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Nine lives down to eight now...

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Nine lives down to eight now...

Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>So I am working away at the computer and happen to spy a box of planes on the floor. I keep some in the office here because the garage is unheated and they tend to rust. Well, in here they are exposed to the cats. One of them barfed in the box all over my planes. AAAAHHHHHGGGGG!!! Hot water, toothbrush, hairdrier, emergency care. Know what kittie barf does to a Sweetheart blade??? Turns it black it does.

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Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

>Kitty barf is heinous. But...gotta love em.JR

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Jim Toews - Walla Walla, WA

>Need a good recipe for cat?

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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Coarse, now, most folks don't know the size of your cats Jim. I've seem 'em, gotta be twenty pounders, and I'd imagine they can really put out a large puddle o' barf.

So, the more important thing here is: What made kitty barf in the first place?

Best move the planes to higher ground too!

Hey, wonder if this would be a good way to patina those Hamler Twins?! Here kitty kitty kitty. ;~)

Hope kitty feels better soon.

T.O.

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Glenn Madsen near San Francisco

>We have a couple of Siamese cats, much more pretentious than cats ought to be. Late at night, when I'm finally unwrapping from a more tension-filled day than I should be having at this time of life, I hear them hacking something up in the other room.

Fifteen years we've had these cats. Seems like an awfully long time some times.

Kids were easier. And they didn't shed, either.

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Bruce Mack

>What gets me is the quickest eater of the canned food walking away swaying, barfing it all in a couple of minutes, and then sleeping it off while I clean up. Good thing I love them.

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Jerry Nicholson

>I read the other days that cats have been known to live 36 years. So you might have another 20 years or so with them.

Just trying to help.

Jerry

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"What makes kitty barf?"

Bill Houghton, rainy Monday, Sebastopol, CA

>Oh, Todd, surely you're kidding. What makes kitty barf is that s/he's breathing. The only cats I know of that don't hurl with some regularity are those stone lions in front of the New York Public Library and their imitations across the country. And I'm not even sure about them.

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Glenn Madsen near San Francisco

>I doubt I'll last that long. The kids can deal with them. ;-)

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ThomD

>Bad luck.

During one move my planes in a cardboard box got left in a puddle by the movers and they all went to rust. We didn't have all those platic crates at the time.

Still I'm guessing maybe you have a cat that prefers a wooden plane then this kind of thing would not be so destructive.

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Tom MacGregor

>I started out this morning by stepping on a fresh hairball while wearing socks on my way to the coffe machine. My grandma was born on a farm in 1878. She never owned an animal that didn't "earn its keep" and to her dying day at 101 maintained that "People live inside, animals live outside." Wise woman.

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In socks?

Bill Houghton, rainy Monday, Sebastopol, CA

>What luxury. I'm usually barefoot when I do that.

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Paul Erickson

>Perhaps this would be a useful reference?

cheers, Paul


101 uses for a Dead Cat

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Hairball

Hank Knight from SC

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I feel for you Jim...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Every see what happens to 603 after a male cat sprays it and you don't find out until a week or so later.

Cat fur makes a great holder for rubbing compound and wax...

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Jim

>HERE KITTY,KITTY,KITTY lets you and me go visitin the closest farm oh by the way kitty,I'll be comming back home,I can't say as much for you. Stupid Cats!!!!

Sincerely,

Jim

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Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>it is in the middle of the night and dark...

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dave brown

>My wife wants to see a picture of the cat. We'll post ours if you post yours. lol

:-)

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Ernie Miller

>Todd They are cats! there is no higher ground. put them on a shelf 6' off the floor with nothing around and they will figure a way to get on to it.

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