candles & cats....oh no!
Here is a scary story that happened last weekend: We had company over for dinner last Saturday, and had some candles burning on the coffee table. Well, one of our kitties came downstairs to make his 'grand entrance' as we call it. This consists of walking down the stairs slowly, then walking to the back part of the house and around through the dining room and into the living room so that he is facing all of us (this way we are sure to see him!). He does this the same way every time. The next thing he does is stop and look around at everyone, while we all go 'oh, look at the pretty kitty' THEN he walks over to the coffee table and walks slowly around it while receiving pets and scratches and of course compliments! On about his 3rd time around the coffee table, his fluffy tail flipped to the side and caught fire! I was freaked! Fortunately I was sitting only a couple feet away and quickly grabbed his tail with my hand and ran it up to the end of his tail, putting the flame out. His hair is so thick on his tail that he did not even know it had been on fire! He turned around a gave me this look like 'what the heck are you doing with my tail? Stop it Mom!' There is no telling what could have happened if we had not been sitting right there- I don't even want to think about it. So now, there are no more candles burning unless they are up on the top of the hearth where the cats can't get to (at least I don't think they can). Either that or they need to be kept upstairs if we burn candles, but that won't be too often, because I love having my cats around most of the time. I just had to post about it so that you all will keep it in mind when burning cadles, because I know that I had never even thought about it being a problem- at least not when we were sitting right there.
Kedi, Wylie, Rudy, and the dog Scout!
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