Last night, while I was happily looking through my new Self magazine on the couch, one of my cats jumped on the arm of the couch in an attempt to cuddle with me. I looked back at the table between our two sofas where we had three mini candles burning. She leaned down to smell them but not too closely. I looked back at her and said "Careful..."
Well, not two minutes later, I look back and my cat is facing me and I smell something. I look at her tail which is hanging over the three candles and singeing the hair on it! I grab her and she just hops out of my arms...I finally catch up to her and run my hand over her tail and a bunch of burned hair comes off in my hand. It's not near the skin at all, just the ends, but now she's got a few burned parts of hair that's missing and a little shorter than any others. Stupid cat!
And let me tell you, nothing smells worse than singed hair! Our whole house smelled and I had to open up the doors to air it out, and then she still smelled about 5 hours later!
4 comments:
Oh poor kitty! That's happened to Chum on his belly hair and yes, that smell is nasty!!! Almost as bad as using the pedipaws on Wrig's nails. That smells disgusting too.
I hope your poor kitty recovers soon! The way you told that story made me LOL...only because I could see it coming, with the way you led into it; good story-telling there.
Aren't cats fun? Ours give us so many grins, and so much affection. Have you seen the Cats in Sinks site? It's a scream.
Blessings to you and your sweet cat, and hopes for a smooth recovery.
wow you're lucky that your cat didn't run around in a frenzy, catching everything else on fire!!
wow, i didn't know that cats were a fire hazard. :)
I used to have a cat appropriately named Snoopy who singed part of his whiskers off on a candle!
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