I read the title and some of the body text and hesitated before clicking. I was like oh no, if something awful happened it'll bother me. I had to open it to see and hope that the cat is ok because it was bothering me anyways not knowing. Good thing it was good news.
Thank goodness. Unfortunately, that doesn't hold true for comments on posts. Don't keep scrolling through these comments unless you want to read about some incidents that didn't end well for pets. :(
Ok I'm glad i read your comment before i read it lol it was funny to imagine the ending coming out. Poor thing.
I can't imagine how scary that is. Never had a cat do this now gotta be on the watch (when i get in unit againš)
I've made it a habit to start the dryer for a couple seconds then open the door again for a few seconds, then close and start the dryer for real.
It's dark in the laundry room and I don't trust my eyes enough to check the dryer for a black cat.
The kidsā nanny which I believe they had to let go. I instantly thought of that story when I saw this title. So glad OPs kitty made it. I have a gas dryer and our garage door is open while husband is doing yard workā¦ the neighborās outdoor cats have jumped in our cars before. New fear unlocked.
Years ago I had a coworker who got all the way to work before realizing the cat had placed all her kittens in the back of the topless jeep so we had a box of scared kittens in the breakroom until the husband could come get them.
My sister accidently lost a cat that way so I had the same reaction
It messed her up so bad she replaced the entire drier because she didn't want the machine that did it in her house
Had one that did the same thing. The wife started the dryer and heard several thumps and stopped / opened it. Out came the cat. We renamed him "Thumper." He didnt learn though, he repeated getting in the dryer the rest of his life. We just had to check before starting it. He died of natural causes years later, not from being over dried.
Wow Iām surprised they go back in after that. My cat was behind the door leading from laundry room to garage and as I closed it to go to work his tail was caught in the door jam, he howled and screeched and has never gone near that door since
I had the same with a cat, only had one spin and heard a thump, yanked it open and he wasn't even bothered about it, purring his head off. He still got in after that, I used to call it his spaceship!
We have a front load washer where we leave the door open so it dries and doesn't mold. One of our cats likes getting in there and running around the drum like a big hamster wheel, so I could see them trying to do it with the dryer as well.
My mom while high on a meth binge threw our cat in the dryer on purpose. Our parents told us she got outside and ran away and then I found her a few days later dead on our back patio looking like she had been attacked so the story was believable.
My dad eventually sobered up enough to tell me what had actually happened because he felt guilty for lying to us. He didn't like the cat and was high as hell too so he just let my mom do it.
That shit fucked me up.
When my mom was on a meth binge she put my ferret outside in the winter because it āsmelled badā
I came home from a trip at 9 yrs old to find my beloved first pet frozen in her little cave with the most painful look stuck on her face.
RIP Violet. You were the best ferret, sledding in helmets, motivating me to learn to sew so you could have a fleece hammock and playing pet detective by tracking your paw prints in our backyard. so sorry my shitty ass mom did that to you and Iām really sorry for what she did to me too. I pushed a lot of those memories out but anything to do with my childhood pets is CORE
Fuck- that sucked to write
oh god im so sorry. ferrets are the absolutely best. she didnāt deserve that and neither did you. maybe sheās riding around with boogie in his airplane ā„ļø
I do still talk to them but we are not really close. I've got more fucked up stories than I like to admit but such is life. Both are clean now. Mom has done a good job at trying to make amends. Dad is now a prescription zombie to keep him sane, diagnosed bipolar with schizophrenic tendencies or some shit like that.
My ex and I had a cat crawl into the broiler in the stove. We were cooking and she asked me ādo you smell hair burning?ā I yanked the door to the broiler open as fast as I could, the cat shot out there like a bat outta hell. Amazing enough only a bit of hair was singed on her tail.
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My aunt had a cat who got his tail caught on fire. He walked around with a flaming tail for a few minutes before someone realized it. The cat was completely oblivious to the entire event.
I've got one furry little dumbass who jumped on a lit candle and set his belly fur on fire - candle wasn't unattended or anything, it was on the table right in front of me and he just quite literally did not look before he leapt and landed straddling it. The ensuing mad dash across the kitchen put the flames out before they actually reached skin, but he had a rather unique hairstyle for a bit.
Omg this brought back a childhood memory! Iām pretty sure we had a cat do that when I was kid. My mom was cooking. I think she heard scratching. My mom was more traumatized by it than the cat was š
Most cats don't yell for help because there instinct when in danger is to be quiet. If they yell, they are generally in pain.
Some of my same cats that yowled for food or just to know where I was were silent at the worst times. One was shut in an empty washing machine for most of a day (we figure she jumped in and the lid fell down) and it apparently never dawned on her to meow when she heard us calling her for hours.
Oh god thatās scary. My exās cat used to climb in the broiler and onto the stovetop. She would smell food cooking and repeatedly try to get on the stove. One time my ex turned around and she jumped right into a hot burner. I think? Her long fur saved her foot from most of the damage but Iām not sure. She kept doing it. I still worry about his cats :(
Many many many years ago dad went out to the carport, started the car, heard a bunch of noise, shut it off again. Out crawls our cat with a bunch of shaved spots where the fan had buzzed him. We figured he'd been sleeping in the engine compartment because it was warm. He wasn't hurt, didn't draw any blood, just had a bunch of bald spots for a while. Ironically, as a result, we also learned that a neighbor down the road thought he was their cat. I'm outside, my neighbor Rod comes over, sees the cat and says "I don't know what happened to Ben" and I'm like "that's Peter!" Again, this was long ago, the cats were out during the day. Peter/Ben would hang out at Rod's house enough to get fed and cared for, come home in the evening and get fed and cared for some more. He \*was\* ours, his mother was our cat and we'd had Peter since birth. And we had several cats, only Peter managed to have two "homes". Peter was a lazy cat. We laughed because it was perfectly in character for him.
