Posted on 01/04/2022 6:51:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
Pet owners around the globe are being warned that their frisky felines make also quite effective firestarters, as a new safety review revealed that cats have been responsible for more than 100 house fires in South Korea over the past three years.
The Seoul Metropolitan Fire and Disaster Department reported on Thursday that they’d counted a total of 107 incidents of residential cat arson occurring between January 2019 and November 2021...
Experts believe cats most likely prompted the fires to spread by switching on electric burners as they wantonly traipsed over touch-sensitive buttons on the surface of a hotplate. Left on too long, the appliances can overheat and catch fire, according to the department.
Slightly more than half of the fires in South Korea started while homeowners were out, but four people have been injured in cases of cat arson, per the report.
“Cat-related fires are continuing to occur recently,” said department official Chung Gyo-chul in a statement. “We advise households with pets to pay extra attention as fire could spread widely when no one is at home.”
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No, the fires were started by an electric stove WITH A TOUCH SENSITIVE CONTROL. Idiots.
COuld someone page the Viking kitties?
Korean: We’ll see how much like chicken you taste. Here, kitty kitty.
“The article instructs the proper way to punish a cat arsonist… “
That is a CUTE CAT. Just glad the flame is off!
Picture of cat in pot....
I’m a lifelong dog lover but I still think that cat is innocent. Let him go.
If these are simple hot plate, just unplug them when out. Kitties are sometimes good at unplugging things, but not so good at plugging them back in.
“Cat’s in the kettle at the Peking Moon
The place I eat every day at noon…”
Dog and cat and flame photo....
Dog: Life was going so well and then God decided “I’ll just create cats and screw everybody up down there. I’ll test their patience like I did with Job.”
What happened to those great heat floors?
Ahh, for the good old days!
but the cat was cool and he never said a mumblin word
Had to look that one up....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN0OBHz_Xmo
My cat is fat, so now I’ll dine
And so eat up this cat of mine.
—B. Kliban
However touch-sensitive a stove might be, it still can’t turn itself on without help.
When I was in Korea 20 years ago I never saw a cat kept in the house.
My cats saw me turning on an electric blanket with touch buttons temperature controls. Now they know how to set the temperature when the red light is on.They press the button til it goes green.
LOL!
I’ve had cats all of my life, and they don’t go anywhere near the oven/stove.
We had one who would sit expectantly on the floor in front of the oven, when he smelled the giblets that my Granny was stewing for him on the range; but none of them ever try to get up on it.
I’ve always thought that they’re used to it becoming too hot for comfort, and just consider it off-limits.
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