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I WAS doing laundry (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by TrapRag@lemmy.world to c/cat@lemmy.world

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[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

Guess how my aunt's cat died.

[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 month ago

Yeah I would get them out immediately and not be nice about it to scare them from doing it again.

[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 16 points 1 month ago

But not looking in the dryer first?

[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

She always checked. Until that one time she forgot.

She buried the cat and dug her up again in the middle of the night because she just couldn't believe she was dead (she was, obviously).

[-] Lokoschade@feddit.org 16 points 1 month ago

yeah this one of my worst nightmares/intrusive thoughts that can absolutely wreck my day when I get them

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

Yup, doing laundry all normal, couple minutes later panic where are the cats? Oh god somehow they slipped past me and clearly dying in the dryer fuck fuck fuck, get up and look around for cats phew ok they're fine.

this time

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, those rascals love to give anxiety all the time.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't know about your cats but mine have shown no interest in wet laundry, or dirty laundry, only fresh warm dry laundry. But since my building's laundry room is in the basement I don't really have experience with having a machine in the house.

When I had kids I would fold the laundry down there, for a few quiet moments of feeling organized. Now I bring it up immediately and chirrup as I dump it on the spare bed so the cats can enjoy it first.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

My cats will happily sit in a hamper with dirty clothes, they really like new surfaces to sit on in grneral. We have a ahem cleanup towel and our big orange loves to sit on that thing for some reason lmao.

[-] Drasglaf@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago

My washing machine is always closed and my cats have no interest in it. Even still I always check where they both are before turning it on, a sense of dread grows on me every time even though I never had an accident, I don't know why.

[-] amnesiaftw@ani.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yep my elementary school teacher’s cat died in the dryer too. Hearing that as a 5 year old, I have always kept in mind cats must stay away from the dryer.