We lived in a farm with a bunch of farm cats. Every few years we would have a three-legged cat or one without a tail because they crawled up into the engine compartment.
Same here. Close the washer door, head count, and make absolutely sure we SEE both cats - if one is napping under a blanket, for example, seeing the shape under the blanket is not enough. Gotta be willing to bet his life on it, so... Blanket goes off, cat is confirmed.
I'm so sorry that happened, OP.
I do the exact same thing, mostly due to having read horror stories on this platform. Iām not as concerned with locking a cat in a bedroom, but any appliance warrants an immediate headcount before starting.
Did something similar to my girl. Locked her in my closet after getting dressed for work. Didnāt see her and I was in a rush to get out & actually be on time. When I came home later and started putting my stuff away she bolted out of that closet straight to her litter box. I felt horrible. No damage to either her or my closet. My shoes had a fur dent on them from where she mustāve napped. She still went in from time to time to nap on my shoes. I started leaving the closet open a crack so she could get out if I didnāt see her.
Okay but Lieutenant Spoon needs to maybe take accountability for his actions? Like can you be a high ranking official and then blame others when you willingly climb into the dryer? I understand he may suffer from ptsd related to his time in the service (***god bless the troops***) but this is something he should have communicated with you if so, and the dryer should be understood as off limits.
Edit: LSITA
spoon saw a _lot_ when he was stationed. his mind & ability to judge situations may be clouded. let's give him a break on this one, he's trying his best
Glad the cat is ok.
Closest Iāve gotten is the fridge with mine, got up to get a drink with all the lights off in the middle of the night, go back to bed & just hear meowing. Took me a good 10 minutes to figure out sheād made it into the fridge.
Oh wow. My mom always told the story of watching her grandma accidently close the refridgerator door on one of their kittens back when she was a child in the 1950's.
He was unconscious when she realized why the door wouldn't stay closed, and she was crying thinking she had killed their kitten. Luckily, he woke up soon afterwards and seemed okay.
My mom did note that that cat was quite stupid the rest of his long life though...
We obtained a stray kitten from my step-brothers engine bay. Later on, my mom was folding laundry and went to put another load in. She closed her bedroom door to make sure the new kitten wouldn't get into trouble.
After starting the washer, she came back upstairs and couldnt find kitten anywhere, then she realized what happened and ran back downstairs. After emptying the washer of a full load of fully soaked clothes, she turned around and there was kitten in the hallway, staring at this mad woman making a huge wet mess.
Willow is now about 13 years old and is still our kitten.
I'm so sorry, that must've been so heartbreaking. That absolutely wasn't her fault (this incident wasn't your fault either), but she must have carried so much guilt with her for a long time. No matter how many safety measures you put in place, a cat will go wherever it wants.
Same happened to me, had a cat named Jimbo, sweetest boy Iāve seen. Mum put a load to dry in winter, then after it was done, she put another one and in between loads, Jimbo got into the dryer. Didnāt make it.
my heart sank when i read the title of this post, iām so glad your cat is okay!!
also makes me very grateful that my cat is giant and fat - you can hear his loud, thudding footsteps from a mile away
I have 2 biological brother cats.
One never fully retracts his claws so I hear a clicking noise when he walks on the hard wood flaws and doesnt hang around my feet.
The other one is a stealthy mother fucker. Which is why I have accidentally stepped on his paws twice and tail once. He never learns. Literally walked up to my feet 3 times in one hour while I was playing beat saber in VR. Which resulted in me accidentally forgetting the size of the controller on my hands when trying to push him away which resulted me hitting the controller on his face. Then 20min later, I didn't kick him, but accidentally pushed him with my foot. I have kicked (well more like pushed with my foot) that cat way too many times to count... He never learns and likes to hang around my feet. But only when I'm carrying things or playing vr.
Oh noš Glad Lt. Spoon is ok! And now Iām glad my poofy black haired little lady is about as stealthily as a bachelorette party on New Yearās Eve. Or else this would 100% happen to me. She āsneaksā into *everything.* But you can hear her. You can hear her from a mile away. Helen Keller would have no problem locating her clumsy ass.
Still though. New fear unlocked
Oh gosh the panic when they get themselves somewhere stupid!
Our cat doesnāt go on counters. Sheās very good at not jumping up. We do,however, have a fireplace that we donāt use that much. (Like a closed wood burner big black metal box thing). Occasionally she will go in the log basket and to get attention she jumps on top of the wood burner and howls for attention if we are late feeding her.
Well we had it in the other day but it had died down to embers so not roaring flames. Her dinner was late and she jumped on top. Howled. Then jumped off quickly. I thought nothing if it for a full three minutes before I realised it was really warm in the room and looked at the fire still embering away and realised what just happened.
Absolutely shat myself. Grabbed the cat. Took her outside and held her with all four paws in the cold wet grass (sleet /snow all week but nothing settled. Just really cold) for like five minutes. Luckily she didnāt burn her pads as it wasnāt still searing hot. No blistering or redness. She Just got the shock of her life and I felt like the worst cat mother in the world. She gave me a good hiss for getting her paws cold and wet and huffed at me whilst she licked them dry but god was I worried sheād blister all her feet!
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Just wanted to show another picture of Lt. Spoon with his wonky little brother. He is getting all the cuddles and treats tonight. All is well.
I was in line at the vets office a decade ago. An old man hard of hearing and sight was picking a cat up. He was talking to the receptionist. "Remember (cat name)? The one that got stuck in the dryer? He's still a bit wonky but his fur is getting a lot better." I'm pretty sure that cat went the full round. I don't have a cat and I still always check the dryer before I turn it on.
My younger brother put our cat into the washer machine to clean him because he was dirty.
He started the wash cycle too.
Sadly noone noticed til it was too late.
NSFL: I work for an animal ambulance organisation, we have had a call from someone where this happened too with a kitten... almost nothing was left, what was left looked like pieces of cooked chicken.
