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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Cats - Why Do They Hate Us? - Part 2
2005-03-04
Cat Survives 10-Mile Trip on Top of Car
Torri Hutchinson's cat might just have one less life to live. Hutchison was driving along Interstate 15 one day recently when a motorist kept trying to get her attention and pointing to the roof of her car.
I remember being followed by a wild-eyed old woman who was pointing and gesturing. Turns out I had left the hatch to the gas cap open. Gotta be careful.
She said she was wary of the man, but wondered if perhaps her ski rack might have come loose. She pulled over to the side, but kept her doors locked and the motor running. The man pulled up behind her. Hutchinson rolled down her window to hear the man frantically shouting, "Your cat! Your cat!"
What do you think this is? A scene from, "Something About Mary", where Ben Stiller leaves the dog, in a body cast, on top of the car?
He reached for the roof of her car and handed the shocked Hutchinson her orange tabby.
Courage. Strange cat in shock? Does he still have fingers?
She had driven about 10 miles with the cat on top of the car, and didn't even notice the feline when she stopped for gas. Hutchinson said Cuddle Bug, or C.B. for short, had climbed into the back of her car as she was getting ready to leave. She put him out, but he must have jumped on the roof while she wasn't looking, she said.

After the below picture was taken she should have taken the cat to : , and apologized the right way...

Posted by:BigEd

#16  Tholulet3578, there are two models:
A) Grey Tabby
B) Orange Tabby

Tabby refers to the darker, tigerlike pattern. Meowwwrrrrrr.
Posted by: Sobiesky   2005-03-04 9:14:06 PM  

#15  I thought tabbies were grey cats. This one is a marmalade.
Posted by: Thish Tholulet3578   2005-03-04 9:10:41 PM  

#14  We used to have a Lab/Mastiff cross that would make a run for the car whenever he heard keys jingling. Up-side; you always knew he was there. Down-side; dragging a 90+lb Lab/Mastiff out of the back of the station-wagon....
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2005-03-04 8:53:13 PM  

#13  Yep, Sgt. it's a new/old blog tradition. That said I had a cat that used to hide in the car so he could ride to the mini-mart. Only made himself known when we were halfway there.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-03-04 7:52:20 PM  

#12  The cat does look amazingly mellow... he must not have a nerve in his entire body.
Is this the Friday cat-blogging thread?
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2005-03-04 5:01:31 PM  

#11  It's Friday!
Posted by: Shipman   2005-03-04 3:59:15 PM  

#10  I will second the mention of a vet saying male tabbys are mellow. My cat during the period Jr Hi-College was 21 lbs of lazy,KFC loving,snoring fuzzball. Jerrymander was one of a kind. The current cat, previously menntioned grey-white non-tabby Martin is very nice but not super mellow. Too many mice, and parts of mice, I have to clean up in the kitchen, living room & elsewhere...
Posted by: BigEd   2005-03-04 3:43:17 PM  

#9  We had a 20 pounder orange tabby. Smart cat. Used to bring us rabbits and lay them out on the counter nice and neat. One night my sister forgot her keys and crawled through a window to get in the house. He jumped on her leg and bit her. He was protecting his family.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2005-03-04 3:09:25 PM  

#8  Male tabbies, according to our vet, are the mellowest cats.
Mellow with people, that was Sam. He was hell on wheels with any cat or dog that dared to even look at his yard. He ran 27 pounds at his top fighting weight, not one ounce of fear in his whole body. Dogs took one look and remembered they had something else to do.
Posted by: Steve   2005-03-04 12:57:20 PM  

#7  Maybe it was just feeling suicidal about having the name "Cuddle Bug."
Posted by: Jonathan   2005-03-04 12:48:29 PM  

#6  We had a beautiful white Turkish Angora kitty who used to lurk in the tree and drop down on the vinyl top of our '77 Dodge Royal Monaco as it pulled out of the driveway...

I miss that cat.
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-03-04 12:24:45 PM  

#5  How could she not notice when she stopped for gas? Hey lady, I hear the CIA is hiring to fill Mike Scheuer's job. You've certainly got the right qualifications.
Posted by: 2b   2005-03-04 12:06:03 PM  

#4  I have an 18 pounder that looks just like that. Male tabbies, according to our vet, are the mellowest cats. Ours are. Kinda like Tommy Chong, only dopier.

Now, our torty would have killed a dozen or so before the SWAT teams got her.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2005-03-04 11:49:49 AM  

#3  she didn't even notice when she stopped for gas???
Posted by: 2b   2005-03-04 11:41:44 AM  

#2  Brave man. Scare a cat like that, there ain't no way I'm reaching to pick it up.
Posted by: BH   2005-03-04 11:37:21 AM  

#1  Awwwwwwww, looks just like our old cat, Sam. God, I miss him.
Posted by: Steve   2005-03-04 11:34:23 AM  

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