A kitten has been rescued after being stuck in the undercarriage of a vehicle for 10 hours. Kyle Liddard, manager at the Great Canadian Oil Change in Orillia, tells CTV News a customer had brought their car into his store concerned that an animal might be in their vehicle. The customer told Liddard they had been driving the car around throughout the day, at first hearing weird noises but not thinking anything of it, until the noises continued. When the customer brought the car in, Liddard says he found a kitten pinned underneath the vehicle. He says it looked like the kitten climbed up the rear tire and was crawling across the rear differential, which is in the undercarriage of a vehicle. The kitten seemed to have got its leg stuck in the rear differential. Liddard says he was able to grab hold of the kitten’s leg and slide it back the way it looked like it had gone in originally. The kitten turned out to be a Siamese breed, who was only about three to four weeks old. He says the kitten was most likely a stray, as the owner of the vehicle lived out in the country. There was also no microchip or collar. Staff at the store gave the kitten some snacks in the meantime and brought to the vet before one of the employees ended up adopting it, giving it a forever home. Liddard says it’s more common for wild animals such as groundhogs or rabbits to get stuck in a car, but rarer for a cat.
