My stupid cat

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(10-16-2021, 11:44 AM)grampahol Wrote: So I have a double recliner with a motorized thing underneath to raise and lower things. My dad bought it a few years back.. Anyway under it is a long acme screw that's part of how it works. In case you don't know an acme screw is different from other screws. The threads are made for maximum torque and aren't pointed like most screws. The threads are flat and spaced out more..
So anyway, I was watching TV the other night all comfy reclined back and decided to get up to go get something to eat and heard the cat meowing and screaming really loud under the recliner. I looked under it and her tail hair had gotten wrapped up in the acme screw with what amounts to axle grease to hold it there. I couldn't raise or lower it.. and there was no way I was going to reach in there with a really pissed off cat to free her.. So eventually she pulled away ripping her own hair out. I thought things were over. Well, last night I tried to lower the back again and it wouldn't move. There was so much cat hair wrapped around the screw it wasn't moving up or down. I had to lay on my back and reach under it with hemostats to pull out a HUGE clump of cat hair to get it to move again..
Stupid cat.. Her tail now looks quite different. It used to be kind of fluffy on the end..Now it's more or less pointed where all the hair got yanked out..  
She hasn't been back in that room since..

Our cat passed several years ago at the age of 20, and he was almost literally the perfect pet.

The oldest girl moved out of state at the end of the summer, and when her house had showings she would bring he three cats to our house for the day.  One asshole peed on our brand new couch (still can't get the smell out 3 months later) and would climb back behind the fridge where he couldn't get out.  Our fridge is NOT easy to move, and it would take almost an hour to get him out of there.  All 3 cats would find there way up into the inside of the recliner.  There was a spot they would individually get in the you can't reach to get them out without reclining the chair, but reclining the chair with them there would severely injure them.  Thank goodness it wasn't powered like yours!