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I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good ones on top of the heater (it was off, of course). When DH came home he said ‘why are you cooking those videos on the heater!" Yikkes. The video tapes were nicely melted underneath and ready to catch on fire!!!! Nearby sat Bonnie, the smirking arsonist. I remembered that she jumped on the heater earlier then used it as a springboard to get onto the window sill! She is in fine fettle now and fully recovered. I threw out the tapes. Even though I missed the programmes it would have been worse if the house had burned down. I have learned another lesson. Make sure the heater is clear of objects even when it is off. I should have realised that one of them would have eventually turned it on, after all they turn on the washing machine, dishwasher and spa bath!!!! Bev — Cats aren’t clean, they’re just covered with cat spit.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good ones on top of the heater (it was off, of course). When DH came home he said ‘why are you cooking those videos on the heater!" Yikkes. The video tapes were nicely melted underneath and ready to catch on fire!!!! Nearby sat Bonnie, the smirking arsonist. I remembered that she jumped on the heater earlier then used it as a springboard to get onto the window sill! She is in fine fettle now and fully recovered. I threw out the tapes. Even though I missed the programmes it would have been worse if the house had burned down. I have learned another lesson. Make sure the heater is clear of objects even when it is off. I should have realised that one of them would have eventually turned it on, after all they turn on the washing machine, dishwasher and spa bath!!!! Bev
Purrs for no more "near misses". You were lucky MLB
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Hopitus wants to know how you dare leave the house w/these appliance-savvy cats on the loose in there…..
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good ones on top of the heater (it was off, of course). When DH came home he said ‘why are you cooking those videos on the heater!" Yikkes. The video tapes were nicely melted underneath and ready to catch on fire!!!! Nearby sat Bonnie, the smirking arsonist. I remembered that she jumped on the heater earlier then used it as a springboard to get onto the window sill! She is in fine fettle now and fully recovered. I threw out the tapes. Even though I missed the programmes it would have been worse if the house had burned down. I have learned another lesson. Make sure the heater is clear of objects even when it is off. I should have realised that one of them would have eventually turned it on, after all they turn on the washing machine, dishwasher and spa bath!!!! Bev Purrs for no more "near misses". You were lucky MLB
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good ones on top of the heater (it was off, of course). When DH came home he said ‘why are you cooking those videos on the heater!" Yikkes. The video tapes were nicely melted underneath and ready to catch on fire!!!! Nearby sat Bonnie, the smirking arsonist. I remembered that she jumped on the heater earlier then used it as a springboard to get onto the window sill! She is in fine fettle now and fully recovered. I threw out the tapes. Even though I missed the programmes it would have been worse if the house had burned down. I have learned another lesson. Make sure the heater is clear of objects even when it is off. I should have realised that one of them would have eventually turned it on, after all they turn on the washing machine, dishwasher and spa bath!!!! Bev
Better yet, unplug!
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good ones on top of the heater (it was off, of course). When DH came home he said ‘why are you cooking those videos on the heater!" Yikkes. The video tapes were nicely melted underneath and ready to catch on fire!!!! Nearby sat Bonnie, the smirking arsonist. I remembered that she jumped on the heater earlier then used it as a springboard to get onto the window sill! She is in fine fettle now and fully recovered. I threw out the tapes. Even though I missed the programmes it would have been worse if the house had burned down. I have learned another lesson. Make sure the heater is clear of objects even when it is off. I should have realised that one of them would have eventually turned it on, after all they turn on the washing machine, dishwasher and spa bath!!!! Bev
That Bonnie is the living end! I hear the Pentagon has a plan to weaponize her. 
