I thought perhaps the car was blocking the view. In multiple occasions I parked the car outside so the cameras had a clear view of the entire door. Whenever I parked the car outside, the car wouldn't enter the garage that night. Was it trolling me???

My friend joked that maybe the cat was pulling a Mission Impossible move and coming in the garage by hanging on to the bottom of the car. I laughed.
Then a few nights ago I was awake when I could see the cat in the garage cameras. While steaming it on my phone I walked down.

I entered and started yelling and banging things, expecting it would get scared and run away (and hopefully not want to come back). But to me surprise, it just disappeared under my car???
Looking at more footage I was now certain the cat wasn't entering or leaving.

The incredible thing is on *several* of the days when the cat was in the garage at night I drove during the day. Sometimes at freeway speeds. One day I parked it all day in SF. So if it did indeed enter by being somewhere under my car, then it was being driven along everywhere!

I looked with a flashlight under my car. It's a Tesla Model Y so the underside is mostly flat. I believe it may have found a comfortable spot somewhere around the front right wheel well / suspension area. But I haven't been able to see it and confirm exactly.

This was me banging the underside with a broom hoping it would come out. Here you can see my best guess as to where the cat may have been living.

But I may never know exactly.

As my last resort I put a humane trap with a can of tuna. After a couple of nights, I got it.
I'm writing this from bed just after seeing that it went in last night.
Plan is to take it to animal services.

In one of the videos a few nights ago the cat seemed to be trying to catch a fly or something like that. When it jumped, you could clearly hear a bell hanging off its neck. There's a good chance this cat has an owner.

2 days ago trying to piece everything together I realized that the first time I saw pee in the garage was right after I came from visiting my friend in Central California. There's a chance I accidentally drove someone's cat under my car all the way here from 180mi away.