How to give a cat owner a heart attack

[selenay]

So, as part of the work last week to move and add electrical sockets in the kitchen, the guys had to cut a small hole in the ceiling above the breaker box, which lives in my office.

It’s a cat-sized hole.

This morning, I was writing an email to my boss, looked up and saw the lower half of Annie poking out of the ceiling. The upper half was in the bloody hole and she was trying to figure out how to get her lower legs inside the ceiling.

Nearly had a heart attack.

She currently dislikes me because I used her tail to pull her out. What? It was the only thing handy!

Now I’m constantly looking up at that hole, feeling very nervous, and hoping like heck that the contractor can patch that today. I’d lock them out of the office, but I’m waiting for deliveries (appliances!) and contractors and can’t hear anything when the office door is closed. Today is going to suck, isn’t it?

Comments

[nic]

OMG, I have had to do this before (retrieve a cat by its tail). It hurts, but it's for their own good!

[sazandra.livejournal.com]

And I thought Boris getting adventurous and climbing up the loft ladder then dad discovering he had a cat between his legs when Boris reached the top was bad enough. There was a yell from dad and Boris has manhandled (well humanhandled) down again.

Or was it Impy going under the floor and refusing to come out, or Impy refusing to come down from the loft on the odd occasion he managed to get up the ladder (thus Boris not being allowed to go up there years later).

Whatever, cats are drawn to unexplored places and any hole is an opening to a whole new world that just has to be investigated in the feline world

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

It's probably worth sellotaping a piece of paper over it as a temporary measure. Good luck today. xx