[Vision2020] Man Buys Van, Finds Kitten Living in Spare Tire

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of The Frederick News Post (Frederick, Maryland) at:

 

https://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyID=107870

 

 

Man buys van, finds kitten living in spare tire

 

By Lauren Redding 

News-Post Staff

 

The used van Ralph Fink bought some days back didn't purr like a kitten when
he started the engine, but there was one living on the spare tire mounted
behind the rear axle.

Fink named him Lucky.

 

The 5-week-old tuxedo kitten is "about as lucky as could be," said Fink, a
Middletown resident and the owner of Advanced Service Air Conditioning and
Heating. "He was dehydrated, he could have fallen out. He's lucky to be
here."

 

Fink said Lucky, who was found on top of the spare tire tucked under the
van, must have been hiding on the tire for at least several days -- he
picked up the white Ford E250 van Saturday and discovered the kitten
Tuesday.

 

An attendant at the Rosemont Service Center, where Fink picked up the van,
told him stray cats hang around the shop, he said.

 

He suspects Lucky's mother most likely helped him get up there and then
jumped down when the car began to move.

 

"I was surprised to see him there," he said. "I can't figure out how he got
up there."

 

Lucky was discovered by two of Fink's employees, Dennis Goetz and Mark
Rolkey.

 

Rolkey said they heard mewling coming from the van as they were tuning it up
but couldn't figure out where it was coming from. After a thorough search,
they found Lucky.

 

Lucky was covered in oil and very dehydrated, but after a bath and several
days of care, Fink said the domestic shorthair kitten is playful and
lovable.

 

"He just purrs and nuzzles all the time," he said.

 

Fink said Lucky has gained at least a pound since being discovered. Lucky
recently went to the veterinarian and was given a clean bill of health. He
also received all of his first shots. 

 

"He came around within a day and started to be a real happy kitty," Fink
said. "Now he's as inquisitive as heck."

 

Fink is hoping to find him a home and doesn't think it will be hard -- Lucky
already knows how to use a litter box, he said.

 

Even though Lucky doesn't get along with Fink's two older cats, Fink said he
will keep the kitten if no one adopts him.

 

Rolkey agrees and wants Fink to keep Lucky.

 

"The guys want to have a shop cat," Fink said. "They get a kick out of him."

 

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Ralph Fink found this dehydrated kitten, then about 5 weeks old, in the
spare tire area of a used van he recently bought for his business, Advanced
Service Air Conditioning and Heating. He named the fortunate feline Lucky.

 

Lucky_The_Kitten.jpg

 

 

Seeya at Farmers Market, Moscow.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

"Corporations are an oppressed minority forced to move headquarters from
state to state in search of friendlier tax codes--sometimes being forced to
live just off our shores in tiny mailboxes." 

 

- John Oliver, The Daily Show

 

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