A colleague of mine was recently on a road trip in Alabama. He was headed to a town north of Atlanta GA and stopped halfway for gas.
“Hey, you got a cat in there?” the guy next to him at the pump asked.
“Huh?” my colleague said.
“There’s definitely a cat…open your hood,” the guy said.
Sure enough there was a kitten lying on top of the battery. It got up and scrambled into the engine somewhere. That’s when eight people tried for 45 minutes to rescue it, but it eluded them.
My colleague had a meeting he had to get to on time, so he closed the hood and kept driving.
Another 100 m
iles at 75-miles an hour he got to his hotel, and turned off the engine. He could hear the kitten crying. He drove to the local tire store where the guys spent a half hour taking the car apart, and after chasing a frantic kitten around the engine, they finally captured it.
That kitten deserves a medal for its bravery, tenacity and powerful will to live. One of the guys felt the same way. He took it home to his wife.
Calvin says, “Stupid cats. No dog in his right mind would travel like that.” 
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What a great ending to this story. I’ve heard of several times when cats crawled into engines to get warm, and were in just the right place that when the engine started, the cats were killed by the working parts of the motor. It happened to my husband once when he was living on a farm and had no idea there might be a kitten inside his motor. I’m so glad this kitty lived to tell about it.
Feral cats have a tenacity that is unequaled anywhere else. I was thrilled it survived and actually has a new home!
No power on earth or anyplace else would have got me to start the engine knowing there was a kitten in there! I’m so relieved it turned out well.
Feral cats have a tenacity that is unequaled anywhere else. I was thrilled it survived and actually has a new home!