Animals Anecdotes : Something Foul Under The Hood – It's a Dead Cat!

A couple of days ago, we started to smell something foul – almost garbage like from outside of the house. We couldn't find the source of the smell and we thought it was just the overflowing garbage smell from the neighbour's house.

The following day, the stench of the 'garbage' seemed to be lingering around the outside of the car. We finally thought, probably we should check out the tyres and see if anything got stuck in between them. We started spraying water at the tyres and suddenly, one of us suggested, why don't we check out the hood. We opened the hood and we saw this!



So then, it was confirmed that garbage like, foul smell came from that furry thing that seemed to be stuck between the engine. I peeked under the hood and tried to figure out what that furry thing could be. I saw a tiny paw and the tail and of course it was a cat, rotting away under the hood of our car. Hence, that is where the foul smell had been coming from for the last 1 day and a half. It was right there under the car's hood.

The cleaning up process was a messy business not to mention the smell was horrendous. However, at the end of the day, we managed to get the carcass out of the way. It was really troubling to think of where, how and why this little creature decided to hide in the car's engine. There were many speculations on why it got inside there and we also thought that it could be one of those stray cats from our neighbourhood. The cause of death was unknown.

It was definitely a tragic loss for that poor cat and I am not going to post pictures of the animal due to its bad condition. Suffice to say, by the time we got the carcass out of the engine, it was pretty roasted. Poor little cat, may you rest in peace.

* The only one thing we were relieved about this whole situation was that, it was not one of those furry tailed cats from our neighbour's who once used to invade our front yard with their endless play and pooping. Phew!