I just finished a very thorough sweep of the entire house. No sign of Carys

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5. Yikes ! We once had a cat worm her way into a hole in the drywall behind the dryer and fall down.

My dad heard her meowing and had to cut some drywall to fish her out -- she was too cramped to turn around.

My own cat, captured in the wild and spending her first night in the house, clawed through the heavy foil of the dryer vent hose and tried to crawl out through the vent, but it was blocked by a flap valve, and of course she couldn't turn around or back out. We had to tear up some carpet and padding and pry up a board at the bottom of the stair landing, and pull out the (stiff) aluminum tube she had crawled into. At one point, I used a rotary saw to cut the board so it was easier to access the vent, which ran under the stair landing. I'm glad I didn't have to use it while the cat was still trapped inside !!

(Glad to see you found her. )