Journalism Saves: Local Pennsylvania TV Reporter Rescues Cat From Tree

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by Alex Alvarez | 9:44 am, June 15th, 2011

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Superman. Spider-Man. Batman. Sheldon Ingram. All brave, selfless heroes doing their part to keep America running like a well-oiled machine, or one of those little balls filled with catnip.

After learning that the local fire department washed their hands of Moo the cat – a black and white housecat that had been trapped in a tree for over a week – Pennsylvania-based Channel 4 Action News’ Ingram took it upon himself to organize a rescue. A helpful neighbor loaned Ingram a ladder which, unfortunately, was about fifteen feet too short to reach Moo. Ingram was eventually able to entice the cat to jump to lower branches with the help of his favorite treat. And all was well for little Moo, who is free once again to cough up matted balls of hair wherever he so pleases.

As his bio on the “Dancing with the Celebrities of Pittsburgh” webpage reveals, Ingram has long been something of a cat lover:

Ingram also has two exotic Bengal cats, Diego and Cezar. They are five generations removed from the Asian Wild Leopard Cat.

Watch the video of Ingram’s daring rescue from WTAE.com below:

Cat Rescue, Moo The Cat, Sheldon Ingram

david r

There are so many clips of cats scratching reporters on YouTube. This guy is lucky. I had to get my cat out of the attic once. I ended up getting clawed with a rear foot.
Tony the Fist

Tell Anthony Weiner that this is the proper way to get pu$$y on camera.
writer

And as the cat was having a saucer of milk, it looked up and asked “What about Vitter?”
seek

I swear I saw this last week. What’s happening, no news?
Just4thefax

Fact: Were are the torn arm shots after he grabbed the cat and the cat messed him up.
david r

seek said:
I swear I saw this last week. What’s happening, no news?

Let’s go back to the stories where Weiner is treed by reporters.
OxyCon

My cat Chumley, who was a feral kitteh when I got him, used to love racing up trees and then jump from branch to branch all the way down like he was King Kong, with just his back claws to boot! And God forbid another cat enter HIS yard! He fought like a ninja kitteh!
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

Nice story and all. It makes for some good filler, but if the neighbor had a ladder, why did it take eight days, a reporter and a camera to rescue the cat?