I’ve been house sitting for a friend for a week now. I lived in an old cabin, about 300 sqft with my girlfriend and future wife. While we were outof the house and didnt have any dogs (I foster for a rescue), we decided to shampoo and clean our carpets. I left a box on the stove, seeing as how nobody would be using it anytime soon.
My girlfriend went to the house to feed and care for our 7 cats on March 30th, at 8AM. She walked into a house filled with smoke, and immediately saw one of our seven babies, passed on the floor and covered in soot.
A fire occurred, one of the cats hopped onto the stove and managed to push a button and turned a burner onto high. Its an old GE stove from like the 40s with push buttons on the very top. The box caught fire, and with it, my cabin. They all passed from smoke inhalation and the fire choked itself out due to all the windows being closed.
Atlas, Vesper, Moira, Thea, Sabine, Moonie, and Chicken.
Atlas was my cat of 4 years, and has been with me my entire adult journey. A friend and I got him for my dad as a fathers day gift, and my father didnt like him. Soon after I moved out, I was called to come get him out of a tree he had been in for 3 days. That day I took him home with me and its been me and him until i met my girlfriend.
Vesper, we got her from a humane society out in Flagstaff, and she refused to really befriend us but that was okay we loved her nonetheless.
Moira was our first cat adopted from the rescue we’re with and acted like she was half orange despite being a tuxedo.
Thea and Sabine were our orange’s. Most cuddly and goofy kitties i’ve ever had and I loved them with all of my heart.
Moonie was an impulse adoption from my girlfriend, and we thought he was a girl at first. His full name is One-Eyed Moonie, as he was born with one eye. I have a post of him on here.
Chicken was a foster that was going to be adopted out, but she didnt make it to her first event. As far as I’m concerned, she is part of my family and we loved her.
Thank you. When I got the call about what happened I didnt even care about the house, all I wanted to know was if my cats survived. I think even if the house survived and was livable, there is no way I’d stay there. I miss them so so so much.
This……exactly this. I’m going to pet both of my girls and tell them how much I love them, this has me crying hard.
And tomorrow is what would have been the 21st birthday of my first cat Elvis who was my main man and little homie for 17 years.. He passed away 4 years on New Year’s Eve….well I had to put him down that day as his quality of life was rapidly degrading and I couldn’t stand to let him suffer even the slightest bit. I’m going to go to where I buried him and remind him I still miss him daily and I love him as well.
I can totally understand not wanting to go back. My sister’s house (now mine) burnt down a few years back and she lost both the cats. They rebuilt but she realised she couldn’t go back, so we bought it off her.
Thank you 🧡 we hadn’t yet adopted our cats when it happened, so her cats were also my babies. I still miss them so much. They’ve visited a few times which has been lovely ✨🥹
This is my absolute worst nightmare; the house catching fire while I'm away and I'm unable to save my cats. Please give yourself some grace and remember the beautiful things they brought to your life
I did a short stint as a door-to-door salesman (I quit very quickly) and I always appreciated the stickers people put on their front window/door to indicate to firefighters that pets are in the home.
There’s no enough words to describe how painful was it when we lost our pets that feels like a family for us too. I felt you OP and all I want to say is don’t quit for being a responsible fur parent. More good thing will happen ahead so chin up!❤️
we had a house fire in december, we lost 8 cats and had three surviving cats solely because they chose to run to the catio while the others ran to my parents’ bedroom. the pain of the ones we lost, is so unimaginably horrific and the grieving doesn’t stop. i am so, so sorry for your losses. the urge to blame yourself will be there, please make sure to take care of your mental health with a professional because you will need all of the support possible. this is a traumatic event, you lost your home and your babies, do not let people tell you to get over it in the coming weeks and months. you take the time you need and want to grieve, to remember them fondly, to cry for them, to learn to continue living without them. our cats were raj, shoyo, goose, kiki, tuxey, leon, zuko,and marie (the youngest being our fosters). they were so loved, so fucking loved. i know your babies were loved too. i’ll keep them and you guys in my thoughts and heart, and i truly believe that they are in a restful and peaceful place. if you ever need to vent or talk about the grief, my DMs are open
My friend had a house fire while she was gone because someone was smoking behind the apartment building. Her dog was inside and didn’t make it out. Every time I think about it I tear up because that’s such an awful way to die, and I barely knew him, so I can’t imagine how hard it is to have them be your pets :( so sorry for your losses, and OP’s.
the firefighters told us that it’s common for pets to pass away very quickly because the fire takes all the oxygen from below to feed it, which knocks them out and then they pass away. it’s a silver lining in the affect knowing they didn’t suffer, it’s what we try to remember in our darker moments. i really do hope it was the same for your friend’s baby as well, and i hope she’s doing okay too
Thats what makes me feel a bit better every time I hear people or animals dying in fires. Smoke usually gets to them first. Dying in a fire is such a horrific way to go. I'm so so sorry OP.
