Cats love to curl up for a nap anywhere they get comfy, which is how this moggie ended up on an hour-long washing machine cycle.
Pablo, the Burmese cat, was rushed to a local veterinarian in the Gold Coast after its owners found that it had been put through a cycle on a front-loading washing machine. The poor cat had climbed in, unbeknownst to the owners, before the door was closed.
For 55 minutes, the cycle had been running. To make matters worse, there weren’t any clothes to soften the blows. A cleaning cycle had pummelled the pussy to a pulp, and it wasn’t happy. The devastated cat owners rushed him to their local vet in critical condition.
Cat Crippled by Washing Machine Madness
The hour-long ordeal in the washing machine had left the cat in a terrible state. Just about alive, it was taken in by the vets, who managed to save its life. The 55-minute cycle had resulted in the cat suffering from a brain injury, lung injury, and a few toes less than it had before.
The vets didn’t know if the cat would make it when it first showed up. But, through their perseverance, they managed to wring out the extra clean moggy, and nurse it back to life. “Not many have seen cats go through a whole cycle and survive … it was pretty close to a miracle,” they told Seven News.
According to the veterinarian, this kind of thing is more common than people realise. Cats are terrible for climbing into places they don’t belong and going unnoticed. A washing machine full of soft clothes will often seem like the ideal place for a cat to sleep.
And so, without checking, people will close the door, start the cycle, and have no idea their cats are getting a spin. For this couple, they got very lucky. A system cleaning cycle is a lot less brutal than a heavy load, extra hot, spin cycle.
Angry, bruised, broken, but very clean, Pablo the Cat survived its wash, and hopefully learned to pick its places for a nap a little better.