MONDAY, JULY 9 Last Days' Sunny Side Up! edition kicks off with a heartwarming tale of natural enemies making friends, from the wilds of Victoria, Texas. That's where Mrs. Eunice Collins was running errands in her Chevy Tahoe when she heard the sound of a meowing kitten. "I thought I was going crazy," said Collins to the Victoria Advocate, but a gas-station pit stop confirmed her sanity, and revealed the stray kitten residing under her car's hood. Upon taking the stray kitten home, Collins named him "Tahoe" and kept him in a bedroom; four days later, she was shocked to see the kitten nursing from the family's 3-year-old longhaired dachshund. "I couldn't believe it," said Collins, who reports the dachshund feeds the kitten in the morning, at night, and after naps, with the nursing Tahoe purring and pawing at the dog's belly.
2007-07-23 19:25:33 · 10 answers · asked by zes2_zdk 3 in Pets ➔ Cats
"That's not going to happen very often," said veterinarian John Beck, specifying that the surprise arrival of the hungry kitten induced a false pregnancy in the sympathetically lactating dachshund. "The kitten got lucky, basically."
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2007-07-23 19:26:08 · update #1
I thought of the warmth thing
but
Still weaning kitten got the ABILITY to climb into engine compartment?
2007-07-23 20:05:40 · update #2
wow that is crazy they actually can climb to the to[ of the front wheels and then climb up in the motor
this is kinda gross one time when i was little i remember my mom starting the car and it made a funny sound she opened the hood and found a dead kitten.....
sad but true the kitten made no noises so we didn't even know it was in the motor...
2007-07-23 19:34:46 · answer #1 · answered by 2BoYsMoMmY 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kittens \often go into car engines to hide. They climb up from underneath the car. I have rescued 5 kittens this way in the past 2 years. They hide there, but then they get lost after the car moves away (if they are lucky not to be crushed by the engine).
2007-07-23 19:46:37 · answer #2 · answered by cpinatsi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cats and kittens frequently crawl up into the wheel wells and engine compartment of vehicles to get warm.
We treat several cats every year who have done this. Sometimes they get caught in the fan or some of the belts in the engine compartment, or are burned by hot components, and are badly injured or killed. This kitty was very lucky.
It's a good idea to thump the hood of your car before you get in and start the engine.
2007-07-23 19:34:28 · answer #3 · answered by Kayty 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I've heard it happens when any animal looks for warmth. like after the vehicle is parked. maybe it fell asleep and freaked out when the car began to move. i really don't know. glad there was no horror story about a poor dead kitten in the engine.
2007-07-23 19:36:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This not unusual.
Many cats are killed by seeking warmth and sleeping on vehicles engine and when it starts it is killed or maimed by the rotating engine.
My mother had a cat with 3 legs from just such an accident.
2007-07-29 18:55:10 · answer #5 · answered by sasha1641 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow such a touching story! Animals can amaze us that's for sure.
2007-07-28 13:56:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
like said, it is common for kittens and cats to crawl into engines to stay warm... i found my fourth cat that way...
2007-07-23 19:49:33 · answer #7 · answered by xravenscroftx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My cat did the same thing. I guess to keep warm.
2007-07-31 15:51:10 · answer #8 · answered by yasminebenterkia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
***** was probably tryn' to steal the womans radiator...damn Mexicans...
2007-07-23 20:50:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ask around
2007-07-28 11:56:29 · answer #10 · answered by michelle_markwica 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