Cats

[blownout cylinder]

aloco

 Heeeerrre kitty kitty kitty...

AAAWWWWWW!!! Now geeesh----he didn't hurt you---maybe mangled the tree a bit.

'Spring' does sleep in odd places though

He's also something of a limbo cat

Trying to hold onto this fellow is like holding onto an unwinding spring---------

[rrinker]

 haha I have one like that

 She was also a bumping post thief, at my previous place where the layout was being built in the dining room. One day I noticed one of my Walthers bumpers was missing. I found it on the floor, and restored it to the layout. A few days later - gone again, and nowhere to be found. Like a week later I found it outside the front door - she batted it around the floor until it went under the door and into the hall.

                                   --Randy

 

[da_kraut]

 Just kind of curious here.  Since some the sound decoders are programmable from files that the manufacturers provide, ie one can program a Loksound decoder to sound like a GE or EMD.  So if that is possible can one program, temporarily a number of locomotives to sound like a bunch of barking dogs?  Would that not scare away even the most bold cat?  Specially if all of a sudden half a dozen locos start to bark like rotti's?

Has anyone tried this?  Sure would be interesting to find out the result.

Frank

[rrinker]

 Well they made decoders with Christmas music in them, so I'm sure you could put dog noises in one. However it may have no effect. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, there's a free app called Kitty! that has various cat sounds as well as a can opening and a couple of barking dog sounds. The cat sounds are great - the cats will start running all over the hous elooking for the 'other cat' they keep hearing. When I play the dog barks, they basically look at me like WUT? The older one has been around dogs so he knows what they are, the little one was last around dogs when she was a very young kitten so might not know what they are. I guess neither one cares about a dog barking or growling.

                                        --Randy

 

[CNW 6000]

da_kraut

 Just kind of curious here.  Since some the sound decoders are programmable from files that the manufacturers provide, ie one can program a Loksound decoder to sound like a GE or EMD.  So if that is possible can one program, temporarily a number of locomotives to sound like a bunch of barking dogs?  Would that not scare away even the most bold cat?  Specially if all of a sudden half a dozen locos start to bark like rotti's?

Has anyone tried this?  Sure would be interesting to find out the result.

Frank

LMAO!
I've heard folks refer to engines working hard as having a bark in their exhaust note...but that's a whole 'nother level!

To those who vote canine-they shed too!  They also jump and get paws up on things to see better, tails wag and swing wildly behind them knocking things over too.  Anything with more than two legs is on borrowed time in the train room. 

[jbinkley60]

 

He got tired carving foam...

 

[rrinker]

CP5415

This is what the engineers in my locmotives see when I'm not around

I've been lucky, Molly hasn't knocked anything down or broken anything YET!!!!!

Right now, she's more fascinated with the guinea pigs we have. Thank fully

haha I used to have a guinea pig named Molly. The cat I had at the same time was scared of her - he'd sneak up close to the guinea pig and sniff at her, and then Molly would do that instant 180 they do and the cat would run away. A couple of times he poked his nose or a paw in her cage - until she went to gnaw on the intruding appendage.

                                                --Randy

 

[G Paine]

I have not had problems with my cat "playing"  with my trains, but she was always interested in the sound when I run a locomotive. The only problem I had was one day I was doing some decals, she jumped in my lap, and discovered that I had provided a water dish for her to drink from. Fortunately, I did not have any decals soaking in the dish at the time.

[IVRW]

My cat doesnt get anywhere bad in the layout room, he just walks in sometimes to check me over, and then leaves.

[rclanger]

Keep the door closed and a squirt bottle handy just in case. No problem.

[EM-1]

I have always liked animals, but preferred cats over dogs.  I have had pet dogs get hold of models I've spent time on, and treat them as chew toys.  They have seemed to be more interested in chasing and catching running trains than my cats have.   I only had damage on a model once from a pet cat.  I don't currently have a layout, but I periodically lay out something on the basement floor with E-Z track, or a cheapy RC "G" scale set I got last year.  Our current cats just lay down alonside the track and watch, maybe once in a while put a paw in front of the train and pull it away a few inches before contact.  The large, Xingu, a 14 lb female Maine Coon, sometimes will get behind a slow train and follow it for a bit, then clear the ROW and go back to where she picked it up at first, then follow again when the train comes around the loop.

I've found the dogs I have get excited too easy, need constant attention to keep from repeating behaviors that cause damage.  Generally, the cats I've had only have to be told No once in my old NCO voice, and they give a little look, back off, and rarely need a repeat.

[wholeman]

EM-1

I have always liked animals, but preferred cats over dogs.  I have had pet dogs get hold of models I've spent time on, and treat them as chew toys.  They have seemed to be more interested in chasing and catching running trains than my cats have.   I only had damage on a model once from a pet cat.  I don't currently have a layout, but I periodically lay out something on the basement floor with E-Z track, or a cheapy RC "G" scale set I got last year.  Our current cats just lay down alonside the track and watch, maybe once in a while put a paw in front of the train and pull it away a few inches before contact.  The large, Xingu, a 14 lb female Maine Coon, sometimes will get behind a slow train and follow it for a bit, then clear the ROW and go back to where she picked it up at first, then follow again when the train comes around the loop.

I've found the dogs I have get excited too easy, need constant attention to keep from repeating behaviors that cause damage.  Generally, the cats I've had only have to be told No once in my old NCO voice, and they give a little look, back off, and rarely need a repeat.

I wonder if the Dog Whisperer has ever done a case that dealt with model train obesession?

[wholeman]

EM-1

I have always liked animals, but preferred cats over dogs.  I have had pet dogs get hold of models I've spent time on, and treat them as chew toys.  They have seemed to be more interested in chasing and catching running trains than my cats have.   I only had damage on a model once from a pet cat.  I don't currently have a layout, but I periodically lay out something on the basement floor with E-Z track, or a cheapy RC "G" scale set I got last year.  Our current cats just lay down alonside the track and watch, maybe once in a while put a paw in front of the train and pull it away a few inches before contact.  The large, Xingu, a 14 lb female Maine Coon, sometimes will get behind a slow train and follow it for a bit, then clear the ROW and go back to where she picked it up at first, then follow again when the train comes around the loop.

I've found the dogs I have get excited too easy, need constant attention to keep from repeating behaviors that cause damage.  Generally, the cats I've had only have to be told No once in my old NCO voice, and they give a little look, back off, and rarely need a repeat.

I wonder if the Dog Whisperer has ever done a case that dealt with model train obesession?

[Aaron safioles]

i have no door on my layout room, and thanks to Kasha, Bandit and Rusty, i heard a ban, bang, bnagg,bnaggg boom!. that was a 200 dollar intermodal collapsing on my undecorated layout. NOTE TO SELF, GET A FRIKING DOOR!, thank god no engines were harmed., I walked INTO the room, and i saw, an orange, a calico, and a black and white streak SPRINTING for thier life, run right out of the room. ill get thier asses.