I have a super cute cat...



She is youngish, and still learning the whole human/cat boundaries...(if there are any...) I know this, and I take extra care to make sure she doesn't do anything stupid, like jump in the oven, run out the door... hide in the dryer...but why would a cat jump into a running washer? She was not in there when I started putting clothes in... why wouldn't she jump out when I turned it on? She must have jumped in while I had my back turned grabbing another handful of laundry....

So fast forward over an hour... my hubby says "Where's your cat?" (we have an older cat he claims as his, the younger one is mine) I say I don't know... he swears he hears her... we check behind all doors, no cat...we finally track the meowing to the laundry room, and the back of the washer... I look inside, and above the spinner cylinder but under the lid is a hole a few inches that I guess she crawled through when it cut on... it was too close to the wall for her to have gotten behind it...hubby pulls it out, and through a little hole we see her...dirty, wet, sad...there's no way for her to crawl back out the way she came. She's stuck. Well he spends almost an hour trying to move the machine, then trying to take the back off... "honey, is there a hole in the bottom where we could lift it up and she could crawl out underneath?" "NO" he is rather grumpy, he gets up at 3:30 am...it's 9:30... pm... he finally gets mad and goes to look it up online, to see if he can find how to get the back off... I lift the machine, cat runs out... dirty, wet, sad...
Hubby went to bed... poor kitty, to add insult to injury, I had to give her a bath...

and that, is how I almost drowned my cat with my son's Thomas the Train bed clothes...