My wife called me at work the other night, very upset because on her way to work, she saw a tiny black kitten sitting in the rain in the middle of the street, and when she stopped to avoid hitting it and got out of her car, she couldn't find it anywhere. Her and another man who stopped looked under the car and all around the area but couldn't find it. They even checked the engine to make sure it hadn't ran inside there. Giving up, she told me she was going to continue on to work. She was very upset that she didn't know what happened to the kitten.
Well, about 10 minutes later she calls me back in a panic. She had made it to work and she heard a loud meowing coming from her car. Some of her co-workers helped her look in her engine but they couldn't find out where the kitten was. Finally, they discovered that the kitten wasn't in the engine at all but inside one of her tires. This poor little kitten had ridden on the inside of her tire for 6 miles! They couldn't get to it, so they jacked up her PT Cruiser and took the tire off to get the kitten out of there. Then one of the drivers took it to the emergency vet nearby and left the number of the store so they could call them back with any news on its health.
Well, it turns out the kitten survived the ride with only a few minor
scratches and she's going to be fine. The vet said she's about 5 weeks old and she weighs less than a pound. We are keeping her and she's going to be an indoor cat, so she won't have to worry about any more unintentional car rides.
