The eight-year-old burmese carried almost 40km to Alexandra after being hit. “[I was] a bit surprised because he promised me he was just going to sit out at the gate and look at traffic rather than get involved,” says Bekkum’s owner Gaynor Crabbe.
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“It would have been a terrifying experience because he was lodged open to the elements through the grille, and the car would have been travelling at 100km/h,” says Helen Saunders of SPCA Otago.
Ms Saunders helped with Bekkum's rescue - dismantling the front of the vehicle to get him out. But his owner says he has a history of hitching rides with un-suspecting drivers, so they put out a warning sign. “They see him in the rear-vision mirror, he likes the back window,” says Ms Crabbe.
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