Re: Dangers to our cats

[jckkerrison]

Having just read about the cat who is very poorly through being in contact with that lovely looking flower the lily just makes you stop & think about what dangers there are to our spoilt "house cats"some very obvious some not.No doubt the owner is making herself feel very guilty & wouldn't we all,as far as we can we try to forsee any dangers for our animals & eliminate them but here is one unforseen problem that I had ,never heard of it before & may not again,hopefully.
A few months ago there was the most terrible scream from the room where the cats sleep when we opened the door five of the cats were just huddled shaking on the floor & Merlyn the big silver boy was hanging head down from the radiator,I thought he was dead,I rushed over & somehow his back legs had got trapped behind the radiator,trying to hold 10kgs high enough to work out how to get them out while all the while you feel pig sick & shaking is not very easy,hubby had gone to bits & was in a heap with the other cats,just as I was freeing his second leg he came round & I have never been so happy to get a super big cat bite on the hand,he couldn't walk & was semi paralysed for nearly a day but the vet said it was due to the nerves "going to sleep"on him from being in that position & also how he would have wrenched himself when the accident happened.
Thing is how did it happen,how many of us have radiators under the windowsill & how many cats jump on & off said windowsill all day long & do you ever see the threat of an accident,the room where it happened the top of the radiator is only about four inches from the windowsill so how he managed to get even his toe behind it let alone the whole of both legs we will never know,I now have a blanket tucked along the top of both that & the sitting room radiator,very glamorous but.....It took longer for the other cats & us to recover from the shock than Merl.