Woman finds cat in used couch

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The mysterious mewing in Vickie Mendenhall's home started about the time she bought a used couch for $27.

After days of searching for the source of the noise, she found a hungry calico cat living in her sofa.

Her boyfriend, Chris Lund, was watching TV on Tuesday night and felt something move inside the couch. He pulled it away from the wall, lifted it up and there was the cat.

Mendenhall contacted Value Village, where she bought the couch, but the store had no information on who donated it. So she took the cat to SpokAnimal CARE, the animal shelter where she works, so it could recover, and contacted the media in hopes of finding the owner.

Bob Killion of Spokane claimed the cat Thursday after an acquaintance alerted him to a story about it. Killion had donated a couch Feb. 19, and his cat, Callie, disappeared about the same time.

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