Mercedes The Kitten Now A Celebrity

Mercedes the kitten has become the latest celebrity after her new owner, Antonio Rosario rescued her from the engine of a car.

Thanks to blogs and the social media, news has spread, making the Brooklyn kitten and her owner, internet celebrities.

"We're driving along Ocean parkway, headed to Brighton Beach for a morning at the beach," Rosario told reporters. "Sometime while we're driving (I'm in the passenger seat) I hear what sounds like a cat crying. I think that we have a car in our car. I look out behind me and out of the window and in the adjacent lane is see a Mercedes S550 with its left front turn signal light missing from the housing. In this housing is the little face of a kitten crying."

Antonio signaled the woman driving the car and when they pulled over, no one had any idea of opening the hood of the car.

"I can see the kitten sitting inside the housing where the turn signal lamp should be. She's staring at me and I reach in to grab her and she disappears further into the engine," Rosario told reporters. "Suddenly, I see a paw protruding from the right front part of the car, near the turn signal housing. It's limp. (My wife) Elizabeth and I fear the kitten is dead because the engine was so hot. I push at the paw and shove it back inside the housing. The kitten could not come out that way anyway. I could feel it and I poked it a bit and it started crying again."

Rosario finally enticed the cat out of the car engine with some food.

"I could see the kitten and she became interested in the meat. She first poked her head out of the hold," Rosario said. "I told everyone to be quiet so we wouldn't scare her back into the engine. Finally she dropped one leg down then another. Finally, she dropped out of the hold an I grabbed her firmly and quick."