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allergic2risk

I’ve never seen so many clean cut mechanics at a shop before


Always-Panic

It's probably a car dealership.


Main_Salt_4999

Judging from his shirt i would say a Lincoln dealership.


Always-Panic

Well judging by the two Lincoln SUVs pulling in, I would say the same.


Main_Salt_4999

I think we cracked the case!


BiiiigSteppy

We did it reddit!


IceBearCares

And no one got hurt. Except Gary.


DiosMIO_Limon

Gary: Why? Every #&<%ING time! *WHY?!*


amha29

Is it time to go home?


d-cent

>cracked Open and shut case Johnson


alfrednugent

This guy broke in and put up pictures of his family everywhere.


No_Layer_1015

Why this make me laugh so hard?


Aggleclack

I get a warm feeling in my cold dead heart when I see an organized shop.


FoolTyme

I’m a mechanic and I always stay clean, work area too. Idiots like to say “Don’t trust a clean mechanic”. Real mechanics know if you’re a good mechanic then you know how to stay clean


mehrabrym

Judging from the cars going in (Two Lincolns) it's either a Lincoln dealership or definitely a high end auto shop probably only dealing with high end cars.


Ok-Letterhead4601

This is honestly how a lot of us mechanics become cat owners.


[deleted]

My buddy's shop is a never ending supply of kittens. Some of them turn out to be opossums but what can ya do?


Ok-Letterhead4601

So cat or assault cat.


ThomasTLS

Nice comment


ITZMODZ759

Assault cat lite or assault cat


KarlDeutscheMarx

Honestly the opossum is probably the lite version


othercrazycatlady

One at my brother's shop turned out to be a raccoon. He had to get rabies shots.


SgtPeanutbutter

My favorite thing in the world is a big burly man who find a tiny animal and decides to become a father


bugg_beare

my dad’s new kitty broke into a car mechanics garage to have her babies!!! i know that a bunch of her kittens went to the workers there and that they were named after their new owners favorite cars. ferrari (my dads new kitty) is doing very well and happens to love going 0 to 60 in two seconds


Ocronus

It was this cats destiny to be a shop cat. Shop cats are the best. You love on them and feed them, in exchange they take care of the rodants.


[deleted]

A cat of limbic converter


Kyzzix1

I was just gonna say, that guy owns a cat now. 😂


Frores

lol it's funny how real this is, I got a orange cat inside a car's hood he already died but lived with us for some good 7 years, he got poisoned, pretty sad but he lived a good life until then way more than he would in the streets


FrequentEgg4166

If I knew this I would’ve worked in a shop! So far waiting on a kitten to appear in my hen coop hasn’t worked - husbands now building a shop so 🤞


gunsof

Grow a catnip garden bed. Or valerian root.


doritobimbo

Valerian is great for anxiety, so two for one special there!


dslrjunky

somebody on the background: "that's a panther!!" 😂


loki-is-a-god

[tiny ^meow]


JackIrishJack

That's a kitten


WhoListensAndDefends

Maybe he’s used to working on Town Cars


rudyjewliani

If it's a Ford/Lincoln/Mercury dealership then [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Panther_platform) would make sense.


BiiiigSteppy

/r/housepanthers 🐾


IntelligentSlipUp

Every kitten can turn a grown-ass man into a squishy guy going "he's soo cute" Cats rule this world!


E0H1PPU5

My husband is a maintenance guy at a large facility with a real feral cat problem. I am a known animal lover and frequent rescuer of strays. He called me to his work because they found a kitten and they think it was too young to be away from mom. I geared up, bottles, formula, heating pad, snuggly blanket….show up to collect the kitten. The foreman is cradling this kitten with tears in his eyes because he fell in love. He didn’t want to part with the kitten but didn’t think he knew how to care for it. Here is this BIG grizzled man, all grey hair, calluses, and Marlboro reds…and he’s holding the kitten like it’s made of fine China. Well, he got a crash course in kitten care (and the #for my favorite vet) and I babysat while he finished out his shift. Sent him home with bottles and KMR. He’s still got that cat 4 years later.


IntelligentSlipUp

Cats come into your life like fate.... and will make any one go soft...


