WATCH: Crashplate the kitten beats all odds
After being dragged under a bakkie for 8km, Crashplate was rescued by the SPCA. Now he has found a loving home.
CRASHPLATE, the white and grey kitten earned his name at two-weeks-old after he got his head and paws stuck inside a small hole in a protective plate underneath the oil sump of a parked bakkie.
The driver of the vehicle, unaware of the situation, drove off with Crashplate’s head just a few centimetres from the boiling hot sump for about 8km.
He was adopted by Hazel Singery, a yoga instructor living in Richards Bay and her family quickly fell in love with his quirks.
‘I read Crashplate’s story in the ZO and when I saw his face, I just had to have him,’ she said.
Unable to resist his big brown eyes, she called the SPCA the next day.
Crashplate remains in good health, is already house trained and gets along well with his newest friend, the family’s 11-year-old Dachshund named Streak.
After thinking long and hard about giving him a less dangerous name to live up to, Hazel is considering either ‘Badger’ or ‘Lizard’ as possible alternatives.
Which do you think suits him better?
