Remember that Cat washer Video?

[Less]

Those of you that know me of old know that I hate housework, a few more will know that of all the housework I really hate, it's washing dishes.

Without a word of a lie for the short time my lad moved in with me when he was between houses, we used paper plates and plastic cutlery, rather than fight over who had to do the washing up. (Arguments about who should burn the food were another thing!).

Big surprise however, I was given a dishwasher, wow! I can start using proper plates.
The dishwasher has served me well, once every few months, (well let's face it when the wife left we had an 18 place service set, (she always wanted me to make friends)) I fill the washer and set it to power wash.

I have also recently got a kitten, I tease a few of you by pretending I don't like it but that's me, today because I couldn't stand the smell and found the mold on the plates to be more than even I could stand I filled the washer, I even remembered to put the cats food dish in there, after all it deserves a clean dish.

That's when the 'phone went, After finding that I had won a 50p prize and all I had to do was spend £10 a minute to claim I hung up and went back to my chores.

I was just about to close the washer door when I remembered there is a top spray that because the washer is old needs to be physically moved into the correct position.

I bent down to correct this and then saw my kitten,(the cat with no name)at the back of the washer, busily licking the remains off it's dish. If I hadn't been so lucky would one of you been able to recommend a way to get cat hairs off my dishes?

[LancYorkYankee]

Oh Less that would have been an awful mess. And as heartless as you pretend, would of even broken your heart eh? It is amazing wear these little creatures will go. Wait until it gets caught up in the drywall or down a drain pipe! Glad you discovered her!

Brian

[WillowTheWhisp]

Drywall? This is Accy Brian not Virginia.

Oh Less I'm so glad you found her before you set the thing on. Our cats are always getting shut in cupboards and things. Be sure you check the washiing machine or tumble tryer too.

[cashman]

a lucky escape, not just cat hairs,but cat crap as well.

[grego]

Less your cat was very Lucky, and what a good name for it.

[WillowTheWhisp]

What a good idea Grego

[Gayle]

I have a similar story - most people with a cat will have one - of a kitten getting into the oven.

I was grilling some bacon on the top shelf in the cooker. I pulled the cooker door open to turn the bacon over, then forgot to put it back up as I turned to the counter to butter some chunky bread. I turned back round and was just about to kick the cooker door up when I saw a paw inside the cooker trying to pull the bacon off from the back of the shelf. His head was dangerously close to the element. I grabbed his tail from under the shelf and pulled him out by it. The little blighter had just managed to get hold of a piece of bacon so when I pulled him out I pulled the bacon with him.

Could so easily have had cooked cat if I hadn't spotted his paw!

[Gayle]

PS - that was only the first of his nine lives gone! Endless stories about that cat.

[WillowTheWhisp]

My grandmother's cat used to sleep in the 'warming oven' underneath the main oven in a big old range which was part of the fireplace. One of those old fashioned farmhouse kitchen blackleaded things. I can still here her saying, "Don't shut the oven door the cat is asleep in there!"

[Margaret Pilkington]

Our cats have almost inadvertently gone to Oz with us a couple of times......when i have left the cases out for the last few bits and bobs to be put in, they have got in and curled up...fortunately we have always sussed their little game.

[beechy]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Our cats have almost inadvertently gone to Oz with us a couple of times......when i have left the cases out for the last few bits and bobs to be put in, they have got in and curled up...fortunately we have always sussed their little game.

im sure they would have found their way back from oz waldtwistle

[Margaret Pilkington]

Beechy, it was the other Oz......they'd have been pretty clued up if they found their own way home from there

[Less]

Originally Posted by grego

Less your cat was very Lucky, and what a good name for it.

How on Earth can you consider a cat doomed to spend it's life with me could be called 'Lucky'?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Well, Less.....if she loves you (and I'm sure she does) she will consider herself lucky......personally i have always thought of Lucky as a dogs name....I think she needs a more....er sophisticated name.

[grego]

Originally Posted by Less

How on Earth can you consider a cat doomed to spend it's life with me could be called 'Lucky'?

Less, you are the chosen one, cats are fussy, so you're doing something right