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I have learned another lesson. Make sure the heater is clear of objects even when it is off. I should have realised that one of them would have eventually turned it on, after all they turn on the washing machine, dishwasher and spa bath!!!! Bev —
Gotta watch those arsenist kitties. I don’t burn candles anymore, not after the kittens jumped up on the table, knocked a nearby newspaper onto the candle, which ignited the tablecloth. I came out of the back bathroom to the table ablaze, and two little gray kitties looking like "We don’t know *what* happened, honest." I’m really glad that, like me, you were home when it happened. Sherry
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That is exactly the reason I gave up burning candles many years ago….the cats.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I have learned another lesson. Make sure the heater is clear of objects even when it is off. I should have realised that one of them would have eventually turned it on, after all they turn on the washing machine, dishwasher and spa bath!!!! Bev — Gotta watch those arsenist kitties. I don’t burn candles anymore, not after the kittens jumped up on the table, knocked a nearby newspaper onto the candle, which ignited the tablecloth. I came out of the back bathroom to the table ablaze, and two little gray kitties looking like "We don’t know *what* happened, honest." I’m really glad that, like me, you were home when it happened. Sherry
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I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good ones on top of the heater (it was off, of course). When DH came home he said ‘why are you cooking those videos on the heater!" Yikkes.
Wow – I’m glad everything/one is ok. Fire scares the pants off of me. -L.
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Yeah, I used to hold meditation/Wiccan rituals in my room, but it’s hard to concentrate when a cat is interested in the candles. It’s hard to chant or do whatever when you have to keep checking to see that there aren’t any whiskers on fire. Kristi
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I’m imagining a "Charmed" scene where cats keep knocking the lighted candles over onto the paraphenalia. ROFL.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Yeah, I used to hold meditation/Wiccan rituals in my room, but it’s hard to concentrate when a cat is interested in the candles. It’s hard to chant or do whatever when you have to keep checking to see that there aren’t any whiskers on fire. Kristi
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For me it’s more of a….. "I pray to the spirits of the north, who care for the…Mischief, leave it……. I pray to the Goddess that….I said, LEAVE IT!" "With this candle, may the spirits….Mischief, you’re going to get your whiskers burned….." *sigh* Kristi
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I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good ones on top of the heater (it was off, of course). When DH came home he said ‘why are you cooking those videos on the heater!" Yikkes. Wow – I’m glad everything/one is ok. Fire scares the pants off of me. -L.
The very thought of Bonnie and candles fills me with horror! I really am very careful about fire. I might add that the switches on the top of the heater are hard to turn on. I don’t know how she managed it!!! I have smoke alarms around the place and the kitties are never left alone with the computer as we know what they do to the wires at the back. I keep the spa bath turned off at the wall, ditto with washing machine. When the pair were kittens they managed to singe their tails on the heater though there is a wire grill on the front! So even now I don’t leave them alone with the heater on, sigh. Incidentally, I am always writing about what happens to the kitties, I remember some person answering one of my posts, telling me how cruel and wicked I was allowing a kitty to get hurt like that! (Bonnie’s accident) But what about sympathy for a kitty slave – me!!! The pair regularly arrange themselves in doorways especially to trip us over. Three days ago Bonnie succeeded magnificently. I fell over her and crashed into the corner of a knee-high occasional table. The sharp corner stabbed into the side of my knee and for the last three days I have been tottering around the house using a broom for a crutch! Bev — Cats aren’t clean, they’re just covered with cat spit.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I sorted through some of my video tapes last night and left some good ones on top of the heater (it was off, of course). When DH came home he said ‘why are you cooking those videos on the heater!" Yikkes. The video tapes were nicely melted underneath and ready to catch on fire!!!! Nearby sat Bonnie, the smirking arsonist. I remembered that she jumped on the heater earlier then used it as a springboard to get onto the window sill! She is in fine fettle now and fully recovered. I threw out the tapes. Even though I missed the programmes it would have been worse if the house had burned down. I have learned another lesson. Make sure the heater is clear of objects even when it is off. I should have realised that one of them would have eventually turned it on, after all they turn on the washing machine, dishwasher and spa bath!!!! Bev
Thank goodness it wasn’t as bad as it could have been! — Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat.
> (I just recognised a bit of myself in both your descriptions 
Did you like the one he made about Suzy taking it up the ass? fOtty is projecting his jealousy of ren again, because no one ever compliments fotty’s crappy writing. With all the projecting fAtass fOtty does, he should work in a cinema..:-) And now, fOtty in WIDEscreen….. 