# My cat is in the dryer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 14, 2006, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364 "2006-11-14T08:42:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/21 "2006-11-14T21:01:20Z")
Several years ago I had a delightful fluffy calico named [Glenda](http://www.mortalwombat.com/Image/DryCat.jpg) who loved to hop into the dryer shortly after I took a load of clothes out. The dryer was warm and resembled a box. Cats love warmth & boxes. My regular laundry procedure became a matter of washing the clothes, drying the clothes, folding and hanging the clothes, and shooing Glenda out of the dryer. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/22 "2006-11-14T21:19:23Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] Several years ago I had a delightful fluffy calico named [Glenda](http://www.mortalwombat.com/Image/DryCat.jpg) who loved to hop into the dryer shortly after I took a load of clothes out. The dryer was warm and resembled a box. Cats love warmth & boxes. My regular laundry procedure became a matter of washing the clothes, drying the clothes, folding and hanging the clothes, and shooing Glenda out of the dryer. [/QUOTE] That is a beautiful cat, **pinkfreud**. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/23 "2006-11-14T22:07:16Z")
Very pretty cat. Also VERY fuffy. Yes. “Fuffy”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/24 "2006-11-14T22:32:56Z")
[QUOTE=erie774] Her mother caught her breath and said, in as controlled a voice as possible, “You mean I’ve been crying my eyes out for five minutes, sure that one of my granddaughters was dead, when actually you were talking about your **fucking cat**!” [/QUOTE] I had a similar experience with my wife shortly after my son was born. I was at work and she was at home taking care of the baby. She was reading some paperback science fiction book (I can’t even remember the title) and near the end there was a very sad section where one of the characters loses her newborn baby. My wife got to this point in the book, and, having a new baby of her own, burst into tears. She was upset, and also a little miffed at me because I had just read the book the week before and I could have warned her that something awful was coming up. So she calls me up at work, sobbing, and says: “The baby DIED.” It took about thirty horrible seconds to sort out what she wasn’t talking about OUR baby. I was not sympathetic … . ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/25 "2006-11-15T03:18:37Z")
My cats’ve never tried to explore the dryer, since it’s a stacked unit that stays in the closet, thank god. I have, however, caught Daniel trying to explore the dishwasher on occasion. On those occasions, a drill sergeant-style yell of “CAT!” usually works wonders. I’m not a cat, but when I was a kid, I used to have the same attraction to dryers. That stopped after my mother sat me down and, very seriously, explained that I could suffocate in our old avocado green dryer. She didn’t get into the other possible injuries, which is probably just as well – I’d never sleep again. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/26 "2006-11-15T18:08:34Z")
_The cat’s in the dryer with a load of whites a sheet of bounce and a pair of tights When did he get in there I don’t know when But he had a bad time then Y’know he had a bad time then_ ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/27 "2006-11-15T18:52:21Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] Several years ago I had a delightful fluffy calico named [Glenda](http://www.mortalwombat.com/Image/DryCat.jpg) who loved to hop into the dryer shortly after I took a load of clothes out. The dryer was warm and resembled a box. Cats love warmth & boxes. My regular laundry procedure became a matter of washing the clothes, drying the clothes, folding and hanging the clothes, and shooing Glenda out of the dryer. [/QUOTE] May I just say that I love, Love, LOVE the name of the website hosting that picture? ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/28 "2006-11-17T09:26:06Z")
We lost a Himalayan to the dryer monster. Ariel sneaked into the dryer when no one was paying attention and my younger sister (about 11 or 12 at the time) didn’t check before she turned it on. About 5-10 minutes later my mom asked her if she was drying shoes, because something was thumping around in the dryer. M answered, no. All hell broke loose a few seconds later when my mom found a foamy-mouthed fluffy corpse in the dryer. I’d never heard that kind of horrified crying scream before. S, the youngest sister, blamed M for it. M felt horrible. It was days before she stopped crying even though mom tried to console her, once she’d calmed down a bit herself. Unsurprisingly, that was the last pet we got. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/29 "2006-11-17T14:56:54Z")
