In our living room we have a standard radiator-  By standard I mean a
metal panel with tubes in it through which water runs in then down a
number of pipes and out the other side with a valve at the entry point
to turn off/on access to the radiator for hot water.

Sorry if I am not describing this well and maybe other countries have
different designs but in the UK I think if I say "radiator" most
people will know what design I mean.

Most of these are a single panel but for bigger rooms they are two
panels one behind the other with a small gap between them and these
are the one's I want to warn about.

We have one of these in our living room with the double panels. And
Sarsi in particular often sleeps off to one side of the radiator by
the valve end.

Just now she got up and the next thing she was going mad! As she got
up, she stretched as cats will and where she stretched one of her back
legs it had gone between the two radiator panels, which was fine
until  her leg was in just above her knee (bigger cats it would
probably be lower) because that part of her leg is wider than the gap
between the panels so when she tried to pull her leg back it was very
firmly stuck.

So she's trying to get her jammed leg free and panicking. Dave
screamed at me, she was trying to pull forward with her leg firmly
trapped and in danger of breaking her leg, dislocating her knee or hip
etc...

I hope the RSPCA will forgive me for what I did next....I bent down,
grabbed her by the scruff and put my hand over her eyes....naughty I
know but at least she went still so we could get her leg out without
her struggling.

And when I say stuck her leg was very firmly stuck, I started to
consider getting some water and washing up liquid to help ease it out
but somehow between us we have managed to free her leg. She was
limping for a couple of strides after  but she seems okay now and has
gone back to sleep on top of the PC but we'll keep an eye on her and
have the vet's number next to the phone...still I think she's
okay...not too sure about us through..we're both shaken and looking at
putting something in the way so she can't do a repeat performance

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs