When I was a kid, I remember this one time we came out of a shopping center to the parking lot. When we got in, we could hear a tiny mewling coming from the engine compartment. We looked, but we couldn't find anywhere in the engine. After a bit of poking around, we realized that the cat had somehow gotten into the fender and had no way of climbing out on its own.

We drove to the nearest Nissan dealership and explained the issue, and they removed the plastic backing inside the wheel well and let the kitten (tiny little baby kitten, couldn't have been more than a month old) out. It was covered in grease and undercoating. We put the kitten in a cardboard box we got from the dealership and headed back to the shopping center where the adventure started.

Once we got there, we tossed the kitten into the bushes and threw the cardboard box away in the mall dumpster.

I think we went home and had some ice cream after that.

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Is that what makes an engine purr?

Damn onion-slicing ninjas.

cptjeff: And apparently some walls in our basement were framed in such a way that the cat could walk around inside some of them.



Cat in the wall, eh?

Might need 3 or 4.

neilbradley: We all have iPhones, so we start Googling how to open the hood of an s550. In the meantime, I ask the woman who's driving to call someone to ask them how to open the hood. This goes on for a while.

Goes on for a while? Didn't "how do I open a farking hood of an S550" yield any useful results? How about looking around under the steering weel or near the kick panel where it is on the vast majority of cars sold?

it probably showed how to open the hood with a flash animation.

libranoelrose: cptjeff: their rib cages compress a hell of a lot more than ours

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Are you confused?

Your rib cage isn't perfectly rigid. The bones are designed to bend, and there are joints designed to flex. The ribcage of a cat can be compressed, on a relative basis, much more than ours, meaning they can squeeze themselves under and through much tighter openings then something their size should be able to squeeze through.