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Subject: Cat crash wallop! From: harpmaker Date: 28 Sep 02 - 10:30 AM We have a garden fence 3ft high 2 inches thick, which next doors cat likes to lay on. Nothing strange in that I hear you say, but read on -- This cat allways lays in the same spot, and in about 5 minuets is fast asleep. And then, crash wallop, it falls off!! You would think it would learn from this experience, but no, not this cat, it jumps back onto the fence, and repeats the whole process! again and again and again it falls off, jumps back on, goes to sleep, falls off etc etc. It does this ALL day, All week, and has done for months! It is doing it now as I type. It never seems to hurt itself though. You may think Iam exaggerating, but belive me, come rain or shine the cat carries on what it does best! Strange cat!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Sorcha Date: 28 Sep 02 - 10:32 AM Brain damaged from falling so much.......lol! Cats are weird by definition. I personally think they were probably intended for some other planet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Leadfingers Date: 28 Sep 02 - 11:17 AM People say that cats are more intelligent than dogs,but Ive never come across a dog who went to sleep on a fence and fell off even once. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 28 Sep 02 - 11:22 AM Your puzzlement is based on the idea that the fall and landing is unpleasant, but that the cat sets itself up again for a bad experience. Two possibilities: 1. The cat is a masochist. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: mack/misophist Date: 28 Sep 02 - 11:28 AM Cats are essentialls creatures of habit. Especially bad habits. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Mr Red Date: 28 Sep 02 - 11:36 AM does it ever sit on the fence? answer that either way. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 28 Sep 02 - 11:47 AM John, you should borrer a video camera and tape it, and send it to youv,e bin framed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 28 Sep 02 - 11:54 AM 9you could win sume muney).john |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 28 Sep 02 - 12:07 PM Our newly adopted catten (not quite a cat/not still a kitten) spent the entire 72 hours when Tropical Storm Hanna was passing through our neighborhood perched in the top of a 50 foot tall longleaf pine tree. She ultimately landed with a bit of a "cat crash wallop" herself. Amazingly resilient little buggers those cats. Fell from at least 40 feet up, landed with an audible thud, and ran to the deck to see if her food dish was still there. However, she does seem to have learned the lesson and hasn't been near a tree since. Your neighbor's cat though, Harpmaker, is just plain retarded. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Morticia Date: 28 Sep 02 - 01:30 PM Mine will insist on trying to walk on bubble bath foam, no matter how often it is explained to her that it is insubstantial, will not take her weight and that it covers very hot water and a fair bit of me. When she falls in,as she inevitably does, there is a brief period of adventure-bathing with a small and furious bag of roofing nails accompanied by a great deal of your basic anglo-saxon, in human and feline. When I finally fish the little wretch out, she insists it was faulty bubble bath and repeats the whole experience the next night (sigh). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 28 Sep 02 - 07:07 PM So why did my cat break when he dropped a mere 2 feet then? As I type, he's asleep on the sofa, Shadow is on top of the clock and Amber is sitting on the microwave staring at a cupboard door not 4 inches from her face... it looks like she's done something wrong and has been made to stand in the corner.... The obvious reason your cat is sitting on the fence - is because he can. He also falls off for the same reason.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Micca Date: 28 Sep 02 - 10:00 PM The Mogificent Merlyn falls into our top-loader washing machine regularly,by climbing onto towels draped over it to dry then "sinking slowly into the sunset" but in the "crash bang wallop" stakes she leans thru the banisters at the top of the stairs to clip your ear as you go downstairs, she has leaned so far through the gap that only a bit of very nifty catching has prevented her from bouncing down the stairs at a rate of knots on her ass!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Hrothgar Date: 29 Sep 02 - 01:21 AM Never seen a cat riding a donkey. