Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe WENATCHEE, Wash., Sept. 19 (UPI) -- A Washington state man says a 6-week-old kitten with a bad leg made a 70-mile trip hanging onto the undercarriage of his truck and lived to meow about it. "I never knew she was there till I heard the faintest, tiniest meowing," Rod Thomas told The Wenatchee World Sunday. "It was a real surprise." Advertisement Thomas, 45, was on his way to a morning sales trip from East Wenatchee to Moses Lake when a bird flew into the path of his Ford F-150 pickup. He says he didn't see the bird's remains on the highway and decided to take a look when he got to his destination. At Moses Lake Thomas checked the grill and although he didn't find the dead bird he noticed a thin, furry tail sticking out from behind the skid-plate protecting the truck's transmission, the newspaper reported. "I gently tugged on it," Thomas said. "It pulled away, was gone for a second, and then a blur, then this little fuzzy head peeks out." It took five minutes for Thomas and his sales associates to coax the kitten out. "She was spooked, that's for sure, but we got the poor thing out and made a place for her in the back of the pickup," he said. Advertisement Thomas is allergic to cats but may keep "Lucky," as the kitten has been dubbed, as a barn mouser. "She's probably not the cat we'd choose for the barn," he said, "but all my friends are pointing out that this is a turn of fate -- we need a cat, and one appears in a kind of magical way."
