This happens more often than many people think. The local news within the last few days had one where they got the cat out of the engine compartment of a car, and immediately it scrambled into the engine compartment of one of the police vehicles, so they had to drag it out again.
We had cats when I was kid – way too many cats, in my view – and lost about six of them this way over my formative years. In all but one case, at least one fan belt was knocked off its pulley. The only one to survive the ordeal had his tail “rearranged” such that is made an almost 90° turn to the cat’s left side, which made for an hilarious look whenever he walked with his tail “up” and twitching.
This reminds me that in those days, almost every single rotating apparatus under the hood of a car had it’s own belt, with some A/C compressors having two. You could lose one belt and all of other components would still function, that is unless the lost belt took one or two others with it. Nowadays, it’s pretty much a single serpentine belt which, if lost, results almost in a car-no-go situation due to the lost function of the water pump.
When i lived in San Antonio while I was in the USAF, we had an indoor cat. One day someone let our cat out of the house. He was gone for a couple of days. Then one morning we found him on our front step. He was badly cut up. I think he was trying the trick of getting into the engine area of a car and when the owner started the car, he was slashed three times deeply across his body. The vet fixed him up and told us he wasn’t sure how much longer he would live. About a week later while the family was away from the house I found him in a closet. He was still alive but his body had gone into rigor mortis. I stayed with him for a couple of hours until he finally died. I got him out of the house and buried him before the family came back home.
blunebottle over 6 years ago
And you thought it was just your muffler howling.
Troglodyte over 6 years ago
Well, they did say they’d put a tiger in my tank!
Nyckname over 6 years ago
Imma guess that noise under the hood wasn’t a purr.
biz.gocomics over 6 years ago
Heh, that’s (sort of) how we got our cat!
BWR over 6 years ago
Always tap on your hood before you start your car.
Lyman Elliott Premium Member over 6 years ago
This happens more often than many people think. The local news within the last few days had one where they got the cat out of the engine compartment of a car, and immediately it scrambled into the engine compartment of one of the police vehicles, so they had to drag it out again.
Marblemouth over 6 years ago
I had to clean one of those out of my sister’s car once. It was really quiet by then.
Raider Red Premium Member over 6 years ago
We had cats when I was kid – way too many cats, in my view – and lost about six of them this way over my formative years. In all but one case, at least one fan belt was knocked off its pulley. The only one to survive the ordeal had his tail “rearranged” such that is made an almost 90° turn to the cat’s left side, which made for an hilarious look whenever he walked with his tail “up” and twitching.
This reminds me that in those days, almost every single rotating apparatus under the hood of a car had it’s own belt, with some A/C compressors having two. You could lose one belt and all of other components would still function, that is unless the lost belt took one or two others with it. Nowadays, it’s pretty much a single serpentine belt which, if lost, results almost in a car-no-go situation due to the lost function of the water pump.
robert39503 over 6 years ago
When i lived in San Antonio while I was in the USAF, we had an indoor cat. One day someone let our cat out of the house. He was gone for a couple of days. Then one morning we found him on our front step. He was badly cut up. I think he was trying the trick of getting into the engine area of a car and when the owner started the car, he was slashed three times deeply across his body. The vet fixed him up and told us he wasn’t sure how much longer he would live. About a week later while the family was away from the house I found him in a closet. He was still alive but his body had gone into rigor mortis. I stayed with him for a couple of hours until he finally died. I got him out of the house and buried him before the family came back home.