9 Lives--(Cat Story)

[PA41]

On the way to work this morning on the freeway, a guy passed me in a crew cab PU, doing 80+ MPH, and a cat fell out from undernieth the bed/bumper. He did a 'flying squirel' thing--feet/tail all spread out, and skipping along on the highway, but not tumbling or rolling. When he got in the freshly mown grass on the sholder, he tumbled a little, then took off running!!! He might have been dead and not known it and running on adrenaline, but he didn't limp or stagger.

Kinda made my day--I guess almost anything can be survived..

PA41

 

[Arkansawer]

dang thats some good tuck and roll there. I hope it wasnt his personal cat.

 

[donsrods]

Ouch! Poor cat, but at least he survived the fall and traffic. Hope he finds his way back home. Cats have very strong homing instincts and somehow know how to get back to their home, even if dropped off far away.

Don

 

[Sam_Fear]

Ouch! Poor cat, but at least he survived the fall and traffic. Hope he finds his way back home. Cats have very strong homing instincts and somehow know how to get back to their home, even if dropped off far away.

Don

Got that right! Only one sure way to get rid of a cat.....

 

[42chevy]

They are tough animals and that is proof of that.

 

[CR55]

Wow, that probably took at least 4 of his lives away!!!..CR

 

[earthman]

I will see a kitten dead on the freeway once in a while. This probably explains how they get there.

 

[hotrod preacher]

cat-thought...."man that's the last time i take a nap there!!!"

 

[Tripper]

I saw a cat run across the street right as a big Ford 350 was going by & knew it was gonna get squashed. Instead it actually ran into the baby moon hubcap on the big monster & bounced back on the curb & ran back into it's own yard. I was so glad it didn't get killed right in front of my eyes but was pretty sure it had a head ache for a couple of days after that!

BoB

 

[LarryH]

I saw a cat run across the street right as a big Ford 350 was going by & knew it was gonna get squashed. Instead it actually ran into the baby moon hubcap....

I had that exact thing happen to me in my son's '67 Mustang. The cat ran out of a vineyard and i just knew it was gonna be "THUMP" but all i heard was a loud "BAM", looked in the rear view mirror and saw it flopping around on the road. Just as i almost got stopped it jumped about two feet straight up and took off in the opposite direction. It nailed the left front hubcap dead center.

All my son could say was "That $@&?%!# cat broke my hubcap".

 

[PA41]

I think the key to the cats survival was he was skipping on the pavement like a flat rock on pond. Long ago, I got off an MC at about 40 MPH, and did OK as long as I was just sliding untill I started rolling, then I took a beating .

That 9 lives reputation probably has some reason for being. Somehow they can be really durable.

PA41

 

[donsrods]

One cold morning I started my car and heard a screech from under the hood. Some neighborhood cat had climbed up under there to keep warm the night before. He took off running like, well like a scalded cat! I guess he was ok because the last I saw of him was his backside doing about a hundred across the yard.

I just saw a story on the Animal Planet about some cat in Michigan (I think) who walked into a paper mill next to his home and got shut in a container. The container was bound for France! 30 days later, after a long boat ride and then a trailer truck ride, the workers at the France facility heard a meow coming from the container. When they opened it up the cat jumped out.

It had a tag on it and the French guys called the owner in the States and said "your cat is in France!" It got a first class airplane ride back home, and was a little thinner after having had no food or water for 30 days, but was otherwise in good shape. The owners now keep it inside the house all the time!

Don