Cat Survives 150 Miles Riding IN CAR ENGINE

[matcom]

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ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. -- For Tracker, the car ride from the Kalamazoo area to Rochester Hills was long, and could have cost him a life or two.

The long-haired gray cat rode unseen in the engine compartment of a female college student's car as she drove home for the holidays. Officials at Pontiac's Michigan Animal Rescue League, the feline's current home, say he probably survived the 150 mile-trip in the Chevrolet Tracker because the woman did not stop.

"He was very lucky," Patricia Verduin, the league's board president told The Daily Oakland Press of Pontiac.

Verduin said when the woman, who declined to give her name to the league, reached home "she heard this intense kitty-crying."

"She thought she'd run over a cat," Verduin said.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2003/12/23/cat_rides_150_miles_in_cars_engine_ok/

[UrbScotty]

1. WOW!

Right here in Michigan!

[WoodrowFan]

2. then he's not done

then he's not done, pop him back in!

[Xithras]

3. Engine compartments really should be sealed better

Sadly, stuff like this really isn't that uncommon, though most cats aren't lucky enough to survive the experience. In the winter, cats like to sleep in warm places, and car engine compartments foot the bill nicely. They're warm, dry, out of the wind, and off the ground...alley cat heaven on a cold winters day. I've personally killed two cats this way, and it's heartbreaking to know that they died simply because they wanted a warm place to sleep.

[underpants]

4. My wife had a NOVA that a squirrel lived in in college

She was in college not the squirrel.

She didn't drive the car much but one day when she got in it suddenly the squirrel wents nuts and was running all around the outside of the car.

That cat was lucky.

[commander bunnypants]

5. Yea with the way she drives

Larf

DDQM