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john in la

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A barn cat had 2 kittens about 6 to 8 weeks ago.
This past week 1 went missing. Figured it got eaten by a opossum or hit by a car.

Today my wife pulls up and she has the kitten. I ask her where did she find it. She tells me at her girlfriends house; that is 6 miles away from us.

Only thing we can figure is it was up under the car or in engine compartment and went for a unwanted ride.
 
Cats will hitch a ride in the engine compartment. I hauled a cat 30 miles to town and the cat was sitting by my car when I finished my business.
 
When I was a lad there was a chicken processing plant in my small town---our only industry. Fairly often some chickens would escape when the trucks were unloading.

One day my uncle stopped by the house coming back from town. After he'd been there a while we saw this chicken pecking around the yard. The chicken was an escapee from the chicken plant, and he had hitched a ten-mile ride in my uncle's truck, trying to make a clean getaway. Bad choice. Out of the fire and into the frying pan, as the saying goes.
 
Went to go out one winter night and when I started my truck something went clunk, clunk and cat ran out. Got down the road aways and the truck overheated, checked and fan belt was off. Cat had jumped belt and gone through slowing fan but was ok. Lucky cat!
 
Wife had an appointment and I could not coax the cat off the diff housing so we figured the cat would jump off after a short distance when she drove away. When the wife came home the cat was still sitting on the diff housing. Must have been a fun ride.
 
Yes, bet it hitched a ride.

Once we drove to a town 30 miles away. Got out of our pickup and heard a howl/growl. Looked underneath... one of our kittens was there!

It was so freaked out that we could not catch it. It hissed at us and ran away. But I guess riding 30 miles in the engine compartment at highway speeds would freak me out too.
 
When I was in high school many years ago, my dad had an old chore car that we used to run from farm to farm. IIRC, it was an early 60s 4-door Galaxie. Usually, it sat with a window down and had empty grain buckets in it. I hopped in the car one morning and took off for another farm and made it about a quarter of a mile away when suddenly there was a wild cat in the car that went bezerk. I guess it finally realized that it did NOT like a car ride. I rolled the passenger window down and was slowing down at the same time. The cat saw an open window, but instead of jumping on the ground, it realized the car was still moving and crawled up on top of the roof. So at this time the car was barely moving and I had my arm on top of the roof trying to get a scared cat off of it.
It must have been hilarious, because I look ahead of me about 50 yards on the road and I see my brother with his car parked, watching me and splitting a gut. Don't you just hate it when you do something like that and somebody just happens to see it?
 
Several year's ago son was driving 25 mi. to work. Pulled up to 4 way stop in town and saw cat running. Thought, that looks just like our cat at home. Never thought anymore about it until about a week later his daughter ask him if he had seen the cat. Thinking, he said, yes I have, he is a town cat now.
 
Back in hot rod days, got about 20 minutes from home (warming up under the hood) & noticed a kitten peering out of hood scoop at me. Looking for cool air, I guess.
 
We remodeled out kitchen about three years ago. The contractor parked his van in our driveway with the back doors open while he worked.

Friday evening, after he left for the weekend, we noticed a couple of young cats we had were missing. They were missing all weekend.

Monday morning the contractor returned to work on the kitchen. A little while later, we noticed our cats were back. Did those little critters spend the weekend locked up in the contractor's van? We'll never know.
 
(quoted from post at 10:37:36 06/16/13) We remodeled out kitchen about three years ago. The contractor parked his van in our driveway with the back doors open while he worked.

Friday evening, after he left for the weekend, we noticed a couple of young cats we had were missing. They were missing all weekend.

Monday morning the contractor returned to work on the kitchen. A little while later, we noticed our cats were back. Did those little critters spend the weekend locked up in the contractor's van? We'll never know.
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f he has a working nose, he will know! :shock:
 
Years ago I had a little white cat and my mom would work midnights and the cat would crawl up in the engine compartment when she parked. Well one morning dad and I got in the truck hit the key and that cat came shooting out like lightning. He got a new name "Bobby". Tail was only 3/4" long after that.
 
I had similar problems. My 98 Silverado had a tray for a 2nd battery unused since it was a gas. I had one barn cat determined to keep her kittens there. I made it 20 miles to work a couple times with them under there. The most eye popping moment once was I went through the drive thru at a Burger King and could hear them under the hood. It was a hot day and I had the A/C on. I opened the hood, pulled them out, and the lady in the car behind me had eyes the size of dinner plates.
 
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