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Cat Found After Two Weeks In Car Engine

icyfroth — Mon, 27 May 2013 12:22:29 GMT

It's the last place you'd think to look for a lost pet.

Two weeks after her owners noticed she was missing, Princess the cat was found emaciated and disoriented inside the bonnet of the family's car.

Julie Tansley, 40, had driven hundreds of miles around her home town of Nottingham and even taken her BMW through a car wash before a warning light on her dashboard began to flash. It was when she pulled over to check her car's coolant levels that she discovered her beloved pet wedged beneath the engine.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/17340172/cat-found-after-two-weeks-in-car-engine/

"She's alright now though, but she is really really thin as she hasn't eaten for two weeks, but she's happily eating and walking around as if nothing happened.
"Now we've got quite an expensive repair coming up, I don't know how but it seems she was so desperate to get out she clawed right through the hose.

'It has cost over £300 to replace that hose, so it's an expensive way to travel having your cat with you."

Cats just can't resist cars can they? I cried buckets when I was a kid my pet kittens used to love sitting on top the tyres on our visitors cars and they'd often get run over.

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karliandjacko — Mon, 27 May 2013 14:18:56 GMT

OMG! Poor, yet strangely lucky cat. 😄

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viewmont1071 — Mon, 27 May 2013 19:10:36 GMT

When I was apprenticed I had to go around to start a blokes shiny new HQ that he had tried to start but was scared too because "it made a noise like there was a chook underneath the bonnet".???

Sure enough I opened the bonnet and in the fan belt there was 2 mangled chooks... and feathers everywhere

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debra9275 — Mon, 27 May 2013 22:47:29 GMT

😞 poor animals

that was one very lucky kitty Icy

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izabsmiling — Mon, 27 May 2013 22:56:25 GMT

wow.It's amazing the cat was alive

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punch*drunk — Mon, 27 May 2013 23:01:51 GMT

My dad had a green tree frog living in his engine bay for a couple of years. It came home from Queensland with him one christmas, lived there through a Melbourne winter, went back to Queensland again, came back to Melbourne again for another winter and then back to Queensland to stay 2 yeras after first jumping on board.

Dont know what it ate or how it survived winter down here, or how it never fell out while he was driving around. Hardy little critter it was.

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lakeland27 — Mon, 27 May 2013 23:14:44 GMT

i think i've heard this story before, except in its first incarnation they had to pull half of the engine bay out .. as well as the dashboard etc.

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punch*drunk — Mon, 27 May 2013 23:41:37 GMT

i think i've heard this story before, except in its first incarnation they had to pull half of the engine bay out .. as well as the dashboard etc.

😮 I thought you meant my story. I know I've mentioned it on the boards before, but I couldnt figure out why anyone would think we'd have to pull the car apart to get a frog out :^O

I've heard stories of cats getting inside engine bays too. I dont think they normally survive for long though. They go for the warmth.

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lakeland27 — Mon, 27 May 2013 23:49:30 GMT

there were also a few python in the heater stories in the past.

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polksaladallie — Tue, 28 May 2013 01:52:18 GMT

My dad had a green tree frog living in his engine bay for a couple of years. It came home from Queensland with him one christmas, lived there through a Melbourne winter, went back to Queensland again, came back to Melbourne again for another winter and then back to Queensland to stay 2 yeras after first jumping on board.

Dont know what it ate or how it survived winter down here, or how it never fell out while he was driving around. Hardy little critter it was.

Now here's an idea to get rid of our cane toads. Pop a couple in each engine bay at the border.

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icyfroth — Tue, 28 May 2013 02:50:29 GMT

My dad had a green tree frog living in his engine bay for a couple of years. It came home from Queensland with him one christmas, lived there through a Melbourne winter, went back to Queensland again, came back to Melbourne again for another winter and then back to Queensland to stay 2 yeras after first jumping on board.

Dont know what it ate or how it survived winter down here, or how it never fell out while he was driving around. Hardy little critter it was.

that's funny!

:^O:^O:^O:^O:^O

Earns the coveted five laughy-face award

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jimmy*part4 — Wed, 29 May 2013 05:53:42 GMT

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icyfroth — Wed, 29 May 2013 06:24:55 GMT

:^O that blind dog needs a seeing-eye human it seems

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*new2vintage — Wed, 29 May 2013 06:34:18 GMT

Many years ago my oldest sister's cat was in the engine bay. She and her husband didn't know until the motor was started. I'll let you guess the rest.

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2106greencat — Wed, 29 May 2013 12:32:13 GMT

The cat lived happily ever after being treated like royalty and dining on the finest sushi 🙂

Don't spoil it for me X-(

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*new2vintage — Wed, 29 May 2013 12:44:29 GMT

Green cat is living with some nice fairies......

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joz*garage — Wed, 29 May 2013 14:05:58 GMT

Many years ago my oldest sister's cat was in the engine bay. She and her husband didn't know until the motor was started. I'll let you guess the rest.

did the car come standard with a belt driven cooling fan or was an electric type?

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*new2vintage — Wed, 29 May 2013 14:14:16 GMT

I think it was standard.