The Furnace Fiasco

So have you ever....
     come home from a 2 hour trip to the grocery store and heard meowing, frantic meowing from every vent in your home?

We THOUGHT the cat was locked in the closet, in the laundry closet, in the kids room, stuck under a bed, in the coat closet, under the stairs, under the couch.

Nope.

Let's replay a list of things that we did before we went on the expedition:
             Put clothes in the attic
                  Not there.
             Did Laundry.
                  Not there.
             Cleaned the fridge.
                  Not there.
             Moved the couches.
                  Not there.
             Took a shower with fresh soap from the pantry (it was the best...oh wait)
                  Not there.
                          She was also:
                                Not outside, in any closet in the house, not in any cupboards, not trapped beneath anything, no stuck inside of anything.

Oh my goodness we changed the filter on the furnace!!!!

Yep, she was there....wedged between the filter and the air intake on the other side of the wall.

Face palm. Thank goodness she wasn't stuck on the business end of that thing.