Cat survives eight-hour drive clinging to truck
Published: April 17, 2006
While the immigrant might not have been illegal, it was definitely unexpected.
A cat hopped aboard a semitrailer hauling fertilizer from Esterhazy, Sask., to Eldridge, N.D., and rode the entire way clinging to the truck’s metal frame.
Customs agents at the border alerted the driver but the driver was unable to catch the cat. When the semi arrived at Mainline Agronomy in Eldridge, the cat was still attached to the frame.
The trip last Wednesday took about eight hours and “she had to have been awake the whole time,” said Mainline bookkeeper Jessica Hansen, who rescued the cat.
“She had nothing to grip with her claws because it’s metal. I don’t know how she kept from falling out.”
Hansen said she and her fellow employees — who named the cat Canada — considered keeping the animal as a mascot but decided it was too risky with all the trucks around. The James River Humane Society in Jamestown, N.D., is trying to find a home for the cat.
“I don’t want to see her deported now that they’ve tightened the immigration laws,” Society spokeswoman Deb Archambeau joked.
“She’s sweet and friendly and deserves a good home. She’s the sweetest illegal immigrant we’ve ever met.”
Meanwhile the cat has found a new home in the USA.
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