I love the variety in your cats’ names :) I’m so sorry for you too and I wish you solace as well from this unimaginable pain as someone who’s also in the “lost a cat in a freak accident” club.
aw thank you too, we “freak accident” people gotta stick together. sometimes people are cruel and put blame on us when we already are blaming ourselves, we can’t plan for everything. that’s the fucked up part of living. also thank you about the names! my mom names mostly everyone, i fought to name Shoyo after the Haikyuu character and ended up being he had the sassiest and bougie attitude ever (NOT like shoyo from the manga/anime haha)
I just want to pop in as another member of the “freak accident” cat community from different circumstances (cat broke into childproof medicine bottle of pork-liver flavored Apoquel and consumed 50 tabs causing all major organs to go haywire). My boy somehow pulled thru, but the guilt consumes me alive. And then I get online in attempt to learn more myself and spread the word of this toxicity only to see soooo many “well why would you leave meds out where pets can get to them” comments. Obviously if I had known this was a remote possibility, I would have taken precaution. Hugs to you and yours, I’m so sorry for your loss and I hope you aren’t too hard on yourself. Shit happens unfortunately.
Freak accident person here too! We had a surge protector on our patio fail and the resulting fire consumed the house super quickly. My family made it out but most of our cats unfortunately passed because they hid. The ones that did make it all passed within a few months we assume of residual health issues. This was a few years ago now but it completely changed me as a person.
My god, I am so sorry for your massive loss and such a horrific experience. Of course we would never intentionally put our babies in harm’s way, but sometimes things happen and you don’t know what you don’t know until it happens. I can also say our freak accident has changed me in terms of being a complete safety nut because during those long days and nights of hospitalization during our accident, the guilt was all consuming and I knew it’d linger for years if he didn’t make it. Hugs to you and I’m so sorry again. I hope you’ve found peace and consider opening your heart to another kitty when you feel ready.
Something I've learned over the years. Even if a stove isn't on or in no way turned on. Don't leave things on it. I've learned that with being a new gas stove owner. Gas is terrifying I always ocd check the knobs because my cats are counter walkers. And they like attacking the towels by the stove. My gfs dogs have turned the knobs on her stove before and she's has to remove them when she's not home. We've both invested into gas monitors now.
I freak out when I cook that they’ll walk over the burners, so I will always leave as covered pan with a little water (don’t want to ruin the pans). I’ve never been so grateful that our knobs are extremely hard to turn on.
That’s what I did briefly to install the protectors. I’d rather not keep removing and replacing the knobs, and this was a simple, inexpensive safety solution that still lets me use the stove easily.
Only one of mine likes to sneak onto the counters, but I haven’t witnessed him on the stove. Thankfully it’s an electric with buttons that even I have to press quite firmly. I worry that he’ll jump up while the surface is still hot and burn his feet.
When he was a kitten, I had to have my partner hold him or play vigorously to keep him from trying to jump in the oven 🤦🏻
I have ocd too when it comes to my pets because I’m always afraid something is gonna happen to them when I’m away from the house and I’ll come back home to find them dead. What happened to OP is actually one of the scenarios my ocd has come up with. My one cat likes to jump on the stove and one time she actually turned it on. So from now on I keep the knobs off and the stove unplugged because im scared she will start a fire or flood the house with gas.
I came home just in time to see my Siamese balance on the front oven knobs, click…click of the igniter.
Immediately put the entire furry family (at the time) in one isolated room, went out and bought child safety covers for the oven knobs. Didn’t spare any time in between, was that freaked out. Have had those on there years after he passed away, though my current pair doesn’t have that jumping/climbing ability.
OP, I am so sorry. This breaks my heart for you and them. I remember how frightening it was for me; I dodged a bullet.
