<p>My husband was drying my jeans & his overalls and turned the dryer off, opened the door & left them in there. I whinged about my jeans getting creased, so closed the door turned the dryer back on to warm them up. He said to take his overalls out. I opened the door & about had a stroke when OUT JUMPED MY VERY SHAKEN LITTLE CAT! I just stood there with my hand on my mouth saying “oh my God, oh my God”. Thank Goodness he said take out his overalls - she was only in there for @ 30 secs. No harm done, she just smells like a dryer sheet.</p>
<p>OMG!!! I almost did it to my cat once (it did not help that both the inside of my dryer and the cat were white!) so every time I open and close the dryer, I triple check that there are no cats inside! I’m so glad that everyone, and especially your cat, is OK!!!</p>
<p>Ours got tumbled a few (2-3) tumbles too. Scared us both and the cat has never got in the dryer since. I still check before I turn it on and it has been many years since it happened. Glad your kitty is okay.</p>
<p>one of our cats did that too- but I was standing right there & I heard it go ka-lunk.
last time she did that.
( and we were better about leaving the door open too.)</p>
<p>Trouble is the overalls go clunk as well (which is why husband wanted them taken out), so I would probably not have realized. I will be more careful in the future. Not sure she will ever venture in there again though.</p>
<p>I actually had a friend once who threw a load of clothes in the washer, not realizing her little kitten was snuggled up in them. The result was not as happy as todays.</p>
<p>I’m a cat lover so your story, thankfully, had a happy ending. Our current cat went missing once in our former home that had a kitty door that I installed on the back door to the garage. The next day while I was traveling down the road, about 2 blocks from my home, I heard a “meow” coming from somewhere in the car. I immediately pulled over to the side of the road. I couldn’t find her inside the vehicle, but when I opened the hood there she was, huddled up in a little crevice next to the battery. She was also unscathed.</p>
<p>I decided I needed something to calm my nerves. Opened a bottle of wine I did not like a couple of days ago and had been thinking (or mulling ;)) about making it into mulled wine. Sitting here sipping hat mulled wine and reeeally calming down now.</p>
<p>My niece just got her first two kittens for her family of 3 boys. She posted today about the kitten taking a toilet paper roll and chasing it under her bed, unfurling it through the house. I’m going to tell her about Swimcatmom’s story so she realizes she got off easy. I don’t think the boys are yet in danger of putting the cat in the dryer, but maybe each other.</p>
<p>Swimcatsmom that episode would make me nuts for a week at least. I admire your coping mechanism there.</p>
<p>I’ve had cats all my life and not once has one gotten into a dryer - now my dog (80 lbs.) has actually crawled into the dishwasher. I’ve heard stories like this about cats and dryers I’m glad your kitty is OK. When I was a kid we had a cat that got up into our neighbor’s car engine and went for a ride to the hospital where his practice was. He called my mom and told her that “her cat” was in the hospital parking lot and she should “come and get it.”</p>
<p>I can cope, with the help of the mulled wine, as she is ok,. I love that little cat - she a real sweetheart, a snuggler. I would have just been gutted if I had not been lucky enough to open the dryer after she had just been tumbled a few times. She must have been way in the back or underneath everything - I pulled out a pair of jeans and was grumbling about them being creased, then threw them back in and closed the door. Had no idea she was in there. When i opened it to take the overalls out I put my hand in to find the overalls and felt her little warm furry body slink out of the dryer before I saw her. I about had a stroke. I will always check in future.</p>
<p>Im glad your cat is ok. I have heard much worse endings to just this story.</p>
<p>The scariest one I know of that had a happy ending happened to me. I was at a friends getting ready to broil some steaks, (in one of those bottom of the oven broilers.) We threw the steaks in, turned on the broiler, or it was already on. I dont know if I heard the meow, or just wanted to say hi to her cat, or what, but something made me ask where the cat was. About 30 seconds later, after opening all the cupboard doors, I opened the broiler door and she came running out, slightly singed. I had to sit down. I almost fainted. That night when the kitty crawled into bed with her son, he said “Kitty smells like lambchops.”</p>