“We have to do something”: a man saves a kitten stuck for four days in the partition of an apartment in Vénissieux
|Le chaton était bloqué depuis plusieurs jours (illustration). Unsplash – Kote Puerto
Un chaton a été secouru ce vendredi 6 septembre 2024 alors qu’il était bloqué dans la cloison d’un appartement de Vénissieux dans le Rhône.
A sixty-year-old resident of Vénissieux, near Lyon, did everything he could to save a kitten stuck in the partition of his apartment, where it had been stuck for several days, meowing incessantly from the bathroom wall.
After contacting several people such as the fire brigade, the town hall, the caretaker and the landlord, without success, the man decided to turn to the regional daily Le Progrès. “We have to do something, even if it means breaking down the wall”, worries the sixty-year-old. Thanks to this approach, Alliade Habitat, the lessor, finally agreed to intervene.
A fall at the origin ?
On Friday, September 6, 2024, two agents were sent to his home, located on the first floor of a fourteen-story building. They made a hole in the toilet wall, thus freeing the kitten. "A 1.5 meter by 1.5 meter opening is created in the partition to allow the cat to be extracted. Then it is immediately plugged back in", the landlord confirmed.
The one- or two-month-old feline, hungry, rushed to the food offered by the resident. How the kitten got stuck in the wall remains uncertain, but the resident believes he may have fallen as a result of plumbing work being carried out on the sixth floor of the building. "The main thing is that he is okay", the man said.