Neighbor 1 : No one lives there but the light turns off and on itself sometimes
Neighbor 2 : It smells like a rotten dead body..
Neighbor 3 : I'm not sure which smell it is..
The informant reported that she knows the truth behind the scary gossip
Informant : I don't know how but, a cat came into my hair salon before
According to the informant, the cat came into the hair salon eight years ago but she's never seen the cat ever since then
Informant : I think the cat is in there PD : Where? Informant : Inside over there
Where the informant points at is a space which looks like a door
PD : What is this place?
Informant : It's a room for a septic tank of the restroom. I think the cat is in here
It's full of lots of things and a septic tank
It's assumed to be the cat's hideout
The cat's fluffball is found indeed
Informant : Every morning I can confirm the cat eats the food I placed the day before
That's how I know the cat's been here for eight years
Since that day from eight years ago, she's never seen the cat
but she believes that the cat still lives here as the food is gone and feces are left
The cat can leave whenever he wants through this open door, but he never leaves
So the cat voluntarily lives in a hideout for eight years..
Install a camera to check if the cat lives here
After a while...
Spot something's moving under the storage room
Found the cat who has been running away from people for eight years
Informant : Oh my, he's coming out! Neighbor : Whoa he's so big. As big as a dog..
Informant : He really is big..
After coming out from the storage, the cat hurriedly eats
Then he stares outside..
Then he turns and goes back to the storage room
The way he moves is very careful
It's understandable that he's never seen by people for eight years
The crew checks the back of the septic tank with an endoscope camera
I can see hairs and feces.. But I don't see the cat now
The cat definitely went inside here but he's not seen.. Does he really live in here?
PD : He's probably going back and forth to other places?
Informant : I don't know if there are other spaces he can go
Maybe there's a passage inside..
Store building management office
Officer : There's a space below the exit in the front
The cat probably comes and goes through that space
PD : But there's no way out behind that? Officer : No PD : Are there any pipes that goes outside? Officer : No
This exit door is the only way he can go out
Excpet for when he's out to eat, the cat's been stuck in a tiny space all day for eight years..
He could be abandoned or kicked out by other cats
I guess he came this far to find food
We cannot know what exactly brought him here
Eight years ago on that day, a little kitten came into the hair salon as if he was chased by something
Informant : His height was about 10 cm? Anyway, he was very tiny
I can't remember exactly since it's eight years ago, but he was tiny anyway
He couldn't even open his eyes properly
He was so tiny that I thought he would die soon
The cat who came to the salon hid in the storage room to avoid people
That's how his secluded life began..
and eight years have passed until 2018
Why did he lock himself in the dark storage room?
Is it possible to live in a hideout for eight years?
Vet : When cats are in heat and during their youth from age 1 to 4
they leave their home
He can also leave whenver he wants through the open door, but his personality stopped his instinct
It's mysterious..
Because it's not easy to do so
Suppressing breeding instinct to lock himself in a hideout is almost impossible
Why has he voluntarily been hiding in this room?
Vet : There are danger of accidents and cats' fights outside
No one would try to harm her or invade his space if he only stays in the storage room
The storage room he chose to avoid dangers outside has become his private and safe hideout
But he needs to stop hiding in such place due to its poor conditions; no ventilation at all inside the room
The rescue team looks inside the septic tank room where he stays
The rescue seems difficult due to its narrow space
Team Leader : Eight years in there? Informant : Yeah, eight years Team Leader : Ha..
Decide to rescue the cat with a trap cage first
Place the trap cage in where he usually comes to eat food
and wait for the cat to appear
The cat's out / Is he? / Yes
The cat gets wary of a strange thing
He's very wary of it
Knowing that he has been hiding from people for eight years so far, he must be very careful now
Still doesn't let his guard down..
He goes back to the room in the end even though he's starving
He didn't come out until morning comes
As he has been in this room for eight years, he fears about a new thing
The fear is so strong that we need to plan out to rescue him
There's only one way
which is to take him out from the septic tank room with hands
The cat's here
Deep inside the tank room,
The cat's crouching
Poking him to come out
PD : He's coming out
Rescue success
Seeing his face up close in eight years. So cute
PD : We got him Informant : Nabi~ So big! How have you been? So good to see you
Informant : He is so pretty. I'm seeing him in eight years
Informant : Hope he leaves such poor environment and makes new friends and live in a place where there's sunshine and fresh air
That afternoon, in a vet hospital
He receives a medical examination
Vet : Fortunately, her health levels regarding liver, jaundice, kidney and calcium are all in a normal range
Her bone density is fine when she couldn't get enough sunlight
Also, he had been fed well regularly
Otherwise, he could have a health issue
But his health is fine
He'll need to practice how to get used to outdoor conditions while being hospitalized
Vet : He'll be hearing people and smelling other animals while he stays here
Once he realizes that no one harms him but nurses him here, he'll open up his mind
Although everything is strange to him still
we believe he will open up his mind and start the second chapter of his life <3