The Great Escape

Yesterday, I was getting ready to leave Harry's to come home for the week. The previous night, I had pulled the van into the yard, shut the double gate, and left one window open in the van. I had gotten up early on Saturday put the dogs out to play, cleaned up runs (they weren't dirty, but like to have them hosed down periodically), gotten myself cleaned up, put the dogs up, and headed to the airport to pick up Harry.
We get back to the "farm", and I fed the dogs, and put them out to potty. Meanwhile, I've got my kids in the yard with the van, because it's so easy to load 'em up that way. They know which crate they go into. They were very excited, as they usually are, because they know we're going for a ride. They love to go places.
I get Harry's kids put up, and proceed to load up my kids. Did I mention they're excited? Katherine gets in her crate, and Mona gets in Emily's crate. She won't come out, OK, I'll put Em in Mona's crate. In the meanwhile, Katherine is just going berserk, and barking at something in the van. I look at where Katherine is looking, and there is Yeller (one of the farm cats) hunkered down under the platform on which Mona's crate is. Oh great! How the h--- am I going to get this cat out---alive? Did I mention Siberians are notorious for killing cats? Unless they've been raised with cats. But, all other cats are fair game.
So, I'm hollering for Harry to come out. HARRY! HARRY! Where the heck is he? I go in to see if I can find him. He's coming to the door. "Is everything alright?" (Heck no, did you not hear me screaming)I didn't say that, but, I was thinking it. Anyway, I tell him Yeller's in the van, can you help me get him out?
We get Emily and Legend rounded up into another yard. We coax Yeller out, while Katherine and Mona are still going berserk, because there's a cat in THEIR van. So close, yet so far away.
Great the cat is now out of the van, now to get him out of the yard. I open the gate, he doesn't see the gate, but where does he go? He gets through a small opening between the gate and the post of the other yard----where Emily and Legend are. Emily gets the cat, I'm thinking he's a goner. I hear Legend screaming (I thought he was excited), and I see Yeller has grabbed Legend. He's got a claw dug in him and he's got his mouth ahold of something, and Emily is still trying to grab the cat. Harry goes in, somehow grabs the cat, while the cat is trying to climb the fence. He's shouting "Grab the dog" Grab the dog!". I'm shouting "I'm trying" "I'm trying!" Finally, I just shout to the dogs "OUT" "OUT" and point to the gate leading to where the van is. Em and Legend finally get to the yard with the van. I shut that gate, get them in the van. Harry carries Yeller out. I check him over, don't see anything (I'm astonished). Harry sets Yeller down, and off he goes.
Did I say it's easy to get the dogs loaded when the van is in the yard? Maybe not!
Why/how that cat got in the yard, and into my van is beyond me. When earlier that morning, he was on the front porch.
This is not the first time I have found Yeller in my van, either. This cat has far more than nine lives, I swear!
The first time I found him in my van, it was 100+ outside. I had the windows cracked on my van. And I found him on the floorboard. I don't know when he got in there, or how long he had been in there, but, it's a wonder that cat didn't die then from heatstroke.

Needless to say, Harry has not seen Yeller since the "incident" yesterday. Probably won't for a few days.