Ill. kitten pulled from dash gets new home, name

[February 06, 2010]  GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) -- Central Illinois mechanic Dana Underwood makes the nooks and crannies of a car sound like a small-animal zoo. He's fished mice, snakes and rabbits out of automobiles - some alive, some not. Underwood's Thursday auto safari had a happy ending.

The Galesburg mechanic said he spent 90 minutes tearing apart the dashboard of a van belonging to an animal shelter before finding a kitten. Shelter workers tried on their own to reach the kitten for more than a day before calling on Underwood.

And the good luck didn't end there for kitten, now named Dash. Someone at the dealership adopted him on the spot.

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[Associated Press]

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