A Cat Rescue on Great Oak Farm Road

When a woman on Great Oak Farm Road's cat got stuck in a tree for 36 hours, she called Connecticut Arborists and its employee, Hunter Dolyak of Newtown, climbed up and got the woman's pet back down to safety.

Connecticut Arborists shared photos of the rescue, which are featured with this story.

Monroe Animal Control Officer Ed Risko told Patch his office got the call at 7:29 p.m. on May 13 and told the cat owner to hire a tree service. She was also given information on what to do when a cat get's stuck in a tree.

Monroe Patch covered the topic in the article, "Your Cat's Stuck in a Tree. Now What?" on Oct. 10, 2012.

Risko says pet owners, police officers and firefighters should not climb a tree to rescue a cat if they're not trained. In fact, he said a New York police officer trying to rescue a cat wound up getting stuck in a tree himself and needed firefighters to get him down. Here's a link to the New York story.

"This is one of the many reasons we don't put people in a tree," Risko said. "They're not trained to go up in a tree and they don't have the equipment to go up in a tree."