Evansville—We interrupt your regularly scheduled lineup of minor fender benders, suspicious shopping carts, and mysterious “loud noises” to bring you this claw-some update from the front lines of feline folly.

In what experts are calling “a textbook case of curiosity gone vertical,” Evansville Fire & EMS, at the request of a local police officer, responded to a high-altitude emergency involving one domestic cat—approximately ten pounds of fluff and misplaced confidence—who had been conducting a two-day solo expedition up a 40-foot tree. Sources report that the daring daredevil, whose name has not been released pending notification of all household members, “had no clear descent strategy.”

Firefighters, deploying their finest ladder skills (typically reserved for actual fires), executed a

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