I love it when cats are smarter than people.
I love it when cats are smarter than people.
Ping - remember when Druscilla got “walled in?”
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!
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...
Find the hole the cat uses. Make a one-way flap out of cardboard and duct tape. Place a bowl of yummy wet cat food as bait. Situation under control.
“Payne is leaving food and water behind for Freddy every night.”
I am thankful for that. Poor kitty. Some cats just can’t abide change.
I do hope that the Ms. Payne will get help soon for that kitty because by the looks of that picture, Freddy does looked very scared and wants out bigtime, alive. =^..^=
I took my cat to my daughters while we went on vacation one year. The bathroom closet door was open and there was an opening in the wall that went behind a big corner spa bathtub. Thats right where he went. My daughter put out food and water for him and after about 3 days, when the house got quiet at night, he came out. He made friends with her and she shut the closet and just let him roam the house till he settled down.
Just tell Freddy that Mrs. Swicker has a nice fresh piece of halibut for him. If he’s a movie fan, he’ll flee the wall and never go back! :-)
But seriously, was he abandoned by the previous tenants? If so, they they should be flayed, and their carcasses left for Freddy to feast on...poetic justice of the highest order.
Has Freddy been neutered? If not, maybe she could borrow a lady cat and have her sashay in front of the wall for a day or two.
We had a stray cat decide to crawl up one of our walls when we were putting in new dry wall in an old house. We had not put the baseboards back on, and the darned cat crawled up the wall. I don’t even remember why the cat was in our house in the first place. Hubby’s solution for getting the cat out involved cutting out the dry wall and making a chute straight to our front door. The cat, however, had no interest in being corralled outside. She jumped over the chute and ran upstairs and through every room upstairs. She pooped all along the way because she had been holed up in the wall for several days. Hubby was so angry!!!!!! Then the cat ran down the stairs and out the front door. She proceeded to walk calmly around the side of our house and to the back porch where she waited for FOOD. This is why the previous occupant of our house had shot and killed with his slingshot at least 37 stray cats. It made for a very fertile vegetable garden . . .