Omaha woman’s cat vanished during a bathroom remodel — three weeks later, faint meows made her freeze when she realized where they came from
An Omaha resident, Jan Robinson, had contractors in her home to lay tiles in her bathroom. However, once they finished their work, she realized that her cat, Ellie, was nowhere to be seen. She assumed the cat must have escaped until three weeks later, when she began hearing faint noises of a cat meowing.
Jan had finished getting her bathroom tiles reworked when her cat, Ellie, went missing. Robinson's first assumption was that her cat must have run away. However, after three weeks, she discovered the horrifying truth. "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," she told KETV. One fine day, Robinson began hearing meows when she realized that her cat had not run away, but indeed was trapped between the walls. "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," she said.
She soon posted on Facebook, urging someone to come forward and help her. Robinson was losing hope of rescuing her cat, since the bathroom tiles had already been laid. However, Garrett Conn, along with American Rooter Plumbing, came to Robinson's house and decided to get into the rescue mission. "Not necessarily on the bingo card for that day by any means," the plumber shared.
He drilled a hole into the bathroom tiles and inserted a sewer inspection camera, where they were able to find Ellie's eyes glowing in the dark. Fortunately, the cat owner was able to reunite with her beloved feline, but what surprised her the most was how the four-legged kitty survived without eating for so many weeks. She said, "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."
This isn’t the first time a cat has been found stuck in an unusual place. In another incident, a stray cat became trapped behind a wall. When Lacy Days heard strange noises coming from inside her wall, she searched her entire house for the source. With no other option left, she decided to puncture the wall to see what was happening on the other side. She asked her friends to help cut it open. At first, what they found looked like a giant dust bunny, until they saw it breathing and realized it was a cat. The man who cut the hole hesitated to touch the animal, but Days gently stroked it and moved it into a kennel.