‘Panther’ the cat rescued after days-long utility pole perch – KXAN Austin

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Posted: Dec 10, 2021 / 7:28 PM CST
Updated: Dec 10, 2021 / 7:43 PM CST

Aurora firefighters rescue Panther, a local cat stuck on a 10 meter high light pole for days, possibly four days, on Friday, December 10, 2021 in Aurora, Colorado. (Philip B. Poston / Sentinel Colorado via AP)

AURORA, Colorado (AP) – For at least two days and perhaps more, residents of a suburb of Denver worried about the fate of a black cat named the panther perched on an 11-meter-high utility pole.

Panther stayed in place despite the efforts of his co-owner Alexis Soberanis and others to persuade him in Aurora. Neither the pleading nor the temptation to eat helped, reports Sentinel Colorado.

The cat went missing earlier this week and was first spotted by the police on Wednesday.

“Everyone just said, ‘Put the food down and it’ll come down someday,'” said Aurora’s Jessica Meadows on Friday morning as the town received the first snow of the season. “That will not happen.”

Meadows said she and other neighbors were calling Aurora Animal Control and Xcel Energy for help.

“Everyone says there is nothing they can do,” said Meadows.

According to another utility, standard practice is to give cats time to set up on their own, Sentinel Colorado reported.

News of Panther’s plight reached Aurora Councilor Curtis Gardner, and city officials dispatched a cart on Friday afternoon. After the truck was put in place, the firefighters rescued the cat. Panther seemed eager to get into a transport box.

Kimberly Medina, another Panther co-owner, said he was always allowed outside.

Not anymore, she said: “Never.”

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