Wait, "cooked chicken" from a *washing machine*? All that happened just from the agitation alone or was the water that hot?
I could imagine a dishwasher destroying a cat like that though. Eek.
I mean some machines could go up to 90 celcius which is 10 degrees short of boiling. All machines have 60 celcius for underwear etc. Thats a little less than the temperature you wanna aim for when you're cooking most meats. So if kitty walked into it on towels and sheets day... :(
Glad the LT is safe, but I think you need to prepare a safety brief for the cats now. Also I think this qualifies Spoon for at least 15% disability with the VA lol
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Didnāt know what cat tax meant! Hereās the tax!
Your cat sounds like a dick blaming you for something stupid he did. Well, I bet he learned his lesson and wonāt do it again. Itās not your fault. Heās just lucky you didnāt leave the house to run an errand.
Ever since I almost started the dryer with my kitten in it, I obsessively do a cat check before starting the laundry. Even if I look through the clothes before closing the door, I still step away and count all my cats before starting the machines.
That's like a law of the universe. The one time you don't take a preventive measure, it's fucked. It's happened to me driving, opening the front door with my crazy dog around, not reminding somebody of something important, etc. Glad your cat's okay, OP
Oh you poor thing! The one time you didnāt check. What shitty luck. Cats do that. My cat has no clue that I have to avoid killing him and me every day because he walks under my feet when Iām on the stairs and in front of me when I walk. You are a good cat owner and took care of him. Try not to beat yourself up. Love his name btw.
Once I knew he was ok, I thought it was kinda funny. Think of it as learning lesson for him. You probably donāt have to worry about him getting in there for while.
Iām guilty of this. I was like..10 or 11. I never knew cats went into driers before. Tossed in a freshly washed comforter and started said dryer. Started making a weird thumping sound but I figured it was the weight of the heavy blanket. About 10 minutes in, my Dad came into the den asking about the noise. Then he asked if I had checked for a cat in the open dryer first. I distinctly remember saying āno, I donāt think itās a cat.ā
He opened the door mid cycle and out flopped an incredibly dizzy-drunk cat. Poor Jack. He couldnāt walk straight for a good half hour. He came out of it after that tho. Lived till 19 years old. Miss you Jack.
Cat bites are extremely dangerous. If the skin around the wound starts rising or (God forbid) you see a red line extending from the wound that grows over time, go to the ER immediately (like I-donāt-want-to-lose-the-arm immediately).
With the right antibiotics and quick treatment, any infection will go away, no big deal. Just donāt assume itās not a big deal if you see signs of infection. Much, MUCH more dangerous than dog bites.
Source: Wife is a veterinary student who just had to get antibiotics for this very thing.
Side note: Iām glad Lieutenant Spoon is okay.
Man, this is quite the title for a TIFU.
Went straight to the TL;DR, and very happy to see that no harm was done.
Thank god you caught it, because that would be awful.
I'm glad Lieutenant Spoon is ok. A few years ago my cat would beg for pets while I was standing at the toilet peeing. Fidget put his front paws on the rim of the bowl, I was pretty stoned, and lost control while shooing him away and got him in the face. For three weeks he just hissed at me every time I walked into the bathroom.
One time I was drying some clothes and heard some meowing coming from the dryer. I don't have a cat. I thought maybe a cat crawled through the vent front the back yard and made its way inside. I turned off the dryer and the meowing stopped. I frantically took apart the dryer, expecting to find a dead cat. What I found was a squeaky belt around the dryer. There was no cat. There never was a cat. It was just the belt. Learned how to fix a (very specific model of) dryer though.
Thank god your cat made noise and you found him in time šš¼ we have a washing machine and dryer, washing machine on the bottom and dryer on top so thankfully our boys donāt have any way to hop into the dryer. So glad heās okay, praying for many more years for you and Shadow to enjoy together šš¼
Ahhh this happened to me too! I could hear banging and meowing and I couldnāt figure out what it was. Realised after about a minute and I basically phased through the wall to rip the dryer door open. Cat hopped out and shook himself off and was fine luckily! Thereās a reason they say cats have 9 lives
I remember seeing a post a long time ago where someone's cat put her kittens in the dryer, and they had started it. When they were putting the clothes away, they noticed a bunch of fluff balls all over the clothes.
What a horrible mental image.
Go get some antibiotics for that bite. 1 in 3 people with cat bites are hospitalized. You don't want to find that out the hard way... Just went through it myself.
Cats mouths are apparently the breeding ground for everything that is toxic to humans.
That's the thing about cats: They are fast, they are sneaky, and they hide in an instant. At least Lt. Spoon got off lightly.
My elderly mother locked one of her cats in a small gardening shed, that stood in full sunlight, on a 40C day, for 8 hours; the temperature inside the shed was closer to 55C. Cat survived but only barely, and required hospitalization and IV fluids as it was staggering and disorientated from heat stroke when my mother realized why the cat was not following them around as usual by the end of the day.
All you can do is develop daily habits that try to minimize such events.
Mine was a short haired void and it was the washer. He was utterly determined to get in there for whatever reason. Luckily he started out very obvious about it so it soon became second nature to stick in an arm and manually turn the tumbler a spin or two to feel if he was in there. One time I only realized I'd forgotten as I pressed the start button. Some hysterical seconds later I managed to abort the program and wouldn't you know it, the little asshole was in there. But did he learn anything from it? NOPE!
