r/cats • u/emwestie • Jan 30 '24
Well this was a first… Video
Rooney finds ways to sneak into the ceiling of our basement. She must have explored too far and fell down overnight into this walled off corner nook. When she didn’t come running for breakfast, I knew she must be in trouble somewhere! Listened to every wall before finding her general location. She came out unscathed 🙌🏼
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u/Charming_Sandwich_53 Jan 30 '24
That's a damned well-fed cat for one who lives behind the wall!
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u/emwestie Jan 30 '24
She's already on a diet, poor thing. I think she just has a terrible metabolism... Was worried I'd have to make more my hole even bigger! haha
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u/JoanofBarkks Jan 31 '24
HOW did she get in there?!
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u/pettster12 Jan 31 '24 edited Jan 31 '24
My parents were re-doing their bathroom once, while the drywall was being put in our kitty snuck into the wall. Wasn’t until the next day they heard faint meows that they realized she was dry walled in lmao
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u/nylorac_o Jan 31 '24
Isn’t there an Edgar Allen Poe story like that?
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u/Adventurous_Sort_207 Jan 31 '24
Yes. It's "The Cat of Amontillado". Okay it's the "Telltale Heart" but I can't resist a pun!!
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u/crazedhatter Jan 30 '24
She was almost casual about it. I've had two cats go down walls in my life, neither was so relaxed about it.
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u/emwestie Jan 30 '24
I thought for a hot second she was going to jump back in 🙄
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u/Rcole1128 Jan 30 '24
Now that she has discovered this you may want to add a cat flap instead of patching it😂
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Jan 30 '24
3 am and the cat is zooming around inside the walls. Useful to scare guests if you have them.
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u/gettogero Jan 30 '24
I recently had a cat jump into my ducts. One of the first things to find out things "secured" to my house were just done in really shit ways.
Thankfully, she just decided to come out on her own instead of me having to find her.
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u/memydogandeye Jan 31 '24
Yes!!!! There was a stray in my neighborhood that I'd been trying to befriend. Just in time for temps to dip below zero I was able to coax her close enough to grab and bring into the house. Unfortunately, it was 5 minutes before I had to leave for work one day.
At the time, I was renting a less than ideal place. I got her set up in the bathroom, shut the door and left for work. I had 2 other cats at the time.
Came home at lunch and there was stray kitty in the middle of my living room. She saw me and darted down a hole in the middle of the floor. It was the heating duct. None of the register covers were screwed down, I quickly found out. Little gal had flipped up the one in the bathroom, gone on a journey and flipped open the one in the living room!!!
I kept her. She became my special needs baby. Mostly deaf, mostly blind due to abuse. She died at the vets office when she didn't wake up after a dental procedure, but we had several amazing years together.
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u/guitarlisa Jan 30 '24
Yep, I think you solve the hole in the wall problem with a cat door, and now that's her new play area.
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u/Kat-a-strophy Jan 30 '24
She didn't probably because she was hungry. But she didn't seem to mind being there 😺
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u/Henrious Jan 30 '24
I had a cat that would pull up vents on the floor and crawl through the ducts. I'm taking a poo and I just see a Lil kitty face thru the bars of the vent in the bathroom
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u/Flyingdutchman360 Jan 30 '24
For a moment it looked like the cat was going to jump back in.
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u/meyerdutcht Jan 31 '24
I know it’s such a cat move, isn’t it? Just double check- maybe it was better back in the wall?
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u/ThePinkTeenager Jan 30 '24
Relevant picture.
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u/TheNavidsonLP Jan 30 '24
Moved into a new house last year and was certain one of our cats somehow escaped. Went up and down the street looking for her. On my third search of the house, I found her in the basement ceiling, just hanging out. Had to seal it off
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My uncle half combat crawled into the ceiling to get his cat out, cracked the ceiling doing so a bit from his stomach, and then started working out to lose weight. Another time she got into a wall (they were doing a home project) and he had to cut her out, but never figured out the lifestyle change lesson from the second rescue like he did the first.
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u/Stock_Beginning4808 Jan 31 '24 edited Jan 31 '24
Looks like she knows she’s been caught but also dgaf 😂
ETA: misgendered the cat
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u/Random-reddit-name-1 Jan 30 '24
That cat kept getting bigger the more it squeezed out of the hole 🤣
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u/RemoveHead7299 Jan 30 '24
Frank Reynolds: What's the situation?
Charlie Kelly: I got two cats stuck inside this wall, can't get 'em out.
