Gerson-Neeves says she has been particularly moved by the comments that their growing audience leaves on Facebook, both the hilarious and the heartfelt. While no video evidence was caught of the unfortunate incident, his occupation of the annexed territory was immediately preceded by possibly the single least graceful dismount in the history of felinehood (felinity? Whatever), which somehow involved the sentient soccer ball first smacking headfirst into a wall immediately prior to pulling a fly-you-fools, briefly hanging off of the side of the Vitamix box.' '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. She wrote jokingly in the original post that she would provide updates if the standoff continued, and members of the group held her to that promise, even as days turned into weeks. '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.'Ī 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. The cats' page has grown from 64 followers to some 25,000, as people around the world learn about the story. 'The cats are having a good time, and so many other people are enjoying this as well,' she says. Jessica Gerson-Neeves One of Gerson-Neeves' three cats sits atop her Vitamix blender. The youngest troublemaker is Max, a tuxedo cat with the alias 'sentient soccer ball.' Then there's George, Destroyer of Worlds ('that's what's on his tag,' Gerson-Neeves says), also known as 'sentient potato.' Rounding out the group is Lando Calrissian, who moonlights in the posts as 'questionably sentient dust bunny' because, according to Gerson-Neeves, 'he has a lot of fluff and very few thoughts.' The posts read like dispatches from the front lines of a high-stakes battle, documenting the trio's every move and their humans' unsuccessful attempts to disrupt them.

Gerson-Neeves has posted near-daily updates on the cats' Facebook page (warning: language), documenting their hilariously formal changing of the guard, ever-shifting alliances and misadventures involving decoy boxes. The cardboard box has become the site of a weekslong turf war between the couple and their three cats, in a saga that has garnered thousands of invested followers on social media. 16, and I brought it inside and set the box down on the kitchen floor for just a quick second,' Gerson-Neeves says. There's just one problem: They can't actually unpack it. In fact, the highly anticipated Black Friday purchase has recently become the focal point of their kitchen at home in British Columbia, Canada. Jessica Gerson-Neeves and her wife, Nikii, are really looking forward to using their new Vitamix blender to whip up smoothies and soups.

Cats hold blender hostage