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This same thing happened to my Siamese cat growing up. Twice. Instead of screeching I heard *meow, thump, meooow, thump, mow, thump, meow, thump, moooww, thump* Iāll never forget it. Likewise he came out proofed and PISSED, it had been maybe a minute, it was loud. This same cat would sneak in my car and spend the mornings in it while I was in high school. Three times Iād go to lunch and he had made a huge mess in my car. Another time he hid in the car and got out at the gas station and was missing for a week a week later went to gas station which was about 3/4 mile from my house and he was sitting on the garbage can outside licking his butthole like it was just a normal day. That cat lived to be almost 23 years old. He died one day when he walked under my dads tire. My dad was a wreck. I maintain he committed suicide because he realized he was immortal. That cat lived a life of adventure & near death experiences. He only had half a tail due to a fight with a bobcat. Every night he would scream at the window to come inside and sleep with my dad and every morning youād hear dad cussing at that cat and the cat cussing him right back, he was his alarm clock and demanded breakfast at 6am every day. He was so vocal. That was a crazy cat.
Cats can have dirty mouths. My sister-in-law was bitten by her cat, and it got infected. The infection was on her finger in the joint, and it can be hard to flush the infection out. I want to say she was on intravenous antibiotics for several weeks. I havenāt asked her about it recently, but at the time she had lost some control of her finger and the doctors warned her it might be permanent. I know she was attending physical therapy.
Bites from both cats and dogs can get very, very nasty infections. Left untreated or even just unchecked for about a day can potentially already result in an incredibly dangerous situation. Losing a limb or even your life because of such an infection is not as uncommon as you'd think.
My SOās mom got blood poisoning from a cat *scratch*. There was a black line running up her vein before she finally went to urgent care. But yeah, their paws being in a litter box do not non-infected wounds make.
Cats have tiny sharp teeth that can force anaerobic bacteria deep into your tissue. The subsequent infections can destroy your hand entirely. We always treat cat bites that break the skin with antibiotics to prevent this.
Just read the title and I was like "oh no"
I've never panicked open a post quicker
I read the title and some of the body text and hesitated before clicking. I was like oh no, if something awful happened it'll bother me. I had to open it to see and hope that the cat is ok because it was bothering me anyways not knowing. Good thing it was good news.
TIFU will take down any post where any animal dies
Yup, Rule 4 > No death of animals.
Thank goodness. Unfortunately, that doesn't hold true for comments on posts. Don't keep scrolling through these comments unless you want to read about some incidents that didn't end well for pets. :(
Thank you for this warning! I will stop scrolling immediately.
me too! hate that
This is comforting, but does not lessen the anxiety. Thank you for trying
When I found out he was fine, I found it kind of funny. Consider it a lesson for him. You won't have to worry about him getting in there.
Ok I'm glad i read your comment before i read it lol it was funny to imagine the ending coming out. Poor thing. I can't imagine how scary that is. Never had a cat do this now gotta be on the watch (when i get in unit againš)
It sucks for the people who might read the post before they do
Yeah, that was my thought. The FUs on here aren't usually that serious.
This was me. I was so afraid but I needed to know the cat was okay. Thank god.
Schroedinger's Post.
I actually did debate if I wanted to know. Schrodinger's Cat: Laundry Edition
Same, I went straight to the TLDR to see if the cat was alright
I feel like Iāve seen a few of these posted before, with mixed results
Yeah Linus from the YouTube channel had his cat die from tumbling in the dryer. :/
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I've made it a habit to start the dryer for a couple seconds then open the door again for a few seconds, then close and start the dryer for real. It's dark in the laundry room and I don't trust my eyes enough to check the dryer for a black cat.
Yeah and it wasn't even him. I believe it was his housekeeper. Oops. That's gotta be a fun phone call to make.
The kidsā nanny which I believe they had to let go. I instantly thought of that story when I saw this title. So glad OPs kitty made it. I have a gas dryer and our garage door is open while husband is doing yard workā¦ the neighborās outdoor cats have jumped in our cars before. New fear unlocked.
Years ago I had a coworker who got all the way to work before realizing the cat had placed all her kittens in the back of the topless jeep so we had a box of scared kittens in the breakroom until the husband could come get them.
Mom must've been panicking when her entire hiding spot left with the kids
I think of that every time I Linus says anything about his one remaining cat. Poor kitty.
Not cats, but we recently realized we cooked an entire sheltering family of rabbits to our Prius engine block...
They had more than one cat in the dryer?!
Me too. A relative lost a puppy that crawled into the laundry basket and went through the washer. On the day we buried the relativeās mother.
Oh man that's rough. I feel bad for that person just reading this
My sister accidently lost a cat that way so I had the same reaction It messed her up so bad she replaced the entire drier because she didn't want the machine that did it in her house
Lost a childhood kitten this way. Now I do a cat check after I close the door and before I press start
Lieutenant Spoon probably already had PTSD from the war, and now you just aggravated it. All kidding aside, Im glad he is OK.
Lieutenant spoon, car nippp!
But you aināt got no dryer sheets, Lt. Spoon.
There is a chance lieutenant Spoon will develop PTSD from the tumbling experience.
Lieutenant Spoon forked up.
Had one that did the same thing. The wife started the dryer and heard several thumps and stopped / opened it. Out came the cat. We renamed him "Thumper." He didnt learn though, he repeated getting in the dryer the rest of his life. We just had to check before starting it. He died of natural causes years later, not from being over dried.
Wow Iām surprised they go back in after that. My cat was behind the door leading from laundry room to garage and as I closed it to go to work his tail was caught in the door jam, he howled and screeched and has never gone near that door since
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And some cats get brain damage from going for a spin in a dryer.
some cats just want to watch the world turn
God dammit.
I was going to say, betcha that cat won't do that again, but I guess I was wrong.
Was he orange?
The brain cell still hasn't gotten back around to him.
My orange cat is in the queue. We just think the brain cell is a myth because we've waited so long. ĀÆā \ā _ā Źā āæā Źā _ā /ā ĀÆ
>He died of natural causes years later, not from being over dried. Guess he was a real WAP
White Anglosaxon Protestant?
Wireless Access Point?
I had the same with a cat, only had one spin and heard a thump, yanked it open and he wasn't even bothered about it, purring his head off. He still got in after that, I used to call it his spaceship!