When my cat Sunshine was a kitten, I accidentally closed her in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes. No permanent damage; she’s just as dumb as the cat that wasn’t closed in the refrigerator. Susan ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/30 "2006-11-17T19:53:24Z")
[Callie in the dryer](http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b305/Bookkeeper2/Cats/2003-10Calliecheckingoutthedryer.jpg). She hopped in at every chance - checking for cats before we put anything in is standard practice in our house. [Nixie](http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b305/Bookkeeper2/Cats/2005-03Nixiefryingbrain.jpg) used to hop into the fridge at every opportunity. We eventually cured her by just closing the door and leaving her until we were done in the kitchen. Never hurt her, and after around 50-60 repetitions, she finally stopped. (See, even cats can learn eventually!) ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/31 "2006-11-18T01:21:18Z")
On Flickr, a search for “cat dryer” turns up 384 pictures of cas in dryers (including a few of two cats in one dryer). ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/32 "2006-11-18T15:39:19Z")
It seems reasonable that cats would like to climb into driers. It also seems reasonable that if your cat does that frequently eventually once you’ll not notice it & end up killing the cat. I see an easy solution: next time you see the cat in there, turn on the drier. I bet 20 seconds will be enough to ensure the cat NEVER does that again. It won’t be hot, but it will be very very scary. Most cats hide from vacuums, and once they understand the horrors of the CHAMBER OF TUMBLING DOOM they’ll be safe for the rest of their lives. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/33 "2006-11-19T07:02:01Z")
**LSLGuy** , please don’t try that. I’m sure that twenty seconds in a dryer is plenty of time to break the cat’s neck. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/34 "2006-11-19T19:59:42Z")
[QUOTE=Morgyn] May I just say that I love, Love, LOVE the name of the website hosting that picture? [/QUOTE] Thank you! [Mortalwombat.com](http://Mortalwombat.com) is my site. I used to post a lot of my photos and artwork and poetry there, for public consumption. I had problems with stalkers and wackos, so I shut down the public access. I keep the domain name alive because I find it amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/35 "2006-11-22T09:14:04Z")
[QUOTE=The King of Soup] I was matchin’ up dress socks when I heard a whine, “Fellas,” I said, "I think that cat of mine "Is stuck in the bottom of the Maytag line, “I better go before he uses number nine.” And when I found him I thought hey if NASA trained cats, I bet they’d do it just like that, Centrifugally mash 'em flat. [/QUOTE] **The King of Soup** , I read this the other day right before heading out the door and didn’t get a chance to comment, so I bookmarked it JUST so I could come back and tell you that this is a simply brilliant parody. I really love it. 😃 I think Weird Al has some competition! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/36 "2006-11-22T12:47:41Z")
[QUOTE=erie774] My aunt’s sister kept giving her grief about being a Maytag murderer and for that Christmas gave her two kittens: one named Fluff and the other was Dry. [/QUOTE] Brilliant story! Fluff and Dry must live in horror knowing how their forecat perished. ( Or, being a Cat, were driven to try to jump into the dryer an any opportune moment.) Fluff and Dry…heee. Good stuff. Would this be the appropriate place to put in a snippet about a former coworker who accidently washed her daughter’s cat in the washing machine? Kids, don’t wash your pussy with mechanical means. It will end in tears. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/37 "2006-11-22T12:59:11Z")
[QUOTE=Bites When Provoked] **The King of Soup** , I read this the other day right before heading out the door and didn’t get a chance to comment, so I bookmarked it JUST so I could come back and tell you that this is a simply brilliant parody. I really love it. 😃 I think Weird Al has some competition! [/QUOTE] Maybe I’m just really dense, but what’s the original? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364/38 "2006-11-22T14:19:31Z")
[QUOTE=Scribble] Maybe I’m just really dense, but what’s the original? [/QUOTE] I believe that’s _Cat’s In The Cradle_ by Harry Chapin. My washer/dryer are in the garage where the cats aren’t allowed but I do have a couple that enjoy climbing into the dishwasher everytime I open it, so I have to make sure all cats are removed before closing it and turning it on. My kitten is not afraid of water, I can’t run water at a sink without her jumping up and trying to play with the water. Apparently she didn’t read the cat handbook about fearing water or she’s part tiger. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-is-in-the-dryer/380364.md?page=1)