Monday, July 27, 2009

Just Listen To That Engine Purr

And I do mean purr.

From WSAW-TV in Wausau:

A curious kitten in Wisconsin found an unlikely way to travel more than 1,000 miles.

It apparently lived in the engine of a car for a week. Steve Johnson was the kitten's so called chauffeur. He believes the kitten crawled into the wheel well while he was at a grocery store in Indiana. He says a shopper told him a kitten was on his tire. But when Johnson checked, he didn't see anything. It wasn't until he stopped in Madison to get an oil change that he discovered the mini passenger under the hood.

"I opened the hood, all of a sudden I see a cat just sitting there, between the firewall and the engine block," says Brandon Stachowiak, Smart Motors.

"As I walked out to my vehicle, a customer came over and said, 'Don't start your engine,'" says Steve Johnson.

The kitten appeared to be fine. An animal adoption service is working with the Dane County Humane Society to eventually place the kitten up for adoption.

I wonder how many of its nine lives it used up in that trip.

2 comments:

  1. That's more common than you'd think in rural Wisconsin. Cats and kittens like to sleep in engine blocks because of the warmth they may still have. As a kid, one of my cats took a similar ride and ended up getting dropped off at an aunt's house when the car came to a stop.

    The next week it spent walking the 2 miles back to my parents' house.

    True story.

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  2. Oh, I know it happens. When I was younger, I used to work at a small animal clinic, and many cats who thought a nice, warm engine block was a good place to nap. Unfortunately, many of them had to be put down due to the severe injuries they suffered when the car was started.

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