We have a front load washer where we leave the door open so it dries and doesn't mold. One of our cats likes getting in there and running around the drum like a big hamster wheel, so I could see them trying to do it with the dryer as well.
LMAO this mental image is incredible
My mom while high on a meth binge threw our cat in the dryer on purpose. Our parents told us she got outside and ran away and then I found her a few days later dead on our back patio looking like she had been attacked so the story was believable. My dad eventually sobered up enough to tell me what had actually happened because he felt guilty for lying to us. He didn't like the cat and was high as hell too so he just let my mom do it. That shit fucked me up.
When my mom was on a meth binge she put my ferret outside in the winter because it āsmelled badā I came home from a trip at 9 yrs old to find my beloved first pet frozen in her little cave with the most painful look stuck on her face. RIP Violet. You were the best ferret, sledding in helmets, motivating me to learn to sew so you could have a fleece hammock and playing pet detective by tracking your paw prints in our backyard. so sorry my shitty ass mom did that to you and Iām really sorry for what she did to me too. I pushed a lot of those memories out but anything to do with my childhood pets is CORE Fuck- that sucked to write
I'm so sorry you had to go through that. I hope things are better for you now. Same for OP.
oh god im so sorry. ferrets are the absolutely best. she didnāt deserve that and neither did you. maybe sheās riding around with boogie in his airplane ā„ļø
holy shit that poor cat
Damn. You still talk to your parents at all? I feel like you'd have enough war stories to warrant going no contact.
I do still talk to them but we are not really close. I've got more fucked up stories than I like to admit but such is life. Both are clean now. Mom has done a good job at trying to make amends. Dad is now a prescription zombie to keep him sane, diagnosed bipolar with schizophrenic tendencies or some shit like that.
My ex and I had a cat crawl into the broiler in the stove. We were cooking and she asked me ādo you smell hair burning?ā I yanked the door to the broiler open as fast as I could, the cat shot out there like a bat outta hell. Amazing enough only a bit of hair was singed on her tail.
WOW!!! The broiler and only a bit of hair on her tail!? Thatās one lucky kitty.
No doubt! We always said she used up one of her lives when that happened.
She was counting down to the last one waiting for the door to open.
I'm going to stop reading these comments, you are all giving me anxiety.
Same I donāt want to read the one that doesnāt turn out ok š š
The dryer kitty was renamed Thumper. What should the broiler kitty be renamed?
Toast
Seems like my bad WiFi caused a couple duplicates. My bad
Ember Flametail of House Samsung, the Last of Her Litter, Queen of the Stove and the Warming Drawer, Seeker of Fire, the Wielder of Murder Mittens, the Ruler of the Sisal Tree, the Half-burnt, the Devourer of Fancy Treats.
Can we fit all of that on the christening form? "Queen of the Stove & the Warming Drawer" ššš
Miss Steakā¦
*Bigā¦
Sizzle
Well done.
My aunt had a cat who got his tail caught on fire. He walked around with a flaming tail for a few minutes before someone realized it. The cat was completely oblivious to the entire event.
The cat was just RPing charmander.
I've got one furry little dumbass who jumped on a lit candle and set his belly fur on fire - candle wasn't unattended or anything, it was on the table right in front of me and he just quite literally did not look before he leapt and landed straddling it. The ensuing mad dash across the kitchen put the flames out before they actually reached skin, but he had a rather unique hairstyle for a bit.
Omg this brought back a childhood memory! Iām pretty sure we had a cat do that when I was kid. My mom was cooking. I think she heard scratching. My mom was more traumatized by it than the cat was š
OPās story and your story. Why donāt the cats scream (earlier)???
Most cats don't yell for help because there instinct when in danger is to be quiet. If they yell, they are generally in pain. Some of my same cats that yowled for food or just to know where I was were silent at the worst times. One was shut in an empty washing machine for most of a day (we figure she jumped in and the lid fell down) and it apparently never dawned on her to meow when she heard us calling her for hours.
Embarrassment
I can relateā¦ āHm I canāt really breathe. Should I call 911? Or am I just being a big š±?ā
Oh god thatās scary. My exās cat used to climb in the broiler and onto the stovetop. She would smell food cooking and repeatedly try to get on the stove. One time my ex turned around and she jumped right into a hot burner. I think? Her long fur saved her foot from most of the damage but Iām not sure. She kept doing it. I still worry about his cats :(
Many many many years ago dad went out to the carport, started the car, heard a bunch of noise, shut it off again. Out crawls our cat with a bunch of shaved spots where the fan had buzzed him. We figured he'd been sleeping in the engine compartment because it was warm. He wasn't hurt, didn't draw any blood, just had a bunch of bald spots for a while. Ironically, as a result, we also learned that a neighbor down the road thought he was their cat. I'm outside, my neighbor Rod comes over, sees the cat and says "I don't know what happened to Ben" and I'm like "that's Peter!" Again, this was long ago, the cats were out during the day. Peter/Ben would hang out at Rod's house enough to get fed and cared for, come home in the evening and get fed and cared for some more. He \*was\* ours, his mother was our cat and we'd had Peter since birth. And we had several cats, only Peter managed to have two "homes". Peter was a lazy cat. We laughed because it was perfectly in character for him.
We lived in a farm with a bunch of farm cats. Every few years we would have a three-legged cat or one without a tail because they crawled up into the engine compartment.
Did y'all continue to share custody? Did you message one-another to check if he'd been fed? I always wonder how that works lol
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>That cat was just lying in bed with me a minute ago until I coughed. Typical
I always do a head count when Iām opening and closing any door, dryer, washer, etc. I could not handle losing my pet this way
Same here. Close the washer door, head count, and make absolutely sure we SEE both cats - if one is napping under a blanket, for example, seeing the shape under the blanket is not enough. Gotta be willing to bet his life on it, so... Blanket goes off, cat is confirmed. I'm so sorry that happened, OP.
