Cat on a stick (or should I say power pole!)

We are dog sitting a dog that is afraid of thunder, so we brought him home with us for the night since there was a storm. Unfortunately we have cats in our house. Our cat Jack DOES NOT LIKE DOGS! Needless to say when he saw the dog he got scared and ran up a power pole in the corner of our backyard. He was perched on the live power lines yowling for help when we found him. Calls to Animal Control, the Fire Dept., and the Power Co. were of no help. After taking the dog home, enjoying two nice burst of fairly heavy morning rain, and 5 1/2 hours of coaxing from two women on an extension ladder placed on a live power line pole in the rain, he finally crawled down far enough for Judy to reach him. This happened none too quickly. I'm not sure who was the most stressed in the situation, the cat, Judy and I, or the neighbor screaming over the fence for us to get down away from the power lines! I have to say the several birds who popped on the line a couple feet away from the cat just to taunt him did supply some much needed comic relief!