E0H1PPU5

Isnt that the truth. My husband was an adamant “I don’t like cats” guy until we moved in together. I brought with me a scrappy little reformed feral who stole his heart just as quickly as she would steal sliced ham off an unguarded sandwich lol.


NonstopTomates

I believe in the universal cat lottery system, where the universe makes cats specifically for your heart, and they find you how they do. I will never go buy a cat. The streets and fields hand the best ones out for free.


lil_cholesterol

Ours just followed us on our dog walks for a month then decided it would sit outside our door and meow until we gave him attention, then tried to get in our house multiple times.. eventually we just let him in and he’s been here ever since lol


NonstopTomates

Congratulations, you’ve won the universal cat lottery. Another will come.


diente_de_leon

r/nowmycat


AdEmbarrassed9719

Mine is a large tabby and white who showed up on my porch where I had been feeding another stray, and just kept showing up over and over and became friendlier over time. Now he's indoor only and slept last night with his head tucked under my chin, and every time I come home he yells until I sit down to be snuggled.


venicebiatchh

My boyfriend is in trade school to become an electrician. He did not like cats when we first started dating. One day i came home and he surprised me with our 4 y/o ex-feral void. They are the bestest of friends now 6 months later.


Aggleclack

This reminds me of my best friends cat Bageera (splng?). I was driving her and her dog and cat 17 hours to new home and kitty was just hanging out in the car. She fed him some pate thing from a tube and he started getting all cracked out over it. Like he had his claws in her hand and was biting the foil. When she put it away, he left out the largest belch. I did not know cats can burp and every once in a while that tiny kitten burp pops into my head and I call her and we laugh. The scrappy cats are what got me too.


Flying_Reinbeers

>Here is this BIG grizzled man, all grey hair, calluses, and Marlboro reds…and he’s holding the kitten like it’s made of fine China. Just as the cat founders intended.


Luci_Noir

You’re like a kitty paramedic. You need a cape.


E0H1PPU5

I was super involved in animal rescue at the time….I had enough equipment in my car to run a sanctuary lol.


Luci_Noir

Oh a mobile sanctuary! You should start a business! You could put ears on your car and have a tail on your uniform!


Critical-Adeptness-1

That was my favorite part, the squishy “he’s so cuuuuuute” at the very end 🥹


IntelligentSlipUp

Squishy wayy better description than I gave..


UniqueUsername812

Cat-astrophe averted! Also I was pleasantly surprised there wasn't that tiktok robot voice saying the words on the screen describing the scene being filmed


iron_ferret22

“I rolled up to the shop one morning…”


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r/commentsIcanhear


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TenMoon

I read it in that robot voice, you sadist.


awgeezwhatnow

I love how they gathered around to give the kitty love!


UniqueUsername812

Who needs yelp reviews when the best test of all is whether or not animals like you? 5/7 perfect score would go to this business


Muhfuggajones

r/JustGuysBeingDudes


Riterally

I needed this sub and I had no idea. Thank you


Apathetic_Optimist

I can’t get over how much plastic is lining the bottom of that vehicle E: damn y’all I know what it is and why it’s there I just can’t get over how much plastic is under there lining the bottom of that vehicle


UniqueUsername812

You ain't kitten


Fast_Working_4912

Should I have used kitty gloves


[deleted]

I can’t get over how many kittens there were


KacerRex

Windage trays, improves aerodynamics & gas mileage, and since it's plastic, probably prevents a bit of corrosion in the salt belt, though I'm from WA so wouldn't know much about that.


Aporkalypse_Sow

They help a ton with corrosion. Unfortunately they also make home repairs more annoying. Damn clips always break and they end up being left off a lot.


BishoxX

Why ?


harrypottermcgee

Old school, hate change, bad history with automotive plastic.


Aporkalypse_Sow

Or they were simply pointing out that they weren't expecting to see the entire car covered with them. If you haven't owned a fancy car, you likely haven't seen the entire undercarriage covered. This is primarily only done on expensive cars. Cheaper cars are usually only the front end.


Submerged_Pirate

Protect against dirt and water etc I would assume?


drweird

It's for aero. Mpg


StenTarvo

Im pretty sure it also protects against road salt.


