Anybody who can't deal with me bitching, please ignore. My fucking CAT

[crim son]

was using the litter box which is in a tiny butler's pantry and he must have somehow pushed this massive oak table leaf we have stored in there. It has been leaning against the wall in there for six years and never moved but now it has apparently fallen forward and wedged the door shut from the inside. The SOB cat is stuck in the closet, crying. Of course there are no hinges on the outside of the door.

OH MY GOD. We have a house showing tomorrow. Will I have to hope the cat doesn't die and decay, and tell the prospective buyers that the closet door leads nowhere? Even if there's no decay, there will be the smell of a litter box long uncleaned. :rofl: :grr:

I have help coming but this is really an amazingly bizarre thing to have happen yet it is also amusingly par for the course.

[lizziegrace]

1. *snort*

Welcome to my world. I'm glad you've got help coming. :rofl:

I know it's another aggravation to deal with, but this one's really funny...

:hug:

[crim son]

2. I know it.

I've managed to get the door open about a half inch and stuck a putty knife in to turn on the light. The cat's okay but freaking out, sitting on the counter by the sink. Dumbass. Hi lizziegrace! :hi:

[Madrone]

18. Haha! And MINE!

Good luck to both of you fine ladies. :D

[lizziegrace]

19. Thanks sweetie...

:hug:


:loveya:

[Blue Diadem]

3. Ohhhh..I hope your kitty is ok.

I know right now you're ticked at him, but I hope he's ok and didn't get hit when the leaf shifted.

Good luck with getting the cat out and good luck with the house showing.

Keep us informed..we'd love to see pics of the rescue.

[crim son]

4. He's okay. I have the door open just a half inch

and can now see him. I called the realtor to put the house showing on hold, just in case!

[Blue Diadem]

7. I just read that you can see him sitting on the sink.

That had to be a relief.

Hope things go smoothly with getting the door open.

[mnhtnbb]

5. Oh...what kitteh mischief!!

[yellowdogintexas]

6. the mental image of this is ...well...

hysterical.

But hopefully you will get kitty out soon. Poor thing must be scared to death.

I had one that got into th utility area in my apartment, explored a shelf on which I had stored a couple of bottles of Black Cat Moselle wine, knocked off one of the bottles of wine (which broke, and fell with the broken wine bottle into the crack between the washing machine and the wall.

I came home from work: no cat, and he always met me at the door, for a pick em up. So I am calling the cat and I hear this faint little ''mew'' and I found him. It was damn hard to get him out of there, he was a big heavy cat, and drunk so he was no help at all.

Then I had to take him to the vet to get him checked out. I was mostly concerned about glass ingestion, from the body cleaning he did after he soaked himself in wine, which resulted in the drunkenness. The vet nearly killed himself laughing. Cat spent the night at the vets, had a professional bath and they kept an eye on him and decided he didn't get any glass in his tummy. :rofl:

[Blue Diadem]

8. OMG that's hysterical!

:rofl:

[yellowdogintexas]

11. oh thank you and it was pretty funny. Atlas was legend at the vet's for a long time

here he is in his magnificence:




he was a great cat, with a ton of personality and is still missed, and he's been gone 21 years.

(he got his name because as a small kitten he managed to hoist a 5 pound bag of kitty litter up over his head to crawl in from the crawlspace under my house. )

[Blue Diadem]

15. Ohhh, he was a beautiful boy. Atlas was the perfect name.

I can't imagine dealing with a drunk cat..the thought makes me laugh. That and him being drunk on Black Cat Moselle wine.

[yellowdogintexas]

16. that was ironic. I had just moved in to that apt maybe a week at the most before the

Drunken Kitty Incident and he had been doing the Required Prowling and Security to ensure no Invader Kitties were there. So he just KNEW there was another cat in that place and he found it and killed it.

Thank you,by the way.

