Where's Ruby?

Last weekend our cat disappeared for about 36 hours. I remembered seeing her outside and assumed that she was out having an adventure and would return home by night time as usual. She did not. We called for her but she did not respond.

 

We wondered about her all day Sunday and I looked for her during my jog Sunday evening. She was no where to be found.

 

Late Sunday evening Wifey is in the basement checking on some laundry when she hears a distinct cat's meow from somewhere in the basement. She called me inside (I was outside tending a little campfire) and asks me to listen.

 

"Ruby?" she calls.

 

"Meooww," a cat answers from in the basement.

 

Where is she? Was she stuck in a wall somewhere?

 

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