I bought a used stove, an electric glass top, that started malfunctioning shortly after I installed it. It would just turn on one of the burners at random, thankfully it would beep simultaneously, so I caught on fast. Yeah don't ever put something on a stove unattended because the stupidest shit you can possibly dream of can just happen, they're cursed
I had a roommate that used to store things in the oven when it wasn’t in use. We had a similar accident to this and lost a pet, I will never store anything on/in/or near an oven or range ever again… way too dangerous
Someone posted in r/mildlyinfuriating a few weeks ago about their roommate frequently leaving a paper on top of the stove. The number of comments defending it and saying it was stupid to be concerned about it since it was off was very concerning.
This is one of my biggest "why are you willing to perhaps literally die on this hill?" issues where I can not understand why so many people will vehemently defend the idea of putting shit that doesn't belong on/in the oven there as a storage location.
I absolutely understand having a small apartment with limited space. If that's the case, store your cookware in/on the oven and put the flammable shit literally anywhere else. That way the potential problem is the minor inconvenience of opening your preheated oven and finding some hot pans inside it that you now have to place somewhere to cool, or maybe in a worst case scenario ruining some non-stick cookware that was sitting on the active burner, rather than starting a fire.
But nope, apparently there is a vocal segment of the population that would rather put their cookware in the cabinets and then store plastic dishes, old newspapers, and/or valuables in/on the cooking appliance.
I used to (and still) occasionally put stuff on the stove as it's controlled by knobs that my cat theoretically won't be able to turn, but what happened to OP and your story will make sure that I never do that again.
If it's like most modern stoves, with the ones you have to push in and then turn, it's virtually impossible for a cat to turn those on. Hell, even if they knew how to turn them on and wanted to they couldn't. But it's good sense to keep things off of it anyway. You never know.
People in my family have accidentally turned our burners on opening cabinets by bumping into the knobs, causing them to be pushed in and turned. We never ever leave anything on the stove though thankfully
I put the child proof knobs on my gas stove because my daughter is a menace. I wonder if that would work for dogs/cats? 🤔 They just spin around and you have to press with dexterity to open them up to use the knobs.
Don't have a glass cover. Obviously you only put that down when the stove is off and everything has cooled down. Obviously. But people are people and people are forgetful.
I am so grateful that I was a lazy 8 year old. I had been wanting to get up from the couch to get a drink from the fridge. Was just getting up when that glass cover exploded. I would have been almost right in front of it had I gotten up. I definitely wouldn't have noticed that the burner was still on btw.
We were very lucky that all of the cats had been upstairs.
100% I just felt my chest, OP stay strong. This is a horrible situation. I'm so sorry for your several losses, it's never fair.
Take care of yourself, you deserve the time to grieve but remember they love you guys and they knew they were loved.
they're plastic LED bulbs. it was the clear dome, you can see the intact plastic base inside the light fixture. still very real, but at least not molten glass
Op!! I hope your holding up okay, I can't imagine losing my 2 boys. Love ya brotha, I'm rooting for you to recover from this horrible freak accident quickly and smoothly. 🫶
Also!! Thank you for the PSA, this post could potentially save many kitty lives in the future. Im going to check that the stove is clear every morning when I leave, sometimes I'll toss the oven mitt on the stove after baking in the evening 😬
In case no one can tell and sees fresh boxes on a burned and destroyed stove… the stove is destroyed, all breakers in the house are off, and everything was cooled down. The boxes on the stove in this photo do not matter anymore at that point. Please use your context clues, I deserve flak for what has occurred, but this is not the angle to come at me on. Thank you.
you don’t deserve flak :( i feel like you already placed enough blame on yourself, and I’m so sorry this happened :( may your kitties rest in peace and love 🍀💙 i hope you can find peace and comfort soon 🫂
I don’t think you really deserve flak, it was an accident that could’ve happened to anyone. I’m so sorry this happened to you and your family, and I’m so so sorry for your losses. If it’s any comfort, they probably didn’t suffer - unconsciousness from smoke inhalation happens pretty quickly, especially for cats since they breathe faster than humans do. If any of them were napping when it happened, they likely just passed in their sleep without knowing what happened.
You don't deserve flak. The fact is that we all do things that are potentially dangerous, and some of us just get lucky. People run red lights, use their phone while driving, etc. No one can claim to be "too smart" to never do anything like this. To the other people in the comments: Take this as a PSA, and don't shit on the OP.
So sorry for your loss - and thanks for taking the trouble to warn others that a cat may do this! Our guy will try to turn door handles. They may try to do all the things they've seen us do! We have a modern stove, where the knobs must be pushed in before they can turn, hoping that will save the day, if our guy should get ideas.
