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

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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."