Cats in villages (at least, in converted villages) have a chance to spawn inside grass path blocks and farmland. This makes it extra hard to find and free them, or to kill them in order to make them relinquish beds they've claimed (see MCPE-44299). It doesn't happen every time, but it's fairly common.
I have provided a sample world where two cats have spawned inside two grass path blocks very close together. When you open it (in 1.11.0.9), you will be at coordinates -1408, 74, -428 and there will be two gold blocks floating beside you. They mark positions where a cat has spawned inside the grass path block below them.
Steps to reproduce:
Open a 1.10 world in which a village was generated in 1.11.0.9. (It might also work in a new village generated in 1.11.0.9.)
Run the command /kill @e[type=cat].
Wait for some cats to spawn. (You can check with /testfor @e[type=cat,r=64].)
Keep killing any cats you can find with a weapon.
Eventually, you will either hear a cat but not be able to find it, or cats will stop spawning on the surface. Run the command /execute @e[type=cat,r=64] ~ ~ ~ setblock ~ 90 ~ gold_block.
Look for gold blocks above grass path or farmland. Each will probably have a cat that spawned inside the block.
Expected result:
Cats spawn only on the ground or on roofs or other solid blocks.
Actual result:
Some cats spawn below ground inside grass paths.
Additional reproduction steps:
In a converted village, manually kill all the stray cats you can find. Repeat as replacements spawn. Eventually, you should hear a stray cat but not be able to find it. Dig 1 block deep around the area the sound is coming from and you will find it.
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ShinyMooTank
I’m having the same problem. I generated a new world for the new update (1.11). Cats keep spawning under dirt path blocks. It quite annoying when they cry non stop...
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I have the same issue in 1.11.1, I freed about 7 cats trapped in blocks the other day.
Auldrick
After watching a YouTube video, it appears that cats will also spawn inside glass blocks, so presumably they will spawn inside any transparent block whether or not it's a solid full-size block.
The video also claimed that iron golems will spawn in glass blocks, but it didn't show an example of that.
[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay)
Create a village in a flat world
Replace the grass in the area with grass path blocks
Wait for cats to spawn (they may not be visible due to the bug!)
Auldrick
Today I found a cat that had spawned inside a fence post that was part of a well in a pre-V&P village. It was pinned and unable to move off the block, though it did respond to me trying to feed it raw salmon. Strangely, it was making breaking particles with the texture of the cobblestone beneath it.
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Windows 10 PC v.1.15.0.55 and 1.15.0.56 Betas.
Seed: Coastal Village (-1813740965); Survival Mode; Normal Difficulty; Infinite Size; world created in Beta v1.15.0.53.
Cats spawn inside grass / path blocks. I kept hearing meow sounds, but I could not find a cat(s). I began breaking grass and path blocks where I heard the meow sound, out popped a cat and then another a few blocks away, see above video.