<human>: Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?

After waiting almost three hours, my cat still hadn't made any progress towards the ground. Reluctantly, I climbed way up into this tree with my laundry bag on my back; finally reaching my cat way up in this ponderosa pine tree, I grabbed the scuff of his neck, finagled him into my laundry bag, tightened the draw strings, and worked my way back down. 

Filled with scratches and bites from the ant infested tree, I was left with the feeling that it may not even have been a good idea to risk my health for the cat. I ask you reddit: Is it better to force your cat to learn how to get out of a tree in its own in case that it happens again? If he were to ever get stuck again without my knowledge, would he ever get down?
<bot>: My cat got stuck in a tree and I climbed it to get him out. Would it have been better to force him to find his own way down?