Today, I spent a half hour trying to help my cat down after he got stuck in the tree on my lawn. I finally gave up and called a local tree care company to help. When I returned outside, I found my cat casually walking about by the door. The guy who showed up to help was not happy. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my husband rescued our daughter's cat from a tree. She spent the next hour clapping and telling me how much of a hero he was. Last night at 2 a.m., I was awoken by meowing and had to rescue the same cat from the same tree, in the dark, and halfway down he shit on me. No one called me a hero. FML
Today, I found my cat downstairs with a squirrel dangling from his mouth. When I saw this, I yelled at my cat to put it down. He did. Turns out the squirrel was still alive and run. I had to spend the next three hours chasing it out of my house. FML
Today, I spent 15 minutes trying to get my cat out of our seven-foot Christmas tree. Once he was done, he tore about the house and broke the nativity scene, beheading baby Jesus and a wise man in the process. The tree is fucked. FML
Today, I was at my girlfriend's house when we noticed her cat was missing. We saw it on the roof and so I thought I would try to look good by offering to go on the roof to retrieve it. The cat had climbed down when I got up there, and I have a fear of heights. Her mom had to help me down. FML
Today, my boss sent me to remove a tree from a client's home. So I went and cut down the tree, only for my boss to show up an hour later, speechless. I was supposed to remove a sapling that had sprouted through the driveway tarmac, not the 100-year-old prizewinning Japanese cherry tree. FML
Today, I was overjoyed when someone finally came to my house to get the electricity back up and running. All that was changed to dismay upon finding out they first needed to find a tree trimming and removal service to clean up all the fallen branches on the power lines. FML
Today, I finally went to Home Depot to buy a chainsaw to cut down the tree leaning dangerously over my garage. When I got home, I found the tree had fallen and taken out the roof while I was shopping. FML
Today, my cat escaped through my front door. It was dark out, so I had no idea where I was going. I finally caught up to him in my neighbour’s lawn and I gave him heck for scaring me. It took me a minute to realize I was actually talking to a bush in their flowerbed. FML
Today, I climbed the tree in my backyard so I could cut off some stray branches. I ended up getting stuck, and instead of immediately getting help, my wife started laughing and recording me. The video is now circulating on Facebook, and my new nickname is "Hawkeye." FML
Today, I called a tree removal company to have my diseased elm removed. When I got home from work, I was surprised to find it still there. Not as surprised as my neighbor was to discover that his tree was missing, nor as surprised as his children when they saw there was no more tree-house. FML
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wanted_2_want 40
At least a tip to the guy would be in order.
gerrags 16
If the cat got up there it will get itself down... YDI
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Comments (70)
Tripitaka 21
Yeah, cats can do that sometimes... :)
sailorarctic 22
Cat's are jerks. they do as they please. unless it's my cat. when she got stuck in a tree it was because she actually fell and got herself wedged between the Y of the trunk and couldn't get herself free. It took a whole bottle of vegetable oil to get her loose.
fml510605 16
HA! You just made my day
mistress_paz 30
Cats should stay inside.
poorjudgement 26
While I agree that certain pets should be kept inside, some individual cats included, I feel need to stress out that they are very independent animals and having a pet doesn't mean we have right to inprison them.
mrmcleod 29
#66 while that is true about cats. Outdoor cats actually have a much less life expectancy than indoor cats, plus you don't know what they're bringing back into your home. We don't let our dogs roam free, so it stands to reason we shouldn't let our cats roam free.
NodakN8V 25
Cats are assholes at times
chrisjmcrae 2
As my dad says "ever seen a cat skeleton in a tree?"
bun_key0_1 20
Some advice. Cats do eventually come down on their own.
Flower_Princess 9
your cat shouldn't be outside anyway
AbsyntheMayhem 23
Cats do not typically get stuck in trees. They come down by themselves. Have you ever seen one scale a tree? It's like a panda. Trust me, they always come down.
katluvr 22
How many cat skeletons have you ever seen hanging from a tree?