"We're creeping up on a month. It has been just shy of a month, which is ridiculous," Jessica said.
It's a month that has seen the couple deprived of the blender as their three fluffballs, all rescue cats, take turns atop their box perch, and their Facebook page explodes in popularity.
"When we started the page we have for the cats on Facebook … it had around 50 followers, something like that," Nikii said. "[Now] over 19,000 people follow the page."
Max, George and Lando have made their household famous, with stories of the cats' antics going beyond the shores of Vancouver Island.
"There are people commenting, 'Hey, from Italy!', 'We saw this on our news in Australia,'" Jessica said. "Like, what?"
"Someone sent us a post translated into Chinese the other day … it's everywhere," Nikii said.
"Cat videos go viral all the time, you just never expect it to be your cats."
Decoy boxes
After days of being deprived of their expensive blender, the couple hatched a plan to get the cats off their new throne. They reached out to Vitamix to ask the company for some dummy boxes.
"We thought that they might get a kick out of how much the cats had fallen in love with this," Jessica said. "If they decided to … send along three empty boxes, great, it'll be a terrific laugh for everybody involved."
That's exactly what the company did, sending the B.C. couple three empty Vitamix boxes.
The couple has reinforced one of the decoy boxes, filling it with material so a cat can sit on it and not fall through.
Now, photos show two cats sitting on boxes in the couple's kitchen.
