A woman who heard strange sounds behind her wall was tab-bergasted after discovering that there was a cat trapped behind her wall.
She detailed the barricaded gerbil-chaser’s rescue in a TikTok video with over 6.6 million views.
The claws-strophobic clip showed homeowner Lacy Day and several men cutting away a square panel of plasterboard to reveal the “source of the noise” in their wall.
The wall eventually came down to reveal a gray mass.
While it initially looked like a giant dust bunny or drywall insulation, her fellow onlookers quickly revealed that’s not the case.
“It’s a cat,” observed the wall cutter, while another guy commented how he could “see it breathing.”
“She’s wedged,” he exclaimed as the cat began to stir.
Meanwhile, Day stroked the nebulous-looking fuzzball, eventually coaxing it out of the pussycat portal as the man who pried open the wall urged someone to get a “kennel.”
The clip concludes with the plaster-covered kitten clambering out of the hole, seemingly feline fine after its indoor spelunking accident.
It’s yet unclear who the owner was, although Day speculated that it could have belonged to “Taylor,” presumably a neighbor, Express.co.uk reported.
TikTok commenters were baffled by the bizarre entrapment and extraction, with one exclaiming, “Poor baby, I hope it’s ok.”
Another wrote, “Awww, she’s so lucky you found her!!”
However other commenters couldn’t resist poking fun at the strange predicament. “Wait… so cats just appear in walls?” quipped one. “When will this happen to me?!?!?!”
“Wow, the cat distribution system she works in mysterious ways,” joked another.
Interestingly, finding these hairballs hemmed in by concrete is apparently not as rare as people think.
“My cats did this in our unfinished garage… my dad cut so many holes in the walls trying to find them,” said one.
Another recounted finding their neighbor’s kitten mewing under the floorboards.
According to Feline Behavior Solutions, the behavior comes from their wildcat ancestors, who would find secluded spots to raise their kittens and hide from predators.
Unfortunately, this can prove quite precarious as the mouse-catchers can get wedged, or, worse yet, sealed behind the wall by contractors, as was the case with a poor pussycat in California.
