Fireball Kitteh

So we have one of those gas-heaters that stands on the wall… about 5.5 feet tall… has a little door at the bottom where you can access the pilot and the whole mechanism… Many times we have turned on the thermostat and heard the gas ignite after it’s had a little too much time to build up… causing the downstairs windows to rattle from the pressure change. Once, recently, i was waiting for the pilot to light and watching the thing, and saw a pretty decent curl of flame jump out of the thing.

Shit… i thought… my cat sleeps in front of this thing sometimes. He is actually sleeping in front of it RIGHT NOW… and he’s fortunately slept through it…

I wasn’t worried too badly about it because i only saw the heater do that once, and when he was laying there in front of the thing he was low enough that the flame missed him by about 8 inches.

Today however, I get home and emily shows me the evidence of fucking Stunt-Cat’s latest brush with the great attractor… Not only are all his whiskers singed, but take a look at the red outline on this photo… that whole area is kinda crispy to the touch. Just the tips… (just to see what it feels like…) but yeah… time to talk to the landlord.