Family Finds Cat BUILT INTO THE WALL Of Their New Home

[matcom]

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LOUISBURG, Kan. -- The saying, "If these walls could talk" took on new meaning in Louisburg this week. There, the walls of one house were practically screaming.

A cat was accidentally built into the walls of a new house in Kansas.

"I thought I heard something earlier that morning," a construction worker said.

The homeowner and workers heard the cat making noises.

"We started banging on the walls and bathtub, and (the cat) started again," said homeowner Emily Vano. "Our voices probably triggered him to say, 'I'm here, I'm here!'"

The builder estimated the cat had been stuck in the walls at least three weeks.

"The contractor figured out he was just under the tub and got dry walled in," Vano said.

Workers tore a hole in the wall, made some cat calls, and the scared, tired and thirsty animal crawled out.

"Poor little thing. So sorry we built you into the house," Vano said.

Vano took the cat to a veterinary hospital, where he's being called Hal, because he was found just before Halloween. The homeowner hopes the cat's owner will come forward.

http://www.wftv.com/family/5187316/detail.html

[AntiCoup2K4]

1. Well, look at it this way....

I doubt these people will have a mouse problem this winter.

[SoCalDem]

2. My son's cat is named Wally ...for the same reason..

My friend got a frantic phone call from her aged Mother at midnight one night..

Mother: Jean, I hear kittens..

Friend (to husband): We've got to get up and go to Mothers..NOW..She must have had a stroke or something.

They got up and went over there, to find her with the stove moved to the center of the kitchen.. She was pounding the wall with the claw end of a hammer..

My friend's husband put his ear to the wall, and sure enough, he heard faint "mewing"..)

They broke a hole in the kitchen wall, and extracted 4 newborn kittens (eyes still shut.,.)

No one ever saw the Momcat, and Wally was adopted 4 weeks later...

She started out as OUR cat, but she chose our son as HER human, so when he grew up and moved out, she went to Concord with him:)

[Shell Beau]

3. Oh how sad! That poor little fellow! I'm glad he made it!

[ThatsMyBarack]

4. I've heard of this happening before....

....and the creatures have made it (but probably not always). :shrug:

[Lethe]

5. The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

halloween? dead corpses and kitties in the walls? reor!