In Britain, a cat has had an incredible journey. He drove more than 800 kilometers behind the radiator grille of a taxi and escaped in horror.

It is still not entirely clear how it got there: taxi driver Tom Hutchings was returning to Tonyrefail in Great Britain after an 800 kilometer journey and discovered a cat behind the radiator grill of his vehicle. Apparently, the animal traveled the entire route to Bristol Airport, Llanelli, Cardiff and Treherbert in the engine compartment of the vehicle. The British television network BBC reported on the incident on Monday.

The taxi driver’s fiancee alerted him to the animal that was in the vehicle. “I definitely wasn’t expecting this little pink nose and pair of green eyes to suddenly appear just inches from my face,” Hutchings told BCC. He grabbed his toolbox, removed the front bumper, and pulled out the jack. He then took the animal to the vet.

“She must have been exhausted from the trip because she fell asleep in the passenger seat, right next to me,” the taxi driver said. After the veterinarian examined the cat and certified that he was in good health, Hutchings searched for the owners on social media.

And he found what he was looking for. It turned out that the cat’s name was Gizmo and he had been missing in the town of Miskin for over a week. “His owners had ruled out ever seeing him alive again and I still have no idea how he managed to get from Miskin to Tonyrefail,” Hutchings said. That’s about ten kilometers from where he lives. “I can only imagine that he was traveling in a large truck that came from an industrial area there.”

Gizmo probably traveled more than 800 kilometers by taxi. In the end he had to make his last trip for the moment: return to his family.