25 Winfield Rd. — Street View Location Google Street View When a kitten went missing in a family home, the family's own live-in medical expert stepped in with equipment more familiar to a hospital procedure room than a toolbox. Dr. Benjamin Seides, an interventional pulmonologist, used a borescope and surgical tools to track down and free the family's kitten after it became trapped inside a wall of their home
Seides was at home with his family getting ready for bed when they realized their Russian blue kitten was nowhere to be found, according to NBC 5 Chicago . The outlet identifies the kitten as Neko, though a brief FOX 32 Chicago clip refers to the same cat as Nico, and the available reporting does not clarify the discrepancy
As the search continued, the family heard a faint meow coming from the basement. That sound led them to a troubling realization: the kitten had found its way inside a wall of their home by climbing into the ceiling through an unfinished area of the basement, the station reports
Rather than tear into the drywall blind, Seides turned to the same instincts he relies on at the Canning Thoracic Institute at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital. After drilling a small hole in the drywall, he inserted a borescope, a slender camera that the outlet describes as working similarly to the tools physicians use to examine a patient's lungs and airways,