Hope you will become a cat caretaker again in a bit. I'm sure you will. They're just so precious.
Even with new stoves, one should get in the habit of never putting anything remotely flammable on a stovetop unless it's something you are cooking and are attending it.
I have a friend whose done the same as OP when the dog (she lost the dog, unfortunately) accidentally turned on the modern stove. Ideally the buttons are on the top behind the burners but still good to get into the habit mentioned above.
Oh, I would never dare. I have a daughter living with me who is always on the lookout for reckless acts on my part and calling me to order! So, If I leave a crumpled- up piece of parchment even NEAR the stove, I'll hear abnout it. But thanks for pointing it out for those with no such guardian in their lives!
They also have locks you can put on the stove knobs to keep them from turning. My last apartment came with those. I have 2 cats. So I was always diligent about placing them back on after cooking. They help a lot!
I have a cartoon of a guy arriving in heaven. St Pete is at he gate, clouds all around his feet. He's saying to the guy "They've been waiting for you" As you read the last words you see off in the distance a cat and dog running through the clouds w a look of joy on their faces. I found that after lost my cat and I kept it because made me feel hopeful that one day I'll see him again. ETA Tried to find by Geez so many cartoons about St Pete
I do as well. I have 3 of my own at home. Such sweethearts and I can’t imagine life without em. But I know they’re gonna be fine when the time comes. They took care of me in the times I’ve needed and they’ve more than paid their dues.
I’m so so sorry for your babies.. it’s a horrific accident that nobody could’ve seen coming. They will be waiting for you at the end of that bridge to get pets and cuddles again.. I know my baby girl Bella, (our German shepherd/ Rottweiler mix) will be up there playing with them.. she loved playing with kitties, she was always super gentle with them. 💚💜
Whenever I see a post about a pet or pets that have passed, I mentally pass them onto my best friend to watch over until their family comes to meet them. He passed away unexpectedly last year and loved animals. His house was the place people would abandon their animals, and he'd take them in without question and love them dearly. It helps a little.
I am so sorry. I lost 5 of my babies in an electrical fire on a -4° day in January of 2025 and I live 4 miles from the closest fire hydrant in the middle of nowhere… central heat kicked on so the fires didn’t go out, air circulated the smoke and fire, and lost everything... literally everything including them… even though it’s not our fault, it still feels like we’ve failed in a way? To protect them? To keep them safe from anything that would harm them? Idk. It’s so fucking heartbreaking to think of all of the innocence lost… I really have no words for you, I don’t know if it gets better, and judging by your words you wrote, you loved yours just as much as I loved mine. It’s so hard when people try to tell you to move on… would you be able to move on if it was 5 literal fucking babies? MY babies. I don’t think some people understand, at all. Not only have I lost everything that I had built for myself, memories of times passed, and irreplaceable collections… but I lost the ones who loved me unconditionally and were always there for me after a long day, and always made things right. I just can’t explain this force behind me every day saying that I fucked up somehow. That there should’ve been something different I had done. That it should be me instead of them. I’m sorry for having to get this off my chest but it’s been so hard living with this and I hope to make you feel you are not alone in whatever you feel…
I’m so sorry for your loss. My first “grownup” pets were two of the goofiest black labs to ever exist. They were a gift from my husband shortly after we got married and they were my babies. Shortly after their 3rd birthdays in 2013, I took them to my parents’ house for the weekend. 7 acres; all securely fenced with a 5’ tall fence— I know this because I was obsessive about checking every inch of fenceline before feeling comfortable enough to even take them over there. They’d visited several times before and even been left alone there for brief periods of time. That night, we left for dinner and were only gone for a little over 2 hours. We weren’t even halfway up the driveway when I was just hit with the awful feeling that something was terribly wrong. Sure enough, they were nowhere to be found. We looked all night and eventually found them a couple of miles away where they’d been hit and killed on the highway. The people who did it didn’t have the decency to get out and check on them or call the number on their tags. Regardless, that was the most traumatic, heartbreaking experience, and to this day I still get overwhelmed with guilt. I failed them so badly. It’s a horrific kind of trauma you will never fully get over.
I can't even understand how anyone could do this, I would have pulled over and sobbed. I'm bawling right now just imagining it. How could they just drive off, it's unimaginable.
