Simon almost sets the house on fire with his pee

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A couple of nights ago I was laying on the couch dozing off a bit watching the Republican convention and start to hear some "pops" and sizzling. I realize very quickly that it's coming from behind the TV and see the flashes of light coming from some where back there. I leap from the couch to the floor in front of the TV so quick I don't even remember putting Thorin down. For those of you who haven't seen the house, we have the TV inside the fireplace because it fits perfectly and keeps the kids out of there. Well apparently it hasn't kept the cats out of there because that's where I found Simon during all this. At first I thought he was being electrocuted because he was just sitting there and there's all these sparks coming up from the power strip where everything's plugged into. I call Darren to come down and help as I'm grabbing Simon and tossed him somewhere behind me. Just as I get Simon out of there the power strip goes up in flames for what seemed like 10 minutes but it probably was only 10 seconds. Darren comes down, gets the power cord undone, lifts it up and says "what's all this liquid?" I think it's melted "something" he smells it and finds out it's pee!! The stupid cat went back there to pee on the power strip!!! Then we find out that's not the first time! There's poop and pee behind there from days ago! How does a fire place and a power strip say "Hey cat, pee on me!" ? Well, at least the TV's fine and it all happened in the fireplace but Simon has now lost his chances of coming up stairs for any length of time!