In October my two eldest cats will be 9 years old, and in all these years we have never had a real bad accident involving the cats. Well, that's changed now. Yesterday I made pasta with tomato sauce, and just the second I took the pasta pot off the stove, Piers jumped on the stove.
I have a ceran-stove and he landed on the field the pot was standing just a second ago with the field still being hot. I saw this out of the corner of my eye and started yelling and screaming, and he jumped right off. I dumped the pot in the sink, got an icecube as fast as I could ran after the cat and caught him. Since I wasn't sure with which leg he landed on the hot "plate" I rubbed all his paws with the icecube. Of course he didn't appreciate the effort.
It's wet. Which cat with a sane mind (even if your paws are burning) would voluntarily wet their paws. His face and squirming were telling me: "What are you thinking?" Turned out all his paws looked fine, none seemed to be burned. He probably got so scared by me screaming that he didn't have time to burn his paw(s).
The reason he jumped up on the stove was the grass I had put up on the window sill, approximately where the stove is. Just a bad karma day. Usually the cats are not allowed in the kitchen, and I rarely keep the grass by the stove. Well, nothing happend, thank god. Just a reminder why cats and kitchen don't go together well.
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