

"At the cusp of the third-yes, THIRD-week of Appliancegate, we return to the saga to find that the Questionably Sentient Dust Bunny has settled in for the night shift atop the Vitamix. "I posted it with a tongue-in-cheek caption about how this was breaking news, which clearly this was not, and by the next day I think about 10,000 people had interacted with the post," she explains. Like any besotted cat owner, she thought it was adorable and snapped a picture, which she posted to a cat-lovers Facebook group.

It all began, Gerson-Neeves says, when Max hopped on the Vitamix box as soon as she put it down that fateful December day. I think we all are very much in need of something that is silly and low stakes right now." A single Facebook post left observers hungry for more

"But why would we end something that is bringing us so much laughter? The cats are having a good time, and so many other people are enjoying this as well. It would be very easy to pick whoever's on the box up and put them on the floor and open the box," Gerson-Neeves says. But she says she and her wife aren't in a rush to end the stalemate since it's providing some much-needed levity. They could, of course, be hoisted off the box at any point. Gerson-Neeves stressed in a phone interview that the cats aren't literally holding the Vitamix hostage.
