A woman captured her attempt to rescue her trapped cat, leading to outrage over alleged negligence by maintenance workers during her apartment’s renovations, sparking demands for legal action and support from people on the internet.
A cat owner, who goes by “Jay” on social media, took to her TikTok page to expose the terrible discovery she recently made.
Jay uploaded a video on Sunday (March 10), which has since gone viral, amassing 2.4 million views, captioning it: “I really can not believe the maintenance team patched my cat into the freaking wall!!
"Soon as I walked into my apartment I heard him meowing & scratching at the wall."
Woman filmed her attempt to rescue her trapped cat, sparking widespread outrage over alleged negligence by maintenance workers
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“I feel sooo bad he was probably so scared.”
In the video, Jay appeared to be desperately cutting her wallboard with a knife while her cat stuck his paw through a hole in the wall.
Jay managed to safely free her pet; however, she was visibly fuming over the situation, claiming that maintenance workers had sealed him inside the wall while they were doing renovations to her apartment.
Many people were left horrified at Jay’s video, with a person commenting: "THIS HAPPENED TO ME."
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“An HVAC company trapped my cat in the wall, and when my husband told them and asked for help they told us to get a new cat! I lost it.”
Another TikTok user wrote: “They absolutely knew. People treat cats so bad and it breaks my heart.”
A separate individual chimed in “I would’ve had a lawyer involved THAT day, I don’t even understand like how.”
You can watch Jay's viral video below:
On Monday (March 11), Jay went on to upload a follow-up video on TikTok, this time showing various issues currently troubling her residential area, including her kitchen sink and counter lying in the middle of her living room, an open trash bag full of moldy drywall, and unstable suspended closet and pantry doors that could “fall off and hit [her] on [her] head.”
Jay had also recorded herself confronting her property manager, where she admitted she had a “hard time believing” that her cat getting stuck in the wall was an “accident.”
Such incidents are more common than one might believe.
In October 2022, TikTok user @AshlinHadden posted a video showing her home renovations, which took a harrowing turn after she realized her pet cat had been accidentally trapped inside a wall in her bathroom.
“As I’m sitting here trying to figure out where my cat is, I can hear the cat crying from somewhere in here,” she said in the TikTok video at the time, as per The New York Post.
According to the pet owner, her contractors had pulled out the bathtub and put in the new shower before the cat had seemingly snuck in when they were cutting the wall.
“I ended up punching a hole in the wall and out comes this,” she said, gesturing towards the cat.
Jay's video continued to anger viewers
