our Minnesota farm cats lost many a tail staying warm near the engine block in the winter, only to be de-tailed upon
start up. Once even had a cat get backed over by our F150
pickup.We couldn't find it and thought it ran off to die .
Went about 20 miles with the truck and came out of the burger place to find him fishing burgers out of the dumpster.
Damn cat had tire track marks on it's back, but other than
that, was ok.We think it rode under the truck on the spare.
Our late, great, Golden Retriever, Prior Lake Jake was less than a year old when we brought a long haired tom cat home to take on the meadow voles that had moved into our garage. Surprisingly, the cat tolerated Jake's "mothering" even when Jake would pick up the cat by his head and carry him around. After a three or four minute "carry," Jake would put the cat down and lick him thoroughly. Why the cat put up with all the slobbering and drool, I'll never know.