Kittens in the Wall



Last Friday evening, the news editor of The Gadsden (Alabama) Times, Greg Bailey heard a noise behind the stove in his house. The whole family heard the noises, which his wife Helen identified as a cat. The noises were there the next morning, so after investigating every other possibility, Helen knocked a hole in the wall. Then another.

She stuck her hand in and felt around, then drew back in horror.

“I grabbed a tail,” she said, as both of us conjured up visions of a very large rat.

Helen reached in one more time … and drew out, by its back this time, a tiny (as in fitting into the palm of your hand) cream-colored male tabby kitten. It was dirty, flea-bitten, hungry, scared … and I wished I had a camera handy to record the look on Helen’s face. I knew at that instant we had another member of the family.

They had the kitten checked out by a vet and patched the hole with duct tape.

I was out shopping a couple of hours later, when my cell phone rang. It was Ryan. “Dad, Mom just pulled another cat out of the wall. “Welcome to the family,” I thought.

The kittens, estimated to be around three weeks old, are being fed formula and kitten food. They have been named Boo and Waldo. Helen Bailey says she doesn’t need anything else for Mothers Day. Link -via Fark

(image credit: Gadsden Times/Marc Golden)


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Posted on May 12, 2008 at 10:52 am by Miss Cellania
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9 comments to "Kittens in the Wall"

  • Quasi
    May 12th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    And where was the mother? When the kittens are a little older, you may want to get them my new hilariously funny book, The World Is Your Litter Box. It’s in bookstores now and is also available on Amazon. The book is cleverly disguised as a cute cat book so humans will buy it, but is, in fact, a how-to manual FOR cats. Check it out on my website, http://www.theworldisyourlitterbox.com.

  • LisaL
    May 12th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    Awww poor kittens. I’m glad they were found though. Hopefully the momma cat didn’t have any more, or if she did, those 2 were the only ones she couldn’t grab.
    Just the thought of there being more kittens in the wall suffering breaks my heart.

  • CheeseDuck
    May 12th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    OMG SO CUTE

  • Lore
    May 12th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    All together now… AWWW…

  • Ali S.
    May 12th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

    @ LisaL

    I also hope that the folks did a complete check in the back to see if any more kittens were back there.

  • Lea
    May 12th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    I hope, if there were others, they got out. And I hope the momma is OK and got out too.
    I wonder how they got there.

  • ted
    May 12th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

    Geez, you try to insulate your house, and people start pulling the stuffing back out.

  • Miss Cellania
    May 12th, 2008 at 7:55 pm

    Someone in the Fark forum told a story about a similar happening. They said cats would give birth in the attic, and small kittens could fall in through openings at the top of walls. That sounds like a possible scenario here.

  • Vako
    May 13th, 2008 at 12:42 am

    That human mom is a heck of alot braver than I am. Imagine if that situation happened during middle ages in Europe.

    Coming back to modern times, I’ve always said that male black cats were bad luck… especially as fathers.

    :-P

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