Cat home safe after escaping Calgary vet, hitching 30-km highway ride under car hood
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Kobe the cat has been reunited with his family in Calgary after a harrowing journey speeding down Stony Trail, clinging on under the hood of a car.
Kobe the cat has been reunited with his family in Calgary after a harrowing journey that included roughly 30 kilometres speeding down Stony Trail, clinging on under the hood of a car.
On Wednesday morning, Kobe’s owners Lena Staple and Daniel Owesu were taking him to the vet to be neutered. But Kobe jumped out of his cat carrier outside Barlow Trail Animal Hospital and ran away.
“He was scared,” Owesu said. “He jumped the fence. He went under the car and he disappeared…. I ran after him…. We couldn’t find him.”
The cat scurried into the parking lot at Global Calgary. Later, surveillance cameras caught Kobe hiding under a car that belongs to Global News edit supervisor Leslie Wells.
After work on Wednesday, Wells unknowingly drove home in Auburn Bay — more than 30 kilometres away — with Kobe under her hood.
“I drive 100, 105 km/h on Stoney Trail, give or take 40 kilometres from work,” Wells said. “That’s a survival story if I’ve ever heard one.
“How does that even happen?” she asked. “It was just remarkable.”
The cat hid in Wells’ garage for three days until he was lured out, caught and taken to the vet.
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