3 Vancouver Island cats hold owners' blender hostage — for a month

CBC ^ | 1/11/21 | Akshay Kulkarni

[MAGA2017]

In a standoff that has lasted nearly a month, three cats based in Langford, B.C. on southern Vancouver Island have tried to claim ownership of a blender box — a saga that has fascinated social media users worldwide.

It all started on Dec. 16, according to Nikii Gerson-Neeves, one of the trio's owners, when she brought in a new Vitamix blender and left the still-unopened, knee-high box on the kitchen floor.

Her four-year-old tuxedo cat, Max, immediately jumped on the box, bemusing Nikii's wife Jessica, who took a picture and uploaded it to a Facebook group that celebrates chunky cats.

By morning the situation had escalated: Max's two 13-year-old siblings, George (Destroyer of Worlds) and Lando Calrissian, had taken an interest in the Vitamix box, too. From there, Nikii says, things spiralled out of control.

[MAGA2017]

Heard this on the Markley, van Camp and Robbins show yesterday.

[Roadrunner383]

How to trap a cat in a box:

First: Leave a box on the floor.

[moovova]

“...bemusing Nikii’s wife Jessica...”

[faithhopecharity]

dogs drool, cats rule!
/s

[Red Badger]

Hovercat is amused...............

[Bubba_Leroy]

It's a month that has seen the couple deprived of the blender as their three fluffballs, all rescue cats, take turns atop their box perch

Seriously? Move the cats and get your blender. The cats will survive. If they really want to make them happy give them the empty box after they open it.

[Doctor Congo]

I put a red plastic tote in the hallway to pack up the last Christmas stuff and one of my cats has claimed it. She spends most of the day on it. It has a commanding view of the hallway, front door and living room, and it’s been more than a week and she still won’t let me have it. Need a decoy box.

[Seruzawa]

[joe fonebone]

A: Get a broom
B: Swat the cat off of the box

easy peasy

[KarlInOhio]

It's a cute story. They even wrote to Vitamix to get decoy boxes. One of the owners said: "Of course, we're not actually being held hostage, we can move the cats anytime we wanted," Jessica said. "This is about having something sweet and fun and whimsical and silly."

[webheart]

All they have to do is shake the Little Friskies box. If they didn’t it is all a tik tok fantasy to try to get viral attention. I don’t believe for a minute that cats sat on a box for more than a couple of hours.

[rlmorel]

My cats love their boxes:

And don't try to take it away:

[mewzilla]

Great write-up here...

After 2.5-Week ‘War’ With 3 Cats, Woman Contacts Vitamix Asking For Empty Boxes To Replace The One Her Cats Took Over With New Blender Inside

Those ladies can write! Their posts are a hoot!

And a note to Vitamax: Well done!

[mewzilla]

Whoops, Vitamix!

[Sans-Culotte]

Seriously? Move the cats and get your blender. The cats will survive.

A solution seems simple to you an me may not be so to a pair of "married" lesbians.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

It’s not really that hard to get a cat to move. You just convince it that it would rather be somewhere else. Loud noises work pretty well.

I can get a cat out of a tree using just a garden hose, too.

[Louis Foxwell]

There is little doubt they are vaxxed. Weirdness ensues from fear porn.

[Getready]

Owners are just trying to show that same sex marriages are “normal”. Saying that the cats own the box shows how ridiculous the two peeps are.