Someone got a little too close to the heater...

So it's winter in Australia, and in our part of the country very cold. I was at uni today so my Mum was looking after Potus.

Now everyday we put on the heater to warm the house. My mother seems to feel the cold more than I and so puts the heater on a higher temperature. It's an old heater from the 70's and is fixed into the house. It's run on gas and has some sort of plates that heat up to orange. There's a metal grate in front of it so you can't actually touch the heated elements yet needless to say, if you sit in front of it you can get very hot.

Potus sits in front of this heater everyday and is fine. We check to make sure he's not getting too hot and if he is we push him away. However today with the heater on a higher setting Potus got hot a little too quickly and ended up singeing part of his fur!

My mum called me to tell me while I was at uni. Potus was fine- Mum had rung the vet and they said he'll be fine. It was only the tips of his outer layer of fur- his skin itself wasn't burnt. She's put in him the bath and wet him down just in case. He seems to be fine. Carried on playing and chasing us all day. All he has to show for it is a small slightly darker patch of fur, but I was scratching him before and the singed tips of his fur are coming off, soon he'll be completely back to normal. You can trust that we won't be letting him sit so close anymore!

(If anyone's interested I did take photos of his little singed patch- I'll put them on my page soon)

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Comment by alice wright on February 7, 2010 at 7:48pm: I too live in australia and our bobby hates the heat, in winter he likes to sit outside in the rain or under the patio, getting him inside is a real effort. In summer, you will always find him on the bathroon vinyl where its cool.

Comment by Potus on August 10, 2009 at 7:42pm: It already has a barrier and usually he's fine. It was just on a higher setting then usual. I've thought about getting a barrier like those on fireplaces but he's such a Houdini I know he'd just figure out a way to open it and get closer to his beloved heater

Comment by Aj on August 10, 2009 at 12:43pm: Good to hear that Potus is okay and that it didn't get any worse! Is there like a barrier to put around the heater?