Last night Blueberry, Jessie’s dog, was barking at a cat’s meow coming from outside of the house, so Jessie went outside to take a look for herself. Once outside she could hear Mr. Munchi Holiday, her little fat cat. (He lives inside all of the time… but maybe he got out?) She could not find him anywhere. Where was the noise coming from?
Jessie went back inside and opened the closest door, the closet. “Fat boy! Where have you been?” she exclaimed. She brought him some treats but upon further inspection noticed that Mr. Munchi Holiday was in fact stuck in the wall behind her hot water heater.

Now, Munchi hides a lot, so quite often he is not seen for days at a time. (If you really wanted to see him all you would have to do is set up a night vision camera by the food bowl…) But Jessie could tell that Mr. Munchi Holiday had been stuck for a long time by the way he quickly munchi-ed all the treats. She tried to grab him, tried to lure him out with treats… however, no matter how hard she tried, Jessie could not free him. She thought the only way would be to move the hot water heater, so she called Jess Y and her handy boyfriend Scott to see if they could come over the next day and help, “Maybe the cat will live until tomorrow,” she thought.
Not one to cross her fingers and wait, Jess Y and the handy boyfriend were on their way that night, tools in hand, ready for a late-night rescue. Yay!

After fiddling with the hot water heater, they realized it could not be moved, and Munchi had actually wiggled free from the heater, only to go further into the wall and get stuck under the bathtub.


This left only one other option: to cut a hole in the wall of her bathroom. (Much to the delight of the handy boyfriend, who seems to really enjoy breaking things, only to fix them again.)

The hole was cut and Mr. Munchi Holiday was freed. However, this morning Mr. Munchi Holiday went right back to where he had previously been stuck. Luckily, with the hole cut out of the wall, he can now get in and out easily. In fact, Jessie is thinking about making the hole permanent by putting up a door with hinges so that Mr. Munchi Holiday can get in and out whenever he pleases.
Or, maybe what really happened was that Mr. Munchi Holiday was searching for this guy after watching Stephen King’s “Cat’s Eye”. Who knows…

Filed under: interns, store diary, wall monsters by Brian
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