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: CarolC Date: 29 Sep 02 - 03:08 AM I've been told I used to do something like that fence cat when I was very little (prior to the age of two). Apparently I used to climb up on the piano and fall off of it, always landing on my head. Over and over and over and over. My mother said each time that happened, she figured I was a goner. I'd say that 'splains a lot. ( ...raises a few questions too, I think) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Eric the Viking Date: 29 Sep 02 - 06:18 AM I think it was salvador Dali that said he went to sleep with a spoon in his hand and as he relaxed and let his grip on the spoon go, the time between that and the spoon hitting the floor was enough sleep for him. Perhaps the cat is the same, a sort of catnap alarm clock? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: gnu Date: 29 Sep 02 - 06:46 AM My uncle kept cats when he worked as a weather observer and radio operator in the far north of Canada in the 1950's. These cats were great weather predictors. They would "go nuts" about four hours before a storm would hit and then all curl up on top of the lockers just before the storm would hit. If there were any air crews in the station, they would be sat on the couch and chairs beside the lockers for a drink before supper. Of course, when the cook would ring the dinner bell, the airmen were deluged with cats raining down from the lockers.... better than the movies. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: GUEST,Catman Date: 29 Sep 02 - 08:03 AM It seems to me that the cat has no intention whatsoever of falling asleep on the fence, that would be stupid. It obviously suffers from narcolepsy (sorry about the spelling), i.e. sleeping sickness, English comic actor Arthur Lowe suffered from it as did the clergyman in the wedding scene in Ali Mc`Beal. Perhaps with your wonderfull woodworking skills Harpie, you could come up with a simmilar solution (a supportive framework of some kind?)to help this cat overcome its obvious disability and prevent further undignified humiliation, (cats are very sensative to looking like prats you know!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: lady penelope Date: 29 Sep 02 - 10:20 AM Liz, the reason your cat broke it's back after falling only two feet is probably the same reason that my brother Ian broke his collar bone after falling 18 inches out of the bottom bunk bed! I don't know what the reason is, but it's probably the same one! I had one cat that slept on top of the t.v., she would only occasionally fall off, generally when she'd rolled over one too many times. More often you would have to put up with various limbs dangling down in front of the screen ( she was a manx cat so tails were not a problem ) and if she was really curious, her head, upside down. Occasionally she would pass judgement on our choice of viewing, by turning the sound down, changing channels or turning the t.v. off altogther! Cats are...................when I finally figure it out, the world will probably end! TTFN M'Lady P. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Les from Hull Date: 29 Sep 02 - 11:29 AM John, has this cat been taking lessons from your sister's cockerel? Perhaps Sorcha is right, though. They had their own planet but they fell off. But that's a good idea from John - two hundred and fifty of your Earth Pounds is what they pay. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Catherine Jayne Date: 29 Sep 02 - 12:55 PM Merlyn the Mogificent managed to fall in the toilet....she has an exciting life between the banister rail, the washing machine, the bath and the toilet, anyway she runs up the stairs bounces on the toilet seat into the bath and watches the tap dripping or runs 'the wall of death' round the shower while you are in it. Well this time someone, and I won't mention his name!, had left the toilet seat up and Merlyn the Mogificent turned into Merlyn the Soggyificent!!! Meow Cat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: harpmaker Date: 29 Sep 02 - 01:19 PM This cat does this through the night as well Btw. I have just 'G'cramped a peice of 2x2 to the fence (so it is now 4inches wide) at first, the cat looked at me as if to say "why, you rottern b****, but soon got the idea of it and went to sleep. But as it went deeper and deeper into sleep, It sort of rolls over and falls off. So, what to do? Build a platform wide enough so it cant fall off? I dont want a superstructure on the fence anyway.(the neighbours might think Iam mad. (Hmmm) Double sided tape comes to mind!! But it is a loveley little snow white cat so what can I do? Mr red "does it ever sit on the fence?" we dont call it 'Regan' for nothin you know!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Les from Hull Date: 29 Sep 02 - 01:34 PM Velcro? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 29 Sep 02 - 04:29 PM You can get shelves that hook over the radiator for cats to sleep on.... how about one of those?? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: SINSULL Date: 29 Sep 02 - 09:47 PM Mine eats worms. Great big bloody nasty worms. Even the neighbors are complaining that he walks around with worms dangling out the sides of his mouth or holds them by the head and pitches them in the air. Ultimately and inevitably, he eats them - a nasty sight. Maybe he craves protein???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Sorcha Date: 29 Sep 02 - 10:15 PM Sins, how do you know he is holding them by the head? Worm heads and tails look the same to me..........but it is VERY disgusting I agree. Icky, icky, icky. Get him a hight protein cat food and see what happens.
