A kitten has been named Axle after completing a daring 12km journey across South Auckland concealed behind a car's front wheel.
Tina Dawber had been at a family gathering in Ridgemount Rise, Mangere Bridge, with her three children, Seneti is nine, Haleni is six, and Ocean is four, last week when the kitten climbed under her car
The children had been playing with the neigbourhood cat and kittens before lunch and when the family left her brother Titie Lauta's address around 5.30pm they were unaware they had an extra passenger on board.
Driving along Roscommon Rd minutes into the 12.7km journey home including a stint along the southwestern motorway.Dawber thought she heard something "I was thinking I'm hearing voices so I didn't mention anything."
Her paranoia got worse as she passed a nearby cemetery where her late father was buried. "Could it be my dad?" she wondered.
When she heard a meow moments later she slowed the vehicle and asked her children look in and around their seats and reassure her they weren't playing a joke on her.
They weren't, but there was no sign of a feline.
When the Dawbers got home they searched the vehicle but didn't hear so much as a peep out of the kitten. On searches they heard a meow, but still there was no sign of the clever cat.
When Dawber's husband, Alex, arrived home from work he too took a look, initially finding nothing. His daughter Seneti was adamant there was a cat underneath the car so he kept searching and around 10.30pm he found it.
