Re: Cat Story

Hate to mention this, but not all cats will come for food. Mine could
care less.... He eats when he wants too, always has dry iams to munch on
and a can of fancy feast in the morning... most of which I end up
throwing out.

 
I take that back- he will come if you are eating an italian beef
sandwich- he is all over you trying to get some. It is the only people
or cat food he is remotely interested in......

 
Donna


----- Original Message ----
From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Monday, August 7, 2006 7:53:06 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Cat Story


funny story Chris, but I must ask, have you never heard of a canopener?  If 
I want to get a cat to come to me I just open a can.  They appear out of 
nowhere.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Petersen" <chris@widom-assoc.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 5:26 PM
Subject: [CHAT] Cat Story


> Do you guys remember "Little One", my son's cat?  Well, Steve and I are 
> cat
> sitting again.  I love this cat, but he is a house wrecker!  He's already
> broken two of my favorite pottery planters, released the garter snakes and
> probably ate them, pushed glasses of water off my night stand, dragged cat
> toys all over the house, destroyed rolls of toilet paper, .... Well, you 
> get
> the picture!  Anyway, LO is an indoor cat and I recently realized that his
> buddy, Spot, has learned how to open the sliding screen door to the deck 
> by
> grabbing it with his claws. I just saw him do it today, a day too late!
>
> Yesterday, Spot must have let LO out.  Luckily, my husband noticed the 
> door
> almost immediately.  So there Steve and I were trying to catch the cat. 
> LO
> doesn't like to be held, but likes petting, but he wasn't going to be
> caught.  He hung out in the holly bushes where no one could venture 
> without
> getting all scratched up and under the huge hostas where we couldn't get 
> to
> him.
>
> Eventually, he ended up in the 3' high crawl space which goes under the
> whole house. You have to crawl through a 30" W X 24" H opening to get down
> there. Not a fun experience. Steve and I spent about 45 minutes down there
> when we realized that we still weren't going to be able to catch him. We
> almost got him once, but Steve got scratched and left to get a piece of
> plywood to cover the hole until my son came home to help get LO out. I
> decided to stay inside the crawlspace and wait for LO to calm down.  Then,
> I'd put him in his cardboard carrier, put it outside the small opening I'd
> used to get down there, and then crawl outside. Meanwhile, Steve closed 
> the
> opening with plywood, so the cat couldn't escape past me.  All I had to do
> was push it and it would pop out, he said. Well, you can guess the rest. 
> I
> was getting tired of waiting out the cat after about another 45 minutes, 
> and
> decided to try later.  When I tried to push out the plywood it was jammed
> and not going anywhere! No one was in the house and I was trapped under it
> along with the cat! Luckily, there's a light down there, but I was getting
> panicky!  Then I heard someone at my neighbor's house and I started 
> banging
> and yelling. By this time I was yelling through a 6" vent under my deck.
> This person, who turned out not to be my neighbor, went to find my husband
> who finally got me OUT!
>
> Later, I successfully got LO out also.  We were both very happy to be back
> in the house again!
>
> Chris Petersen
> Northport, Long Island, New York
> Zone 7a (Average min temp 50 - 00)
>
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