AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Newborn kitten survives 76-mile ride hidden in SUV engine compartment in Texas
A newborn kitten hitched an unplanned ride inside a vehicle's engine bay across 76 miles of Texas Hill Country, and a team of hospital workers, animal control, and a local rescue group pulled together to save it. A Peterson Health employee drove from Rocksprings, Texas, to Kerrville for a regular shift and had no idea […] The post Newborn kitten survives 76-mile ride hidden in SUV engine compartment in Texas appeared first on American Almanac .
A newborn kitten hitched an unplanned ride inside a vehicle's engine bay across 76 miles of Texas Hill Country, and a team of hospital workers, animal control, and a local rescue group pulled together to save it. A Peterson Health employee drove from Rocksprings, Texas, to Kerrville for a regular shift and had no idea a tiny passenger was tucked inside the engine compartment. When the worker arrived at the hospital and popped the hood, the kitten was still alive, wedged somewhere behind the front grille after roughly an hour and a half of highway driving across open ranchland. The City of Kerrville posted about the discovery on its official Facebook page, and the story spread fast. A Kerrville animal control officer and personnel from…Open