Firefighters rescue kitten stuck in wall of Florida home

[the_mother_thing]

A little kitten needed the help of firefighters over the weekend when it got stuck in the wall of a Florida home.

Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue showed up to the house Sunday after homeowner reported hearing meowing inside the wall.

“It was a stray that either the mother cat carried into the attic to keep it safe or gave birth up there and this one just wandered,” deputy fire chief Timothy Heiser told ABC News. “We get a lot of these. The shelters are all overloaded so a lot of our guys adopt them. Cats and dogs."

Firefighters were able to use thermal imaging to find where the kitten was hiding, and eventually had to tear a hole in the wall to safely remove the tiny feline.

“They’ve got all the tools they need for cutting stuff up,” Heiser told ABC. “The owner was more than happy to let us cut a hole in the wall. They found the little guy in there. They didn’t know how long he was in there for.”

The kitten was later taken to a local no-kill animal shelter for adoption, according to ABC.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/28/firefighters-rescue-kitten-stuck-in-wall-florida-home.html

It looks like a tiny precious kitten version of my Muffin.

 

[DAF]

How uncanny!

 

[MJ_Mac]

Is this a sign? Does Miss Muffin need a sibling ?

 

[AGBF]

I hope the kitten will be OK.

 

[the_mother_thing]

Is this a sign? Does Miss Muffin need a sibling ?

I would adopt that kitten in a heartbeat, but I suspect there is already a long line of applicants. I just found the story of the rescue sweet, and the crazy resemblance to Muffin so ironic.

 

[AGBF]

Until recently I never saw tiny kittens without a mother. I posted about the two I saw and got some advice here (although they were not under my direct care). I will never forget that one died, however. I had not thought that it would happen, given that the kitten was being fed. It is devastating. Now that I see this little one supposedly rescued, I cannot feel that it is safe.

Deb

 

[bunnycat]

Until recently I never saw tiny kittens without a mother. I posted about the two I saw and got some advice here (although they were not under my direct care). I will never forget that one died, however. I had not thought that it would happen, given that the kitten was being fed. It is devastating. Now that I see this little one supposedly rescued, I cannot feel that it is safe.

Deb

It does happen all too often. It's called fading kitten syndrome, and I almost lost one of mine (who are now grown) to it when I was fostering them. Kittens are prone to it until about 8-9 weeks old. I fostered my pair from 4 week old bottle babies (they had been orphaned) so I was heavily invested in not letting this happen, but it's a familiar story to rescue groups, especially at this time of year, and very depressing.

I'm glad the kitten was rescued and I hope it makes it! I'd have done the same thing to get at it as fast as possible.

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