The cat went missing earlier this week and was first spotted atop the pole on Wednesday.“Everybody’s been just like, ‘Put food down and it’ll come down eventually,’” said Aurora resident Jessica Meadows on Friday morning, when the city received its first snow of the season. “That’s not going to happen.”The cat went missing earlier this week and was first spotted atop the pole on Wednesday.Philip B. Poston/Sentinel Colorado via APMeadows said she and other neighbors called Aurora animal control and Xcel Energy for help. “Everyone says they can’t do anything,” Meadows said.Standard practice, according to another utility is to give cats time to make their way back down on their own, Sentinel Colorado reported
News of Panther’s plight reached Aurora Councilmember Curtis Gardner and city officials dispatched a ladder truck Friday afternoo. After getting the truck into place, firefighters rescued the cat. Panther seemed eager to step into a pet carrier. Kimberly Medina, another Panther co-owner, said he had always been allowed outside. No more, she said: “Never.”
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