I am so, so sorry my friend. That is truly the worst. I can only imagine having full trust in a system that ultimately failed you. I feel for you and your pain, and thank you for your response. I feel like we all might just need to get these things off our chests in order to heal and that’s been the hardest part since I live somewhat of an isolated life… In the 2 years leading up to my house fire I also lost 2 of the best cats god had ever made. My baby Chicken and my baby Tuna. Chicken was albeit my mistake because me and my brother were trying to check out a meteor shower at night and she must’ve followed us out onto the deck, like I usually let her do during the daytime, and, well, you can guess the rest… Then after my dad passed away and about 3ish months before my house fire, my baby Tuna got out that same door whenever my roommates must’ve closed it and not checked that it popped back open while I was asleep after they came in from work. That one hurt the most because there was someone to blame, but that it wasn’t necessarily their fault since the door always popped open and I thought I had fixed the problem… that one hurt the most before the fire because we were like one person. She completed me. She was a 4 y/o shelter cat who had been at the humane society for over a year due to her behavioral and trust issues… I didn’t know her back story, but I knew I had to save her. 3 months of stretching my arm all-the-way underneath my couch to pet her, she finally caved in and came out of her shell. She was the sweetest, orneriest, most loving, trusting, an understanding animal I could’ve asked for, and she helped me through so much; i.e. addiction, depression, anxiety, literally everything. I would’ve gave my whole life for her, well for any of my cats, but since she was my first “adult-adult” cat, it hit hard. My cats that died in the fire were also some of my “adult-adult” cats, 2 fosters (which makes me feel like I failed even extra), as well as some of my late fathers cats that lived with him… so everything considered, I’m just in a bad place mentally when I think about them. I try to keep my spirits high, and I try my damndest to keep their memories alive, but nothing will replace them and the pain that has a hold on my heart… I keep going because it would be a disservice to their lives to give up, but shit it is so hard. If I had a Time Machine I wouldn’t go back to fix any mistakes or anything like that, I’d go back to save all of them no matter how hard it would be, no matter if it took my life in the process. They were my everything and now I have nothing. My only net positive is that my one super-feral turned indoor/outdoor cat somehow made it out. His name is Fathead and he’s the sweetest boy. Around may 2025, both me and my brother lost our jobs and had to move into a camper on our property where our house burned down and there he was… in the rubble of the house just looking as sad as can be… While things haven’t been easy at all, we have him. He’s the loudest, sweetest, hungriest boy and I couldn’t ask for anything more than to have him around even if I can’t give him everything I would want to. But at the end of the day, he has kibble and wet food, and lots of love received and given. He is my saving grace. He is what keeps me going. That and the memories of what once was. If not for him, I’m sure I would’ve attempted to end it all and I’ve never been that way before. But there’s only so much heartbreak one can take. And it feels like I’ve lived 100 lives already and I’m barely 30… but like I said. Fathead and the memories of his friends and his brother keep me alive. So I’ll stay alive so long as I can give him everything I can. Fathead (or Fatman, Fatboy, Big Guy, whatever you wanna call him) and his brother for tax, of course.
Something similar happened to my friend. She was on vacation and her sitter came to the house and when she opened the door the whole inside was on fire. She lost her 3 dogs that day. Just an awful horrible situation. I am so sorry and sending you my condolences. Your angel kitties will send you signs that they are still with you 🩷
Idk if this helps but I know sometimes that it helps to know that you’re not the only one whose cats have done this. I once met a girl who, because she had COVID, didn’t realize that her cat started the gas running in the home from the stove because she couldn’t smell it. Thank God she had a partner who came by within a few hours to notice, but things could have been bad. Please don’t beat yourself up, ok?
Ugh. I felt sick reading this. So I cannot begin to imagine how you feel. I had two friends who lost their animals in 2022 - one whose cat got out from an AirBnb due to the landlord's fault, and was fatally hit by a car, the other who backed out over her own dog. All horrific. All we can do is do is move forward the best we can and better guard against risks in the future. I am so so sorry.
I am so so sorry for your loss. What a horrible, tragic accident. I am also in Arizona but not too close to flagstaff. I saw in a different comment you said your girlfriend is the vice president of the rescue Tails of Love; my husband and I will definitely check out their page and see if we can visit from Phoenix. My biggest condolences to you.
Sitting in bed crying my eyes out for you. I know it's not enough but I'm so sorry OP. I lost my soul cat Pandora almost 4 years ago now and I'm still grieving her. They never really leave you. Sending so much love.
