Did they seriously fell a tree to shake a cat out?

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In Russia, they really don't like cats in their trees.

Pretty sure they electrocuted the little bugger too. Get a load of its reaction when it touched the power lines at 1:52.

Holy shit... This is so Russia.

Best part? "The butcher's axe.. everybody has it at home"... I now fully understand russians lol

That's the bit that broke it for me, I love cats to bits but now I'm crying with laughter... X D

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Widespread, cheap video capture has not exactly created a very good perception of Russia has it.

ps. I liked that a hammer was volunteered. I very much wish I'd known what fantastic plan they'd devised with that particular tool.

It was hard to tell how high it was until it starting toppling slowly.

The cat was like "Are you kidding me! I've dreamed this before...This is a nightmare!"

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Absolutely CRINGE WORTHY! Nine lives no more.

Back when he was trying to reel the tree in I thought he was about to invent the kitty catapult.

It doubles as firewood

This is exactly why most cats in Russia have leash-cams.
But probably the power lines encounter fried the SD-card (unlike the badass cat, that thing just ticking).

No, it lived. It was running away at the end. Electrocuted things don't do that.

Oh man I haven't laughed that hard at a video since that one where they tranq'd a bear and it landed on a trampoline!

Obviously they would hammer the cat from the tree...duh!