emiliano, the big fat cat downstairs, mananged to get caught in the tiny space between our building and the house next door. it looks like he was able to crawl in over some wood and crap, but then as he went further down the space gets narrower and narrower, to the point where he was stuck and couldn’t get out. he could move his paws, but couldn’t really get any traction to push backwards, and he certainly couldn’t turn around. we kept trying to coax him to back out the way he came in or maybe come forward, but to no avail.
animal control came and tried to loop him with their little tool, but couldn’t get it around him. they suggested to either wet him or oil him down, to try and make him a little more slippery. so we doused him with water, which he hates, but all that really did was make him unhappy and wet.
convinced that there was no other option, animal control called the fire department to take the final option: cutting through the wall! i moved the land cruiser out of the garage, because my parking space was right next to where emiliano was trapped, and then they went at it, using axes and metal cutters to rip through the metal sheeting over the wall, and then pulling out the chainsaws to cut a sizeable hole through the side of the building right over emiliano, so that animal control could pull him out.
finally they did, although he really was quite wedged. voila! one scared, wet cat.
and the firemen’s response? “it happens far more often than you’d think.”
moral of the story: don’t let your cat get fat!
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