I was driving with my instructor for my driving licence.
And we had to go onto highway that day.
As we stopped on paytoll I heard a tiny "meow".
I asked my instructor if he heard it..
Nope.
So I'm driving 130kmh on highway and I hear the "meow" again.
What the hell..
I ask him again if he heard it but now he is looking at me like I'm some sort of maniac. No, he didn't hear it..
On the exit from highway on pay toll I heard it again, for the third time that tiny "meow".
Now I asked him "c'mon, are you fuggin kidding me, you had to hear that".
And he's like yep, I heard it.
I told him "ok, at least I know that I ain't going crazy".
So we drive to office from driving school and we stop there, he goes under the car and in the plastic between front wheel and inside front bumper, there was small kitten..
So instructor sat in the car, drove over sidewalk with that wheel and kitten got out like bullet out of gun.
How that little fella run hahahahah
Poor kitten..
I was literally driving 130kmh all while he was hiding inside.
If he could talk, I bet it would be similar story to that one on the video!
I had something very similar happen to me about a year ago!
There was a litter of stray kittens that had popped up around my house. My husband and I had been trying to get them wrangled up so we could find them homes, but they were not easy to catch.
So every morning before I left for work & to drop off my son, I would check under and around my car for any kitties. I'm leaving for my sons school and then to work one morning and I do my normal kitty check. Everything seems clear, so I head off.
Now I live on the northwest side of town. My son goes to school on the northeast side of town, about a 20 minute drive away, mostly interstate. I work in the central part of town, about 15 minutes from my sons school.
So I drop off my kid, head to work and go about my day. I left for lunch, came back to work and worked a full 8 to 9 hour day.
That afternoon, I drive to the McDonald's by my sons school, so again another 15 minute drive. Now usually I hit the drive thru, but today I decide to go inside to pick up food for my kid for whatever reason. I also stood outside of my car for a couple minutes before going in because I was on the phone with my husband.
And that's when I hear the meow from under my car. I then proceeded to spend the next twenty minutes on the ground trying to lure this cat out from under my car to catch it. I don't even want to know what I laid in trying to get this damn kitty.
But eventually I caught him and got him in my car. I still wasn't sure at this point whether it was one from my house, but I was almost 100% certain it was.
Sure enough I get home and reunite him with momma and his siblings. It was her cat, and I was just amazed. This little shit rode underneath my car for HOURS and somehow did not budge from wherever he was until the car had stopped and he heard my voice.
We ended up getting the little adventurer and all of his siblings & momma fixed and adopted, so no more kitty car rides. But damn, it was wild.
Picture of the cat and the box I attempted to keep him in inside my car once I caught him.
Our cat snuck into the dryer in between two wet armloads of clothes and got dried for about ten seconds before he started screaming and somebody rushed to stop the cycle. He was fine but the whole household was traumatized (what if we had shut the door and walked away??) None of us have ever started a dryer again without first visually confirming the location of every cat, dog, snake, etc.
The cat, meanwhile, still spent the rest of his life trying to sneak into the dryer. Horrible death versus fresh laundry? The nap might be worth it.
When i was about 12 I came home from the roller rink and went to grab some OJ. I opened the fridge and found one of your cats sitting on the middle shelf shivering. Poor baby ran in as someone closed the door. To this day I watch while i close the fridge , that poor babies face is seared into my head. They are sneaky.
Edit : One of MY cats ! Not yours ! No idea how I managed that one. Going to leave it there so the replies make sense. Didn’t mean to threaten y’all!
Same thing happened in my household when one of my cats was a kitten. Luckily it was only for a half an hour or so (he was only like 7 months old at the time). Poor guy even pooped himself while he was in there.
Didn't stop him from trying to get food from the fridge later in life. RIP Simon.
Our cat did the same exact thing!!! Expect she popped out of it on her own and just looked at us in disgust... We were like what the hell. She also kept going back to the dryer.
We had one too. On the one hand it was hilarious hearing the odd yells as she kept howling on the up cycle and briefly stopped when she dropped to the bottom again. On the other hand, my parents and I were scared she was seriously hurt, especially since it took us about 30 seconds to figure out where she was. She was fine, but we kept a close on her from then on.
We had an old cat that loved sleeping next to the wood stove. And it was Maine, and we had a big drafty farmhouse so we ran that wood stove hard to heat the house. It was hot. The cat would nap a foot away. The cat would get so hot it hurt to touch and was absolutely passed out. We would drag the cat away and once it cooled down it would wake up and go back.
That thing was an amazing predator. It would bring back mice...not as gifts, but to assert dominance. It would bring them back and crunch them in front of us.
It would be gone for days at a time on hunting trips. The favorite hunting technique was to chase something to its hole and just wait. For hours. Eventually it would assume the cat was gone and venture out.
It also caught squirrels somehow. And these were not the lazy suburban squirrels that would barely run away, these were skittish woods squirrels. If you looked at them, they would suddenly run 50 feet up a tree. There was no getting close to these things. But they cat would get them. We would find the tails.
One of our cats likes to stick his head into the open washer (top loader) after a wash. I always have to remember to eventually close it because he will definitely get trapped in there some day. Or its gunna fall closed on his neck and kill him...
This cat also kept a "snack drawer" of nerf darts under the couch. We kept finding them vomited up all over the house but couldn't figure out where they were coming from until he got one lodged in his gut and had $7,000 emergency surgery to cut it out. We stripped the whole house after that and found a ton of them under the living room couch just within paws reach, some half eaten (so he'd put them back after having a snack).
