THE UPDATE: Stray wall kitten’s fur family trapped and rescued from feral life and given furever home with rescuer’s cat loving friend, and wall kitten gifted adopted void sibling, cat dad says: ‘They started sleeping together after the first week’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Apr 27, 2026 6:15 AM EDT

If you wondered what happened to the kitten who was rescued from its in-wall hiding spot, then strap in for a wild ride of feline frivolity.

It was a tense start to this story, having our feline protagonist stuck in a wall. But once he was freed from his wall captivity it gave his new pawrent time to try and rescue the rest of the kitten's family. A task that proved to be a fair bit more tricky than was initially anticipated which momentarily made our heroic hooman lose hope that he would ever manage to reunite this feline family. This led him to make an interesting decision in order to try and keep his wall kitten company.

For while the kitten's family would have made the best company, with them unavailable, this hooman went out and adopted a beautiful void to come and be this kitten's sibling. And much to our satisfaction the pair got on like a house on fire. Which gave our rescuer the time needed to slowly coax the rest of this kitten's family into the safety of captivity and onwards to foster homes that would love and care for them the way they deserved. 
 

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    ROE We SHIP "The top comment was to name him Wall-e, but after a bunch of Always Sunny in Philadelphia comments we decided to name him Charlie! "
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    I promised an update post and it's been a hectic 6 weeks now, but things are starting to settle down a bit so I figured it was high time I made this post to update everyone.
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    First and most importantly, we kept the kitten! The response from my original post was overwhelmingly positive and supportive, and thanks to yall's advice (and Jackson Galaxy and
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    Kitten Lady) we were able to get toys, kitten food, and most recently furniture for our cute boy. I know the top comment was to name him Wall-e, but after a bunch of
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    Always Sunny in Philadelphia comments we decided to name him Charlie! We felt like the name fit him better since he's so mischevious and kept escaping his enclosure, much to the dismay of me
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  • Wow, what a wholesome update! You never quite know where these stories will go but it seems that this one has taken an epic turn for the pawsitive. Between  the successful adoption of this kitten, the incredibly generous support of the reddit community and the rather hilarious choice of name for the kitten, it is clear that things are going well. And we sincerely hope that they will continue to go well and not follow in the footsteps of this kitten's Always Sunny in Philadelphia character namesake. No one needs a cat version of Charlie walking around this world. 
     

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    and my friends. We also didn't have an Eve for him :(. His full name is Charlie Kismet Sullivan: Charlie from Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Sullivan as a long form of Sully (which is short for insulation), and
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    Kismet for destiny/fate in Turkish (thank you to that one commenter for this suggestion). We also got a lot of comments telling us to get him a playmate!
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    Unfortunately we weren't able to get a playmate from his litter (more on that later), and we really wanted to get a void since they go under- adopted in shelters (also because void). We ended up adopting a 3 month
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    old void named Corn Munch, which made him 6 weeks older than Charlie. We're not sure who named him (someone keeps dropping off cereal named cats at our local shelter), but we changed his name to
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    Louie to match the - ie from Charlie's name. Louie had a URI when he was 2 months old, and it seemed like his nasal ducts never fully cleared it out at the shelter, but after a month of viral treatment + eye
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    ointment his nasal duct is fully cleared and he's perfectly healthy! We kept Louie and Charlie separate for about a week (because we weren't sure at the time if Louie still had a URI),
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  • While it would have been wonderful for this kitten to be reunited with at least part of his family, sometimes that really is not the right thing to do. And this way another kitten who had no family and no hope was given the golden opportunity of a lifetime to have a safe and loving home. So it seems that everyone has come out of this situation winning, Charlie, Louie and the hooman who brought them together. Also, thank goodness they changed his name, no one needs to spend their time on this planet with the name Corn Munch, no matter how delicious the cereal might be…
     

