I am the parts manager at a new car dealer. This morning one of the custodians was in the parts room and happened to mention that there was a cat "stuck" in a car in the body shop. When I questioned him about it he said he wasn't really stuck, he just wouldn't come out.

Being the cat lover that I am I headed for the body shop to see what I could do. About the same time I landed there a lady from the shelter just down the street arrived on the scene too.

When one of the techs pulled the car in to work on it he opened the hood and there was a cat on top of the engine that promptly ran in to the corner of the engine compartment and had gotten himself behind the master cylinder.

The lady from the shelter and I carefully extricated the cat from the car and found we had a beautiful, double pawed, male Maine coon cat about 8-10 weeks old.

She took him back to the shelter and checked him all out and he was fine. I stopped on the way home from work and adopted him.

The car was a fleet vehicle and had been sitting out back for a week so we figured he had stowed away at some point in the last week.

I had no intention of adopting another cat when I went to work today, but the little guy needed a home and I'm a sucker for a kitten! I'm in the process of integrating him into the household with my other two shelter cats now. I think he's going to be fine!