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Jilly_in_VA

(9,984 posts)
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 01:28 PM Jan 2022

They bought a blender. Three weeks later, their cats continue to hold it hostage.

On Black Friday, Jessica and Nikii Gerson-Neeves bought a blender. It was a Vitamix blender, a professional-grade splurge, and the couple was looking forward to a winter of smoothies and soups.

It arrived on Dec. 16 at their home on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Jessica put the hefty box down on the floor in the kitchen, just for a second. Her 4-year-old tuxedo cat, Max, otherwise known as the “sentient soccer ball,” jumped up on the box. Jessica thought it was funny and snapped a photo.

Then Max’s 13-year-old feline siblings, George: Destroyer of Worlds (“sentient potato”) and Lando Calrissian (“the questionably sentient dust bunny,”), demanded their turn on the knee-high box.

That was three weeks ago. Since then, the cats have refused to leave the box, fighting over who gets to perch upon it and taking turns standing guard while the others eat or are busy elsewhere. The blender remains ensconced inside.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2022/01/08/cats-took-vitamix-hostage/

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They bought a blender. Three weeks later, their cats continue to hold it hostage. (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 OP
The Pope warned us about this NT cinematicdiversions Jan 2022 #1
lol impressive! ShazamIam Jan 2022 #2
LOL! I usually had to remove my cat from boxes to open them, highplainsdem Jan 2022 #3
They know..... essaynnc Jan 2022 #4

highplainsdem

(49,012 posts)
3. LOL! I usually had to remove my cat from boxes to open them,
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 01:58 PM
Jan 2022

but he never put up too much of a fight, I think because he wanted the empty box.

He didn't want me getting rid of the empty boxes, though.

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