# Do wild cats get stuck in trees?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 26, 2020, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-wild-cats-get-stuck-in-trees/846987 "2020-01-26T10:54:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-wild-cats-get-stuck-in-trees/846987/41 "2020-02-03T14:16:56Z")

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My late husband referred to the firmly ground-only cats as “four on the floor cats.”

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-wild-cats-get-stuck-in-trees/846987/42 "2020-02-03T22:15:58Z")

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> [@Qwertol](#):
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> It would fall down.

I think I’ve heard the feet will fall first.

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**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-wild-cats-get-stuck-in-trees/846987/43 "2020-02-03T22:35:19Z")

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This must be why that bear is wearing a fireman’s helmet.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-wild-cats-get-stuck-in-trees/846987/44 "2020-02-03T22:42:55Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> My understanding is they get killed by Davy Crockett.

Nitpick: D. Boone was the one who supposedly “kilt a bar on this tree.”

If it was a raccoon, Crockett would be right.

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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-wild-cats-get-stuck-in-trees/846987/45 "2020-02-03T23:19:22Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> Nitpick: D. Boone was the one who supposedly “kilt a bar on this tree.”
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> If it was a raccoon, Crockett would be right.

You’re forgetting the line “killed a bar when he was only three” from the Davy Crockett theme song.

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