04:40 PM CDT on Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Associated Press

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DALLAS -- "Miss Kitty" is free at last after spending who-knows-how-long trapped inside the wall of a new house.

Mike Brown's family had lost track of their beloved ten-year-old, longhaired cat. They say more than two weeks passed with no sightings of the one-time stray.

Fliers were posted around the Browns' Dallas neighborhood, appealing for information on their missing cat. But there were no leads.

But they were walking around a house under construction nearby when they heard a faint "meow."

They contacted the builder, who broke through the wall -- and there she was, seven pounds lighter, but alive.

Brown says the builder said the wall had been dry-walled about eight days before.

Brown says Miss Kitty probably used up five of her nine lives that time. "She's got about four of them left."