4-week-old kitten is found and rescued from inside an apartment wall: ‘Maybe Bastet just plopped him in there’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Oct 17, 2025 4:00 AM EDT

The Cat Distribution System might know which human to bestow a kitten in need upon, but it seems like the system might not account for where they're placing the cats…

If you live in an apartment building, especially in a cityscape, you have probably heard a critter or two inside your walls. It's honestly inevitable. Pests know just where to go to keep warm once the weather starts getting chilly, and will stay put if they realize you leave your loaf of bread out on the counter overnight. Can you truly blame them? Heck, I'd do the same thing!

We're not talking about a creepy critter in the story below, however. A human heard noise coming from the walls in their apartment and had professionals come in to investigate what the noise might be. Lo and behold, a kitten around only four weeks old was stuck in the wall!

The photo of the kitten caught red-pawed is pawssibly one of the cutest kitten pics I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them. They managed to coax the kitty out with some wet food, then he was taken to the vet so he could be taken care of by the cat doctors. One minute, you're confused and stuck in a wall, and the next, you have multiple humans peering at you like you're a winning lottery ticket. This kitten hit the jackpot.

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    "I just saved a cat from my walls"

    This is a very long and bizarre situation, I've already posted to r/cats and r/kittens but I figured I should post here due to popular demand since this is an excellent example of the CDS at work.
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    Two days ago I heard what sounded like meowing coming from the walls of my bathroom.
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    I wasn't sure if it was a cat or just my ventilation ducts being bad (my apartment kind of sucks and I've had problems everywhere), so I put in a maintenance request.
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    Yesterday, I received a call from my apartment maintenance staff saying they cut holes in the drywall of my dining area and found a kitten in my walls and that it wasn't cooperating with them in coming out, so they put some wet food in a cage and just hoped the kitten would smell the food and eventually come out.
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    The kitten was running around in the back of the wall behind two pipes, and after some inspection I realized that the kitten might be too short to climb over the pipes and too scared (or its head was too large) to climb through the pipes.
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    Additionally, one maintenance guy said the kitten had fallen into (or walked in? Idrk) my insulation through a vent, and that there were 2 or 3 other kittens by that ventilation opening.
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    I have no clue what that means or where that vent is, but that means this kitten is potentially part of a larger litter of kittens belonging to another cat somewhere in my apartment complex.
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    After talking with my maintenance people some more I got the impression that they weren't going to actively try to help the kitten get out, and I happen to have a soul and don't want a kitten to just die, so my friends and I took matters into our own hands.
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    I took the wet food from the cage and placed it into the drywall so the kitten didn't starve (cuz it had been almost 2 days without food at this point), and my friends came over and were able to fish the kitten out.
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    After about two hours of luring him around with wet cat food we finally got him out of my walls and got him to a vet.
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    The next part I wasn't present for (I work pretty insane hours so I had to go to bed), but the vet apparently said there was no microchip and the cat was very healthy and well fed.
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    Apparently he's around 4 weeks old (no guarantees though). The vets conclusion was that the mother was somewhere nearby in my apartment complex, but since the kitten wasn't microchipped they said it's likely that the kitten and its mother are both strays.
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    If what that other maintenance guy said earlier is true then there's a whole litter of strays, with at least 2 or 3 other kittens somewhere in my apartment complex.
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    Currently two of my friends who helped rescue the kitten are taking care of him, they're roommates and happen to own two other cats (one of whom they raised as a kitten) so he's in good hands for now, but they don't have the means to fully own him and continue raising him.
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    We're planning on taking him to get dewormed and vaccinated next week. TLDR: I just saved a 4 week old kitten from my walls.
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    Individual-Past-8054 Cat in the wall, eh? Okay. Now you're talking my language. PW.V
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    ZereshkZaddy Aww thank you for putting in the work to rescue this lil cutie opportunity to name him Wally (or Wall-e if you like the movie)! Also, prime
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    a_coney_dragon Wall-e has like 1k upvotes on r/cats I almost feel obligated at this point | will confer with the council
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    PonyInYourPocket The funny thing is, my brown tabby was also found in a wall as a kitten. I named mine Dilly Dally. Wall-e never occurred to me, sadly. but my wall tabby salutes your wall tabby. GEEK WEEK
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    redravenkitty Ok but how??? How do these little critters get in there in the first place?!
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    a_coney_dragon I have no clue???? Apparently there's a vent from the outside of my apartment that leads into the insulation in my walls??? Maybe Bastet just plopped him in there who knows.
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