Scrutiny by the Masses: The Cat and The Clothes Dryer

Note: This is a guest post. I think it's funny and extra useful, and couldn't resist when I was asked to post this.

No, this is not one of those stories about me accidentally turning my clothes dryer on while my cat is inside. If you have done that then you really should not be a pet owner. This is a tale about an appliance repair that I needed to do because my cat decided she wanted to play. If you are a cat person then you know that when a cat decides to play she can choose anything she likes to play with. It can be a part of your anatomy that she suddenly decides to chew on, another pet in the house like your sixteen year old dog that she wants to torture, or, in this case, the lint screen for my clothes dryer. I don’t think this really classifies as appliance repair but it’s a funny story and I had to get the replacement part from www.AppliancePartsPros.com so I guess it applies.

I was working in my basement and doing laundry at the same time, one of those days when I was just trying to get everything done so I could relax a little in the evening. The dryer alarm had just gone off and I pulled out a load of towels that were ready to fold. Knowing that the lint screen would be full I pulled that out too. Just as I was about to scrape it off into the trash barrel next to the machine the phone upstairs rang and I had to drop everything and run to catch it.

My cat snuck down the stairs while the door was open and of course she found the lint screen to play with. By the time I was finished with my phone call she had thoroughly destroyed it and managed to get herself covered in white lint. She looked like she had just eaten a live chicken and the feathers had stuck to her face. I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw her trying to shake and scrape the mess off of her. She looked so confused that I just couldn’t be angry.

That’s when I went online to Appliance Parts Pros. I found a replacement lint screen for $26.73 in the section for Whirlpool parts. A friend had told me about this site a while back when he had to do some appliance repair of his own on his refrigerator door handle. I guess his kids had yanked it off and he got the replacement appliance part online. Nice tip. APP has a great selection and I can see they’ll save me a ton of money in the years to come.