POSTED: 10:39 pm EST
January 3, 2006
VOORHEES, N.J. -- Curiosity didn't kill one cat on a wild ride on the
New Jersey Turnpike.The kitten, now known, for obvious reasons, as Miracle,
hitchhiked a ride on the underbelly of a sport utility vehicle just before
Christmas.The gray and white feline traveled some 70 miles under the vehicle
as it whizzed along the Turnpike on Dec. 23."I'm just amazed that
the cat didn't fall off or get blown off," Karen Dixon-Aquino, director
of the Animal Welfare Association in Voorhees, told the Courier-Post of
Cherry Hill for Tuesday's newspapers.The association is caring for the
furry hitchhiker and plans to put him up for adoption.The SUV's driver
was traveling from Newark to Cherry Hill and didn't know she was giving
the kitten a ride until another motorist saw the tabby through a wheel
well and flagged the driver over near Interchange 4 in Mount Laurel.Dixon-Aquino
said the cat probably climbed into the guts of the SUV in Newark and was
asleep when the journey began. Somehow, the cat avoided being mangled
by fan blades and other moving parts as he clung to the car for the ride.The
kitty, estimated to be about 8 or 9 months old, was not unscathed, though."He
was pretty freaked out," Dixon-Aquino said. "His paws were burnt,
one claw was missing and his fur was singed."
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