"They're in the walls!"

The Matrix is one of my all time favorite movies. At one point in the movie, the bad guys are chasing the good guys through an abandoned apartment building. Up the stairs they go with the good guys running up ahead of them but running out of floors to climb up. 

Suddenly, the good guys are gone! They're hidden somewhere and eventually they are discovered hiding in the walls.

Living in the country naturally invites mice to move in. Try as you might, it is really difficult to find the tiny holes that they climb through to get ... into the walls! Yes, we have had a few mice running around in our basement. Sometimes you hear them but often you don't. 

They stick to the basement because we have two attack cats who chase them around and there seems to be some sort of truce. Mice stay in the basement and the cats leave them alone.

We had a lovely dinner tonight with Krista, Tucker, Kathy, and I enjoying a very nice lasagna that Tucker had prepared. Krista had told us about her day at work when we heard something ... on the roof? Maybe it was in the ceiling?

We checked outside and we checked inside and could not find anything!

And then we heard it again! It was bigger than a mouse or a rat ... and then there was a meow that came from the walls! Followed by another meow from the walls. 

We searched all over and Kai'a was definitely inside the walls! 

We tried a rescue from outside but no luck. Finally, I cut away a piece of wall in the bedroom closet upstairs and was able to pull her from inside the wall. She purred away in Krista's tearful arms and then turned around as if to go back in and chase another mouse!!

Here is the mystery that I will have to solve this weekend ... where is there a hole big enough for a CAT to climb into?