Cat trapped in wall for three weeks survives without food or water
By Pete Cuddihy
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OMAHA, Nebraska (KETV) — It’s a pet owner’s worst nightmare — one second, they’re with you, the next second, they’re gone.
An Omaha woman, Jan Robinson, experienced it firsthand when her cat Ellie went missing. Robinson was getting her bathroom remodeled. The day the contractors finished laying tile in the bathroom, her cat Ellie went missing.
She assumed Ellie ran away — until one day, three weeks later, she started hearing meows. It’s an instance where curiosity did not kill the cat.
“I couldn’t believe that she was alive after three weeks,” said Jan Robinson.
Jan Robinson’s cat, Ellie, went missing the same day contractors finished putting tile down in her bathroom.
“You could not have convinced me that she went into that bathroom. There was no way I believed that. I really thought she had run away,” said Robinson.
Robinson posted to Facebook, hoping someone would find her.
“Two weeks go by, and I’m thinking, oh man, I’m losing hope. Until last Friday night, which was three weeks after we closed up the walls and the floor, and I heard her crying,” said Robinson.
Ellie the cat was trapped in the wall, and her owner was worried time was running out.
“Everything’s tiled. It’s, you know, it’s pretty much finished back there. And how am I going to get to her?” said Robinson.
Garrett Conn with American Rooter Plumbing was called to Robinson’s house, tasked with something that wasn’t in his job description.
“Not necessarily on the bingo card for that day by any means,” said plumber Garrett Conn.
But he decided to become a hero, cutting a hole in Robinson’s wall and using a sewer inspection camera to look for Ellie.
“As soon as I started the camera, that’s when we saw the two glowing eyes. And I knew right then and there that Ellie was alive,” said Conn.
“How do you feel to be reunited with her? It’s so good, so good,” said Robinson.
It’s a story that may prove cats really do have nine lives.
“A cat cannot live three weeks without food and water. I mean, I Googled it, you know, and they said maybe four or five days,” said Robinson.
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