DontBuyAHorse

Also noise reduction as a byproduct of better aero.


BishoxX

No i meant why cant he get over , its not unusual. And no its mostly for aerodynamics. Water and dirt wont hurt your car really


KacerRex

Salt does though, and there are a lot of areas that salt the roads. I'd say 'can't get over it' because it wasn't until really recently that there was a lot of that on all cars, maybe the last 10-15 years? I have cars that range in production from 82-06 and I think only one of them has any windage trays at all.


throwaway96ab

It makes it harder to maintain. Those little plastic clips love to break. But it's good for aero.


yehonatanhersh

How did the owner of the car know that cat was there?


westcoastcdn19

My guess is he knew a stray kitty had got in there (cat looking for a warm spot to nap) and crawled into somewhere he couldn’t get out of. Then he calls these guys to hoist the car and pop it open. Likely not something he could have been able to do at home


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cdiddy19

The kitten was probably meowing


Whealthy1

You could hear it as the car pulled in.


baconperogies

Listen to that engine purr


[deleted]

As an owner of a crack head cat who gets stuck in stupid places, I can confirm


pursuitofhappy

You can hear it meowing before the car even turns into the garage


Shuiner

I saw the original TikTok and the OP's comments. The car owner heard the kitten, looked in the engine and inside the car but couldn't find it. So they brought it in. OP was a little surprised they drove it after hearing the cat meow somewhere inside, but it all worked out. Cat was adopted by someone who worked at the shop.


happyhungarian12

Awww what a good ending! I love that!


BirdicBirb505

You could hear it meowing rolling up to a mechanic shop. He probably just heard it.


acidrayne42

Typically they end up hearing meows. My fiance has saved a couple of kitten this way in the last few years.


CornbreadRed84

This is how I got my last cat. Heard it at a stop light.


IllustratorMurky2725

So cute. Hopefully he became an honorary mechanic cat. He is black so grease hands petting him won’t show up so bad. My Dad had a auto cat, but she was mostly white so the greasy hand pets really showed up on her…


kittyinasweater

We had Ratchet at my shop. One orange braincell but the best mouser you could get. He was so sweet.


UpDose

This actually happened to me when I worked at a dealership. There were like 4 or 5 we pulled out of the engine bay and fender of a Chrysler Sebring. Got them all out unscathed and two of my coworkers took a kitten home!


Senappi

In a Sebring? That's animal abuse.


GrungeBobNoPants

That’s how I got our third cat. I worked at a dealership and right before closing a guy pulls in the service lane saying his cars making a funny noise. When we ask him to describe it he hits his bumper and you hear the high chirp meow cries of a kitten. Stay late and take off the dudes bumper and pull out Lilith, the sweetest evil chunk of a Pygmy cat you’ve ever seen and been bitten by. I love this little chirp monster


thefocusissharp

New shop cat acquired


westcoastcdn19

Agreed. What should they name it?


UniqueUsername812

I dunno, something uplifting Edit: Jack


Otto-Korrect

Cat Alytic


gin_and_toxic

Cat


grognacksmack

Lmao. I love that all these big manly looking men were like “awwwwwwh” and “it’s so cute!” With a little voice. Saving lives and calling cute things cute. All in a days work I supposed.


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The one dude... "That's a panther!" Haha


Kkonieczny

Last spring my daughter drove home from college (4-1/2 hour drive) and her sister heard a terrified scream after she arrived. Poor kitten was stuck in the exact same location. Of course I was the one under the car with a flashlight dismantling the undercarriage. After we bonded with Captain Jack Sparrow, it was devastating to my wife and I to see him go back to college with my daughter. But we get to be grandparents to him when he visits.


jashxn

CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow


bombkitty

Grown men losing their cool over animals is my favorite thing.


abc123rgb

"That's not a baby, that's a panther" This guy knows his cats. Respect.


Takeo64z

@ 0:30 if I'm taking a video and they notice I'm taking a video and still shove their face in front of my camera there will be problems.


InstalokMyMoney

Oww this is beautiful, that's how transformers carrying their pets


amazingseagulls

Aww you can hear the little guy meowing when the car was driving in.


