The plug-in diffuser almost caught on fire

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Had a scary incident last night. I have a couple of diffuser plug-ins here in the apartment. 1 is a fragrance one in the bedroom and 2 were Feliway pheremone ones in the hallway and front room to try to chill out the cats. Adso attacks Charlie regularly and Charlie is stressed so I decided to try the Feliway again even though I haven't found them to be particularly helpful in the past. Anyway I had spent the later afternoon at the pool (lovely) and then got back here, got dressed, and started cooking. I thought I smelled something burning but I looked at the stove and the skillet was fine. The candles were fine. After a walk-through of the apartment everything looked fine. Then by pure luck I was in the kitchen looking toward the front room and I saw smoke wafts. I ran around and it was the Feliway diffuser. There was no fire but when I removed it and opened it up sure enough the wick for the thing was singed. I can't even imagine what would have happened if I wasn't around to notice that something was wrong. Needless to say I threw it in the garbage after it cooled down. I'm ready to throw out the other Feliway diffuser since it doesn't seem to be helping things between the cats in any case. Not trying to burn the place down.