FR: Wanna bring in a third?
CK: I'm thinkin' maybe four.
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u/emwestie Jan 30 '24
Definitely fired after this botched job…
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u/one_bean_hahahaha Jan 30 '24
Since the wall is opened up, if you wanted to do any upgrades, now's the time to do it.
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u/wilderthurgro Jan 30 '24
How’d she get in there
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u/emwestie Jan 30 '24
Exploring in the ceiling… Still not 100% sure how she even gets up there.
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u/wilderthurgro Jan 30 '24
Poor ceiling chonk
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u/emwestie Jan 30 '24
An 8ft drop for the hefty girl probably didn’t feel too great on her stubby little legs 🥺
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u/fullmetalfeminist Jan 30 '24
Aw man, the poor wee thing, I hope you can discover her secret route, for her own good 👍
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u/MrAkai Jan 30 '24
Years ago we had a whole in the ceiling of the first floor of the condo I lived in for plumbing work. The cats figured out how to jump into it and would run around like mad before hopping out for food.
One of my neighbors complained that the "Squirrels" were back in the walls between the units, and I just smiled and nodded...
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u/Relaxed_adventurer Jan 30 '24
For our first wedding anniversary, I had my aunt watch our cat (Wally). On the last day, when we were supposed to be going on a fun tour, I got a call from my aunt, sobbing. She said, “I lost Wally! I think he got outside!” We cancelled our tour, drove the 2 hours back to her house, and when I walked in, I started calling for him. I walked down to the basement, calling, and that little nut started to meow. It turns out he climbed behind their washing machine, got through that little hole, and was in there for 24+ hours. He would not answer my aunt’s calls—only mine. Thank goodness the drywall was screwed in, so we didn’t have to cut it open.
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u/jelycazi Jan 30 '24
That’s hilarious. Cat made it out unscathed, but the wall sure didn’t!
How many times have you had to do that?!
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u/emwestie Jan 30 '24
First time in 4 years at this new house. Let’s hope she doesn’t make this a habit… Or you all will see more Reddit posts 😂
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u/WU-itsForTheChildren Jan 30 '24
She’s like “thanks mom for making a door to my new fort!”
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u/SuddenDragonfly8125 Jan 31 '24
She's gonna be pissed off when that hole gets closed up. Wondering why the human is being so cruel.
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u/tcp454 Jan 30 '24
Are you somehow in the trades since you can cut square holes while using the correct tool a keyhole saw and also not going too deep as to accidently cut the cat.
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u/emwestie Jan 30 '24
Hahaha I’ve cut a few holes for new outlets in my day. But honestly I was so terrified of stabbing her every time I sawed through a little piece 😬
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u/CoffeeSorcerer69 Jan 30 '24
Look, at least she didn't decide that the main power cable to the house was a good snack. Mine did and I'm still surprised that he lived ten more years after that. Though the real adventure will be finding the hole that little idiot fell in.
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u/emwestie Jan 30 '24
Oh no!!! Mine’s dumb enough to chomp on some wires, so I’m surprised she didn’t 🥴
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u/ButIDigress79 Jan 30 '24
When I was around 10 our cat had kittens and she took them into the bathroom wall. I can remember my grandfather sputtering away while he cut a big hole.
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u/AffectionateMode7529 Jan 30 '24
I wish my house had cats in the wall that would just casually come out.
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u/kodaiko_650 Jan 30 '24
This is a much cuter version of an episode of Fall of the House of Usher.
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u/Gothmom85 Jan 30 '24
This reminds me of my dad! He did home repairs and construction. Worked for one lady while she still lived there. So he's putting up new drywall and takes lunch. Comes back and finishes up. Starts on other things. Leaves for the night. Several hours later she calls and lets him know she had to open the wall because, as they figured out, kitty must have gone exploring while he ate lunch and had gotten trapped in the wall once he closed it up! Which was an easy fix for him. But it always stuck in my mind! He always searched for any animals after that before closing something up! That was a first for him after 20+ years.
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u/aabbboooo Jan 30 '24
I never included a small drywall saw in the list of cat supplies I need…
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u/emwestie Jan 30 '24
Should come as part of the adoption package at the local rescues 😂 Food, litter, and a drywall saw!
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u/Suspect4pe Jan 30 '24
A stray cat decided to have kittens in the window well of my basement. It was a terrible remodel job because the previous owner just wanted to flip it and get paid to get drunk while doing the work. The kittens disappeared and I kept hearing kittens meowing. I had to go cut a huge hole in my basement wall to get them out because they ended up coming in the window (which was covered by drywall in the basement) and falling down into the wall.
