have you ever caught a cat in your fan?

[Whitmore]

I never have but we have a cat that is missing a back leg at the knee and has half a tail... ... . we picked him up at the pound and I named him Tripod

 

[illflem]

Not a cat but a possum. I wouldn't have noticed except that it's nest on top of the exhaust manifold caught fire a ways down the road.

I did chop my cat Doof up with a seven foot tractor mount orchard mower. He must have crawled under it when I stopped for lunch...

 

[Archive]

I actually did do that back in the early 80's, I had a 76 Monte Carlo that had about a two foot deep fan shroud, seems as if little kitty crawled in next to the radiator to keep warm one winter night and once I fired the old beast up in the morning ( it hit on the first crank) .



Let's just say it wasn't pretty





I drove around the block to the automatic car wash stalls and spent more than a few quarters trying to clean it up, then I went back home to help my now ex-wife look for her cat



"here, kitty, kitty, here. kitty, kitty"













big jake

 

[Scot]

When I was a kid, our cat crawled up under the hood of mom's '64 Buick Skylark. Evidently it was reclining against the belts when she fired it up. Some part of the cat managed to jump the power steering belt off. There was all sorts of thumping under the hood and fur flying out from under it. The cat's only injury was a stripe of fur removed down it's spine!

 

[EMD Diesel Power]

Havent caught any in vehicle fans..... but have nailed quite a few raking hay..... They just love to hide in the windrows..... dont see em til u hear em... . *cat flying thru the air..... * Oops..... pitchfork time Just one of the many ways of controlling the barn cat populations... ..... LOL

 

[EMD Diesel Power]

Havent caught any in vehicle fans..... but have nailed quite a few raking hay..... They just love to hide in the windrows..... dont see em til u hear em... . *cat flying thru the air..... * Oops..... pitchfork time Just one of the many ways of controlling the barn cat populations... ..... LOL

 

[DieselDoghouse]

Man! that is something I DO NOT miss. Used to see that alot before crime made car alarms standard. I had a colleague who used to thump on his hood everytime before starting his car. Nowadays they at least get beeped out of their sleep before you can get in and turn her over. You should try putting one ot those poor things back together - alot like a grenaded VP-44!!!

 

[Texas Diesel]

I've caught a bunch standing in front of where my bullets impact A . 22HP hit in the shoulders will roll them pretty good, they always get blood on my target. Oh well, atleast I dont have to listen to them at 3AM make baby cats anymore.



Yes I did catch one a the fan. It was winter in Arizona, getting down into the low 90's start up before work.

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What a mess, blood, fur, chunks of cat meat etc. Worst part was that the flys laid eggs ( you know what kind ) in the chunks I couldnt clean out. I think the fan got bent too. After that I started leaving the hood up, then I discovered 10-22 Rugers

 

[Fireman]

I would not have known it except it knocked off the power steering belt. I stopped because I thought I had a flat tire, that's when I heard the yeowling. What A mess ! The cat fell out and tried to drag itself off, It was rather difficult with one amputated leg and two fractured legs. Had to put it down, and clean all of the fur and guts out of the eng. compartment, then replace the belt.

A friend had a simular experence one day in his van when it overheated. when he went to replace the belt he found a very hissed off cat on top of his motor. He thought that it ran away, it wasn't untill much later that he discovered that it had stayed on the engine and died. Ugh, what a stench!:--)



Fireman

 

[bighammer]

My old Ford (69 F250 w/390) got a bit more messy under the hood one morning. I had gone out early, came home, and left again a couple hours later. Stunk for months after. I think the power washer pushed cat guts into all the little hard to get places under the hood. Kind of hard to do a good job when it keeps freezing.

 

[PHaller]

We had an old Firebird with a large radiator shroud. One morning my wife and I got into the car and my wife started it up. There was lots of thumping and howling and the car idled rough so... the wife presses harder on the go pedal. The thumping got louder and faster and then we got the distict smell of cat pee. We shut her down to find the belt off, fur, and oh what a smell.

later, the cat returned with all the fur missing from one side but no serious injuries. How that cat managed to survive and remove a belt is beyond me but she did. She later, fell out of a tree chasing a bird and landed on her head and was in a coma for 3 days. She survived that too. 9 lives she had!

-Paul R. Haller-

 

[Whitmore]

my buddie at work

told me a good one, he had a cat get in the engine compartment and didnt know it till a few hours later, well the cat was ontop of the motor and all 4 feet were burnt, had to do the 22 trick