I love the Walking on Bubble Bath story!! and yes, harpmaker, I would build a shelf with about a 4" rim on it for the snowball to sleep on. Build it about 6" bigger than the cat. If she still falls off then it would be her problem. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Kaleea Date: 30 Sep 02 - 01:22 AM My poor oul kitty is now 19, however, when she & her sister (gone 10 years now)were wee little bairns, they would climb their way up onto an upholstered chair & fall asleep on the top edge of the back of the chair. Then when they awakened, they would begin to stretch, & fall off, invariably down the backside & onto the floor. As I was considering putting pillows onto the floor under the chair where they fell, I began to wonder if they liked the spot because of the lamp over the chair being left on at night. I decided to turn off that lamp & instead, leave on a table lamp on a set of nesting tables. Sure enough, the kitties began to sleep atop those same nesting tables. They liked the warmth of the light bulb, and were most definitely safer on the table top. I do not recall them ever having fallen off. They were always house cats, and never climbed a tree, only furniture. At the advanced age of 19, however, kitty does little climbing these days. Getting up onto my bed requires the placement of a 4 or 5" thick musical instrument case on the floor at the foot of the bed. Joining me in my comfy chair in the parlor has been made easier by the careful placement of a needlepoint footstool. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 30 Sep 02 - 02:07 AM So, SINSULL, exactly why is your neighborhood sufficiently infested with great big bloody nasty worms that your cat is able to make a spectacle of himself with them? We have four cats and have never seen one of them with a mouthful of worms. Lizards, snakes, salamanders, moles, mice, birds, squirrels, turtles, baby armadillos and various types of insects, yes. But no worms. You sure they're not snakes? (I would insert a smiley here, but I've sworn off) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Gervase Date: 30 Sep 02 - 02:35 AM The little sods do it to confuse us. Listen carefully at night and you'll hear the sound of feline sniggering as they take a break from proving Fermat's last theorem to guffaw at humankind. Underestimate them at your peril! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 30 Sep 02 - 02:59 AM Ah, would that it were only Fermat's last theorem.... I'm sure they're working out their own theroy of Gravity.... hence all the experimentation by throwing themselves off fences, chairbacks and the top of the kitchen cabinets! Cooking anything in our kitchen at the moment is fraught with feline fear.... one female is asleep on top of the microwave, about eyeheight which is fine... the other female, Shadow is atop the box containing my 8 pint stock pot, which in turn is atop a 6ft fridge, placed on top of a waist high worksurface. She's wedged into the 6" gap between the box and the ceiling. To get up there she gets onto the worksurface, onto the microwave, from there to the top of the cabinets. From the top of the cabinets she jumps across the kitchen (about 4' over the doorway) and then onto the fridge and her box. When the microwave is 'engaged' by Amber, the other female, she has to get down by jumping off the fridge, onto the hob, whether it's in use or not.... so far only one burnt paw, but only some swift work saved the pan of boiling rice going all over the kitchen. This is truly 'Wall of Death' with extra death. Salad anyone???? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Catherine Jayne Date: 30 Sep 02 - 04:12 AM That is one daring cat Liz. I hope to god Merlyn doesnt figure that out!! Sins Merlyn walks around with huge LIVE spiders in her mouth and plays with them right in front of me before chewing them and eating them. She does it on purpose because she knows I hate spiders.......must remember to feed cat more often!!! Cat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: harpmaker Date: 30 Sep 02 - 07:30 AM Would you belive it,,the cat has choosen a different spot where there is no wood that I put up. It just likes the old 2inch fence! I cant figure this one! