{"id":975,"date":"2009-10-01T23:09:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T23:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/two_cat_tales.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:44:40","slug":"two_cat_tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/two_cat_tales.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Two Cat Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/trans_am_kitties-1467.shtml\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/trans_am_kitties-1467.shtml','popup','width=640,height=427,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/trans_am_kitties-thumb-500x333-1467.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Trans Am Kitties\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nReading <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hemmings.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/01\/kitts-cats\/\">this post at the Hemmings Blog<\/a> about 4 kittens hiding away in a 1984 Trans Am (above) they were bringing to a photo shoot reminded me of the two times I had something similar happen.<br \/>\nThe first was back in about 1995 and, ironically, was hiding in a Camaro Z-28 much like that T\/A.  A coworker in advertantly brought it to work under the hood, traveling a few miles down I-696 to our company in Royal Oak.  They managed to coax the kitty out of the Z ad brought it inside.  Unfortunately, it got away from them and headed straight for the back of the building where the owner stored his mid 80&#8217;s 911 Targa.<br \/>\nYep, the kitty crawled up inside the Porsche, well up inside, on top of the transmission as best as they could tell.<br \/>\nThe owner arrived later that morning and decided he could flush it out.  So, he opened the back door and fired up the Porsche.  Several revs toward red-line should have done it, but after he shut it down there was the sad cry of a very scared kitty, still tucked up inside that 911.<br \/>\nAt lunch a couple guys went to the grocery and brought some cat food back. That did it.  The cat came out and one of the guys took it home for his girlfriend.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/cally-1470.shtml\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/cally-1470.shtml','popup','width=2048,height=1536,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/cally-thumb-500x375-1470.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Cally\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nStory number two involves Cally, shown above.  Cally belonged to friends of ours in Missouri who once lived here in Columbus but now live only about 45 miles from Maria&#8217;s family in mid-Missouri.  We visited them while in MO and they had just gotten 3 kittens as mousers for their 7 acre property.  We had a good visit and headed back to her parents.<br \/>\nThat night, outside their apartment, were two cats that looked eerily like two of theirs, Cally and Shadow.  So, we called, and sure enough, their cats hadn&#8217;t been seen since we left.  We went out in a snow storm and tried to find them, but we could not.<br \/>\nThe next day we were supposed to leave for home, but the snow delayed our return by a day.  On the 600 mile trip home, we stopped for gas and fast food as well as at Cracker Barrel for dinner and later, I ran the van through a car wash.<br \/>\nThe next morning I went to the garage to go to the post office to get the mail.  When I opened the door to the garage, there on the steps was Cally,  She had ridden in the van 45 miles back to Maria&#8217;s parents apartment, camped out in the van for a day through the snow storm and then rode the 600 miles across MO, IL, IN and OH home, enduring a car wash along the way.<br \/>\nI closed the door and took the other car.  Later, I opened the hood and found Cally sitting on top of the engine cover.  I grabber her, she clawed me and bit me, at one point hanging by her jaw from my hand. (I later had to get antibiotics and a tetanus shot.)  Cally scurried across the garage and crawled up inside my 1960 Thunderbird.<br \/>\nShe lived in the garage, under the T&#8217;bird for the month of January after which she came inside to stay.  She&#8217;s still, about 4 years later, pretty skittish and won&#8217;t stay in the same room with me.<br \/>\n600 miles in the engine compartment of an Odyssey will do that to ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this post at the Hemmings Blog about 4 kittens hiding away in a 1984 Trans Am (above) they were bringing to a photo shoot reminded me of the two<a href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/two_cat_tales.shtml\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Cat Tales<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Two Cat Tales - salguod.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/two_cat_tales.shtml\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two Cat Tales - 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