I knew I’d have to babyproof my house when we got pregnant but the lady at the Petsmart adoption center somehow failed to mention our cat would require that times 10.
At first we thought, aw, how cute, a kitty in a drawer but then she dove behind the open drawer & we had to ever so carefully remove every drawer without squishing her behind anything. To this day she still dives in as soon as I pull out a t-shirt. Pain in the butt cat.
Just so you know this was a space bag I had sitting on the floor that she climbed in, it’s totally unsealed & led to a lonnnng talk wit the girls (and the cat) about how dangerous it is to put anything plastic over your head. 2 of the 3 listened much better than the fur one.
Now before you send me nasty emails speaking to the dangers of cats climbing in dryers or plastic bags I already know. I may be making a bit of a joke of it on here but I’m seriously worried that this cat is going to do something dumb when I’m not there to bail her out. Ok, snap a quick pic first, but then promptly rescue her. We keep doors closed to rooms that aren’t kitty proof, I also check the dryer, washer & dishwasher before closing them as well as we never leave plastic bags laying around.
I can’t figure it out, she’s not a dumb cat, not even close…does she have some sad, tragic past that haunts her so much that occasionally she just can’t see the point in going on? Or perhaps she’s a bada$$ with a sense of adventure that catnip mice don’t come close to satiating.
Or she’s just batsh1t crazy.
Anyone else have a pet with a death wish?
Cats sure do love anything they aren’t supposed to get into! Mine have never gone in the washer/dryer/over/dishwasher but they love plastic and paper bags and drawers. If it’s open 2 inches, my cat tries to get in.
My cat climbs inside of any bag or box, squeezes into all my drawers, and into the dishwasher. I just assumed she wanted to be like all the cats she sees the kids look at on Reddit.
LOLOLOL, maybe I should just limit my cat’s internet time.
I have a crazy kitty too. She likes to climb in the fridge whenever we open it…climb in drawers, etc. Too, I always worry about her when I’m not home bc she just likes to get into everything we have in the house. All you can do is try to kitty proof and then from there not worry…cats, like humans need to not live in a bubble…the safer you can make the house the better, but you obviously can’t get rid of your appliances or dressers. 🙂
Your first mistake was getting a cat! lol. I can’t talk. My dog does some pretty stupid things. How many times will ge weave himself in and out of the patio chairs before he learns that he will never be able to “un-weave” himself.
LOL, sorry to laugh but you have to take a picture of that, the visual in my head is hysterical! (:
We learned our lesson when moving when we couldn’t find 2 of our 3 cats. One was on top of the fridge, but where were the other 2? I looked under the sink to find the back half of one cat and what looked like a wall that cut him in half. Yeah, I freaked a bit. It ends up that there was a small hole under the sink that went behind the adjoining dishwasher. It was hard getting my one cat unstuck, but he came out within the hour. The other one, who was behind the dishwasher, we didn’t see for 48 hours. After that that sink cabinet was locked. Crazy cats. So every time that we moved after that we made sure there were no crazy hiding places before we released the kitties.
I’m not sure if you have any horizontal blinds in your house, but if you do, beware of the string used to pull the blinds up. To this day, I have no idea how my cat did it because the string wasn’t close to the floor, but he got tangled in the cord and almost hanged himself on it. Honestly, if I hadn’t been close by and heard him crying, he would have died.
That’s crazy! We have ours tied up anyway because of the girls but I never would have guessed it could be the cat!
How awful! We had a puppy a few years back that hung herself by getting her collar stuck on the crate bars on top. Went to NY for my grandfather’s funeral, came home to pick her up from a friend’s house and they handed me her collar and nothing else. Horrible 🙁 Thank god you were home!!
In ONE work day, my 85lb Shep/Ret mix managed to break the crate blocking the top floor, open latched trunks and cabinets, and proceeded to consume the following..
2 bottles of nail polish, a half bottle of shampoo, some conditioner, a container of nail polish remover, 1 large candle, 62oz scope mouth wash, tire shine, leather interior conditioner, 2 packets of M&Ms, bug spray, tanning oil, suntan lotion, 3 bananas, some Windex, bath bubbles, 1 bag of marshmallows, and countless other things I cannot recall. OH, and just because his belly ached, 1 container of 196 Tums 1000 Max.
When I contacted my friend, who is a veterinary technician, she had me take the vitals, check the stool and saliva, gum color, breathing, swelling etc. Nothing. He did not act differently at all except for pooping bleach white for 3 days. I had to send photo evidence for the vet to believe me.
Several years ago, Scribbles the cat (who is now 15) got into the dryer without me knowing… I turned it on and went to the other room to fold clothes. I heard a strange noise and I as I got closer realized it was coming from the dryer. I opened it and our dryer at the time did not stop spinning if you opened it, saw him trying to run/spin/cry in the dryer!! We were both traumatized, but he survived just fine. Thank god i heard him!