Wild ride: Kitten gets stuck behind bumper on US woman’s vehicle, goes on long trip

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. – A woman says a 6-week-old kitten hitched a ride on the outside of her vehicle as she drove about 100 miles (160 kilometres) over upstate New York roads.

Stacey Pulsifer tells the Press-Republican of Plattsburgh (http://bit.ly/Q4LJeX ) that she recently drove from her home to the Adirondacks mountains, then back to her apartment. Along the way she stopped for coffee and heard meowing coming from her Jeep.

She asked two friends to help her search the vehicle. They finally found the kitten wedged behind a bumper and had to cut it free.

Pulsifer has since adopted the hitchhiker and named it Pumpkin. She estimates the lucky black cat was lodged in the car for about 22 hours and travelled some 100 miles. She suffered a broken paw during the ride.