We Heart Cats

first, a little lesson on cats, cords, and electricity.  i’ve heard they can “hear” the current in cords, hence why they like to chew on cords.  we have all of ours covered with this neat plastic sheath stuff.  so please make sure your cords are covered and secured so you don’t kill your cat and/or start a fire. 

also, the plugs in the walls… you know how kids like to stick metal objects in ‘em?  well, cats like to … ahem… PEE on them.  don’t ask me why… :-D   putting the child safety things on these plugs don’t work… (the pee will still get in and behind those) what i do is tape the everloving crud out of them with some good tape (even if i have something plugged in the thing) so if they DO pee on one, it does not get in there and start some drama.  now mind you i started doing this AFTER the incidents you’re gonna read about! 

last year, i was heading over to mom and dad’s… they live about 3 miles from me.  i saw a fire truck head that direction and as usual, i said a prayer for the firemen and the people they’re going to save…

i pull around the corner to mom and dad’s and there sat that fire truck - in front of their house!   what had happened was one of the cats had gotten BEHIND the tv and pee’d on the outlet!  ensuing smoke and flames commenced and the fire department was called in. 

now, i gotta tell you, those were some SWEET lookin’ firemen… wow! 

they got the little fire contained rather quickly without much damage done.  lesson learned.  right?  well…..

wasn’t two weeks later i’m lying in bed at about 2:00 in the morning… half awake… i hear this poppin’ noise.  then i smell this funny smell.  and some more poppin’… i get up and i see smoke coming out of an outlet (one that i missed in my covering the outlets spree) and ratfink standing there lookin’ like “what?  what did i do?  huh huh??”  (picture is of ratfink being cute and not starting any fires!)

so i get the fire extinguisher and nail the outlet with it.  but then i’m thinking, good grief… what if that doesn’t get it????  what if it’s gone up in the wall or something????

so i call the fire department.  and you ain’t gonna believe this, but it’s the SAME GUYS that had gone to my parent’s house 2 weeks prior!  hahahahah!  they were highly amused i have to say… and they were JUST as good lookin’ then as they had been before!  unfortunately, it WAS 2:00 in the morning and i looked like satan’s little helper. 

they made sure that there wasn’t any drama anywhere that i had missed and patted me on the head and told me to fix the plugs just a bit better.  and i could hear them chuckling all the way back to their truck. 

so far, no more drama… i hope i have everything secured… because as gorgeous as those boys were, i really don’t want ‘em coming back! 

i’m putting this link back because i think it’s important for the smokers out there to know about:  http://www.weheartcats.com/smoking-and-your-indoor-cats/

this link i found this morning and it sure sounds interesting… i don’t know all the details about the program yet, but i’m workin’ on it!  :-D   http://www.about-charlottenc.com/so-im-a-smorty-pants/