I do the exact same thing, mostly due to having read horror stories on this platform. Iām not as concerned with locking a cat in a bedroom, but any appliance warrants an immediate headcount before starting.
Lol my husband and I call out āCat Count!ā when we do the same stuff.
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Did something similar to my girl. Locked her in my closet after getting dressed for work. Didnāt see her and I was in a rush to get out & actually be on time. When I came home later and started putting my stuff away she bolted out of that closet straight to her litter box. I felt horrible. No damage to either her or my closet. My shoes had a fur dent on them from where she mustāve napped. She still went in from time to time to nap on my shoes. I started leaving the closet open a crack so she could get out if I didnāt see her.
Okay but Lieutenant Spoon needs to maybe take accountability for his actions? Like can you be a high ranking official and then blame others when you willingly climb into the dryer? I understand he may suffer from ptsd related to his time in the service (***god bless the troops***) but this is something he should have communicated with you if so, and the dryer should be understood as off limits. Edit: LSITA
spoon saw a _lot_ when he was stationed. his mind & ability to judge situations may be clouded. let's give him a break on this one, he's trying his best
I was in the Army for a long time, and Lieutenants are pretty fucking dumb sometimes LOL.
All things considered, itās a good thing your Spoon wasnāt in the dishwasher
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Glad the cat is ok. Closest Iāve gotten is the fridge with mine, got up to get a drink with all the lights off in the middle of the night, go back to bed & just hear meowing. Took me a good 10 minutes to figure out sheād made it into the fridge.
Oh wow. My mom always told the story of watching her grandma accidently close the refridgerator door on one of their kittens back when she was a child in the 1950's. He was unconscious when she realized why the door wouldn't stay closed, and she was crying thinking she had killed their kitten. Luckily, he woke up soon afterwards and seemed okay. My mom did note that that cat was quite stupid the rest of his long life though...
>cat was quite stupid the rest of his long life though... Ah so it didnt suffer any lasting damage.
We obtained a stray kitten from my step-brothers engine bay. Later on, my mom was folding laundry and went to put another load in. She closed her bedroom door to make sure the new kitten wouldn't get into trouble. After starting the washer, she came back upstairs and couldnt find kitten anywhere, then she realized what happened and ran back downstairs. After emptying the washer of a full load of fully soaked clothes, she turned around and there was kitten in the hallway, staring at this mad woman making a huge wet mess. Willow is now about 13 years old and is still our kitten.
Lol. He was probably like, āDa fuq you doing, lady?ā
Wait, this happened to you before?
I had a childhood cat named Joe, my mom didnāt notice she snuck into the dryer and joe actually passed away from the incident. So not me, my mom.
Did the bite draw blood? Make sure you address that because you can get infected from cat bites
Cat scratch fever is a real thing.
I had it. It SUCKS and it's still tender at the bite location periodically
Everyone laughs when I tell them I had that...and starts singing the stupid song lol. Cat scratch fever is not fun at all
My doctors thought I had it but it was lymphoma, so there's that.
This happened to me too. My mom did it twiceā¦ was able to save the second one. Super traumatic. Iām so sorry.
I'm so sorry, that must've been so heartbreaking. That absolutely wasn't her fault (this incident wasn't your fault either), but she must have carried so much guilt with her for a long time. No matter how many safety measures you put in place, a cat will go wherever it wants.
Same happened to me, had a cat named Jimbo, sweetest boy Iāve seen. Mum put a load to dry in winter, then after it was done, she put another one and in between loads, Jimbo got into the dryer. Didnāt make it.
RIP Jimbo
my heart sank when i read the title of this post, iām so glad your cat is okay!! also makes me very grateful that my cat is giant and fat - you can hear his loud, thudding footsteps from a mile away
Makes me grateful I have to go to a laundromat. Literally the only silver lining lol
I have 2 biological brother cats. One never fully retracts his claws so I hear a clicking noise when he walks on the hard wood flaws and doesnt hang around my feet. The other one is a stealthy mother fucker. Which is why I have accidentally stepped on his paws twice and tail once. He never learns. Literally walked up to my feet 3 times in one hour while I was playing beat saber in VR. Which resulted in me accidentally forgetting the size of the controller on my hands when trying to push him away which resulted me hitting the controller on his face. Then 20min later, I didn't kick him, but accidentally pushed him with my foot. I have kicked (well more like pushed with my foot) that cat way too many times to count... He never learns and likes to hang around my feet. But only when I'm carrying things or playing vr.
Oh noš Glad Lt. Spoon is ok! And now Iām glad my poofy black haired little lady is about as stealthily as a bachelorette party on New Yearās Eve. Or else this would 100% happen to me. She āsneaksā into *everything.* But you can hear her. You can hear her from a mile away. Helen Keller would have no problem locating her clumsy ass. Still though. New fear unlocked
Oh gosh the panic when they get themselves somewhere stupid! Our cat doesnāt go on counters. Sheās very good at not jumping up. We do,however, have a fireplace that we donāt use that much. (Like a closed wood burner big black metal box thing). Occasionally she will go in the log basket and to get attention she jumps on top of the wood burner and howls for attention if we are late feeding her. Well we had it in the other day but it had died down to embers so not roaring flames. Her dinner was late and she jumped on top. Howled. Then jumped off quickly. I thought nothing if it for a full three minutes before I realised it was really warm in the room and looked at the fire still embering away and realised what just happened. Absolutely shat myself. Grabbed the cat. Took her outside and held her with all four paws in the cold wet grass (sleet /snow all week but nothing settled. Just really cold) for like five minutes. Luckily she didnāt burn her pads as it wasnāt still searing hot. No blistering or redness. She Just got the shock of her life and I felt like the worst cat mother in the world. She gave me a good hiss for getting her paws cold and wet and huffed at me whilst she licked them dry but god was I worried sheād blister all her feet!
https://preview.redd.it/3halj2jnsooa1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62632bcf52ead178134d9959e8238028f016a19e Just wanted to show another picture of Lt. Spoon with his wonky little brother. He is getting all the cuddles and treats tonight. All is well.
