A cat in Melbourne has narrowly avoided catastrophe after nipping into the laundry for a snooze on a cosy duvet.<\/p>\n
Minam, an 11-year-old feline with a heart condition, was napping in the blanket when the tumble dryer was turned on by his unwitting owner on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
His owner, Syma, told Channel 9 she was “still traumatised” after accidentally putting the beloved pet through a four-hour cycle.<\/p>\n
Syma said she realised what had happened after she called for her feline friend \u2013 and heard a scratch and a faint meow in response.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, \u2018Oh my God, is that coming from the dryer?\u2019,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s when I opened the door and he was just standing there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minam was rushed to the local animal hospital, where he was placed on oxygen.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve never seen one live before, so it was incredible that he survived,” vet Kassandra Makeham said.<\/p>\n
Minam was in the intensive care unit for two days with bruising to his body, facial swelling, and dehydration. <\/p>\n
The vet said the blanket likely helped blunt the impact of Minam’s injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cat in Melbourne has narrowly avoided catastrophe after nipping into the laundry for a snooze on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50,85,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-515653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-animals","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}