Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
Date: 3 Nov 2026
Daily Cat Lesson: Check for Cats Before You Press START!
🐾 Daily Cat Lesson: Check for Cats Before You Press START!
Cats love cozy hiding places. And a washer or dryer - especially one full of warm, soft laundry - can look like a five-star cat bed.
Unfortunately, it can also be extremely dangerous.
🐾 Why would a cat climb inside?
It's dark, enclosed, quiet and often warm. Everything cats look for in a perfect hiding place.
⚠️ Make this a household rule:
Before starting a washer or dryer, physically look inside for a cat. Check under towels, blankets and piles of laundry too. A kitten can disappear completely inside a heap of clothes.
Keep washer and dryer doors closed when they're not being loaded so cats don't learn to use the machines as sleeping spots.
Sleeping on top of a closed washing machine, like James Coconuts? Fine - as long as he doesn't operate the controls.
Sleeping inside? Absolutely not.
And remember our lesson about mysteriously disappearing cats?
The washer and dryer are two hiding places that should never remain secret.
The laundry rule in a cat household:
Clothes in. Cat out. Check twice. Press START.
🐈📸 Top Tropicals rescued cat James Coconuts is helping with house chores at PeopleCats.Garden.
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