Aug. 5 (UPI) -- An Alberta man said a marmot he found investigating the inside of garage had apparently stowed away in his car for a 75-mile trip.
Chris Ratzlaff said his child alerted him to the presence of a large rodent in the family's Airdrie garage last week.
"It was hiding in a corner, and at first I thought it was maybe a porcupine, so I left the garage door open for it to leave," Ratzlaff told CTV News. "When it left, we could see that it was a marmot."
He said the marmot had apparently stowed away on a recent 75-mile drive from Kananaskis.
"We suspect she was somewhere in the engine compartment," he said. "There's a skid plate under the engine that would be a great spot for it to ride. I'm imagining the scene from Mission Impossible, where Tom Cruise is holding onto the side of an airplane."
