Cat Rescue 911 - NOT

Is your cat stuck in a tree? Want to call the fire department to get it down? Then you'd better hope you're not calling the Hualapai Valley Fire Department, from Kingman, Arizona.

Jeffrey Cullen, 58, called the fire department and reported a tree fire. But when the firemen got there, Cullen told firefighters he wanted a cat rescued from his tree and knew they would only respond to a fire call, Edwards said. A battalion chief told Cullen to call animal control or wait for the cat to get hungry and come down.

"He went back into the house, got a small black revolver and came outside shooting," spokeswoman Sandy Edwards said. she said.

My father-in-law was a volunteer firefighter for many years. One time I asked him why they didn't get cats out of trees, and his response was, "You've never seen a cat skeleton in a tree, have you?"

Nuff said!