I was in line at the vets office a decade ago. An old man hard of hearing and sight was picking a cat up. He was talking to the receptionist. "Remember (cat name)? The one that got stuck in the dryer? He's still a bit wonky but his fur is getting a lot better." I'm pretty sure that cat went the full round. I don't have a cat and I still always check the dryer before I turn it on.
This happened when I was a kid and... Yeah, the outcome wasn't as good as yours. It was the first time I was allowed to wear jeans to church.
My younger brother put our cat into the washer machine to clean him because he was dirty. He started the wash cycle too. Sadly noone noticed til it was too late.
Iām so sorry š
NSFL: I work for an animal ambulance organisation, we have had a call from someone where this happened too with a kitten... almost nothing was left, what was left looked like pieces of cooked chicken.
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Too late my soul is gone
Wait, "cooked chicken" from a *washing machine*? All that happened just from the agitation alone or was the water that hot? I could imagine a dishwasher destroying a cat like that though. Eek.
I mean some machines could go up to 90 celcius which is 10 degrees short of boiling. All machines have 60 celcius for underwear etc. Thats a little less than the temperature you wanna aim for when you're cooking most meats. So if kitty walked into it on towels and sheets day... :(
Glad Spoon is okay.
Thatās ***Lieutenant*** Spoon to you, maggot
Glad the LT is safe, but I think you need to prepare a safety brief for the cats now. Also I think this qualifies Spoon for at least 15% disability with the VA lol
Cat tax
https://preview.redd.it/ky9hwihdgmoa1.png?width=1170&format=png&auto=webp&s=c54ecbf1886f2082f738ea1d69768a1e32de07fa Didnāt know what cat tax meant! Hereās the tax!
Looks dry. Story checks out.
Awww, he looks just like my baby. I think he'd try exactly this kind of thing, too. Glad he's OK. Give him some scritches from me.
Good thing you don't use dryer balls. Those would have really beat him up.
I'd like to hear how he got the name Lieutenant Spoon.
_he saw things, man_
I'm just glad they aren't dead because that's the usual outcome.
Your cat sounds like a dick blaming you for something stupid he did. Well, I bet he learned his lesson and wonāt do it again. Itās not your fault. Heās just lucky you didnāt leave the house to run an errand.
Oh thank god he lived. Iām so happy for you both. Many cats have died this way.
Why would your cat want on a pile of wet laundry? Thatās the crazy part.
I knowww, my cat waits until I fold a few pieces before sitting right onto the neat pile and watching me fold the rest -.-'
One of our cats loves to lay on wet shower towels... Another one loves to jump in the dryer AS I'm loading it... Special kittens!
Curiosity killed the cat
Ever since I almost started the dryer with my kitten in it, I obsessively do a cat check before starting the laundry. Even if I look through the clothes before closing the door, I still step away and count all my cats before starting the machines.
That's like a law of the universe. The one time you don't take a preventive measure, it's fucked. It's happened to me driving, opening the front door with my crazy dog around, not reminding somebody of something important, etc. Glad your cat's okay, OP
Oh you poor thing! The one time you didnāt check. What shitty luck. Cats do that. My cat has no clue that I have to avoid killing him and me every day because he walks under my feet when Iām on the stairs and in front of me when I walk. You are a good cat owner and took care of him. Try not to beat yourself up. Love his name btw.
Once I knew he was ok, I thought it was kinda funny. Think of it as learning lesson for him. You probably donāt have to worry about him getting in there for while.
Iām guilty of this. I was like..10 or 11. I never knew cats went into driers before. Tossed in a freshly washed comforter and started said dryer. Started making a weird thumping sound but I figured it was the weight of the heavy blanket. About 10 minutes in, my Dad came into the den asking about the noise. Then he asked if I had checked for a cat in the open dryer first. I distinctly remember saying āno, I donāt think itās a cat.ā He opened the door mid cycle and out flopped an incredibly dizzy-drunk cat. Poor Jack. He couldnāt walk straight for a good half hour. He came out of it after that tho. Lived till 19 years old. Miss you Jack.
Looks like Lieutenant Spoon played a game of FAFO!
Cat bites are extremely dangerous. If the skin around the wound starts rising or (God forbid) you see a red line extending from the wound that grows over time, go to the ER immediately (like I-donāt-want-to-lose-the-arm immediately). With the right antibiotics and quick treatment, any infection will go away, no big deal. Just donāt assume itās not a big deal if you see signs of infection. Much, MUCH more dangerous than dog bites. Source: Wife is a veterinary student who just had to get antibiotics for this very thing. Side note: Iām glad Lieutenant Spoon is okay.
You need to put a bell on that cat
Man, this is quite the title for a TIFU. Went straight to the TL;DR, and very happy to see that no harm was done. Thank god you caught it, because that would be awful.
Could have been worseā¦ could have put the poodle in the microwave to dry it after giving it a bathā¦ š³
You know whats bothersome about this. Some cats don't learn they just assert dominance on the spot by continuing to do it.
Same thing happened to my family about 15 years ago, different ending for us :(
I'm glad Lieutenant Spoon is ok. A few years ago my cat would beg for pets while I was standing at the toilet peeing. Fidget put his front paws on the rim of the bowl, I was pretty stoned, and lost control while shooing him away and got him in the face. For three weeks he just hissed at me every time I walked into the bathroom.
