Posted on 02/28/2016 11:27:38 AM PST by BenLurkin
A cat was reunited with its owner Friday after a harrowing 8-mile journey in which the feline was trapped in a vehicle's bumper, traveling just inches from the roadway in San Diego County.
The 5-year-old lynx point Siamese cat had crawled inside the front end of a vehicle before an unsuspecting person went for a drive on Wednesday...
The driver traveled about 8 miles, from the Santee to Grantville areas, before a bystander noticed the cat hanging headfirst out of the bumper, just inches from the ground.
The bystander then flagged down the driver and used a crowbar to free the cat.
County Animal Services officials then took in the cat, and although it remained a bit jumpy the day after the incident, they said "amazingly" it was fine.
And "thanks to a microchip," the cat was reunited with its owner - who lived near the parked vehicle - on Friday,
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
A cat was jumpy but "amazingly fine" after becoming trapped in a vehicle's bumper while it traveled about 8 miles in San Diego County on Feb. 24, 2016, animal services officials said. (Credit: County of San Diego Department of Animal Services)
kitty ping
Poor guy, glad to see he was united with his family
I am less than one mile from Grantville. That whole ride was up a mountain and back down with very few stop lights or very much traffic. It is a pretty smooth unobstructed drive, thank God!
Why cats *need* nine lives.
Wow.
The ride up on a bicycle must be a gut buster and down must be a total blast.
Safer place to be than outside certain restaurant.
Mission Gorge Rd.,
Yup.
I acquired one of our kitties when I worked at a fairly remote location. One of the staff came to work and came and got me and told me they heard strange noises coming from the car’s engine compartment. Of course it was a cat, who had ridden non-stop maybe 35 miles or so. Nobody could locate an owner at the origination point, so she came home with me, maybe 13 or 14 years or so ago, and has been a great member of our cat family. I have no idea how she survived that ride, and I’m so glad the kitty in this story fared as well as Cookie.
This is news? Cats often take a ride.
Love a happy ending.
Beautiful cat.
This is news?
If this was news — perhaps it would have been posted in news.
And not chat.
Maybe in your neck of the woods but this was an obvious case of autocatjacking........and the cat got busted.
No kidding. I had one that rode over 20 miles under the hood.
Awww. I am so glad that this story had a happy ending.
Oh that poor baby. :(. How was the cat? How did you know it was there?
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