Jack be Nimble.......

[karlyb]

Last week I was at the computer and burning a Christmas candle on the desk. My big Manx boy Jack jumped up to visit me and just as I was starting to say "Jack, watch out for the candle..." he turned around and caught his whole butt on fire! He jumped off the table and ran under the couch. By the time I found him the fire was gone out but boy did he smell bad! I gave him a butt trim to cut off the scorched fur. He doesn't have any bad physical after-effects, but he has been very wary of candles since then. And since he wasn't hurt, I can laugh about it now.

[Medusa]

My Specs and Coco Puff join the ranks of dunderheads. They both swished their tails across my candles so now I'm extra cautious about where I place them and I'm always watching them. Coco Puff is fascinated w/my fireplace and he sits and stares at the fire through the screen. I came home once and found him curled up and sound asleep atop some charred logs. We can laugh about it now but it's scary. Most cats learn from something like that but not Coco Puff so I don't take chances any more.

[RipplingWaves55]

Misty used to get up on the kitchen table when a candle was lit. I was very careful and told my mom to NEVER let her on the table when a candle was lit. LOL

Poor Jack boy!

[Laura's Babies]

I am scared to even try candles. Giz with her fulffy tail would try to swish it over the fire once she discovered it. She is just into to much all the time.

[catmandu]

That scares me as sometimes I am boiling water for my tea, and to keep my swer lines clear, and miquelito the Little Orange Lion, and Juke Joint Joseph will jump on the stove, and I have visions of Falming Cats running through the Found Cat Paradise Hotel, setting everthing on fire.
I have to keep an eye on my Cats who will do the unpreticable every time

[kitten645]

I love candles but my boys are into everything. So I only burn candles in huricannes. Silly me thinking that was safe! Calvin sticks his head into the hurricannes and comes out with singed whiskers No one said he was the sharpest tool in the box! Oi!
Claudia