This all started a few days ago when one of Jen's Cats, Andy, went missing. They futility searched the house, yard and neighborhood. Hoping he would just come home, 2 days pass. No Andy. That evening Jen is sitting in the living room alone, no noise and she hears Andy cry "Mew". She looks outside and all over and no Andy. She wakes Wade and he hears the cries. He in turn searches. He goes up stairs to the attic area where they are building on and is under construction, and searches. No Andy. They call the Police and the Animal Controll. They search to no avail and end up leaving with a Live Trap set with food in it, in hopes, Andy will inter and get trapped. The next day no luck with the trap and again they hear Andy's mews. Jen feels the mews are coming from inside the fireplace. But the fireplace and chimney had been checked. Now it is Saturday night and they are leaving to go on their Cruise in the morning. We are all distraught about this cat not being found before they leave on vacation. AJ & ME were talking about the situation and we decided we were going over to Jen's and "find that Cat"! AJ & Wade hit the attic and I tell Jen to look on the roof to see if maybe by some chance he was up there and could not get down. As she is outside she hears him mew and for some reason looks in the hole on the Patio that is the fireplace vent.....Low & Behold there is Andy! That Little Guy had got into the attic and fell down between the walls and was behind the fireplace.
He cut away some of the mortor between the bricks. And chisled, and pounded removing some of the bricks.
He worked on this quite a long while, untill the hole was big enough for Andy to come out or for an arm to be put in and Andy drug out. Well because of all the noise from the electric tool Andy was very scared and went to back corner where we could not reach him. Jen talked to him and put water and food inside and he would not budge from the corner. Again Jen call the Police and Animal controll and they had no luck getting Andy either. So we just ended up putting a dog crate in front of the hole on the Patio. If Andy came out of the hole during the night he could not run off, he would be inside the wire crate.
Well the timeline is now Sunday morning around 8:00. They are catching a plane at 12:00 to start the trek to Miami FL. to board the ship. The phone rings and it is Wade....the cat is still behind the firplace. He had never ventured out through the hole into the crate, during the night. Wade and AJ had talked the night before about Wade being lowered from the attic, down between the brick outside wall and the inside wall, behind the fireplace to where Andy was. So that was the plan. Up they went into the attic armed with a long heavy rope, a flashlight and a pillowcase. AJ then held the rope while Wade went down it. If you look right under the wood beam, you can see AJ holding the taught rope and bracing himself while Wade goes down. This young Man had alot of faith in his 65 year old Father-in-law. Jen's house has high Cathedral Ceilings. It would have been quite a drop if AJ had lost his grip.
Once Wade was safely down AJ held the light and Wade found Andy. He put the missing Feline in the pillow case.
AJ then got down over the hole in the attic......
and Andy was hoisted up. AJ then gave the Bagged Cat to ME and I carried it down stairs to Jen. At this point I had left Ground Zero, so I do not have documentation of Wade climbing back up the rope. But he made it up unscathed.
I took the knotted pillow case with Andy inside down to Jen. She talked softly to Andy the whole time she untied the case. He was very still.
He peek out ever so cautiously, like he was saying and now were am I? He did not run wild, he just walked over to the door that was shut....
that hold his food, water and Litter box. Jen opened it and he ran right to a spot that he Cat Naps in during the day. Andy was safe so now the Kids could all clean up, so they could be on the road, to the airport, to get checked in by 10:30.
Well as you can see by all the Happy Smiles they made it to the Plane on time.
Bon Voyage ♥
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