Is it just me, or...
Aug. 15th, 2012 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rose_catIs anyone else bothered by a picture of a cat in a dryer?
Cats are adorable, and a cat snuggled in a pile of clothes is even cuter. A cat in a basket full of clothes is one of my favorite things ever. But I digress.
The specific picture I'm referring to is at tumblr, and is not disturbing in itself: Get out of there, cat, you are line-dry only.
But it gave me chills and a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, and the caption just made it worse. I've heard a few horror stories of what has actually happened when someone is doing laundry and doesn't see where the cat is. One of them happened to a cat I'd met a few weeks before, when she was having a routine checkup at the veterinary hospital where I was working at the time. I didn't blame the owners; it was an accident and they were devastated.
Maybe you don't feel the same way as I do about animals. In that case, I think a picture of a small child, playing in an old refrigerator in a junkyard, is comparable.
I'm not saying that nobody who's aware of the danger can think it's cute, just that I can't. (Perhaps I need to learn to compartmentalize more.)
I'd like to explain this to the tumblr poster, and to get the word out about preventing this kind of awful accident, but I'm not a member and can't comment there. So I'm saying it here: never, EVER run a dryer -- or washer, for that matter -- full of clothes without carefully checking first. Even if you don't have any pets of your own. Because it could be someone else's.
Cats are adorable, and a cat snuggled in a pile of clothes is even cuter. A cat in a basket full of clothes is one of my favorite things ever. But I digress.
The specific picture I'm referring to is at tumblr, and is not disturbing in itself: Get out of there, cat, you are line-dry only.
But it gave me chills and a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, and the caption just made it worse. I've heard a few horror stories of what has actually happened when someone is doing laundry and doesn't see where the cat is. One of them happened to a cat I'd met a few weeks before, when she was having a routine checkup at the veterinary hospital where I was working at the time. I didn't blame the owners; it was an accident and they were devastated.
Maybe you don't feel the same way as I do about animals. In that case, I think a picture of a small child, playing in an old refrigerator in a junkyard, is comparable.
I'm not saying that nobody who's aware of the danger can think it's cute, just that I can't. (Perhaps I need to learn to compartmentalize more.)
I'd like to explain this to the tumblr poster, and to get the word out about preventing this kind of awful accident, but I'm not a member and can't comment there. So I'm saying it here: never, EVER run a dryer -- or washer, for that matter -- full of clothes without carefully checking first. Even if you don't have any pets of your own. Because it could be someone else's.