[crim son]

20. OMG, that reminds me of our other cat, Brenda, who now lives

with my boyfriend and his kids. She's a black cat with a tiny head and HUGE body. I mean, she easily weighs thirty pounds. Anyhow one afternoon I realized I hadn't seen her all day or, indeed, during the evening before. Frantic searching ensued. Long story short, she had nudged open the door to the laundry chute on the second floor and fallen down to the basement, landing on a pile of clothes (luckily) and completely uninjured though probably scared to death. I live in a huge old house with very high ceilings, so she fell FAR!

Maximouse has been rescued. Yay! He ran out of the house and hasn't been seen since, poor little guy. :D

[yellowdogintexas]

27. OHH glad to hear this. I am so glad I clicked on the thread

I figured you would get him out, how did you do it?

I love the laundry chute story. I can totally see a cat deciding it was fun to do that.

[Chan790]

9. How precisely is the door wedged?

Is the leaf is caught under the doorknob? If so, take a screwdriver and take the knob off...a solid shove against the door will then shift the leaf up and the door should open.

Is the leaf just wedged tight against the back of the door? Same plan...no need to take the knob off. You might just need to get a running start and put a good shoulder into the door.

Both might leave a nasty gash/scratch up the inside of the door. Be prepared to go buy wood-putty, sandpaper and paint to fix the door.

I unfortunately have younger brothers and negligent parents; I've had to resort to both options at some point over the past 25 years repeatedly.

[crim son]

21. Thankfully it wasn't wedged under the doorknob.

The knob was an old fashioned kind and couldn't be removed from the outside, though I certainly tried and removed the plate behind it. I'm not sure how but we managed open enough of the door at the correct angle so that the table leaf started to slowly slide upright. When the door was open enough the bf put his hand inside and pushed it free. Yeah, the door is damaged but the repairs will have to wait until after the showing. I have no time! Thanks for your advice.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. Febreze and Rock&Roll

Febreze, if used in mass quantities, will cover the smell of cat box and feline decay. Rock&Roll, if played real loud, will cover the sound of a hysterical cat, should it survive that long.

Door in your way? Rent the movie "The Shining" for the answer to getting through a stubborn door.

"Kitty, I'm home!"

:rofl:

[crim son]

22. I like the way you think.

:rofl:

[qb]

12. *Spoiler Alert*

Your cat has just reenacted "The Orphanage". :rofl:

[begin_within]

13. He just used up one of his 9 lives.

[Guava Jelly]

14. Ah Hell crim son

You can win for shit can ya? :hug: :hi:

[petronius]

17. If the buyers hear yowls and screams from the pantry, just tell them that

they're getting a Genuine Haunted House^TM for the low low price of a regular house. Good luck!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. Cats...

I came home late one night after a Christmas party and heard this desolate

YOWL! YOWL! YOWL!

and soon discovered that my very elegant gray tabby, Jeoffry, had somehow fallen behind a six-foot-high bookcase and was stuck there.

Needless to say, removing him (especially after coming home from a party) was less than amusing.

Glad to hear your cat removal project was ultimately successful.

[yellowdogintexas]

28. had he been talking to my Atlas? They do love to get themselves into

the exact wrong place don't they?

[ThomCat]

24. You have amazing luck.

:(

I hope you can get your poor cat out of there, and I hope the showing tomorrow goes well. :hug:

[Aristus]

25. How do these things happen, crim son?

You lead a surreal life...

:hug:

[Debi]

26. Oh my god...I'm so sorry

:rofl: It's times like thses that you just have to throw up your arms and *sigh*!

:hug:

[Coyote_Bandit]

29. Reminds me

of an elderly relative who fell in his bathroom. Same kind of door hinges. Happened just as he was preparing to get in the family car to go to his wife's funeral. We broke in, found him slightly bloodied but otherwise unhurt and hastily left for the funeral. That limo could move. Even so we arrived for the funeral nearly a half hour late. This man had a mobility problem - and as he aged he developed a habit of acting out for attention. We never did figure out whether his fall was intentional.

Good luck getting the kitty out and good luck with the house showing.

[crim son]

30. Oooh, the bathroom fall!

My grandmother (now deceased) fell into her bathtub last fall and was stuck in the tub, with water, for six hours. Finally a neighbor heard her cries for help. I don't wanna be either a cat, or OLD. :P