Cat in plane

Margy wrote:

Fred comes when called even if she knows it's for her medicine.

Vixen will eat her meds (prednisone) if they're sprinkled on top of canned cat food.

George Patterson
If a tank is out of ammunition, what you have is a sixty ton portable
radio.

Roger wrote:

If he want's out he'll stand on
his hind feet and try to open the door, but can't mange to turn the
knob.

I had a big black tom many years ago who could turn the knob. He never figured
out how to pull a door open that way, but he could push one open after the latch
went. He topped out at 17.5 pounds and none of it was fat.

George Patterson
If a tank is out of ammunition, what you have is a sixty ton portable
radio.

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:45:48 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:

Roger wrote:

If he want's out he'll stand on
his hind feet and try to open the door, but can't mange to turn the
knob.

I had a big black tom many years ago who could turn the knob. He never figured
out how to pull a door open that way, but he could push one open after the latch
went. He topped out at 17.5 pounds and none of it was fat.

Sounds a bit like a bigger version of Streak.
http://www.rogerhalstead.com/cat_files/Lunch.htm

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

George Patterson
If a tank is out of ammunition, what you have is a sixty ton portable
radio.

George Patterson wrote:
Roger wrote:

If he want's out he'll stand on
his hind feet and try to open the door, but can't mange to turn the
knob.


I had a big black tom many years ago who could turn the knob. He never
figured out how to pull a door open that way, but he could push one open
after the latch went. He topped out at 17.5 pounds and none of it was fat.

George Patterson
If a tank is out of ammunition, what you have is a sixty ton portable
radio.
I had a GREAT cat when I was in college. My apartment mate kept
accusing me of eating her baloney, which wasn't exactly my favorite
food. We couldn't figure it out, until one day when she caught Tyler in
the act. He would hook his claw in the rubber seal of the door and pull
it open. Then, he would ever so carefully flip the top open just enough
to slip a paw in and hook ONE slice of baloney with his claw. He would
close the door and no one was the wiser. She said if she hadn't seen it
with her own two eyes she would never have believed it.

Margy

In article ,
Roger wrote:

If he want's out he'll stand on
his hind feet and try to open the door, but can't mange to turn the
knob. Reaching it is no problem as he can even reach the dead bolt.
He likes to share and brings me mouse parts every once in a while, but
I wish he'd quite putting them on my magazines before I've finished
reading them.


Prudencia knows ohw to open the doors by pushing them or by pulling them. Once
managed to open a closed door that had a lever instead of a knob, but it
was mostly luck...


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Robert M. Gary wrote:

Both appear equally as loving.

Perhaps to you. I've had several cats that loved me. Of the ones we have now,
Vixen thinks I hung the moon because I dug her kittens out of a collapsed
groundhog hole years ago. Jezebel dotes on Elisabeth because Elisabeth broke her
out of the humane society jail. Meercat is like a sister to Peter because they
grew up together. As with most siblings, that's a love/hate relationship.

Of the other three, Mercury likes everybody, but I can't say he loves anyone.
Lucy is retarded (literally). She loves Mercury (sometimes) and chicken (all the
time). Atilla is scared of people.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

"George Patterson" wrote:

Perhaps to you. I've had several cats that loved me.

Have you noticed that all cat haters you've met are people who were not
raised with cats as pets? I think this is because these folks simply do
not speak Cat, a language one must learn young, apparently. Thus they
misinterpret cat signals as hostility, aloofness, sneakiness, etc. I've
met only one person who came to like cats as an adult, and never met a
cat hater who was raised with them.

A cat is a project. It requires proper rearing to become a good pet.
Some people have the knack for it (it seems your family does), some
don't. The best pets usually happen when the animals are acquired very
young and handled with gentle discipline and love.

Exactly the same thing is true of dogs, of course, but one can get away
with ignoring the proper rearing of a cat with less dire consequences
than one suffers from a delinquent dog. Cats are lower maintenance than
dogs and thus tend to get ignored more often, resulting in the aloof,
shy animals that contribute to cats' reputation among non-cat people.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Dan Luke wrote:

Have you noticed that all cat haters you've met are people who were not
raised with cats as pets?

I suspect you're right; at least, I've noticed many cases of that. The reverse
isn't 100% true, however. We never had cats at my parent's house. I got adopted
by one when I was 22 years old.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

That is probably the least understood part about cats... once we
learned "catspeak" and understood what the cat's body language and
sounds meant, we were amazed how well they communicate..

Call a dog by name and it (usually) comes instantly, tail wagging,
OBVIOUSLY happy to see you..

The SAME response by a cat is usually an exaggerated squint...both
eyes.....

To the casual observer, the cat has not responded at all...

But to those who understand cat... the message is very clear...

There is lots more, but this an aviation thread right?

For those who have, cat carrier on a seat or in the baggage
compartment?

I think I would keep it on the seat, if space was available...

Dave


On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:31:14 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:

Dan Luke wrote:

Have you noticed that all cat haters you've met are people who were not
raised with cats as pets?

I suspect you're right; at least, I've noticed many cases of that. The reverse
isn't 100% true, however. We never had cats at my parent's house. I got adopted
by one when I was 22 years old.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

Have you noticed that all cat haters you've met are people who were not
raised with cats as pets?

Actually, the one, over-arching most common trait of cat-haters is being
allergic to them.

I've always been fascinated by cats, but they make me sneeze and puff up.
Therefore, I hate them just as much as I hate ragweed...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"