Hiya,
Simple question really, do you light candles when your cat is around? We’ve newly got our cat (5 months now), but had never light a candle around here due to the possible dangers. Are your cats curious about candles when lit? I feel like the possibility of them being too curious around them isn’t worth the possible risk. We haven’t really got a lot of places where the cat cannot reach either. But could maybe get some ‘enclosed’ candleholders.
Happy to hear what you do guys do regarding this. We quite like having the occasional candle lit.
My friend’s apartment burned down when his cat knocked over a candle. Make of that what you will.
How do they know it was the cat? It seems like if you saw it you should have easy time to put it out. And if you didn’t how would you know.
Well that is very unfortunate… 🙁
I do, but in a hurricane jar and never alone with the cat.
We do it frequently. Our cat put her paw only once over the fire and understood immediately that it is a no-go. Nothing big, I guess she was more surprised than really feeling any pain. But afterward, she was just staring randomly at the light and she never tried again putting her paw on it.
Yes, however one of our cats is dumb enough to almost light her tail on fire. We only stopped a fire by smelling her tail fur starting to burn and picked her up. Besides that one time both our cats don’t try to push candles off of counters or anything
Only on the kitchen counter where I can see them from the sofa (open kitchen design). The kitties know they aren’t allowed up there and only on extremely rare occasions openly violate the rule (like, you know how sometimes they just forget that you’re standing there and act like you’re not?). The candles are also the type that come in a metal tin that can be closed when not in use, so they’re wide and squat.
We do not for 2 reasons:
- Like others have already said, orange cat + flame = chaos
- Artificial fragrances give me headaches. However essential oils can be toxic to cats so I don’t feel safe burning those kind of candles either. Maybe I’m being too cautious but I never really burned candles much before anyway.
saw a vid of a cats fluffy tail catching fire from a candle years ago on the web. it went out again before the whole cat was on fire, but you know, maybe just get an LED candle.
I used to love having candles lit. I love my cats more. They’re too chaotic to trust with an open flame.
Yes. I mean I try to be in the same room as the candle anyways, but don’t really worry about it too much when stepping away.
