so yesterday, I get a call from dh - come home as soon as you can, the cat’s trapped in the wall which wall? the mystery wall. WTF!?!?!
the mystery wall… if you are looking at the outside of the house, there’s a spot where the wall juts out a wee bit. inside the house, the wall is flat. we’ve been joking a bit about what might be behind the wall. gold? dead bodies? a portal to another world?
Kashka has yet to divulge the secrets of how she got into there. my guess - she wandered into the bedroom closet, managed to open the door into the crawlspace (which, incidentally, is over the mystery wall), found a hole, and fell/crawled down. dh thinks this is patently impossible, as there was a board propped against the crawlspace door to keep it closed (and her out, should someone be foolish enough to leave the closet door open). me, I think it’s possible. when we first moved in, she managed to open the cupboards in the bathroom and trap herself inside. the board leaning on the door isn’t that heavy. she’s small. I’m pretty certain she could pull it off without disrupting the board completely.
so anywho, we had to bash a hole in the wall to try and get her out. she was having none of it - she kept looking up as if to say - that hole in the ceiling is how I got in, and I’m going to figure out how to get back out. despite the fact that she can see me (well, my head at least) sticking into the space between the walls. after many attempts (this took, oh, a good hour), we managed to use the end of a curtain rod to pull her towards the hole and get her out.
so now, there’s a hole in the wall. and a cat living in the bathroom until we can get the hole repaired. dh isn’t too pleased with her. she’s not too pleased with being trapped in the bathroom. (despite the fact that if I’m in there without her, she’ll be pawing at the door and sticking her paw under the door in an attempt to get in.) no worries - she has most of her kitty comforts in there (litter box, food, water, kitty condo, scratching box. I suppose she could use a toy.) we kept her in there while moving in so she wouldn’t escape. it’s ‘her’ bathroom.
I’m glad she is all right. At least you found her fight away. A couple years ago one of my kittys slowly fell in the wall from the second floor bathroom (which we were doing some plumbing work in) to the basement over the course of ten days. He didn’t make any noise (that we could hear), and isn’t the type of kitty to try to escape outside, so we didn’t know where he could be. He was skinny and dehydrated, but ok.
Wow, I’m glad you found her quickly!! I hope you figure out a way to keep her from getting back in whatever secret way she got in there to start with! Hmm, it doesn’t sound like there’s any room left in that bathroom.
Glad she’s out! We had that happen once, but they got in under our bathtub and the wall. Luckily the crawed out on their own. I’d hate to think what that would have cost to get those kitties out.
That totally sounds like something my cats would do. When I was remodeling my bathrooom 2 years ago, I went downstairs to finish wiring a junction box in the basement ceiling right before putting cement board up behind the bathtub. The junction box was just below the bathtub and right by a hole that had been where the pipes for the old toilet went through the subfloor. Just within my field of vision, I see eyes shining at me from that hole and nearly fell off my stool in surprise. Lucy (also called Lucifer and clearly the reason that curiousity killed the cat) had climbed under the cast iron bathtub and was looking through that hole. Ten more minutes and she would have been walled in. It is extremely difficult to put a hole in cement board…
OMG! You know what they say…”Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought ‘em back!” Geez, what a frustrating ordeal for all parties concerned and I would bet the gammet (sp?) of human and cat emotions! Glad she let herself be known and you got her out ok. Holes are fixable. ;-)
OMG - I have nightmares about cats stuck in the wall - ours can get in there through the cupboards surrounding our bathtub - she can get into the basement ceiling - it’s downright freaky to hear that ghostly meow over your head…
Leave a comment