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: GUEST,KingBrilliant Date: 30 Sep 02 - 07:42 AM Pansie has just had his long fluffy tail severely pruned to remove several large teasles. I was deeply sympathetic, but Hammerite (whose cat he is) laughed like a drain at the thought of the poor cat trying to get away from the teasle plant. I wait to see whether Pans will repeat the trick, Kris |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Dave Bryant Date: 30 Sep 02 - 07:48 AM A cat owned by a friend of mine had a litter of six kittens. If anything frightened them while they were small, they would all run under the pelmet on the bottom of the wardrobe. When they got bigger, they would still try the same thing and it was extremely amusing to see six little backsides with the legs all going furiously trying to push their bodies through a two inch gap. One of them actually managed it once, and although I reckoned that if it was left to loose some of it's fat and get hungry enough it would manage to get out again, I was overuled and it took ages to empty the wardrobe so that we could lift it up and get the little b***er out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Gillie Date: 30 Sep 02 - 12:59 PM Ever heard the story about if you keep falling off a horse you have to keep getting back on it!! "BG" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: lady penelope Date: 30 Sep 02 - 05:14 PM Cerys does the "bringing home the catch" lark, all live of course, I think she thinks it's educational.......... Eeeuch! TTFN M'Lady P. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Helen Date: 30 Sep 02 - 08:35 PM Liz-t-s, If you have ever seen a slow motion version of a cat falling from an upside down position, it takes a few feet for it to roll over in mid-air to land feet first. Two feet may not have been enough time to do that spectacular roll. By the way, since my cat went to cat-heaven in late July I have really been missing having one around. Normally there is at least one cat in my life and this is the first time in about 40 years that I haven't had a cat. We're planning a month long holiday at the end of the year, though, and we are holding off getting another cat until after that. So spare a little thought for a cat-less humanbean, and stop making me feel so envious by telling everyone about your cat adventures. (Just joking. Really!) Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 30 Sep 02 - 09:16 PM Helen states: If you have ever seen a slow motion version of a cat falling from an upside down position, it takes a few feet for it to roll over in mid-air to land feet first. Well, as an experiment, I just dropped one of my cats back-first onto the bed from about six inches above the surface and he still managed to land feet-first. However, I tried it with a second cat and she fell flat on her back. So, feline agility is not an absolute any more than human agility is. It varies from cat to cat. Bruce |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Art Thieme Date: 30 Sep 02 - 11:29 PM Your title for this thread reminds me that SIS-BOOM-BAAAH is the sound of an exploding sheep. Just felt compelled to mention it here. Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 01 Oct 02 - 01:01 AM Helen - the cat was already facing feet down.... he just landed awkwardly.... I thought I'd broken his already dodgy hips but it turned out to just be his crutacious ligaments. He did the 'I can't move' bit for a week whilst I guiltily carried him about until I spotted him in the garden hopping about quite happily. As soon as he saw me watching him, he did the 'my leg has been amputated but I'll struggle on' limp. Needless to say, he doesn't get carried to the food anymore. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: GUEST,bbc at work Date: 01 Oct 02 - 11:52 AM Art, Shouldn't that read "Sis Baaah BOOM"? :) best, bbc |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Catherine Jayne Date: 01 Oct 02 - 03:01 PM Merlyn has never landed on her feet when she falls. She kinda falls and her legs go a kimbo and she ends up on her back.......'nuff said... Cat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: harpmaker Date: 14 Oct 02 - 04:00 PM Just thought I would let you know, to all that have contibuted to this thread. One day, about 2 weeks ago, I went into the garden and the cat was not there. I thought "oh it'll turn up" but it hasn't. And it has not been seen since. Will let you know in due course what happend to it. Funny, I quite miss that cat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Cat crash wallop! From: Gurney Date: 15 Oct 02 - 06:13 AM Harpmaker, try claiming that spot with your deckchair, before the cat reappears. It is likely one of Earth's 'sweet spots.' Or maybe the cat was trying to shame you into buying it some bungy cords. |