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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 4, 2004 4:12 PM
I hate the cat hair that gets in the trees and scenery when he decides to take his nap on the layout
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Posted by BRAKIE on Sunday, April 4, 2004 4:46 PM
Cats..One way I know of is to use a spy bottle filled with water and let them have a nice spray every time they even think about hopping up on your layout..Now if you have a door to your layout room close it..A very,very gentle light tap with a finger on the noise will work if all else fails..

Larry

Conductor.

Summerset Ry.


"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt  Safety First!"

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 4, 2004 8:02 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by bill mathewson

Every Christman season we set up a very large G scale layout running all through our living room, dining room and looped around the tree. Several years ago our son taped a banana to a denuded (no superstructure) LGB motor block and attached a fresh catnip mouse to it and ran it around the track while our cats chased it. However, they later attacked his brand new Forney pulling a string of cars causing a major "cat-tasrophe", so he put the Forney back on the track and rammed one of them head on at full speed, and while the other cat was laughing-cats do have a warped sense of humor-he ran his C-16 into it's butt. They never even go near the trains anymore. Just got cat #3 and can't wait to "train" her, too! As far as breaking cats from attacking bags of model railroad stuff, you might try tying several helium balloons on their tail with a ribbon or string and at first they'll think it's fun until they pop one, or as happened in our case-cat#! started chasing cat#2 (the one w/ the balloons) and the faster he ran the more the balloons hit each other, furniture and so on , making quite a racket, until cat #1 popped one of the balloons scaring the living hell out of both of them! Neither cat has gone near any bag in five years. And this is not April Fools. . .


ROTFLMAO!!!

My one cat is WAY too fat to jump anywhere. But my old cat used to love jumping up and smashing things. I'd leave little bits of scotch tape, sticky side up, on the layout. This did 2 things:

1: taught him not to jump on the layout.
and
2: Gave me hours of entertainment watching the way he walked around with tape all over his feet.
God rest his soul [angel]

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