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SOUTH JORDAN– A cat from the Daybreak neighborhood in South Jordan chose a wild flight throughout the Salt Lake Valley when it chose to heat up in a vehicle.
When Jaren Hafen might not discover his cat Ollie Thursday, he examined his Apple AirTag tracker app on his phone.
” I inspect it and it states he is at I-15 and I-215, and I believed, ‘That has actually got to be a problem’,” Hafen stated.
However it wasn’t. Ollie was 15 miles far from house and on the relocation.
” I resemble, ‘Oh no, he remains in a vehicle.’ So I got the provider, got some deals with and a blanket, and I resembled, ‘OK, let’s go track this down,” Hafen stated.
It was a wild goose chase. Hafen followed the tracker all the method to a Costco parking area in Sandy. From his phone, he directed Ollie’s collar AirTag to play a noise so he might find it.
” My phone stated he was right there, however I could not hear anything, so I should’ve simply missed out on the cars and truck,” he stated.
He then followed the moving tracker back to South Jordan, where it parked at an organization. He pinged the gadget once again, and incredibly discovered Ollie in a vehicle he acknowledged to be his next-door neighbor’s Tesla.
” We attempted to coax him out, however I resembled, ‘No, he’s not going to come out on his own, so let’s try to find a neighboring mechanic,'” Hafen stated.
Here Cat Cat! A South Jordan cat winds up 15 miles from house after riding in this cars and truck.
At 10:00, how his owners had the ability to track him down * unscathed * and what Salt Lake County Animal Solutions recommends you do if you discover a cat in a circumstance like this @KSL5TVpic.twitter.com/IiYULeer09
— Ashley Moser (@AshleyMoser) November 5, 2022
They wound up at a Tunex near Redwood Roadway and South Jordan Parkway, where mechanics mored than happy to assist get Ollie out, complimentary of charge.
” I believed we would pull that undercarriage off and get him and go, however no,” Hafen stated.
The team needed to get rid of parts of the lorry to get Ollie out. The entire experience lasted about thirty minutes. He was happy the cars and truck Ollie climbed up into was an electrical cars and truck and understands it might have been much even worse if it had actually been a gas-powered engine.
Callista Pearson with Salt Lake County Animal Solutions concurs.
” In some cases felines do get stuck in there and can get injured,” she stated. “We have a worker whose cat’s leg got cut off after a motorist launched the engine not understanding the cat remained in there heating up.”
Pearson stated if you are a cat owner or if you park your cars and truck outside, take some preventative measures prior to you begin your cars and truck, particularly in the winter season.
” You might knock on the hood, beep the horn, you might even spray pepper spray around your cars and truck to keep felines from entering into them when you’re parked,” she stated.
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Ashley MoserAshley Moser signed up with KSL in January 2016. She co-anchors KSL 5 Live at 5 with Mike Headrick and reports for the KSL 5 News at 10.