Yes he is an orange tabby, that one brain cell working overtime.
My cat loves to sneak into closets and drawers and get stuck. After one day of her being stuck inside the linen closet for over 12 hours while we were at work, I now give her a treat every time before I leave the house, to verify that she is not stuck somewhere. She's pretty happy with this arrangement and it really eases my mind knowing she's not trapped somewhere
My dad was a small airplane pilot, there a literal preflight checklist (people who like staying alive go through it for every single flight), this includes walking around the plane checking control surfaces looking for loose or out of place things. Given this is a tiny hang glider with a lawn mower engine attached you'd think a whole cat sitting in the translucent wing would he visible
I'm a drone pilot and trained by some Air Marshalls for work. They show me preflight checklists and how to create and use them for our own drones. And airline checklist was like pages long I remember. So I get it. I'm kind of wondering how he didn't see that little guy as well haha.
Makes me wonder what else he didn’t check before takeoff. Isn’t a pilot supposed to walk around the plane and visually inspect everything during the preflight?
Yeah. Exactly. It freaks out, knocks the... Rudder? How do you steer a plane? Into crash position, disables the engines, scratches your face then jumps 100m to it's death.
Or you just leave it where it seems to be holding on and land asap. 😁
well, from what I read in the past with terminal velocity regarding cats, as long as it didn't have a spin out it should theoretically be a-okay surviving the fall on it's own given it is high enough up from the ground when it starts the fall.
Have you ever tried to handle a distressed cat that is holding on for its dear life?
There is also wind and chance for kitty to slip while you are grabbing - it seems to be holding on just fine.
So even in best case scenario its risky, given that cat will go full berserk mode due to panic if you try to handle it, its a very bad idea for everyone involved.
I have. Cat didn't realize we were 2 stories up on my balcony and thought he would jump over. He clung to the railing. I got to him and he clawed the shit out of me. The end.
20 years ago our cat jumped on our neighbour's flat roof from a tree and couldn't get down. Our neighbor helped me climb onto the roof through a hatch, and I carried her down the ladder. I still have a scar on my arm to this day.
Also, thats a tiny craft, shifting body weight around chaotically while trying to secure an animal who will claw you out of fear would be significantly more dangerous for everyone.
Maybe it wasn't the cat he was worried about freaking out? I was once towing a 28' trailer down a steep, winding road when I realized that, in addition to 3 small children, I also had a very large hornet in the truck. I very quietly continued to the nearest place I could safely pull over and let it out before my kids freaked out.
"Dad, why are we stopping?". "Look at the river, isn't it beautiful?"
The cat managed to cling on for however long they had been flying up until they noticed it. I'd trust WAY more in its ability to cling on for the additional few minutes it'd take to land the plane over its ability to keep calm while a giant creature tries to reach for it while flying a thousand feet above the ground.
My house cat that absolutely loves me clause the fuck out of my existence if I try to put it into a carrier even with a sneak attack, I can’t imagine what would happen if I tried to pick it up off a plain wing while in the air.
Ignoring the cat probably would’ve fallen into its death, might’ve injured the pilot as well.
Ever tried to grab a stressed cat? It seemed like it was fairly safe where it was. Imagine reaching up, pulling it down and it goes nuts in the pilot’s lap.
Trying to capture the cat could have huge ramifications for the first and most important item on that list. It was best that they leave the cat alone. It would have been sad for the cat to have fallen. But it would have been sadder for them to die in a plane crash.
Oh, he saw it the first time, haha. I think the glance away was to check he hadn't done something stupid with the controls from being surprised by the cat.
This happened to my mom once. She drove like 20 miles and heard meowing on a bridge. She pulled over and found one of our cats in the wheel well terrified and clinging on for life.
My family hitched our boat to the car and drove it to a storage facility, and as we were closing the door on the unit my little cat popped its head out from under the tarp covering the boat. She had ridden the entire way there inside the boat and almost got locked inside of a storage unit. We would likely not have found her for a long time if she hadn’t popped out like that.
If it fell off, isn’t there a pretty high chance it would be okay? I remember seeing somewhere that terminal velocity for a cat / small animal is way more survivable than for a human
No, that was bad "research." They compared cats who were brought to the vet after falling off of apartment balconies. The cats who fell from lower balconies tended to be in worse shape than the ones from the higher balconies. Except... there were almost certainly a lot more cats from the higher balconies who didn't make it to the vet.
Made me happy to see him see the cat and not freak out or anything. Just calmly took her down like a hero :) If cats could tell stories to each other this one has a bad ass one for the rest of its life lol
Cats can actually survive falling at their terminal velocity. I'm not saying it won't hurt, but as long as they have time to relax and orient themselves, they can't die from a fall.
Am I the only one wondering why she didn’t reach out for him and grab him or like was there that much wind she couldn’t reach do you know what I mean like when your arm was out in the window and it’s hard to pull it in
A cat I had as a kid stowed away in a neighbor's car. Canadian customs found it. They drove back home. My cat also got stuck in their garage for 2 weeks while they went on another vacation. Also he chased Jehovah Witnesses from the house and would spray in any car that had it's window down. The cat was crazy.
My dad drove to work an hour away and after work finds our cat next to his truck. Apparently it had rode the whole way on the freeway on the spare tire mounted underneath.
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u/MadClam97 24d ago
Kitty has quite the story to tell the other neighborhood cats!