In our bedroom we have a bedroom suite that as a corner piece that stands about 3 feet tall with some drawers in it and a large flat top that overhangs the drawers (so that the top will fit with the other pieces of the suite). On top of that corner piece is a TV. Behind the corner piece is a window, but the corner piece does not completely but up against it so there is a small amount of room between the back of the corner piece and the window.
What we found out is that the small space is kitty sized. 
One night Loki jumped from the bed to another part of the bedroom suite and walked down to inspect the TV. We put him back on the floor, but he just did it again. Candy said “I just know he’s gonna fall back behind the TV.” Which meant behind the corner piece. The next day I walk into the bedroom to get something and I see a furry face peeking out from a crack between the corner piece and another chest of drawers in the bedroom suite. Loki had fallen back there. There was actually quite a bit of room for him to move about back there. I called Candy in to help me get the crazy little cat. I could almost reach him, but he did not want to be picked up. Candy had to jingle a cat toy to get Loki close enough for me to grab him.
As I was trying to get Loki close enough to pull him out from behind the furniture, I noticed that he had almost been completely devoured by dust bunnies. He had dust and cobwebs all over him! After we extracted him safely, Candy brushed off most of the dust and cobwebs with her hand, then asked me to hold him. “Where are you going?” I asked, holding a squirming cat.
“To get a lint roller” she told me.
I was afraid that the lint roller would wind up pulling most if not all the hair from the poor kitty. but I kept my mouth shut. Candy came in with held lint roller and began running it briskly over the cat. Loki was not happy about this, but I don’t think it actually pulled any hair out. After short but vigorous session with the lint roller we let Loki go. Loki is fine, but we think (and maybe hope) that he is too traumatized to get back there again.
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