Frankie is like the child who keeps his parents on edge by constantly participating in risky or foolish behavior. This time it happened Thursday evening while I was in the kitchen.
I had a pot of corn-on-the-cob boiling on the stove when Frankie suddenly developed the zoomies. He came barreling into the kitchen, jumped on the small ledge between the stove and the refrigerator, pushed the pot over several inches, and then quickly jumped down.
I took the photo below a short time later. The stove was off when the picture was taken but imagine a red hot burner and think of where Frankie’s right paw might have landed for him to hit the pot hard enough to push it across half the burner.
I, of course, feared that he might have seriously burned his paw so I quickly picked him up and held him so my wife could examine it. She saw nothing wrong. Nevertheless, I watched him for a while but he did not seem bothered by it so I decided he got off lucky this time.
My real concern is what is he going to do next to scare us? How am I ever going to cook again without worrying about where Frankie is and what he is doing? Can anyone relate to this?
Bad Cat Chris 
Oh my, yes, that would be quite worrisome and such a close call. Careful Frankie!
He is like having a problem child.
Yep, our mom can. Angel Chloe was always around the stove, which was gas (still is, and actually burnt some of her whiskers off. Maybe Frankie needs to be closed in another room when you cook! Good luck. XOCK, angel Lily Olivia, angel Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy, Sawyer & Kizmet
I might have to do that.
That would worry me too! Glad Frankie is okay!
Thank you.
Yikes. Fortunately Angel Sammy never did hop up on a counter or tabletop…..and Teddy has never done that either. He likes to jump up on the picnic table in the back yard but he has the bench to use as a “halfway” point to get to the tabletop which is one of his favorite lounge spots. I don’t know what I’d do if I had to cook AND monitor the cats to make sure one of them didn’t get hurt……..maybe Janet’s suggestion of putting Frankie in another room when the stove is one is a good one!!!!!
Hugs, Pam
I hate to do that but I may have to.
Thankfully Kessy never has discvoered the top of the counters in the kitchen – she is rarely in the kitchen at all and most of the times supervised. I normally close my kitchen door when I am not in the kitchen – and sometimes when I am cooking or baking, too. She is genuinely interested in the oven. And as I know cats have a belated reaction to heat I am really cautious with her there..
I wish we had a kitchen door. That would be helpful.
One of thoe reasons why I’m not too much a fan of open plan living. The other being cooking smells. We’re not living in the dark ages anymore when they only had one room for everything.
Our other house has a separate kitchen but that house is 120 years old.
My cats love to be in the kitchen so we sometimes close them in their room. Once out, they jump on the kitchen bar and have to cross the stove to get to the sink (one of their favorite places). But somehow, they know if the stove is/was hot and they run (I mean run!) across it. No burns so far, but it still worries me. Good luck with Frankie.
Maybe burner covers will help after the stove is turned off.
It’s one of those solid surface stovetops. Totally smooth–which makes it easy for the cats to walk on, but keeps me on edge.
True. If it was an electric burner he would probably not want to step on it.
I can totally relate! Roary is a dare-devil. Cody was placid and my Bobo was placid but Roary has to be in the middle of EVERYTHING! I have an appliance called the POWER XL, it air fries, bakes, roasts, grills, slow cooks etc. Often when I use that (and sometimes when I am cooking on top of the stove), I confine Roary in the bedroom. He also is often in the bedroom because he has tried to run out 3 times. He actually likes it there, he has 2 beds of his own, our bed, I give him his treat dispenser, he has toys and his litter box is in the adjoining bathroom It’s like a little apartment. Roary HAS jumped up on the stove many times and has just missed burning himself. I think putting him in the room is one of the safest things I can do.
Roary sounds like a real challange. I think you are right to keep him in the bedroom when you are cooking. Maybe someday he will slow down and you won’t have to worry so much. It happened to Chris but Frankie is ten years old and still a kitten at heart.
Frankie, you’re gonna give your humans a heart attack! Y’know…I once jumped up onto the stove when the burners were still hot and I did burn my paw pads. Fortunately, the burns weren’t too bad. ~Ernie
I’m sorry to hear that, Ernie, but I bet you learned a valuble lesson.
Zoomies are unpredictable. They can take a turn in a heartbeat. Blerg!
Love and licks,
Cupcake
Yes, it gets crazy fast.
You need to rename the blog,, Bad Cat Frankie. 🙂 Glad he is OK.
Thanks. Yes, Frankie has taken over the bad cat position.
I was thinking the same thing…
That was very scary! Frankie is a wild child, isn’t he?
So wild that I sometimes think he should be an inside/outside cat. Too bad it is not safe to just install a kitty door for him.
I have a horror of something like that happening with my kitty boy, Andy. When they get the zoomies, it seems impossible they can come to a quick stop if they make it into dangerous territory. Thank goodness Frankie missed harm!
I hope when we go to our other house this year that he will burn out the zoomies going up and down the stairs.
This is a problem I have never had. My first two cats (Mousey & Buddy) I raised from kittens and I trained them not to jump on furniture. If Mommy can’t walk or sit on something, neither can you. Pooh never tried. He had other issues with his spine (still have arm scars). Clark never tried (previous training from the across the street neighbors, I assume). I suspect Ollie hops on the dinner table or the coffee table when we are asleep. He occasionally attempts (when he momentarily forgets we are in the room) to hop on something and he gets the “mom look.” “Ollie. You better get off that table…” He gets the “oh s***” look, squeaks at me (you know, the teenager going “what?”) and quickly hops down.
Mousey was headstrong. I had to train her with a water bottle. Her name is an end product of her sound. Her given name was Samantha & I also had her sister, Cleopatra (their mom was a Siamese mix). Sam never could “meow”. It was a squeak, then “ow.” I wound up calling her Squeaky Mouse, then, just Mousey. Her sister, Patra for short, was a huge problem. She was a disaster and completely untrainable. I placed an ad in the paper for a new home. I got a phone call from a couple that had a house full of Siamese (Patra had the markings but, Mousey looked like a Tabby). They seemed really excited when I said she had white feet (apparently “snowshoe” Seal Point Siamese are rare?). They were clearly more equipped to handle her than I was.
I love fur babies but, I won’t allow the utter destruction of my living quarters. So, from our previous conversation, no, I haven’t always “been lucky” with cats. This post is the first for me to bring forward the one issue I did have. I only had Patra for two weeks but, up until this point, I never thought it would be relevant.
It is good to train them from the start and our cats were always trained to stay off the counters. That is until Chris came along. We fought with him over and over for a couple of years but he would not learn. We tried tin foil, we tried the water bottle, we tried yelling. He would jump down but two minutes later he was up again. Eventually we raised the white flag in defeat. That is why our cats get on the counters today, because Chris defeated us.
Oh, my…
That is scary. There’s no way to explain the danger to him
No, and it is not a lesson he should learn the hard way.
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That is actually more scary.
Wow! That must have been really scary. I hope that he learned a lesson perhaps if he did feel some heat on his paw. I feel your anxiety about this!
Thanks. I hope he thinks twice next time.
Heello mate nice post
Thanks