I knew a guy that just put a couple of mothballs on the front of the layout. Cats hate the smell and stay away. You can just pick them up and put them away when you want to work on the layout because people hate the smell as well.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
They make spray that is supposed to keep cats away. The instructions say to spray it on something, like a length of ribbon, and lay that around what you don't want the cat to get to.
It's obnoxious to humans. The cat didn't care and walked right over the ribbon sprayed with this stuff.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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rrinker I'm not so sure that's Wierd Al. There is a tendency to assign nearly any parody song to Al, but I never heard that one before, and finding it on YouTube, it doesn't sound like him. Plus Al usually goes all out and has a parody verse for every verse of the original. Still funny though. Some comedian once said something like, if it tastes like chicken, then why don't you just eat chicken? --Randy
I'm not so sure that's Wierd Al. There is a tendency to assign nearly any parody song to Al, but I never heard that one before, and finding it on YouTube, it doesn't sound like him. Plus Al usually goes all out and has a parody verse for every verse of the original.
Still funny though.
Some comedian once said something like, if it tastes like chicken, then why don't you just eat chicken?
Whatever, but he sang it.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Manic Larry Baker wrote it, and there are several people who have sung it 'over the years' since the early Nineties... some of which do the Harry Chapin imitation better than others.
Weird Al is NOT one of them; he's on record as disliking the song for its 'racist' overtones.
I do not see the Chapin Estate as giving permission for something like that - and one thing Al does is he ALWAYS gets permission, even if technically it is not needed. Sometimes he even has the original musicians play on his version.
--Randy, still living in an Amish Paradise.
(which makes me think - obviously it fits the song, but does Al know that there is a town in PA Amish Country names Paradise? One can even take a steam train there)
whoa... I mentioned the song for humor as I saw Weird Al sang it. Anyway, y'all can crack on about the gory details.
We no longer have Pluto (aka Pootie). He was a good cat. His litter box was in the basement train room, so he was with the trains all of the time. My layout was 48 inches high.
He never bothered it. I think he realized since they smell like plastic, metal, and oil; he wasn't going to eat anything up there, so why bother.
But, as far as cats go, he was not as "vertical" as other cats.
My fiancee had cats before we married. When she moved out, we cleared the place out but left the cats alone for a few days with food and water. Upon our return, they had plenty of food, but they were camped out in the bare upper kitchen cabinets instead of their normal areas.
I would call them "vertically curious".
I guess, in the end, it depends upon the cat.
- Douglas