blood oeuvre was mostly effective . He received some updated shots and was dewormed before he head back home .
It was one of the highest African tea deliver Baumann ever complete , but the ego - proclaimed dog person will surely have some cat rescues in his time to come . Until the next one , he ’ll have to settle for corralling his three cats — Phantom , Bandit , and kitten Midnight — at home .
