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Karin has brought back Flashback Friday!! This week it’s all about pets…so I’m going to tell you about my little lovely, Rocky.

Rocky is my nine year old tabby, she is spoiled and thinks she is the queen of the palace. Several years ago, Rocky became curious of the clothes dryer…see it had overheated so we had opened the door to let it cool. Rocky liked the warmth of the dryer so she hopped in, unknowing to any of us. Bubba closed the door as he passed through the laundry room and started the dryer, within a few minutes I had heard a “thump…thump…thump” I knew immediately what it was. Bubba ran to the dryer and grabbed Rocky out of the dryer, she wasn’t looking so good, barely breathing. I knew I needed to cool her off so I grabbed a towel and soaked it in cold water and wrapped her in it. We took off to the vets office which was closed, but thankfully he happened to be there….though he later told me he thought I was going to break his door down by pounding on it! He took Rocky and started her on an IV and put ice packs around her, her core temperature was 106, which he told me they don’t usually make it with that high of a temperature. But he didn’t give up on her. We left her in his hands and I went home crying. We got a call the next day that Rocky made it through the night, and it looked like she would make a full recovery. She burned the skin off her pads, and her nose. Her eyes were scratched, and she cut her tongue. But with some tender loving care she made a full recovery. To say the least, Rocky never goes near the dryer anymore, and I freak out if I hear a thumping in there…I immediately yell, “Where’s Rocky?”