It wasn't quite the cat-up-a-tree cliche, but it was something near-enough that gave a Wellington fire crew a memorable call-out for the long weekend.
At around noon today, firefighters from Thorndon Fire Station responded to reports of a cat trapped in a wall cavity at a Wadestown home.
The crew arrived to find the stricken feline had somehow got itself stuck in a cavity in the kitchen - and couldn't claw its way out.
"It turned out it had just climbed behind a built-in kitchen unit, so we just removed the fridge, lifted up the floor of this unit - and out popped the cat," senior station officer Andrew Walker said.
"There was no great dramas - the cat came out that fast that it gave us a bit of a fright, but other than that, it was all fine."
