[geeks] Mice and wires

[Michael Horton]

unbeknowst to me, the neighbor's outdoor cat would climb up into my
full-sized chevy's engine compartment on cold nights.

one morning, and the neighbor was out, i strated the truck and there was
a "new" noise--kind of screeching.

the neighbor was laughing.  i asked him why and he told me that his cat
came running out from under my truck--faster than he had ever seen the
cat run.

fur came out from under the truck also; the neighbor told me later that
the cat was not harmed.

i started thumping the fender before i got into the truck after that.



Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Wed, 09 Mar 2005 @ 12:46 -0600, Eric Gustafson said:
>
>
>>Driving home one night in my late grandmother's '86 Cutlass Ciera Wagon,
>>I started losing power. When I smelled burning, I happened to be near
>>the auto dealership where I worked at the time, so I pulled into the
>>service department, opened the hood, and found that squirrels had packed
>>my air cleaner full of acorns, and the frictional heat of the air coming
>>through that restricted space had melted the air filter.
>
>
> I drove to school one days many years ago, and kept hearing a strange
> noise in the back of my truck as I was going down the highway.
>
> After 30 minutes, I pulled onto a secondary road and stopped for a
> light.
>
> The instant I came to a stop, a squirrel came rocketing out of the back
> of my truck and disappeared into the woods nearby.
>
> I have no idea when he got back there, but I assume when I first started
> out he was too petrified to jump out.  The highway trip must have
> frazzled him so much that as soon as I stopped, he overcame whatever
> fear he had of jumping out.
>
>


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