Two stories:
One: A friend of mine in high school dried his pet bird (can't rememeber the type now). He was in the dryer for several minutes before someone heard him and rescued him. His name before the incident was Fred, he was never quite right after the dryer incident so his name was changed to Derf.
Two: When I was in college I carried a Calico cat home to my Mom. Abby was an excellent mouser and was always bringing stuff home to be admired. A few weeks before my dad passed away, Abby went missing. No one was exactly sure when they last saw her. We searched around for her but didn't find her. We assumed one of the neighborhood dogs had gotten her. Several days later my Dad wakes up one morning and tells my mom that he had a dream about Abby the night before. He dreamed that she was sitting on the front porch meowing. He told mom that he thought she should search around the yard one more time for her. Mom did so. As she neared the very back of the back yard, she heard a faint meow. She paused and listened several times and finally decided that the meow was coming from the back of a junk car in the edge of the pasture field behind the house. She rushed back in the house and searched for the keys to the car. When she finally found them, she opened the trunk and out jumped a very skinny, very hungry Abby.
When we finally put together what had happened, my brother had opened the trunk to get a tire jack out of it two weeks before we found Abby. The day after he got out the tire jack, my dad looked out the window, saw the trunk was still open and went out to close it. It was starting to rain so he just closed the lid and headed back into the house. Our best guess is that she was in the trunk for about 12 days.
Surprisingly, she was no worse for her stay in the trunk. She quickly gained her weight back and went back to being herself.