Woman Buys Used Couch and Finds Cat Living Inside

SPOKANE, Wash. – The mysterious mewing in Vickie Mendenhall's home started about the time she bought a used couch for $27. After days of searching for the source of the noise, she found a very hungry calico cat living in her sofa. Her boyfriend, Chris Lund, was watching TV on Tuesday night and felt something move inside the couch. He pulled it away from the wall, lifted it up and there was the cat, which apparently crawled through a small hole on the underside. Mendenhall contacted Value Village, where she bought the couch, but the store had no information on who donated it. So she took the cat to SpokAnimal CARE, the animal shelter where she works, so it could recover, and contacted media outlets in hopes of finding the owner. Sure enough, Bob Killion of Spokane showed up to claim the cat on Thursday after an acquaintance alerted him to a TV story about it. Killion had donated a couch on Feb. 19, and his 9-year-old cat, Callie, disappeared at about the same time.


We all need to take advice from the animal world in these tough economic times. The cat most likely got laid off, and instead of begging for a stimulus or slitting his wrists he got resourceful. He turned a ratty, possibly bodily fluid encrusted couch into a home. My guess is the cat had about 60 grand invested in Tuna, which stock has plummeted. Kudos to the woman and her boyfriend for finding the cat, but it must've been an awkward few days with the boyfriends "Did you just grab my ass?" accusations (Night at the Roxbury style) at his couch. So the woman now takes the cat to an ANIMAL SHELTER! The cat is probably like "I just survived a god damn week in a couch, with no food mind you, and now you are bringing me to a shelter? I'll take the couch actually. KTHXBYE" Shelters are a death wish. And who the hell is Bob Killion of Spokane? I seriously would be afraid if I was his child. Didn't the fact that no one was meowing around his house for a few weeks register in his mind? He must have been walking around his house like "Didn't there use to be a... nahhh nevermind". That's Washington State for you though.

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