Dad and the Cat and the Tree

A cat is stuck high in a tree and Dad decides to rescue it.

The family problem opens with a cat aloft and confident Dad offering help.

Dad climbs a ladder but it slips; he falls and says "Fall?" in surprise.

Plan A fails when the wobbly ladder moves and Dad falls heavily to the ground.

Dad tries a rope swing to reach the cat but ends up hanging upside down.

Plan B turns Dad into a comic pendulum, still not reaching the cat.

Dad scoffs that climbing is child's play and climbs until the tree bends and breaks.

Overconfident Plan C ends with the tree snapping under his weight.

The cat yells, jumps down "pleased as Punch", but Dad is stuck in the tree.

The cat lands safe and sound; Dad remains wedged in the branches.

The rescuer needed rescue; the poem ends with vertical words suggesting the tall tree.

Humour comes from role reversal and repeated exclamations - Fall? Never mind. Rubbish.