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

[steve2470]

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



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Max, day one (Jessica Gerson-Neeves)

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Day two (Jessica Gerson-Neeves)

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.

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George and Max, day 15 (Jessica Gerson-Neeves)

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Lando, day nine (Jessica Gerson-Neeves)

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Max and Nikii, day 12 (Jessica Gerson-Neeves)

The article does not say if the cats are still winning the Vitamix box battle

[Srkdqltr]

1. That is incredibly stupid.

[viva la]

2. The cats know they'll hate the horrible noise

My cat runs and hides when I bring out the blender.

[XanaDUer2]

3. Cute for a few hours

But then I'd move the cats

[Ocelot II]

4. Of course they can easily pick up the cats, open the box and retrieve the blender, but

that isn't the point, is it? They've made a fun little story about their cats' obsession with this box. It's an amusing ongoing saga about the weirdness of cats, and it wouldn't be nearly as entertaining (at least for cat fans) if they just moved the cats off the box. The comments under the WaPo article include several from clueless party-poopers who don't get what's going on, but if you know cats you do. As one of the sentient WaPo commenters - one with a sense of humor (unlike those who took the trouble to comment that the story was stupid) remarked, "The truth is, the couple says, this could be easily resolved. The cats are not particularly heavy. But they are having fun, the cats are having fun, the Internet is having fun, and people — pushed back into their houses and masks after two years of a pandemic — need fun right now."

[steve2470]

5. If anyone is interested in following this silly saga, the link to Facebook is here

https://www.facebook.com/groups/133018060894811/user/5901417

Yes, the cats still dominate the box