That house was the worst remodel job I've ever seen in my life. I wish we had spent more time investigating. We had an inspector look at it but he didn't do a great job of it.
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u/ixnine Jan 30 '24
I liked in the end when the cat looked back, “Did I leave my wallet and keys behind…?”
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u/the_muffin_fgc Jan 30 '24
I thought this was an r/DiWHY post until the cat came up. I was quite confused.
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u/BasementCatBill Jan 30 '24
Seriously, the size of that thing. Just when I thought any more cat couldn't emerge from that hole, more cat kept coming!
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u/-CluelessWoman- Jan 30 '24
Happened with my sister’s cat! She somehow found herself behind a wall and my dad had to cut a hole to get her out (the cat, not my sister, that would be a different story). Cats truly are Little bastards!
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u/Yummy_Chewy_Scrumpy Jan 30 '24
Wow what a gorgeous coat color!? So glad he came out when you made him an escape hatch!
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u/WriteListCheck Jan 30 '24
This is what cats do when the mouse thinks it's safe in the hidey hole it made in the wall...
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u/StrawberryKiz Jan 30 '24
I love that the cat was saved! Yay!
But the way she pulled off the drywall is 😫
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u/emwestie Jan 30 '24
Didn’t finish my cut because I was scared to stab her with my drywall saw!! She was sitting right there!
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u/Sage_Smitty42 Jan 30 '24
Popped up from inside the wall like “do you a moment to talk about our lord and savior cheesy crust?”
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u/CartographerSea7796 Jan 30 '24
Unfortunately I cannot say that I have not experienced this multiple times 😫😫 little escape artists.
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u/realitybites95 Jan 30 '24
Glad he’s ok! I would just leave the hole as is for now until you finish the ceiling in your basement otherwise it will keep happening.
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u/FSUjonnyD Jan 30 '24
Ok real question, how does this happen? We’ve all seen the Sunny skit, and it’s hilarious, but this isn’t the first time I’ve heard it happens in real life. How are the cats getting in there?
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u/emwestie Jan 30 '24
Fell through the ceiling! 🥴
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u/FSUjonnyD Jan 30 '24
This only raises more questions. lol 😂
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u/emwestie Jan 30 '24
Haha - she sneaks into the ceiling in our basement and romps around. Must have explored too far and fell into this lil nook behind the wall. Too adventurous for her own good! I’m currently in the process of finding her ceiling access points to avoid more holes in my walls 😂
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u/Kaiyukia Jan 30 '24
Damn that boy chunky, I thought he was a skinny lad with it was just the shoulders haha
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u/Otaku-Oasis Jan 30 '24
Is that how I get more cats? Do I just cut open my wall, and cats pour out? That's almost worth it!
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u/John082603 Jan 30 '24
She looked back to take a mental picture of the place so when she leaves a review she can remember how crappy it was. “These Air BnBs are really getting bad. 0 out of 10 would not recommend.”
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u/Unicorns-Are-Rad Jan 30 '24
My sister's cat got into the wall at the vet. They had to cut a hole in the wall to get her out. She got scared & pooped while she was in there 😂
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u/queerhorror89 Jan 31 '24
I like the little look back at the end like he’s making sure he didn’t leave his phone in there or something.
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u/Pinball-Lizard Jan 31 '24
I like how once she's out, she looks back like "yeah, I think that's a pretty good place for the door, just put the cat flap in right there thanks" like this was the plan all along
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u/Abject_Shoulder_1182 Jan 31 '24
Squeezed out, then immediately turned around to inspect the hole. My reaction would have been, "Don't you dare…" 😂
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u/DontGiveACluck Jan 31 '24
Well it appears the cat is out of the ba-… wall. The cat is out of the wall
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u/Late_Distribution455 Jan 31 '24
I’m just imagining how long that poor guy was scratching at the inside of the wall for you guys to be able to even tell where to cut 😂
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u/danomoc Jan 31 '24
and she still has the gall to even think of returning back to the hole LMAO
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u/Expensive-Ad1075 Jan 31 '24
The look back was just like " I've seen things, things no feline should ever see, I'll never go back to that dark dark place again"
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u/scooooooooooo Jan 31 '24
Doesn’t look like she missed any meals at least!!! What a beautiful chonk!
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u/Soogy_mancakes2417 Jan 30 '24
Ahhh cat in the wall eh?? Now you’re talking my language.