Original Air Date: December 24, 2019

Directed by: Peter Rose

Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode!

Synopsis: Rita Sullivan (Barbara Knox) takes a bad fall while trimming her tree.

Featured Feline: Rita is cat-sitting Mrs. MacElroy’s ginger tabby Arthur over the holidays, keeping the cat at her place so she doesn’t have to go back and forth. She lies to her friends and neighbors, telling them she is going away for Christmas so they won’t feel sorry for her being alone.

Rita decides to decorate her tree and pets Arthur before she gets on a stepstool and reaches high up to adjust the angel on the top. She loses her balance and falls backwards with the tree coming down on top of her.

Injured and incapacitated, Rita lies on the floor of her home overnight. As she lies there, she tells Arthur stories about her life.

Jenny (Sally Ann Matthews) and Mary (Patti Clare) don’t find her until the next day. Thankfully, she survives the traumatic event.

This story arc caused quite a fervor of speculation on the internet, as many people worried that Arthur might actually eat Rita! While the cat was not of much help, he certainly didn’t come close to munching on the woman.

Final Mewsings: Cats may not save you but they probably won’t eat you.

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