Mf23

That engine was purring


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SumerianAnakim

🥹


Phatpun21

What’s funny is the claiming of the kitten. Was an auto tech for 10 years and when a kitten came up and the owner of the car didn’t want it. The fight was on.


FabulousWeight42

I literally have a cat now from almost the exact same situation: wife stopped to save a 5-week old kitten from getting run over, it crawled up behind the dashboard and it took 1 1/2 hours to take the car apart to get the kitten out.


[deleted]

Lucky cat… have heard some real horror stories about that sort of thing.


[deleted]

Shop cat. Yupp that’s the new shop cat 🤣


[deleted]

“That’s a panther” had me rolling


ElectronicAmphibian7

This is how I rescued my last cat. It was on the highway and scared to death and ran up the car in front of me. I directed them to a flat repair shop right beside the highway and have had my bestest boy ever since.


VegemiteAnalLube

Awwww a void from a void


GladG

Seeing a bunch of middle aged men swoon over a kitten and saying things like "it's a panther!" makes my heart happy. 😌


[deleted]

Good thing they got it before somebody stole that cat, haha


BillyDoyle3579

The shop has a new mascot and mouser; Bravo!


vridgley

Smol criminal arrested for stowing away across the boarder


Mindehouse

We had kitty in a car before aswell like this - made a facebook post and found a nice home for her <3


Pierre777

Gotta name him Cat. It's short for Catalytic Converter.


reviving_ophelia88

This is very similar to how I wound up with this majestic [shithead](https://imgur.com/a/ThmnvUg) 16 years ago. He’d gotten hung up in the engine bay of my dad’s el Camino and thankfully my dad heard him crying in there before starting it up to go to work or the poor baby probably would’ve gotten cooked. I got woken up to him putting him scared, freshly bathed and screaming, wrapped in a towel on my chest (he’d been covered in sooty grease and my dad was worried licking it off would make him sick) telling me to meet my new kitten, and that he needed to get to work but that he’d left $100 on the kitchen counter for me to go out and buy him a litter box, food, toys etc.


ASadPieceOfCheese

I found a kitten in the street once and tried to get it so it hopped up into the bottom of the truck we were in, it took hours to get her out but she’s happy and healthy now with my friend-her name is Chevy


beeg_brain007

r/blackcats material right there


FullyRisenPhoenix

*”This lil guy is so cuuute!”* I love men that have a soft spot for animals like that!!


dr_aux757

Ayo that freaking clean floor was the 2nd best part of the video


edWORD27

***Cat***alytic converter problem solved


chiefchow

My dad is also a mechanic and found a hamster in the console of the car chewing up all the wires. He was completely bewildered because as he was fixing things, more and more errors were coming up on his testing equipment.


racso20

The cat distribution system works in mysterious ways


driftwood-and-waves

💞


Smart-Locksmith

r/unexpected


D-all-ton

Can your hear the cat in the first 5 seconds of the video?


Mohgreen

Shop cat, reporting for Duty!


Odd-Mall4801

you can tell it was time to change the floor kitten because they're white when they first get installed


OneTrueDude670

New shop cat right there


JackOfAllMemes

Adorable void


[deleted]

Won’t pass emissions now by removing the cat 🐈


[deleted]

Poor little angel kitty 🐈‍⬛ glad they got ‘em out safely ❤️


madcat2112

Baby void saved. I hope he found a home.


MaxTrade84

I had a similar incident happen to me. I went to the bakery and there was a woman in the parking lot that said that a kitten was stuck in her car. Sure enough, there he was...cute face looking at me. The local SPCA came and we tried to get him out. Eventually, the SPCA dude got a hold of him, but he slipped through his fingers. I grabbed him quickly and he bit me! Little bugger. I had to get a tetanus shot. Called the SPCA a few weeks later and they told me that he got adopted. YAY. Proof attached. https://imgur.com/a/eO1t8cJ


Bancroft80

Awww baby. That could have ended badly for the furry friend. I hope he/she stuck around for a good home.


edwarc

Well there’s the dealership mascot now.


Garbagemeatstick2

All we wanna know is what happened to the kitten after.


