The cat’s tail hanging from a small opening in the wall (Picture: Help and Rescue Homeless Animals Facebook page)

A cat has been rescued after squeezing into a hole in a wall five years ago and getting stuck.

The cat called ‘Biso’ was apparently unable to extract itself from the cavity – which was in the Mohamed Naguib metro train station in Cairo, Egypt – and remained there for five years.

Biso, who got stuck in 2010, is said to have survived the prolonged entrapment because an elderly man called Uncle Abdo fed him scraps of food each day as well as giving him water.

Uncle Abdo said the cat had used the hole as a hiding place from bigger cats as a kitten – when he had also fed it – and it must have eventually grown too big to come out again.




A rescue attempt had been made several years earlier but the cat was too shy and ran off further into the gap behind the wall.

Here is Uncle Abdo, who looks after the cat ‘for god’, feeding the cat:

It was only when a group of women got involved and put pressure on the Help and Rescue Homeless Animals charity that the cat saw daylight for the first time.

The rescue started with a social media campaign, with this message posted on Facebook on March 12.

It shows Biso’s tail poking out of the hole.

Did you see it?

Here is the tail circled, just in case you missed it.

But nobody could get the cat out because knocking down the wall would be classified as ‘sabotage of public property’ in Egypt, the Cairo Post reported.

Eventually the social media campaign gathered pace after being picked up by animal activists Dina Zulfikar, Marwa Elgebaly and Rania el-Kordy.

(Picture:Help and rescue homeless animals Facebook page)

Zulfikar filed a police report and a couple of days later a prosecution order to rescue Biso was made.

On March 13 the wall was eventually removed and the cat rescued.

Here is that moment the wall came down.

And here is Biso hiding.

He’s all black with bright eyes.

Mounira Shehata, an animal rights activist who participated in the rescue, told The Cairo Post:

When we removed the wall, a heinous smell emerged from the dark hole, which was 15 centimetres wide and four metres long. It was like a tomb. There were black worms along four metres of the edge, where Uncle Abdo was able to put in food for Biso.

The cat is now free.