by Bridgett Kelly

Created on: March 31, 2009   Last Updated: April 03, 2009

My husband tells me that when I am old and grey, all the neighbor hood children will call me the "Cat Lad." I love cats and have loved them since I was a little girl. So it is only natural that I have a yard full or did before I had a baby and they all ran off. I have many funny stories about the cats that have pounced into my life but one sticks out the most and I will never forget it till the day I die.

It was a typical morning and I was getting ready for work and rushing my two year old to get him ready as I was already running late. There was no time to fix breakfast so I knew I had to stop at the Wards to get breakfast before heading to daycare and work.

I got my son into the car and buckled him in and off we went. I took the highway as it is shorter than driving down the road. I drove the six miles down the highway and arrived at the store. As I was getting ready to park I heard the loudest "MEOW" and I thought "gosh someone has dumped off a cat at the store and it is not happy"

Thinking nothing of it I got out of the car and was about to get my son out when I heard it again. A man was was getting into his truck when he told me to be careful there was a cat under my tire. He said someone must have dumped him off. I said okay and tried to look for it. I was going to try to catch it and take it home. I am a sucker for strays what can I say? When I finally saw the little cat I noticed that it was MY cat! I was so shocked. My cat had somehow gotten under the car not the hood and rode six miles at sixty five miles per hour down the highway and LIVED! I could not believe it. I called him and he came running to me. I placed him in the car and took him home. The little cat which I called lucky after that day never got around my car again.

How he rode up the highway without getting hurt or killed from falling off is beyond me. I thought that maybe it was a sign that I was supposed to be late that day and was supposed to wait. I did. A week later the cat ran off as he was a male cat and they do that. I was just so shocked to see a cat would ride so long under a car or even get under one. I still do not know what he held on to to this day.

Cats can get themselves into all kind of things and how they survive them is beyond me. I do know that I firmly believe that cats do have nine lives. They have to.

This story is true and I enjoy telling it because I have never heard of such a thing as a cat riding under a car without falling off into the road. Lucky did and lucky he was!

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