A couple of years ago on the day I moved to a new house, when it was time to put the cats in carriers for the drive to the new place, I couldn't find my boy Spotnose. Since all the furniture was gone already, there wasn't any place for him to hide, or so I thought. We finally found him hidden in back of the water heater in the closet. The only one who could reach him was my niece who is highly allergic to cats. The only way she could get him out was to pull him out by his tail. Poor Spotnose! And my poor niece had swollen eyes and was sneezing up a storm by the time she got him out.