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• In Buffalo, N.Y., firefighters helped rescue a cat that was trapped in the walls of a basement

• The 5-year-old tortoiseshell calico Freya has a history of getting trapped in walls

• The incident occurred while Freya was under the care of her owner’s daughter

A trapped cat spent another of their nine lives getting pulled from a wall for the second time.

On Sunday, March 29, a Buffalo, N.Y. woman called the Springville Volunteer Fire Department (SFD) for help rescuing a cat trapped in the walls of her basement.

“A call came in about an animal in the wall. Been in there for two days, and was wondering if there was anything we could do to help get ’em out of there,” SFD Chief Marc Gentner told WGRZ in an interview.

“They had no idea how it got in there,” he added. “When Phil got in there, we looked around the entire basement. There were several places it could have went in, how it would have got down in that, in that corner where it was, I have no idea. I’m guessing it fell down in between the studs or something.”

Freya is a 5-year-old tortoiseshell calico who has a knack for getting into things, but not for getting out of them. Previously, Freya was rescued from a wall as a kitten, but apparently learned little from the event, getting stuck in a wall again five years later.

For the second, more recent rescue, Freya managed to elude the SFD, who busted through one of the basement’s walls to reach the cat, for a while, because of her “small” body, according to WGRZ.

“We did try a thermal imaging camera, and it would not pick up the small amount of body heat from the small cat,” SFD firefighter Phil Drozd said. “So we found out where it was, isolated a small area of drywall to be cut so we wouldn’t ruin the person’s whole walls, and it worked.”

“Once we got that out of there, another one of our firemen got in there and grabbed the cat out,” he added.

Jessica Tallant, who was cat-sitting Freya for her mom, was looking after the cat at her own house when the incident occurred. She noted that it is unclear how Freya found a way into her walls, as none of her personal cats had managed the same feat.

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Drozd noted that the rescuers were careful about where to cut into the wall to avoid accidentally hitting something important while looking for the cat.

“The house has been remodeled numerous times over the years. My concern was if we were going to hit more plumbing. We saw some plumbing there,” he said. “There were electrical wires there, so we really had to watch ourselves. You don’t know what’s behind some of these houses.”

Thankfully, everything worked out, and now Freya is free to stretch her legs once again. Only the hole left in the wall and the photos from the rescue tell the tale of what happened to the calico.

“Thank you to the Springville Fire Department for coming here and saving my cat from our basement wall not how I expected our Sunday night to go, but they’re heroes. Thank you so much, guys,” Tallant posed on Facebook, along with photos of Freya being hefted from inside the walls by a firefighter.

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