Reply #6: I hate to tell you this... [View All]

[regnaD kciN]

...but if they're taking up residence around your car, you're going to have to check under the hood every time you use it. Some cats don't know enough to stay out of the engine compartment, and I don't want to go into what happens to them if someone starts the engine while they're in it.

When we were in the same complex, Bartholomew (the Maine Coon we wound up adopting) got intimidated by one of the other neighborhood cats, and wound up hiding out in an engine compartment. Fortunately, it was a car that rarely got used, but it took me a whole lot of effort to coax him out of there so I could get him inside.