Two feral kittens found hiding in truck engine get rescued, but third sibling takes 10 hours to crawl out and into kitten trap, cats given to local shelter for TNR and adoption: ‘She will be reunited with her siblings in their foster home this afternoon’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Feb 15, 2026 3:00 PM EST

Feral kittens are found in all sorts of places, but it is rather rare to find them in an engine bay as they were in this story that tells the tale of the stubborn kitten who refused to leave his engine home.

While it was not a particularly comfy home, you can understand how a tiny kitten would find itself intimidated by the imposing character of a hooman looming over it and trying to capture it. If we were in the kitten's smol paws we would likely have chosen to do the same thing. But as always is, that which goes up into the engine, must at some point come down. And after a decently long standoff this kitten crawled out of its engine hiding place and into the trap that had been set up to capture it.

Resulting in quite the heartwarming reunion with its kitten siblings who had already made it safely to their foster home. This serves as a brilliant reminder that you never quite know where the CDS might come at you from and what kind of cat or kitten it might bring your way. And that all you can do is try to be prepawed. 

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    "She is perfect ya'll!"
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    Hi everyone - needing as many positive thoughts as possible! We found out a few days ago that a neighbor a block over has been feeding a feral
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    momma with a litter of 8ish week old kittens who are very weary about people that she's been trying to socialize and catch. We went to visit a
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    relative yesterday and I realized we had several clips of our driveway than usual so I went through the videos and realized there was a good chance
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    we had kittens in my husband's truck. Sure enough three babies were in the engine bay and somehow were all okay. We were able to safely remove two
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    but this one bolted. We looked for two hours and couldn't find it anywhere. Relative put out canned tuna and water and played
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  • Yeah, little known fact about cats, they are natural mechanics. You show them an engine they can get stuck into and you can bet your bottom dollar on parts that they will be crawling inside that engine in no time looking for a fix. Unfortunately, that can mean that they are not all too easy to get out of said engines, especially when they are as smol as these kittens. And so in such cases you have to play the waiting game in the hopes that they shall tire and get bored of their engine build. It is a game of immense patience but it is one that pays off.

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    momma calling babies videos frequently last night and again this morning and she finally heard it meowing at 6 am. I ran back over and we looked
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    everywhere but it wouldn't come out. I bought a trap and we have it set with tuna, wet kitten food, and water. We have a Bluetooth speaker out there
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    for tonight playing the video it was responding the most to today to try to help lure it out once it's dark. Around 1 pm she called and was
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    confident she heard it in her neighbor's truck. He popped the hood and we saw this sweet face. It wriggled away from me when I reached in to grab it
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    and jumped out of the bottom and was MIA again. Thankfully her neighbor is aware and has no plans to move the vehicle tonight though does
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  • This is one heck of a slippery feline here. It is rather impressive that at such a young age this cat is more than capable of giving hoomans the slip. He is most certainly a cat who is destined for clawminal greatness as the years of his life go on and we would not be surprised at all to find that he will turn to steal carburetors in the hopes of making a few extra bucks to fund that fancy feline food obsession of his. Or well, the obsession that he shall soon develop when he comes crawling out of the engine. 

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    have to work tomorrow. She has continued playing momma noises throughout the afternoon and it's in neighbor's truck wheel well but
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    too high up to grab. We need all of the positive thoughts you can send our way that this sweet little one is hungry and goes into the
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    trap tonight. I am so worried it will end up in the wrong vehicle and be injured or worse tomorrow morning. It's so scared and definitely doesn't
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    trust humans enough to come to us directly. The two siblings are safe in a foster and they will take this sweet baby too. The rescue is going to
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    assist neighbor with TNR for the sweet mom who on camera looks like a baby herself At this point I think our only hope is the
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    trap so please send us all the positive vibes you can spare.
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    I... OP UPDATE: WE GOT HER!! Waiting on relative to send pics and will
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    head over to pick her up after I get kiddo off to school.
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    She is perfect ya'll! Once she calmed down she's been cuddled up on my chest all morning. She
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    will be reunited with her siblings in their foster home this afternoon
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