A cat hitchhiking in a car wheel well? That's one sneaky interstate trip.
Posted on 12/12/2009 7:53:38 PM PST by myknowledge
A man says a three-month-old kitten apparently hitched a cold, 200-kilometre ride in the wheel well of his SUV.
Marc Lichty left Olympia, Washington, after finishing a day of work on Wednesday. He heard meowing when he stopped at a rest stop along the way home but couldn't see a cat, KPTV-TV reported.
When he reached his home in Tualatin, Oregon, he heard the meowing again and grabbed a flashlight. Sure enough, he says, "the cat was up underneath in the spare tire spot."
Daughter Jenna helped coax the passenger out with a bit of salmon.
Lichty says he can't imagine making that trip at 70mph in this week's subfreezing temperatures.
The family called Olympia businesses in the area where he was working on Wednesday but didn't find the kitten's owner. The animal had no collar or microchip; the Lichtys say they'll keep the kitten.
A cat hitchhiking in a car wheel well? That's one sneaky interstate trip.
Good thing it wasn’t a moose.
8 lives left.
Viking kitteh, didn’t even lose one.
Which model is that, KITT-10?
guess the kitty saw someone it liked and was determined to make a home together :-).
My aunt’s kitten in Cortez Colorado hitched a ride underneath our car when we left her house. The cat lasted about 15 miles and then it hit the eject button at 65 miles an hour. Sooo... no more kitty.
Last spring, I was on my way to a pet store, when I heard a truck meowing in the parking lot. I looked inside; no cat. I went around to the truck bed, which was covered and therefore unlikely to contain a cat. My son finally looked down and saw a little face peering out of a hole in the front bumper. I couldn’t pull the cat out through the hole, but my son managed to reach underneath and pull the kitten out from the back.
I took the kitten into the pet store, and said I had found it in a car bumper. The clerk explained that the store didn’t have facilities to keep a kitten, but that there is a no kill shelter I could take the kitten to. A customer in the store came running over, asked if she could hold the kitten, and then promised she would take him to the no kill shelter the following day.
He was dirty from the bumper ride. He had fleas. He was a little tabby, about 6-7 weeks old. That woman cuddled him, saying that she wasn’t ready to get another cat since hers had died two years ago. She asked what she could do about the fleas, and if it was safe to bathe him... Somehow, I strongly suspect the kitten never made it to the shelter.
Reminds me of this crazy story I read in a newspaper in Darwin Australia last summer:
Ghan ... but got forgotten
A TOURIST has survived a terrifying train ride in which he clung to the outside of the legendary Ghan in the freezing dark as it hit speeds up to 110km/h on its way to the Territory.
Chad Vance, 19, frantically pursued the train after missing it, managing to climb on and squeeze himself into a tiny stairwell as The Ghan raced for almost 200km through the night.
“I was worried I wasn’t going to survive,” Mr Vance said of his ride on Thursday, May 28. “If I’d fallen off at that speed and hit the nasty-looking rocks below, I don’t think I would have made it.”
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/06/07/56735_ntnews.html
Damn cats...
We had a kitty show up that same way. Where got on no one knows.
Kittens are like Zero: It’s all about me!
Observation by the “Senior staff member under training” by THE Brat kitten.
That is a name that should always be earned!
My cat jumped out of the window in Knoxville, TN and I thought she ran away for 2 hours until I saw something fuzzy between the cab and bed of my truck. She was clinging to my truck, unable to get back in the truck, she was going to ride outside. That was a smart cat!
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