Kitten Survives 275-Mile Ride Next to Car Engine

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[Tarpaulin]

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German couple was shocked after a 275-mile car journey to discover a surprise stowaway cowering next to the engine of their car -- a 6-week-old kitten.

The meows of the tiny animal only became audible after Elisabeth and Dieter Gesehl had parked their car.

"First of all we called the police as we feared for a moment that we must have run over and seriously injured a cat," the 64-year-old woman from Eggenfelden told Bonn express newspaper.

After checking under the hood, however, they discovered the unharmed kitten. The animal, which the couple have since adopted and named "Pussy," was soon back to normal after a few minutes of petting.

[Petronski]

Ohhhhhhh nooooooooo!

[Lockbar]

Too bad for that snake, seriously. No animal deserves that.

[najida]

I felt the same way (sad to look at).

[Muleteam1]

In the past 42 years of driving, I recall doing this to a couple of cats and even one pack rat.

Muleteam1

[coloradan]

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[dware]

I once killed an entire family of kittens over the course of several weeks in this manner. Of course, it wasn't on purpose, and dealing with a kitten caught in a serpentine belt is not in the slightest bit fun, so now I make sure to honk the horn or bang on the hood before firing the truck up.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

When my Dad was a young man, he was a mechanic at a gas station just off an Interstate highway.

He'd find cats under carhoods quite often and take them home with him. I think Grandma had half a dozen cats in various states of dis-repair and healing at any given time, LOL!

[Range Rover]

That would be a "former" Ball Python. Python regius (also know as Royal Python) are a relatively small and docile specie of snake, which are native to Western and West-Central Africa. They are native to Togo, Benin, or Ghana. They are called 'Ball Pythons' because, when frightened, they coil around their head and into a ball.

[trickyricky]

Nothing more disturbing than killing a cat in the fan belt

You can say that again. I came out one morning and started up my truck and heard a "BONG!",
and the truck just cut out. I lifted the hood and the belt was off, and a little brown, white, and black
calico kitten tail was sitting on the alternator.
She was below on the ground dead as a doornail.
I assume her tail got caught in the belt and whipped her around,
and knocked her brains out on the alternator. (thus the underhood "BONG!").

[martin_fierro]

(nudging t_s)

See? Literary.

(actually, "The debt to pleasure" is waiting for me at the library)

[el_texicano]

"I think it was James Bond who named the pussy."

Wasn't that name "Pussy Galore"...

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Yes, here full formal name was Pussy Galore.

[bk1000]

It's funny now(sort of), but it was a hideous disaster at the time. They kept it from the young daughter for quite a while. Everybody freaked out. Couldn't hear any meows, so nobody thought much about something in the dryer. Poor kitty!

[el_texicano]

I remember hearing that in the movie the first time and nearly fell out of my seat....ppprrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[MeekOneGOP]

After checking under the hood, however, they discovered the unharmed kitten. The animal, which the couple have since adopted and named "Pussy," was soon back to normal after a few minutes of petting.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Works every time.

[Rebelbase]

Similar thing happened to a friend's neighbor. They had to use a pressure washer to remove what was left of the the cat from the engine.

[Lady Jag]

[MeekOneGOP]

:^D

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe! :^D