Selwyn Times: February 24, 2021

Selwyn Times Wednesday February 24 2021
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His owner Liz Platt, and
then soon after the fire
brigade, responded to his
yowls for help. Platt was left
with concussion, while one
of the firefighters sustained
claw marks to his arm.
The incident began on
February 14, when Platt
had four dogs and their
owners over for a play date.
Max was sleeping away the
afternoon in bushes in the
backyard when the dogs
sniffed him out.
Platt said she saw some
sort of commotion in the
bushes, before Max escaped
and ran up the tree.
Once everyone had left
for the afternoon, Platt
applied herself to coaxing
Max down. However, he appeared
wedged between two
branches at the top, more
than 4m from the ground.
As Max meowed for help,
she was concerned for his
welfare, particularly with
his renal failure condition.
“He wouldn’t have done
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Fall from tree leaves cat’s
owner with concussion
too well if he had been
stuck up there overnight,”
Platt said.
Platt put a ladder against
the tree and climbed up.
“I don’t know what I was
thinking,” Platt said.
The ladder moved sideways
and she held onto
branches as her feet slid
off, then she lost her grip.
She hit her head along the
trunk of the tree as she slid
down, before falling the
rest of the way onto the
ground.
“And the cat didn’t move,
the cat just looked at me,
no concern shown whatsoever,”
Platt said.
She phoned the West
Melton fire station. Soon a
fire appliance and several
firefighters were on the
scene.
A couple of the firefighters
climbed on top of a
nearby fence to access the
tree. Firefighter Tim Morris
got to the top. He managed
to extract Max, who was
hissing as he was passed
downwards, ultimately
into the grasp of firefighter
Bryan Saywood on the
ground.
“He stabbed me on the
way out,” Saywood said,
explaining he was left with
claw marks on his left arm
as Max launched off him
and ran away.
Platt thanked the firefighters
before searching
high and low for Max,
finding him about one hour
later, about 5.30pm, hiding
under her bed.
Platt is recovering well
after the ordeal, taking one
week off work on doctor’s
advice after she was diagnosed
with concussion the
following day. She said Max
was a little traumatised
after the ordeal, but otherwise
well.
Max was up to his antics
again late last week. He
wrenched himself from
Platt’s arms, scratching her
finger and taking off over
the fence, when the Selwyn
Times visited.
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