

PHOTO BY PICTURE VIA JESSICA GERSON-NEEVES /Times Colonist - Postmedia News Their antics have garnered them a legion of followers, all waiting to see how the saga unfolds. The cats have been taking turns guarding the box since Dec. George (the ginger cat on top), Max, centre, and Lando, left, stand guard around a Vitamix box that has become the centre of a battle of the wills between them and the humans they share their Victoria apartment with. It has now been just over four weeks since the human-feline battle began - and the cats have so far been triumphant. They even crept into the kitchen in the middle of the night, hoping to catch them away from their post. The couple used toys, treats and other boxes to try to get the cats to relinquish their prize, to no avail. She waited for him to get bored and scamper off.īut when he did eventually get off his new-found perch, one of the two other cats in the household, 13-year-old George or Lando Calrissian, would take his place. Max, her four-year-old tuxedo cat, jumped on the box and made himself comfortable.Īccustomed to Max clambering onto surfaces around the apartment, Gerson-Neeves didn’t think anything of it, even taking a picture of him.

She placed the box on the floor of her apartment kitchen, intending to take out the five-kilogram machine in short order. 16, when Jessica Gerson-Neeves, 40, of Victoria received a Vitamix blender she had ordered to make smoothies for her and partner Nikii, 38. People around the world have been following the antics of three local cats engaged in a battle of the wills with their owners over possession of a box containing a blender.
