Cat Found After Two Weeks In Car Engine

[icyfroth]

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.

[karliandjacko]

OMG! Poor, yet strangely lucky cat.   😄

[viewmont1071]

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

[debra9275]

😞 poor animals

that was one very lucky kitty Icy

[izabsmiling]

wow.It's amazing the cat was alive 

[punch*drunk]

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.

[lakeland27]

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.

[punch*drunk]

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.

[lakeland27]

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

[polksaladallie]

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.