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.

[icyfroth]

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

[jimmy*part4]

[icyfroth]

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

[*new2vintage]

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.

[2106greencat]

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

Don't spoil it for me X-(

[*new2vintage]

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

[joz*garage]

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?

[*new2vintage]

I think it was standard.