BRAKIE I perfer dogs over cats because unlike cats,dogs don't climb over everything..
I perfer dogs over cats because unlike cats,dogs don't climb over everything..
Seconded, and dogs can be trained to do stuff.
It's just the puppy stage can be bad; leave anything low enough for them to get at, and you'll find a snarrled up mess pretty quick.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
tatansseriously, why would anyone ever allow a cat near a layout?
You obviously have not shared a house with a cat! It is never a matter of "allowing" the cat access anywhere. The cat WILL find a way into anywhere he/she thinks may be interesting; just leave the door ajar for a few seconds and the cat will quietly go in. It is in a cat's nature to explore, particularly in anyplace it is not wanted. If there are small moving objects in there that make noises, that just adds to the interest.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Over the weekend, I was working on a corner module of my clubs traveling layout in my home. It has a mountain on it with a tunnel. One of my cats was watching me work on it and came up, crawled into the tunnel and got stuck. I couldn't pull or push her out and thought I would have to tear down the beautiful mountain. After about an hour she was able to work her way out with no damage. My other cat jumped on top of my wood stove once. She never did that again.
Have two old cats, the nutty sisters I call them. Anyway, our house is a split level, you have to reach the railroad by going through the garage. The sisters don't even know where the garage is, leave alone the railroad room. Life is much simpler that way. I don't have damage, they get to live.
Bob
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Greetings,
We have two cats. The older one liked to sit in the middle of a loop of track and follow the train around. Once in awhile she would swat at the last car and knock the train off the track. It was a lot offun when she would lay her tail on the track and not lift it before the engine rolled over it. Try cleaning cat hair out of engine wheels.When I had my first layout built she was still small enough to sit on my shoulder. One day after I completed the tunnel/ mountain she was on my shoulder watching the train. This was fine until I changed the route and sent the train into the tunnel. She leaned forward as the last Amtrak car entered the tunnel. As the Engine exited the other end of the tunnel she FREAKED OUT, clawed down my back and ran upstairs as fast as she could. She has never been back even though that layout is long gone.
Our young cat loves to climb and explore. She has used the layout as a jumping point to the small basment windows. I still have some sections of the ceiling open as I still have drywall work to do. She has been found roaming between the joists. Once I have that closed I do not know if she will move into the interior of the new mountains. This cat will also "hunt" my sons toys. We will wake up with small toys, magnet letters, etc. on or next to the bed. Once I get to placing cars and figures I am sure some night the basment door will not get closed right and we will wake up with HO scale "kills" laying next to my slippers.
Christopher
One of our cats got up on my previous layout but when i went to remove him he gave the look! I quitely
left the room
Didn't you know?
Dogs have owners
Cats have staff!!
Actually I don't have 'Spring' getting up on my layout anymore---seems he has issues with a certain RS2 that makes noise at him---
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We had a cat once that used to go up into the train room and knead her claws on the extruded foam. Needless to say that was not a popular activity with the head landscape designer. Cat went to live with son, much less damage these days.
Long cat hair can mess up an engine in a hurry.
I think that, to a cat, small engines and cars can look like a good lunch, derailment time!! Fun to play with even if they don't taste too good.
Saving grace, keep the mice and rats out of the train room.
Have fun,
We have three cats, and two dogs (dog story in a bit).
None of the cats bother the layout, but one day................That day our fat cat "Hannibal" well he's about 25lbs and he was meowing like crazy. Jumped up on my layout ( I was working on something), and I was in shock. Not that the fact he jumped up, but he's on my layout!! After I yelled at him, and gave him a pop, all I heard was him running up the stairs, then up the second story stairs. No problem since. Our cats ages are: two of them are brothers 8 years old, and Hannibal is 5. Maybe old age will keep them away even more.
The dogs, well no problem, but when we go away (in a blue moon when that happens, thanks to our zoo). I get alittle worried about the dogs and the layout. Not them messing up the layout but the male dog............well............you know................ *cough* LEGS *cough*. I guess if we got out this year, I will have to use something to block all of that (legs, blocking off the bottom of the layout).
"Rust, whats not to love?"
tatans seriously, why would anyone ever allow a cat near a layout?
seriously, why would anyone ever allow a cat near a layout?
Our cats are the actual owners of our homes. We just pay the rent/mortgage for them. One of our female cats tipped over a module that I had removed from the main part of the layout to work on it. It scared her so badly, she's never been near the layout since. I DID have to seal up the bottom of the mountain areas of my layout to keep the male cat out. I'd see a pair of eyes peering out from a tunnel.
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
well they kept the Grackles off of the layout, and all they ever do is take over the bar stools, so the issue is what with cats and layouts?
It gives us an endless source of long threads. The best bit is always when we get round to the recipes.
I guess I must just be lucky -- I have a cat that is all over my HO scale home layout and she has never disturbed or damaged anything. She even lay on the layout near where I was working during construction to supervise.
Just rambling through some 1984 MR's and this recurring item occurs time and time again, it's this obsession with cats, the magazine had jokes, cartoons, photos of layouts with cats all over them, even this forum has photos, stories how their cat destroyed the layout and other cat related stories, Is there some relationship by MR's to cats? this would seem to not make sense, I would think a bunch of model railroaders sitting around discussing " now what could we put in a model train room to do as much damage as possible? a rhino? no, a horse? say- - - I've got it - - a cat ! ! that should do the trick" and so it seems, the cat won, seriously, why would anyone ever allow a cat near a layout?