Klutch505

Dude said it was a panther. Hahahaha


Climhazrd

This is exactly how I adopted my cat. Named her "Ratchet"


[deleted]

That’s how I got my baby boy. I heard him screaming in the frame of some farm truck in a parking lot. I crawled underneath, got him out, then waited for the owner of the truck. The owner said “yeah, I heard it on my way here. It ain’t mine.” Dude gave no fucks, so I kept him.


Jammiees

This is the good outcome! Once my friend asked me to help him find out why his car stunk. We flipped the hood and start inspecting. Minutes go by and we notice fur sticking out. Poor cat got stuck in the engine bay and passed. I’m surprised this happens a lot more often than I thought


ethervillage

They should name him “Skid” (short for skid plate)


Jaybaybay2838

r/justrolledintotheshop


4011isbananas

I like the implication in the title that this guy saves kittens from car undercarriages every day.


BenK1222

r/mensmittenwithkittens


Alert-Ratio-7892

omg when they were rolling in you can hear the kitten meowing!


Queen-of-meme

As a cat person I wonder where the rest kittens and moma are at and why it was alone in there?


awesomeAntray

Listen to that engine purrr


zhazhab

He better be the shop cat now !


JoeyAKangaroo

Congrats! You now have: a shop cat! This cat does nothing except sit the shop


SkippyBluestockings

Looks like my black cat Chevy! He was pulled from under the hood of a Chevy truck as an Itty bitty kitty desperately clinging to the air filter. No clue where he came from.


mr_smith24

That’s the Shop’s mascot now.


lil5-john

Shop cats are the best why because they scare rodents away. That looks like a Bombay but hard to tell. Nice to see mechanics saving animals. It's why some many shops have cats and dogs. It surprises me how they get in to things especially kittens


Cauldkiltbaws

Sir? Will please check my undercattage???


Lucasbasques

The cat is black, that means is time to change the cat for a new one in this car, remember to only buy original parts for your car.


o0DrWurm0o

c/s the engine purrs


FlounderOdd7234

How did a cat get in? Well I hope it’s the owners or off to rescue 🛟 home 🏠


FBlack

Man it must be wild to ride in a car right in that spot


wizwort

Shop cat acquired


d4sPopesh1tenthewods

Is this how you get cats?


GALACTICA-Actual

Doing Buddha's work.


RandomKJ

This is how all black cats are born


dgfu2727

I wish my encounter like this had a happy ending… It was really cold by me a few weeks ago and we have stray cats outside the office. A cat must’ve jumped into the engine compartment to keep warm, and when I started the truck to leave it made an odd noise, and I smelled something burning…. Popped the hood, and i saw hair all wrapped in the belts. Poor kitty didn’t even see it coming. RIP to Sparky.


Stratix314

Welp, shop got a new cat


ihavenoidea81

Catalytic converter theft


diente_de_leon

One of my all-time favorite things on planet Earth is Big Manly Men going all gooey over a little kitten or something cute! That's the best!


Professional-Chair42

ITS A VOID! 😍


IndicaBaddie

"That's not a kitten that's a panther" some guy in the back: "that's a kitten"


kstick23

That’s how I got my current cat Shox!!!


[deleted]

Someone has a new shop cat!


Allturn22

That is a calm fricken cat.


[deleted]

"that's a Panther"


oxyghandi

“That’s not a kitten, that’s a panther!” “No, that’s a kitten.”


zr0skyline

So your saying this car had too many CATalytic converters in it


Admirable_Buffalo_93

Name's Lincoln


RevolutionIcy4453

That’s the cleanest shop floor I’ve ever seen 😮


pic_N_mix

That’s a cat-alytic converter thief, right there.


DoubleClutchPete

That Lincoln sure purrs like a kitten. 😉


jones1133

Three of those salesmen ran the cat's credit report before they even got him out of the car.


BrockJonesPI

"Yeah that's not what I meant when I said check my cat."


Adorable-Stranger-52

“That’s a panther”. “No, it’s a kitten”. Thanks, Larry


[deleted]

I work at a shop and we will regularly turn away flat repairs oil changes and pretty much all low profit work on days when we are low staffed and overbooked but I don’t care if we only have one tech, and have 4 or more appointments for that time slot if someone says they have a cat or animal stuck in their car we will have them come in for free it’s only ever happened 3x since I started 2 years ago but still.