'I just saved a cat from my walls': Kind homeowner saves 4-week-old kitten after hearing mysterious meowing from a purrfectly perilous location - inside his bathroom wall

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Oct 20, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

We had the opposite problem of this kind homeowner below - we had rats in our walls once. It was awful. We couldn't sleep from hearing them moving in the wall behind us at night. Thankfully, that's all behind us, and we would trade rats scurrying for mysterious wall meowing any day. But even if it's as cute as meowing, it's still pawsitively concerning. Meowing from inside the walls usually means that something is stuck there, and you'll have to tear down at least part of the wall to get it out.

After two days of not knowing where it was coming from, the tenant called a maintenance crew to check it out. They found a four-week-old kitten stuck back there, and they couldn't get it out. So, he took matters into his own paws and, with the help of a few friends, got the cute kitty out of the wall and is now safely being cared for. Soon, he'll get vaccinated, dewormed, and start living his fluffy life to its fullest. And it's all thanks to a hammer and some wet food!

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    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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  • The CDS is making home deliveries now? Well, it looks like they still need some work, we would like to not have to break through one of our walls to get to the delivered cat/kitten, but if that's what it takes, then that's what it takes. Who could just leave a kitten inside a wall? Certainly not us, and we don't think you could either.

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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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  • Kittens, especially ones that are four weeks old, aren't known for their gracefulness. It makes sense to each other that it wouldn't come out - it probably couldn't get out on its own. Good thing this helpful homeowner came through and rescued him!

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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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    ZereshkZaddy Aww thank you for putting in the work to rescue this lil cutie Also, prime opportunity to name him Wally (or Wall-e if you like the movie)!
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    Individual-Past-8054 Cat in the wall, eh? Okay. Now you're talking my language.
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    Tina-Tuna MOD So glad you made it here, this is what I do to get fab stories on this sub. I invite people to post their stories
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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.
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    Mysterious_Luck7122 That is one lucky boi, good work OP! Can you put up a flyer in your lobby asking the other tenants to keep their ears open for meowing walls and vents?
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    redravenkitty Ok but how??? How do these little critters get in there in the first place?!
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    Potatoskins937492 Oh my god. My heart would explode if a kitten this adorable showed up in my walls. I would be in those walls looking for the others. Get my headlamp, we're going in.
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    Cultural-Ambition449 Cat Parent The CDS is going to use you in their training videos! Well done!
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    Ok_Foot1988 Thank you for rescuing this adorable baby I guess the cat distribution system wanted you to work extra hard for the new friend.
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