Bizarre tale of Biso the #cat who got stuck behind Cairo train station wall for 5 YEARS

... after squeezing through hole as a kitten and growing too big to escape

• The cat was trapped behind the wall at Mohamed Naguib metro station 
• He survived thanks to a man Uncle Abdo, who owns a shop outside station 
• Uncle Abdo gave Biso water and fed him scraps through hole every day
• Thanks to a social media campaign, Biso the cat is now finally free 

By Khaleda Rahman for MailOnline

Published: 5 April 2015

A cat who had been stuck in a wall at a Cairo train station for five years has been freed at last. Biso had squeezed into the hole in the wall at the Mohamed Naguib metro station as a kitten in 2010 - but then soon became to big to escape.  He survived thanks to an elderly man named Uncle Abdo, who gave the trapped cat water and fed him scraps of food every day. 

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Biso the cat, who was stuck behind a wall in a Cairo train station for five years, has finally been freed

The cat survived thanks to an elderly man called Uncle Abdo who fed him scraps of food every day

Now, the feline in finally free thanks to a social media campaign, according to the Cairo Post.    Animal rights activist Mounira Shehata told the newspaper the smell when the wall was removed was 'heinous'.  She said: 'It was like a tomb. There were black worms along four meters of the edge, where Uncle Abdo was able to put in food for Biso.'

Uncle Abdo, who named the cat, said Biso would regularly hide from bigger cats in the hole, but one day, squeezed inside and was not able to come out again. He added that workers had tried to rescue the cat years ago, but a scared Biso had stayed behind the wall.  And Uncle Abdo even visited the station to feed Biso during the revolution in Egypt in 2011, when most stores, including his own, were closed. 

Uncle Abdo even came to feed Biso during the the revolution in Egypt in 2011, when his shop was closed

'I do it for God. What is for God does not go away,' he told Masr al-Arabia.

Biso's plight came to the attention of animal activists after a picture of the cat's tail hanging from behind the wall was posted on Facebook last month. 

A caption explained that the wall could not be broken to free the animal because it would be considered damage to public property.

The picture caught the attention of Ms Shehata and her fellow animal rights activists Marwa Elgebaly and Rania el-Kordy - who all decided to go save the cat on March 12. 

Staff at the station told the trio they would need to return a couple of days later, when a maintenance official would be able to help. And after Dina Zulfikar, an animal rights worker, filed a report at the Abdeen police station March 13, officers arrived at the metro station.

Biso's plight came to the attention of animal activists after a picture of his tail was posted on Facebook

But the terrified cat quickly ran off after his rescue from behind the wall at the Mohamed Naguib metro station

They told the head of Mohamed Naguib metro station, in downtown Cairo, of the prosecution order to rescue Biso. Workers were brought in to help - and the rescue mission took more than five hours. 

The terrified cat only emerged from the hole after one worker, named Amr, went inside to bring him out.  Sadly, Biso then quickly ran away before anyone was able to catch him. Uncle Abdo is still looking for him inside the station.   

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