Yahoo News Family Rescues Young Kitten Trapped Inside Fireplace Vent Pipe
Family members pulled their house apart to rescue a young kitten trapped inside a pipe in a fireplace vent, at their home in Media, Pennsylvania.
Kass Whisler told Storyful her family realized a kitten was inside the fireplace vent, which was unknowingly uncapped, after they heard the animal crying out. Whisler said the family tried banging on the vent from inside the house, to see if they could scare the kitten out, but soon realized the animal was stuck.
Footage taken by Whisler shows her husband, Josh, and son, Nate, cutting open a metal pipe to free the kitten, after they knocked a hole in the wall to reach inside the fireplace vent.
The Whisler family decided to keep the kitten, after taking it to a local animal center, which assigned them as the foster parents.
“Since we found him on Memorial Day Weekend, we named him Murph after Lt. Michael Murphy. Our last name is Whisler, so we wanted a “D” middle name so his initials would be MDW (Memorial Day Weekend). We settled on Danger! Murphy Danger Whisler,” Whisler explained.
“Murph loves all of us, but he loves my husband most of all. And my husband has turned into a puddle when it comes to Murph,” she said.
“My son realized a few days later that he wrote “Another cat” on our grocery list. I had circled and checked it on the list. That was May 18th and we found Murph on May 26th!!! It was totally meant to be." Credit: Kass Whisler via Storyful
Video transcript
- It's all right, mommy.
[MEOW]
We're OK.
[MEOW]
When-- listen, when we see her--
- Oh, she's right there! Hi.
[MEOW]
- Oh, hi!
[MEOW]
- Careful.
- We're coming. All right, hold on.
- Hi.
- Hold on, baby.
[MEOW]
Oh.
- All right, so we need to cut higher.
- Yeah, she's right there.
[MEOW]
- All right, you're OK.
[MEOW]
Oh, baby! It's OK.
[MEOW]
Listen, when we get her, Josh, you get her because you have gloves on.
- Yeah.
- She's going to be really angry.
[MEOW]
- Yeah.
- [INAUDIBLE] We need to come up higher so we're not--
- Yeah. Excuse me.
- All right.
[MEOW]
- Then we have to [INAUDIBLE].
- Uh! I'm gonna pull this off. Hold on.
- You can start a different part right here. Just peel it off.
- I can just pull it. Hold it. Hold it right there.
Hold it right there. Hold it right there. Hold it right there.
- Hi.
- [INAUDIBLE]
[MEOW]
- You're OK.
[MEOW]
- [INAUDIBLE] I can't see her.
- She's at the bottom trying to get out.
- Yeah, hold on. Hold on.
[MEOW]
- [INAUDIBLE]
- Last one.
- Oh, my gosh. All right, come on.
- Can you pull this. Somebody grab her.
- OK, man, watch out. Watch out.
- It's the whole plate coming off.
- As the other one plops out.
- Hi.
- Hi, baby.
[MEOW]
- Here, put some string down for her to grab on to.
- All right. What? With our hands?
- Yeah, she's got claws.
- All right.
[MEOW]
Here, you hold this so he can say.
[MEOW]
- Come on. [KISSY NOISES]
[MEOW]
- Tell me we're going to have to go lower.
[MEOW]
- Come on.
- I'm afraid he's going to bite.
- Yeah, but you've gloves on, honey.
- Where'd you go?
- Nu-uh.
[MEOWING]
- [INAUDIBLE]
- Come on. Come on.
[MEOW]
- Come on.
- Yeah!
- Hi!
- Hi! Hi.
- We're your family! Honey.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Cutie. Oh. Oh, my goodness.
- Hold this.
- Oh, my goodness.
- Come here.
- Oh, my god.
- I think I'm your mom.
- Hi. I think we have to keep her.
- Ow.
- Hi.
- Any more in here?
- Oh, my goodness.
- Pick it up by its head.
- You're terrified. You had a hell of a day, huh?
- Ow!
- You had a hell of a day.
- Ow.
- Is it purring? Is she purring?
- She's terrified.
- She's--
- Where's that duct tape at?
- I don't know. I don't know. Oh, my goodness. Trey, Trey, Trey.
- Come on, let's take her out.
