He looks likes Morris the cat and he's just as finicky.

But he's believed to be a Rush Township stray, and on Friday, the fussy feline positioned himself high in an oak tree at Lincoln Park in Hometown and decided he didn't want help or visitors.

"He was up there at 7 a.m. when I came out to take my daughter to the bus stop," said Roy Houser of 22 Lincoln St.

The cat was crying and meowing and so Houser and wife Shellie placed cat food at the base of the tree, hoping the treat would entice the scared cat to come down sometime during the day when things calmed and nobody was near.

But the cat food trick didn't work.

The orange tabby was still there at 5 p.m. and had climbed higher, reaching an estimated 50 feet above ground.

Shellie Houser contacted the fire company, and then Sergeant Duane Frederick, Rush Township police, was notified.

Firefighters Andrew Tite and Zack Filloy of Hometown Fire Company secured additional help and an aerial ladder from Gary Perna, chief engineer, McAdoo Fire Company.

Perna arrived with the aerial truck about 5:30 p.m. and Tite climbed all the way up to the top of the fully extended ladder, reaching the area where the cat was resting.

But the cat wanted no part of a rescue. When he saw the ladder reaching up toward him, he scampered even higher.

Ultimately, he made his way to a new resting spot an estimated 80 feet high. At that point, he was beyond reach and further rescue attempts had to be scuttled.

"We ran out of ladder. We can only go to 75 feet," said Tite.

Perna said the problem often takes care of itself.

"When they get hungry, they come down," he said.

Residents of the Lincoln Park and Cumberland Avenue neighborhood said they'd keep an eye on developments.