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    but after Louie was cleared of having a URI we decided to introduce them! The first two days were a bit odd, we kept Charlie in an enclosure for the first day and let them slowly get acquainted with
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    each other's smells but they kept batting at each other's hands through the enclosure so we let them at it after 3 days and they've been great friends since. They're both able to keep each
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    other entertained while I'm at work, and they started sleeping together after the first week (although Charlie keeps trying to steal Louie's wet food '). Currently Charlie is
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    around 10 weeks old, while Louie is just over 4 months old. They're both keeping up with their vaccines, and they're both perfectly healthy! Now onto the rest of Charlie's original
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    family. In my original post I mentioned that we suspected there was one other kitten. We now know Charlie was part of a litter of 4 kittens! One is orange/white, one is almost pure white, and the other is a grey/white tabby (although its hard to
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    see the tabby from the pictures, he looks grey tbh). We named them Nigiri, Onigiri, and Unagi respectively. As for the mom, one of my friends said to name her Itamae, so thats her unofficial name now. Honestly I
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    ROB We SHIP
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    don't understand how she was able to feed 4 kittens so well in the wild so props to her for doing some amazing cat parenting. We originally attempted to trap all 4 of the remaining
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    cats (the 3 kittens and mother) 3 weeks after we rescued Charlie (the week after Halloween). We were successfull in trapping Onigiri and Nigiri, but Unagi was much more cautious. We waited for 8 hours after trapping the original two, but
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    then mom swung by and started meowing for her kittens. Unagi was then able to elude our capture and ran off with the mom. Unbeknownst to us someone else in my apartment complex was feeding Itamae
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    (the kittens were too young at the time to leave their den). About a week later we tried trapping Itamae and Unagi again, and ended up catching two full adult cats, one of whom was Itamae. It
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    was at this point we realized there was a cat colony on our hands with at least 3 stray adult cats at our apartment complex, as we had noticed a completely separate adult cat as well. At this point we realized we didn't have the time,
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    resources, or traps to fully deal with the adults (especially since Charlie and Louie had racked up a few thousand in vet bills at this point). We originally wanted to at least get Itamae spayed but she escaped from her trap, and
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    has not been fooled by our traps since. Since then I've been leaving food and traps out for both Unagi and Itamae in the hopes that they'll randomly step into one, but so far our efforts have been fruitless.
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    Itamae has gotten smart enough to eat food from the trap without stepping on the pressure plate, and Unagi doesn't even want to go near the traps. I haven't been able to talk with the person feeding Itamae (and
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    now Unagi since it's old enough), although I will keep trying. We'd like to rescue Unagi at least since it's fully weaned off mother's milk now to get them all fixed up, but if it doesn't get trapped then there's not much we can do.
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    Unagi doesn't leave the den often (if it even lives there at all anymore) and none. of us have the time to monitor Unagi 24/7. It definitely has fleas at least, and with the winter season coming/already here I'm a bit worried
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    about its survival. Thankfully winter here doesn't get too cold normally (30's at the lowest), but with climate change who knows what's gonna happen. Hopefully I can talk to the person feeding them to organize a trapping
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    day soon. I also can't confidently say I've seen Unagi recently so hopefully it's still alive. It's made it this far so I have hope. Anyways, after trapping Onigiri and Nigiri, we found out that Onigiri (the white one) is a girl,
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    while Nigiri (the orange/white one) is a boy. Nigiri was always the curious one: he'd be the first to leave the den, first to explore new areas, and first to eat any food we left out. Onigiri was almost like his baby sitter: she would hiss and
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    bat at anyone who tried to touch Nigiri, and would follow him everywhere he went. As soon as we caught them we realized they were a bonded pair, and we didn't want to separate them. Additionally they had fleas when we
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    first trapped them, and Nigiri looked like he had an eye infection. Because I didn't have the space in my apartment, we took them to a friend's house since he also had experience with cats and lived locally
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    (and he had a house, so he had plenty of space for them). They were quarantined off for about two weeks, and just started being introduced to the rest of his cats. Originally we wanted to take them to a shelter, but no
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    shelters had space so he's been fostering them for the time being until we can find them a home. I know this is long asf so thank you if you made it this far! My friends and I really appreciate the
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    support from my last post, apparently yall loved it so much even a news reporter picked it up and wrote an online column about it I'll finish off this post and the photo reel with two pictures of Charlie screaming at me because I was 2
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    milliseconds late making his breakfast.
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