Escaped kitten found safe, sound
Published: February 16, 2007
After nearly a week of search and rescue efforts including thermal imaging by the Roanoke Fire Department, Tigger the fugitive cat has emerged from the ceiling at a PetsMart store.
As she had frequently done since Monday, when she found out the kitten disappeared, Ruth Hendrick arrived at the Valley View Mall store before it opened to try to find him. Then, around 8 a.m. Thursday, she heard something in the wall, said her husband Gary Hendrick. She and a PetsMart employee looked into a crack with a flashlight and voilá — the cat was there, stuck between the walls.
Tigger hadn’t eaten for a week but was not hurt, said Gary Hendrick.
“He’s okay,” Gary Hendrick said. “A little hungry and thirsty, but he’s okay.”
Last Friday, the 5-month-old cat apparently jumped three feet onto another cage and climbed into the ceiling, later falling down in between the walls. To get the cat out, the store’s manager, Byron Wentworth, had to knock holes into the wall, said Gary Hendrick.
Ruth Hendrick then reached in and grabbed the kitten — now, she will not let him go. The Hendricks have decided to permanently adopt Tigger, whom they had been raising before taking him to the PetsMart Luv a Pet Adoption Center.
“Tigger is coming home to live here forever,” said Gary Hendrick, who lives with his wife in Craig County. “What else can you do?”
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