As I'm sure most of you are aware, I have an aging cat by the name of Tabby who literarily lives in my bedroom. She eats, sleeps and poops (I apologies to anyone who has ever come round about that…) in here, and generally spends 95% of her time here, only leaving to sit in my parents bedroom where the window gets more direct sunshine during the summer.
While I'm happy to put up with this general nuisance, smell and mess (because I wove her), it has become more apparent over time that she is in fact a complete anti-Nintendo fanboy. That's right, my cat hates Nintendo.
I told some of my friends the first part of the story, but I'll re-post it here to clarify. About a month ago my Dad was looking through my bin for bottles he could recycle (save the world and all that jazz) when he discovered, at the bottom, under a mountain of trash, my Nintendo DS. The same DS that was supposed to be on the table next to the bin where I left it.
Turns out the cat, who regularly sits on that table, had knocked the DS into the bin in a violent act of anger against the handheld device. What's worse is if my Dad hadn't been looking for recycling, the whole bin would have just been emptied and my DS would have made its way to the nearest landfill, kidnapping Phantom Hourglass as it went.
This wasn't proof enough to let me believe that Tabby had anything but a problem with the DS being on “her” table, however today I attempted to turn on my Wii for the first time in about a month and a half. The Wii used to live on the bottom shelf of the TV cabinet next to my PS2 and free view box, which is quite unfortunately level with the floor and close to the cat's food tray.
As you can imagine, Tabby often lurks about, sits or licks her self in the vicinity of the Wii which I previously thought wouldn't do it any harm, until today. Upon trying to boot up a disc I was met with a black screen, which I instantly blamed on the disc being dirty. Three discs later this was clearly not the case, which is where panic begun to set in and I begun to inspect the Wii hardware itself.
Prying apart the black foam around the disc tray with my fingernails, I was easily able to pull out an incredible amount of cat hair from the drive. As most of you have no doubt heard from many websites, the Wii disc drive is prone to dying from excessive dust and / or tobacco smoke, but this is the first time I have ever heard of cat hair.
Upon removing all the hair and blowing the drive like an old NES cart to remove any dust that might also be in there, I plugged it back in and it resumed working perfectly. So it's now completely official. My cat hates Nintendo.
Also, is this the draw back we are now seeing from automatic disc loading drives? My x-box 360 and PS2 are happily protected from my vicious cat by their traditional style drives, however I have now had to move my Wii to a higher shelf to protect it from future attack.
Something to think about I guess. Where do you keep your Wii?
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