That cat was dead alas...

The light of day has shown that the cat was long since dead judging by the look of his fur.

 I couldn't find a friendly hand to help me get him down and as you can see it's pretty high for me to be able to handle this on my own. So I guess it will be city services on Monday. Can't really leave him hanging there, can we? Although people don't even see it but it will start to smell... Not to say I deeply feel for the poor thing having found its end in such a strange way.

Is this cat dead or just sleeping?

Saw a disturbing sight today:

First I thought it's asleep but it wasn't moving at all while the tail seemed to be slightly swinging in the wind and for this it has to be completely relaxed which I never saw to actually happen on cats...

If it's dead I wonder how it happened so weirdly: he seems to have his neck stuck between branches but wouldn't he be meowing non-stop for hours or days so someone would notice before starving? And if happened faster, did it freeze overnight when it was cold or could a cat break himself a neck trying to break free?..

Terrible picture anyway, especially if it's dead there on the tree, right in the middle of Odessa, in a pretty crowdy place - Tiraspolska str, right above the end stop of tram 10.

Anyway, I still have some hopes it was just asleep - cats sometimes exercise exquisite balance tricks. Will check on him tomorrow (it's near where I live, one street up the corner).