After two weeks, several rescue attempts and the worst storm of the winter, Mary Kupa's cat Eva is finally down from its perch in a Fernhill phoenix palm tree.
The 2-year-old cat had been chased up the tree by a stray dog and despite the efforts of the Napier SPCA and the Hastings Fire Brigade, it seemed determined to stay there.
Ms Kupa said every night she had been hearing the cat calling.
"I watched a lot of the tennis on TV, I couldn't sleep," she said.
But yesterday afternoon a saviour turned up, in the form of arborist Justin Jacobs.
"He was working next door and he asked what the scaffolding was around my palm tree.
The neighbours told him it was where people had been trying to get to a stuck cat.
"He came to see me and said 'I'm an arborist and I can get your cat down'. I told him the weather was too awful but he said 'I'll do it right now'. It was fascinating to watch."