2 week old kitten found in apartment ceiling after couple hears scared meows from bathroom, resulting in adoption into fur family with feline sibling, cat dad says: ‘After having a literal ceiling cat, we kind of felt obligated to adopt it, you know?’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Mar 9, 2026 1:00 PM EDT

Would you know what to do if you hear meows coming from your ceiling? Well, if not then this story will give you the low down on how one couple made a miraculous rescue and added four paws to their fur family in the process.

It is hard to imagine, but if you have ever had a rat or rodent running around your ceiling cavity we can imagine the sensation is similar, albeit a little different. In both cases you want the creature to get out of the ceiling, but in one case you want to keep and cuddle the creature and in the other you hope they have taken the long sleep before you come face to face.

Either way, this was the conundrum put before this cat loving couple when the Cat Distribution System decided to bestow upon them a cat. As we all know the CDS likes to work its magic in a myriad of mysterious ways but this tale of kitten adoption is quite the unique one. Who knows perhaps this couple liked solving escape rooms and that is why the CDS delivered their kitten like this. Regardless of reason, with a bunch of patience this couple became pawrents for the second time and the rest is history.

 

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    "Frost, has at least learned to share the cat tree."
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    2 months ago, we started hearing what sounded like a scared kitten in the apartment bathroom in what we thought at the time was the wall (Hence "Floyd"). We called building maintenance, humane society, animal control, etc and no one could help us. Finally,
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  • There we go, that is the cat loving spirit we like to see. It is hard to say where it comes from but a true cat lover is not someone who can let a feline in peril wait for someone else to turn up at a convenient time to help out, they need to get stuck in and save the kitty. Not to mention that it must have been heartbreaking to spend a whole day and night hearing the pitiful meows of a kitten in distress. There is hardly a sadder sound on this earth, it is akin to a hooman baby being left alone somewhere, only that the kitten is even more helpless than the hooman.

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    after 24 hours, my SO took matters into her own hands and after some investigating where she found it was actually coming from the ceiling vent, she rescued the cat herself. We estimate that Floyd
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    was two weeks or younger when we found him. We couldn't properly care for him so we rushed him to the humane society where they fostered him out. After having a literal ceiling cat, we kind of felt obligated to adopt it, you
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    know? We were finally able to adopt him on Monday, where we found out that "he" was actually a "she", but we had already grown attached to "Floyd" so she gets to keep the name. The white cat in the last
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    two pictures is Frost. We got her from the Humane. Society when she was 2 years old around 9 years ago. We're pretty sure she was also taken from her litter too soon and she never learned how to properly socialize with other cats. We're slowly introducing the two cats
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    spoo
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    to each other, and while Floyd is eager to play with Frost, Frost... well, she seems excited by Floyd, but does not quite know what to do with the little bundle of pure energy in the shape of a kitten we call Floyd. We're still keeping Floyd in the bathroom most of the
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    time while they learn how to socialize with each other.
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    Hello there. So, we've had our ceiling cat for 6 months now, and I thought I would give an update on how she is doing (I'm hoping this is allowed? It will more than likely be our only update). Frost and Floyd get along
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    really well together. We were following a guide about how to introduce a kitten to an older cat, but we ended up abandoning that guide halfway through. Whenever we would separate them in different rooms for the night, they would cry for
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    each other. Once Frost realized that she could play with Floyd, she became much more accepting. We still did our best to monitor their playtime, as eventually Frost would sound like she's about to murder Floyd and we would have
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  • Awww, it sounds as though these cattos were meant to be together. How sweet, and also heartbreaking, it is that they cried for each other all night while separated. But it is for the best and these pawrents were right to take things slow and be cautious, after all, cats are creatures with limited patience and in an instant things can go from play to fight. That being said impatience is probably warranted seeing as they are meeting between a kitten and an adult and with cats being as short tempered and unforgiving as they are there was always going to be a good chance that Frost would at some point have enough of Floyd’s nonsense and need a little space. 

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    to separate them... but eventually we learned that's just what Frost sounds like when she plays. Even Floyd's not affected by it anymore. We still glance over every now and then to make sure it's not getting too serious, but we're no
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    longer on a hair trigger. There have been some hiccups. Frost is... a very particular cat that only likes things on her terms. Like, she has no problem sleeping with us, but if one of us sits on the bed while she's on it, she will
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    grumpily get off the bed instead of coming over and cuddling. We get that, but Floyd... well, Floyd is still trying very hard to have a nap with Frost. Also, we had no idea it would be so hard to keep this cat alive. We were
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    expecting Floyd to be food insecure after being trapped in a ceiling for 24 hours as a kitten with no food or water, but the problem was actually the opposite. We had a þ. I of a time trying to find something that she would eat. She would turn up her nose at whatever
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    kitten food we bought. We eventually found one kind of food that she actually ate, and after about a month of being willing to eat only that, she finally started to eat other food as well. Of course, if something wasn't food, she would try to eat it. My girlfriend lost
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    Hefty
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    one of her straps that way. She also doesn't meow. Ever. I don't think we've heard her meow since she was pulled out of our ceiling. Imagine Oliver Twist asking "Please sir, may I have some more?" and turn it into a mw.
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    That's what she does instead of meows. If she's on your lap and you have to get up but she's not ready, she will let lose such a sad, pathetic mew that sounds like you've just murdered her entire family. Overall, though, we're
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    glad to have her. Even though she's quite the handful at times. We weren't expecting to get another cat, at least not anytime soon, but... Since when did the CDS care about that?
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    Hello All! I'm very happy to report that both Frost and Floyd are doing well and getting along. I don't think Floyd has succeeded in having a nap with Frost yet, but she's still trying.
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    Frost, though, has at least learned to share the cat tree. We were very amazed.
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