I love it when cats are smarter than people.
Posted on 08/11/2007 6:10:06 AM PDT by Daffynition
DENVER, CO -- Tonya Payne says she has run out of ideas.
The Colorado landlord has been trying to clean up a mess left by one of her tenants for nearly a week.
That mess includes Freddy the cat, who's now hiding in the wall of her rental home.
She has tried to tie a piece of dried cod on the end of a stick.
He did not bite.
She has placed a trap in front of the hole in the wall.
He went in, tripped the trap, but somehow managed to escape.
"I've even tried to call in an animal communicator," she said.
The "communicator" has not called her back.
Freddy just does not want to come out of the hole.
"I'm really at a loss," Payne said.
On Wednesday, Payne even put a request out on Craigslist to see if anyone had any "bright ideas."
Her phone has not stopped ringing, but Freddy has not stopped cowering.
So Payne has decided to ask for even more assistance.
Should someone want Freddy and have an idea to get him out of his predicament, she says she is willing to give the person free cat food for a year.
Payne is leaving food and water behind for Freddy every night.
He appears to be all right.
However, he is truly scared and he does not want to leave.
I love it when cats are smarter than people.
Ping - remember when Druscilla got “walled in?”
Kitty ping!
Seal the house, buy 15 or 20 of those bug fumigators, and light them inside. Problem solved. (Some redecorating may be necessary).
While stationed in Germany many years ago, we lived in base housing apartments which consisted of three floors and a common basement. If I could remember correctly, there were 12 units, thus 12 families in each building. My daughter’s two hamsters got loose, and were in the walls.
I had to alert the 11 other families that if they see little rodents in their quarters, it might be our hamsters and not mice. We never did recover them!
Not a particularly good idea.
A decaying cat somewhere inside the walls doesn’t smell very nice, and can be surprisingly difficult to locate.
You missed the joke. There would be no walls left standing under my plan.
“My daughters hamsters got loose just days before we sold our house and moved out. I have often wondered how that played out.”
LOL!
My three-legged gerbil (the other gerbils had performed an amputation on a broken and dangling leg) escaped and was not seen for weeks. We finally found him in a bucket in the basement that had been used for tie-dyeing.
He dyed blue.
Mrs VS
How about a cask of amontillado?
I hear cats in walls like that, if they can’t find a corpse to gnaw on...
Mark
In Before T3h C3iling Cat Pix!
Borrow a live-capture trap from the local animal shelter. The only food put out should be in the trap. The cat will be trapped when hungry.
Alternate solution. Get a dog that is small enough to get into the space but large enough to “worry” the cat (perhaps a Rat Terrier.” The dog should chase the cat out.
However; if the dog and cat both refuse to leave the wall...
"...so then we sent the camel in to get the hippopotamus out, but..."
LOL ... sounds like a DIY gone awry!
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