Posted on 05/18/2009 2:53:57 PM PDT by JoeProBono
MARION, Ark. - When Bubba the cat disappeared inside the home he shares with Cheryl and Phillip Albers, they knocked holes in walls looking for him, but he couldn't be found. Bubba's meows could be heard through the night last Monday, Cheryl Albers said, after he vanished following a visit from an air-conditioner repairman.
Bubba normally hides high atop a kitchen cabinet when there is a stranger in the house that he doesn't want to meet, Albers said. He wasn't there, however, after the repairman left.
Taking their cue from where they thought the meowing was coming from, the Albers cut holes in the walls of their dining room, their hallway and their closet. Then, they cut through the floor boards in their attic and ripped out insulation , all to no avail. The meows continued, but there was no sign of the cat making them.
Finally, on Thursday, the Albers called Roto Rooter.
"We're plumbers, not cat finders," Roto Rooter's Fred Simmons told Memphis, Tenn., television station WMC.
But using a camera-equipped metal snake to search between the walls, Simmons turned out to be a cat finder after all.
"We just run the camera down through it and seen two eyes," Simmons said.
Bubba had fallen into a hole in the wall at her favorite hiding place and got stuck in a narrow passageway between the cabinet and the wall. After putting one more hole in the hall closet, Bubba was set free.
"She's really good today," Albers said Friday. "She's eating and drinking and we're all happy again."
In typical cat style, Bubba snubbed the man who saved her life, but her owner couldn't be more grateful.
Simmons said Roto Rooter won't be charging the Albers for the hours spent looking for Bubba.
But Bubba's adventure won't be cheap , they still have to repair the damage they did to their home.
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Stupid cat... that’s a good way to get eaten by a snake... LOL...
I do like cats and cat pictures... :-)
LOL
That is soooo my cat.
Our cat got stuck in the attic one time, and it wasn’t the kind of attic where you could just walk in and get him. He stood there yelling at us, stuck in an alternate universe, until we coaxed him out with treats. After that, I taught him to come when called (he was highly food motivated), and unlike some cats who hear you call, take a message, and get back to you later, he would come at once. He was no dummy.
When I was dating Hubby 120 years ago, his mother had a cat who was a snake killer. But the cat couldn’t tell the garden hose from a snake. They’d pick up the hose to water the garden, and no water would come out of it for the holes. I don’t think he invented the soaker hose, but he implemented the concept.
My tomcat has made it his mission to keep the world safe from moths. Sleep well.
Happy story! Thx
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