Posted on 12/22/2011 7:44:50 PM PST by smokingfrog
-- the smell of burning fur found him out
Eclipse felt more like a cat on a hot metal engine than a cat on a hot tin roof after her 200-mile journey.
The feline survived the four-hour ride sitting under the hood of a car before she was discovered by the driver.
Businessman Wayne Polk, 41, was traveling in his Eclipse truck through Ohio when he found the cat after stopping at a rest area and smelling something suspicious coming from the engine.
When he opened his hood, he found the large black and white cat sitting on the engine compartment with the right side of his body singed.
The cat - who they have called Eclipse - was taken to an animal hospital in nearby Lodi where a veterinarian said he was going to be fine.
Dr Linda Randall of Cloverleaf Animal Hospital, told Fox8: 'Eclipse rode 200 miles in the engine of a car holding on for dear life.
'As you can see, he is feeling pretty good, he's really friendly. He loves to play and I think he's going to be fine.'
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Oh poor kitteh..
:(
Next day, I picked up the kitten, and it was so glad to see me that it rode the entire distance home sitting on my shoulder.
My best guess is that it had gone to sleep in the "well" of the horizontally mounted spare tire under the bed of my pickup -- and was too scared to jump out until I stopped after driving over fifty miles at highway speeds...
Well, he's gone over Rainbow Bridge now. So's my wife. Sold the Vette to pay med bills.
We still have the cat door in the garage though.
I’m very sorry for your losses. Have you considered adopting another cat?
Aunt and uncle had had a ranch/farm in OK panhandle. Lots of feral cats around. They were constantly in the engine well to keep warm. They ate a lot of engine fans. The worst was going out to turn off irrigation pumps after dark. The rattlers were always out in spades.
This-time-the-kitty-got-the-zot ping
Them kitties. They is tough.
I’m so sorry for the loss of your wife and your kitteh.
You mentioned a cat door and that reminded me that we’d recently installed one on our barn, so the kitteh’s could get out of the weather if they wanted.
Right after we did that, someone broke into our barn that we’d just got done remodelling and let my 4 eight week old kittens loose. I found my big orange tigger kitteh eating the leg of his brother. never found that kittens body. I found a tigger female the next day, she’d went to the Rainbow Bridge, one ended up next door for a few minutes then onto the house across the street and I still have never found the 4th kitten.
Needless to say I was hysterical. My five year old son says quite often “ Momma, we need to get another kitten. Maybe Winnie will lay some babies”.
And he cries on occasion too , that he misses the kittens.
Really sad but two similarities .........orange kitteh and cat door.
I bet there is another kitteh out there somewhere that if you’d put some food out, would “adopt” you.
Blessings to you ~
Not really. I’m allergic (bad) so I can’t let them in the house. I’ll be happy to feed and care for any stray/feral though. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time for my kids to adopt a cat. ... or a muskrat... or moose... eeek.
We’ve got a blue healer inside the house. He thinks he’s a cat. Does that count?
We did inherit a tree squirrel who loves cat crunchies. He stays out back in the wood pile.
Well, maybe Winnie can lay a few more babies your way.
Thank you and bless you, and have a great Christmas.
It's a free country - he can be a cat if he wants.
We have three cats and live on five acres so have plenty of room, but spend most the winter inside. we could not get along without them.
Ewok the healer, as he prefers to be called, has been nominated to be my grandson. I’m not sure he’s aware of the implications, yet.
He has embraced the holiday spirit however. My children have adorned the white triangle on his forehead with pink Sharpie pen, as well as the formerly white tip of his tail. My engineering student son is fabricating an LED Christmas light collar for him as we speak...
LOL! Post pix, please!
What a wonderful, though sad, tale. Thanks for sharing.
Merry Christmas to you, Glock.
(BTW -Santa brought me a Ruger for Christmas)
He's pretty secure in his healerness, and appears comfy in pink :o)
Thanks, Gabz.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, and Happy Ruger!
Speaking of car engines, does anybody have an idea how to keep rats out of my car engine in the winter? Last winter a rat or something got in there and chewed through the wiring of my alternator, which I did not appreciate, though the mechanic was pretty happy about it. Now his cousin is back. (The rat’s cousin, not the mechanic’s cousin.) Tonight I found rodent poop on the battery. I sent my terrier and my larger hunting hound after him this evening but they had no luck. He laughs at traps. Ideas are welcome. I don’t want to pay for more work on the car.
By the way, my house, garage, and car are clean. I think he’s just coming in for the warmth.
Bait the rat trap with a small gob of peanut butter and one piece of cat/dog food on top. Gets em every time. They tend to run around walls, so put the traps against the wall in front of your vehicle, behind something the dawgs won’t get to...
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