When Brian Moore's black cat went missing two weeks ago, he just assumed that Vinny had been the victim of a coyote or raccoon attack.
Little did he know that the cat had somehow crept behind the bathroom wall of his Port Coquitlam, B.C. home and became trapped while construction crews were repairing the wall.
Even when he heard rustling sounds coming from inside the wall between his bathroom and bedroom on Monday night, Moore didn't initially twig to the true location his cat.
He just thought the sound was a figment of his imagination.
"I thought maybe I was going crazy and then last night (the sound) was very abrupt and I heard it again for a solid minute," he said.
On Wednesday morning, Moore finally called his contractor and asked if it was possible for the cat to get into the wall.
"We were letting the wall air out for probably five hours," Moore explained. "In that five hour time, the walls were big enough for him to squeeze in and get under the bathtub."
After talking to the contractor, Moore ran home from work, grabbed a knife from the kitchen and began hacking at the wall.
Within minutes, he discovered the reason for the rustling sound and spotted the big eyes of three-year-old Vinny.
"My heart dropped. I was blown away," Moore said. "I can't even express it -- the feeling of regret but relief at the same."
Vinny was scared, but Moore managed to coax him out of the wall with food and water.
"He's an overweight cat -- and that's probably what saved him, to be honest," Moore added.
"The fact that he is safe and I have him, I'm very thankful for."