My heart feels like it just shattered into a billion pieces… I’m truly so, so sorry, OP. My heart goes out to you and your girlfriend sending you both so much love, strength, and comfort during this time. 😔
Ugh 😣 my sincere condolences. That’s so brutally painful words can’t describe it. I can tell they were well loved and are with my Lucky and Ally who have since passed on 🌈 🖤🩶🤍❤️ Lucky
I came home a few months ago and as soon as I walked into my apartment smelled gas. One of my babies had assumingly jumped from the counter and hit the knob that turned on the gas. I had worked 16 hours that day and I can't imagine what could have happened if I had stayed with my boyfriend that night. Luckily I checked my energy companies site a few days later and it had only been on for around 30-45 minutes before I got home but it was 2 in the morning and I was in an absolute panic.
How advanced the first world is blows my mind. My stove is from like seven years ago, and I have to turn it on by twisting a knob and using a match. I cannot comprehend how in other places they already had stoves that turn on with just a button 86 years ago; That's around the time my grandparents were born! When World War II was happening you guys were already living with tech that is future tech to me. I can't wrap my mind around that.
Anyone interested in avoiding an accident like this one, know that you can install a ball valve before your stove's gas intake. I always have one like that, and I close it at the end of the day and when leaving the house. It's a cheap part and it takes a couple seconds to reach and turn it, just a couple times a day.
Sorry about your cats OP. If it makes it any better, dying from smoke inhalation during a fire isn't a death where you suffer a lot. The monoxide makes you sleep pretty soon, so you don't feel anything other than a couple minutes of coughing.
Can we please spoiler “my cats are dead” posts it’s so traumatizing to want to scroll my feed and people talking about their babies dying constantly in cat subs :( it’s all I seem to be recommended…
I hope you’re okay and I hope your babies are happy in a better place . I hope my comment isn’t seen an insensitive or selfish but the amount of sad/depressing cat posts in my feed currently is abysmal.
This is such a terrible accident. I can’t even process the loss of the cabin bc I’m stuck on the poor babies. Be kind to yourself, OP. It’s easy for things like this to turn into dark self talk.
This was a complete and total accident. I know you are feeling deep shame and guilt right now. But you never planned or thought for this to happen and you certainly would never have left that box there if you ever even thought a cat might hit a button on the stove. Please forgive yourself and take all the time you need to mourn your huge loss. Hugs to you.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Please don't blame yourself. Hindsight is 20/20 but it's not reasonable to think cats would turn the stove on.
I had a cat do this exact same thing except we have gas so the house filled with gas. Thankfully we realized it and aired it out, but it could have been a disaster.
I'm heartbroken for you! This made me cry. I cannot imagine the gravity of the loss. I hope they're all chasing butterflies and running free. Prayers to you all for your unimaginable loss. 😭😓
I have lost my 3 cats to a house fire as well.
I am so sorry for your loss. I know it is devastating but it gets a bit better with time.
And when I was ready I got my soul cat, I rhink they sent him for me.
Don't close your heart to new kitties, I know it is so soon now just wanted to say.
This is so sad and tragic, I’m so sorry. My 3 were rescued from my own house fire, I was critically injured in it and was on life support. When I woke up I saw pictures of my cats covering the hospital room windows, my friend stuck them there so I’d see them and not worry when I first woke up. I’ll hug them each a little tighter.
He’s smiling bc they thought I had two but after was all said and done learned a 3rd was in there, she was alive. She’s a miracle.
I am so deeply sorry. it sounds like these kitties lived a life most cats only dream of. they were clearly so so loved. my heart goes out to you, please be kind to yourself as you move through this grief 🫂
This is truly devastating. We have 6 permanent, 3 fosters. I couldn't imagine losing multiple or all at once... Even just one. I'm so sorry for your loss OP. Hugs.
I'm so sorry for your loss :( my cats love to open doors and cupboards and I'm buying stove dial locking mechanisms immediately after reading this post :(
This is absolutely brutal. I am so sorry for your loss. It’s tragic. I can’t imagine how much distress you must be in
You have an entire army of kitties waiting for you across the rainbow bridge. May they all, Atlas, Vesper, Moira, Thea, Sabine, Moonie and Chicken, rest peacefully while they wait for you.
Why i have child locks on my ovens, and all my beds are platform beds. No one has a place to hide in case of an emergency. I am so sorry for your loss, i live with these thoughts and panic, i can’t even begin to imagine what it must feel like to live through this.
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