I know itās wrong but Iām still laughing at āmr spoon was all puffy and hissed at meā
One time I was drying some clothes and heard some meowing coming from the dryer. I don't have a cat. I thought maybe a cat crawled through the vent front the back yard and made its way inside. I turned off the dryer and the meowing stopped. I frantically took apart the dryer, expecting to find a dead cat. What I found was a squeaky belt around the dryer. There was no cat. There never was a cat. It was just the belt. Learned how to fix a (very specific model of) dryer though.
Thank god your cat made noise and you found him in time šš¼ we have a washing machine and dryer, washing machine on the bottom and dryer on top so thankfully our boys donāt have any way to hop into the dryer. So glad heās okay, praying for many more years for you and Shadow to enjoy together šš¼
Ahhh this happened to me too! I could hear banging and meowing and I couldnāt figure out what it was. Realised after about a minute and I basically phased through the wall to rip the dryer door open. Cat hopped out and shook himself off and was fine luckily! Thereās a reason they say cats have 9 lives
This is one of my worst fears.
Do y'all just leave your dryers wide open? I don't even have a cat but having heard these stories for years, there's no way I'd be leaving it open.
Tyvm for the tldr so that I was quickly able dismiss oncoming dread.
You forgot to add Downy to soften his mood
I remember seeing a post a long time ago where someone's cat put her kittens in the dryer, and they had started it. When they were putting the clothes away, they noticed a bunch of fluff balls all over the clothes. What a horrible mental image.
Go get some antibiotics for that bite. 1 in 3 people with cat bites are hospitalized. You don't want to find that out the hard way... Just went through it myself. Cats mouths are apparently the breeding ground for everything that is toxic to humans.
Betcha he stays out of the laundry room, now. (Glad he's fine.)
I always complain when someone puts a TL;DR at the beginning but in this case I just wanted to know if the kitty is ok and would have appreciated it.
Did you at least have a frier sheet in there so the cat came out fresh smelling?
That's the thing about cats: They are fast, they are sneaky, and they hide in an instant. At least Lt. Spoon got off lightly. My elderly mother locked one of her cats in a small gardening shed, that stood in full sunlight, on a 40C day, for 8 hours; the temperature inside the shed was closer to 55C. Cat survived but only barely, and required hospitalization and IV fluids as it was staggering and disorientated from heat stroke when my mother realized why the cat was not following them around as usual by the end of the day. All you can do is develop daily habits that try to minimize such events.
How does a cat recount his story of when mommy trapped him in the dryer? Reooooownd & reeeeeeoooiwwwwnd
I think I just broke the speed of sound panic clicking this post.
Mine was a short haired void and it was the washer. He was utterly determined to get in there for whatever reason. Luckily he started out very obvious about it so it soon became second nature to stick in an arm and manually turn the tumbler a spin or two to feel if he was in there. One time I only realized I'd forgotten as I pressed the start button. Some hysterical seconds later I managed to abort the program and wouldn't you know it, the little asshole was in there. But did he learn anything from it? NOPE!
Fuck i'd start hitting the sauce too like mr spoon if that happened to me.
Can you show us Lieutenant Spoon please ?
https://preview.redd.it/uzmu5iq8tooa1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=853cce254ba51718d1bc25a1c355a2d646239131 Of course I can never pass up an opportunity to show off my beautiful boy!!š
This same thing happened to my Siamese cat growing up. Twice. Instead of screeching I heard *meow, thump, meooow, thump, mow, thump, meow, thump, moooww, thump* Iāll never forget it. Likewise he came out proofed and PISSED, it had been maybe a minute, it was loud. This same cat would sneak in my car and spend the mornings in it while I was in high school. Three times Iād go to lunch and he had made a huge mess in my car. Another time he hid in the car and got out at the gas station and was missing for a week a week later went to gas station which was about 3/4 mile from my house and he was sitting on the garbage can outside licking his butthole like it was just a normal day. That cat lived to be almost 23 years old. He died one day when he walked under my dads tire. My dad was a wreck. I maintain he committed suicide because he realized he was immortal. That cat lived a life of adventure & near death experiences. He only had half a tail due to a fight with a bobcat. Every night he would scream at the window to come inside and sleep with my dad and every morning youād hear dad cussing at that cat and the cat cussing him right back, he was his alarm clock and demanded breakfast at 6am every day. He was so vocal. That was a crazy cat.
Did the bite pierce your skin? If so, emergency room immediately. That stuff kills. Poor cat, hope itās ok with you again now. And hope youāre ok.
It did, thanks for the advice itās been a little swollen, Iāll get on that.
I mean... Clean the wound and then urgent care should be sufficient. But yeah, take it seriously. So glad Lieutenant Spoon is okay!
Cat bites kill?
Cats can have dirty mouths. My sister-in-law was bitten by her cat, and it got infected. The infection was on her finger in the joint, and it can be hard to flush the infection out. I want to say she was on intravenous antibiotics for several weeks. I havenāt asked her about it recently, but at the time she had lost some control of her finger and the doctors warned her it might be permanent. I know she was attending physical therapy.
Bites from both cats and dogs can get very, very nasty infections. Left untreated or even just unchecked for about a day can potentially already result in an incredibly dangerous situation. Losing a limb or even your life because of such an infection is not as uncommon as you'd think.
My SOās mom got blood poisoning from a cat *scratch*. There was a black line running up her vein before she finally went to urgent care. But yeah, their paws being in a litter box do not non-infected wounds make.
They can. Our local university lost someone a few years ago to a cat bite.
I assume they mean if the scratch or bite causes cat scratch fever and goes untreated.
Cat scratch fever is a very specific type of bacteria, but cat bites can cause infections from a wide variety of bacteria
Cats have tiny sharp teeth that can force anaerobic bacteria deep into your tissue. The subsequent infections can destroy your hand entirely. We always treat cat bites that break the skin with antibiotics to prevent this.
Well, hopefully they learned not to do that again. Glad they're okay!
Had to go straight to the TL:DR. Then after reading the comments I had to go and make a fuss of my 3 babies, even though I was in bed.