Keith E. Whisman

September 05, 2010 at 1:38am

Hey the cat in Christmas Vacation did not survive, he died. The Mother-In-Laws dog from the first National Lampoons Vacation to Wally World (before Wal-Mart went national) also did not survive, he was accidentally left tied to the family station wagon rear bumper as the family drove away from a picnic where the dog pissed all over the picnic food. I can't say I would be so quick to remember the dog tied to my bumper either for that matter. 

The thing is that the animals from the National Lampoons movies were killed and your cat survived, so I suggest that you rectify this situation so you too can have a National Lampoons kind of dead pet. 

Oh yeah, in Christmas Vacation, they had in-laws over for Christmas and I remember they had this big, horny dog that looked at women as sex toys... God don't you wish you could live a life like that horny dog?

XoRn

September 04, 2010 at 4:30pm

I'm glad the Shizzle got away unscathed. Another cat was not so lucky some time ago when this thread sprung up on the fourms.

http://www.maximumpc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=47666

What we should take away from this is cats and electrical power cords do not mix (shocklingly enough). My cat hates hot sause so I have a dabble of it on the sides of my powerstrip and cords I don't want him chewing (He loves the 360 controller cords. I was forced to go wireless =/)

kiaghi7

September 04, 2010 at 7:25am

Pre-emptive potential freak-out disclaimer, my dog is absolutely fine. He was in no way permanently harmed at all. He's now ten, frisky as ever, and happy as can be.

 

A similarly amusing story happened with my dog...

 

When he was a puppy and enjoyed chewing on everything that was wire-shaped, he routinely ate a console gaming controller's wire every few days (Playstation, PS2, Xbox, you name it)... At $30 a shot this was a very expensive (for me) hobby he had taken up, but all I could reasonably do was hide them from him to little or no luck.

 

One day however the problem solved itself, I can't recall the reason why it was there, but a heavy duty orange extension cord was draped across my "den" floor to power something that was being done in the interum. My dog being as ambitious as he is curious apparently thought to himself:

"well if those skinny controller cables are good to chew on, this beefy thing will be that much better!"

 

Needless to say, shortly afterward he experienced the soul-crusing feeling of 110 volts coursing through his body his outlook on wires changed dramatically, but unlike most people who accidentally get shocked by a wallsocket receiving it thorough their fingers, his experience went through his teeth... as a PUPPY! I've bitten into aluminum foil with a metal filling (now sealants), but that's just a tingle... I've licked a 9volt, and that's not even close to what 110 volts from a wallsocket is going to feel like.

 

I wasn't present at the time, so other than him the house was empty, but the tell-tale signs on the extension cord were all that was necessary, with tiny puppy teeth marks here, some more there, a few more, and then they stop. Ever since that instant he's never so much as touched a cord of any kind.

 

He may not have much in the way of religion, but in that instant I'm confident he thought he had been slapped by the hand of God.

squarebab

September 04, 2010 at 4:31am

Cat looks dead to me. Reminds me of 'Weekend at Bernie's'.

JohnP

September 03, 2010 at 5:02pm

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/13/ventblockers/

Look at the last picture...

One cat story I have was when the cat was on my chest while we were both sleeping, almost nose to nose. The cat sneezed. I bolted upright and the cat hung on for the ride. AAAHHHHH! I had to individually pry each paws claws out of my chest...

Then there was the time that the cat was getting a drink out of the toilet with 2 paws down in the bowl. So I flushed! The cat two front paws lunged sideways so that he was stuck in the bowl with no way out without getting wet... I should have helped, I really should...

 

nate griggs

September 03, 2010 at 2:54pm

My ex-wife and i returned from an overnight trip to find that our miniature daschund, mollie, had sprayed poo on the wall in the bathroom. Not really sure how or why a dog would do that unless it was sick, we cleaned up the mess and took her to the vet. Vet said it was a stomach virus or something, and we took mollie home. It wasnt until the next day that we realized what happened when alicia's hairdryer didnt work because the cord had been chewed through....

keith41501

September 03, 2010 at 2:13pm

I hate cats.

Metalmorphasis

September 03, 2010 at 1:39pm

Let your frogs hop around back there either or you will have fried frog legs!

wonjoon0330

September 03, 2010 at 1:26pm

lol good thing my cat doesn't have collar

someuid

September 03, 2010 at 11:54am

Paul, I'm glad your cat is ok.  I have three at home and I usually check the cords now and then to make sure they don't work their way out over time.  It looks like the tag got under the housing of the cord and managed to make contact with the metal plugs.

Great idea on the plastic tags.  I'm going to be looking into that this weekend for my 3 cats.

athlon11

September 03, 2010 at 10:17am

A man should never own a cat anyway.

r3dd4wg

September 03, 2010 at 10:10am

This happened in the late 80's.  While I was playing a game on my Commodore Amiga 2000, my Dalmation, who was about a year old at the time, walked into my room and took his usual spot underneath the computer desk.  After playing awhile, at one moment, the monitor dimmed but then brightened up again.  I continued playing, but then a about a minute later, it happened again.  At this point, I'm wondering what the heck is going on.  So I'm visually inspecting everything above the desk when I notice hearing my dog lapping loudly under the desk.  I look under the desk and he is laying down on all fours with a loop of the thick electrical cord for the power strip being held up between his two front paws.  I look more closely at the electrical cord and it has teeth marks in it and I can see the copper wires.  I look at the dog and he is lapping all around his mouth with his tongue.  It becomes apparent that he shocked himself chewing on the cord.

No permanent damage.  He lived 15 years before passing away from natural causes.

Slingblayde

September 03, 2010 at 9:49am

I used to have a 55 gallon aquarium, I had some cool fish in it for a while, I decided to buy a fiddler crab for it. He was pretty neat, he would climb the fake plants to near the surface and swing his giant claw around. Then I came home from work one day and all the pumps and lights were off. I was like WTF happened?

I looked behind the aquarium stand at the power bar and there was the fiddler crab, deader than a doornail, he must have climbed the plants, got a hold of the edge of the aquarium lid, and slipped out the space between the lid and the filter. Then he must have fallen onto the power bar, or fell off and stepped in one of the slots for the plugs, and being wet at the time that was the end of him.

He had zapped himself and popped the breaker on the power bar which shut everything off, and he even left a scorch mark on the power bar just like the pics of the cat tags.

dedgar

September 03, 2010 at 8:41am

I guess shizzle had to hit the catnip pretty hard to calm down after the 'electrifying' experience.

 

(Sorry, couldn't help myself.)

 

I know, shocking isn't it.

 

(Darn, there I go again.)