Re: deer and brands of soap
>I didn't miss your point, Margaret -- but I am making a different
>assumption. Cattle don't walk on cattle grids because it makes them
>very unstable -- the gaps between the bars catch at their hooves and
>they cannot leap a cattle guard -- regardless of common folk lore, cows
>cannot jump much at all, much less over the moon. :-) I was
>genericizing the case where cats do not like to walk on anything that
>tangles their feet or makes them unsteady -- and nylon net would
>certainly be a big pain in the butt to walk on for a hooved (eg non flat
>footed animal). Same goes for wide-meshed hardware cloth.
>
>--
>Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com) Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
>Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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I was recently in downtown Boise (this may communicate better to the city
folks, but I think you know what a catttle guard is, Amy), where I was
amused and rather shocked at a fellow trying to drag his leashed dog across
a grate. The dog was afraid to step on the grate, like all animals are. I
don't think all cattle have found for themselves they're unsteady on a
cattle guard, but it's instinct not to step on something like that. You
may note that some cattle guards are just painted on the ground or
whatever. Margaret
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