Micro Pup!
The following story is just that! A story, it is only intended for entertainment only.
- Of course you're not supposed to do things like what's in this story! Note what happened to Thompkins!-JLB disclaimer.
Now campers it seems that just a few years ago a old mean woman was very happy to live with her little pet poodle.
Now her poodle was named Percy and she carried that dog everywhere. She even entered dog shows and Percy had several Blue ribbons on display in her foyer.
Now Ms. Tompkins never married but, she treated her dog like a child.
Well it seems one evening the old mean bat! had a very unpleasant experience. I don't think Percy enjoyed it either!.
Now Percy was getting groomed, clipped, pampered and powdered up for a dog show that night. Ms. Thompkins was very excited and couldn't wait to get to the show. In their hotel room she washed Percy and used several scented oils for the dog.
Well the old lady gets a call from a friend back home and both begin to chatter away while poor Percy is sitting in the tub.
Ms.Thompkins happens to see the clock on the counter and she has only an hour to get to the show! In a hurry she hangs up, grabs her coat and keys then she realizes she never dried Percy!
Pulling the drenched dog from the shower she tries her best to dry him with a hair dryer but, as fate would have it the thing shorts out and Percy is still wet.
In a panic she asks for a loaner from the hotel but, is told they are out. Distraught she goes to get some scotch and sees in the kitchen area a large microwave.
She realizes if she puts old Percy in it for a few minutes she should be able to make it to the show on time with a drried Percy.
That's right! She loads Percy (a toy poodle breed) into it. He fits perfectly. Now she sets it for 2 minutes and gets herself ready.
So theres Percy sitting in the wave with his tail between his legs and his head sagging and whimpering.
Now Percy starts yapping because the heat. Ms. Thompkins hears the bell and rushes over to the wave to discover the horror! Percy is still wet! (Got you!)
She sets it for a few seconds more. She sits at the table sipping scotch as Percy is drying up. Again Percy is still too wet. But, he was getting drier so she sets it for two more minutes.
She turns around to see Percy pawing the door to be let out, there is but, a few seconds left so she walks over to the microwave. As the last seconds wind down Percy tilts his head to one side with an odd look on his face. He's shaking all over. As Ms. Thompkins is about to push the open button the little bell goes off. Ding!
BOOM!
Percy exploded inside the microwave.
Percy wasn't in the microwave long enough to kill him but somehow a surge went through the hotel and caused, somehow, a huge burst of power into the microwave that instantly cooked Percy's insides causing him to explode! That's what one kid overheard from his parents who went to the trail. Ms. Thompkins was arrested and charged with cruelty to an animal. After that summer she never kept anymore of our stray baseballs in her yard, frisbees lost in her garden or favorite action figures stolen and devoured by a plastic eating, drooling, exploding poodle.
The End.
I once heard of an elderly lady who usd to breed pedigree cats and exhibit them at shows. She specialised in Persian cats and their long hair always made it a difficult task to clean and groom them for showing. In order to cut down the effort involved the old lady had evolved the practice of first washing the cat, towelling it dry and then, finally, giving it a very brief warming in her electric oven.
1979
One Christmas her cooker developed a fault and so her son, by way of a Christmas present, brought her a brand new microwave oven. On the day of the next cat show, not understanding the basic difference in the technology between an ordinary cooker and a microwave oven, the old lady industriously washed her prize-winning Persian cat and popped it into the oven for a few seconds. There really was no miaow, nor any noise at all from the cat, for the poor creature exploded the instant the oven was switched on.
The End.
1996
A rich elderly lady from Harrogate was taking her pet poodle for a walk when they were caught in a downpour. Rushing back inside, fretful for her pampered pet, she was desperate to dry him out and warm him up as soon as possible. So she took him straight into the kitchen, opened the door of her daughter's new microwave cooker for the first time, and thrust him in, moving the dial to a moderate setting. She patted his head and carefully closed the door with a click.
The old lady was still drying her hair when the cooked dog exploded, ripping the door off the microwave.
The End.
1998
There was some woman who had a dog, which she would put in the oven to dry off after giving him baths. I thought this was stupid enough, but then the woman gets a microwave oven.
While being "dried off" in the microwave, the dog explodes and (obviously) dies. That's stupid enough.
But the woman sued the company which made the microwave for some obscene amount of money -- and won. Because there was no warning label on the microwave oven.
The End
Variations:
Small dogs (especially poodles) and cats are the usual victims of this clash with technology, but parakeets and turtles have also been sent to the great gig in the sky in some tellings of the legend.
Almost invariably, the befuddled pet owner is an elderly woman. In the rare non-little old lady versions, the accidental micropooching is said to be the work of a child.
How the animal got wet varies -- it was either caught out in the rain, or just had its bath.
Sometimes the animal merely expires in the microwave, but in more gruesome tellings, the critter explodes.
Origins: The legend about the microwaved pet has been with us since 1976, but its antecedents were around long before that. If lore is to be believed, foolhardy old ladies have been attempting to dry wet pets in clothes dryers and conventional ovens long before the invention of the microwave oven.
A 1942 tale in which a roasted cat is discovered in a wood-burning oven has been pointed to as a predecessor to this more modern tale about current domestic technology. In it, however, the cat gets into the oven under its own power; its mistress has no idea it is in there until she later discovered the crisped kitty.
A related Russian legend tells of a mother whose custom was to bathe her child in a tub of warm water. She places the tub (with Junior in it) on top of the unlit wood stove, and goes to speak to a neighbor. The gossip session stretches out longer than anticipated. Upon return to her kitchen, she discovers a draft through the open back door has caused the fire to rekindle under the child and her baby now lies dead in the tub.
These older variations on the same theme cast doubt on the widely-accepted theory that this legend is about fear of new technology.
Although there have been a few verifiable cases of pets subjected to microwaving, each of them were deliberate acts of cruelty. perpetrated by twisted souls who knew all too well what they were doing. Micropoochings arising from a lack of understanding of the technology, however, are still incidents of lore only.
Actually not the end! A note from JLB: Now I would never suggest putting a poodle inside a wave. This is an old urban legend I'm sure most of us already know along with "Hook" "Humans lick too" and others. As with those there are variations.
Version 2: It's a cat.
Version 3: It's a Grandma (senile) taking care of grandkids pet: A) small dog B) cat C) rabbit D) hamster
Version 4: little girl or little boy giving a A) small dog B) cat C) rabbit D) hamster a bath.
Well kiddies see next ghoulish tale! And remember Pets are not dry cleanable!
By the way you can see this legend in: 198?: The Willies (full of Urban Legends), 198?: The Wild Run, and of course 1998: Urban Legend.
A note on these scenes: In "The Willies"(TW) a more detailed version is given then compared to Urban Legend(UL). As for "The Wild Run" I have not seen it. In TW the scene is somewhat like the first version of the legend above, except the old lady is just drying the poodle in the micro, no dog show involved. In UL the killer waves the dog and the owner finds Hootie as a red slush all over the inside. In TW you get to see "Percy" explode! It has been at least 5 or 6 years since I seen the movie but, if I recall correctly "Percy" explodes into a green goo instead of red slush(this is a PG-13 film intended to draw teens) the effect was gross just not gory.
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