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Posted by Mike Kieran on Thursday, April 6, 2017 12:23 PM

I was worried that my bad joke would go unnoticed.

 

Randy! Yellow Flag! Unsportsmanlikeconduct!!! 15 yards & 1st Down!!! SoapBoxWhistling

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Posted by rrinker on Thursday, April 6, 2017 12:22 PM

maxman

 

 
BMMECNYC

George and Chessie watching MRVP photo phone upload 3-1-17 903_zpsunyncmxu.jpg

 

 

They look like they're cat-atonic to me.

 

 

Well, they were watching Neil, not Drew.....

Stick out tongue

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 6, 2017 11:57 AM

Mike Kieran
That joke was a catastrophe.

Well put.Laugh

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Posted by Mike Kieran on Thursday, April 6, 2017 11:52 AM
That joke was a catastrophe. I think Neil is entertaining.

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Posted by maxman on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 10:22 AM

BMMECNYC

George and Chessie watching MRVP photo phone upload 3-1-17 903_zpsunyncmxu.jpg

They look like they're cat-atonic to me.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 9:09 AM

George and Chessie watching MRVP photo phone upload 3-1-17 903_zpsunyncmxu.jpg

You just need to include them in the hobby.

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Posted by richhotrain on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 11:26 AM

maxman

 

 
hon30critter
Outdoor cats don't like to visit my backyard more than once or twice. We keep a slingshot by our deck chairs.

 

"Now I have a machine gun.  Ho, Ho, Ho"

 

Good for you maxman.

Take that all you miserable cat haters!

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Posted by maxman on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 10:36 AM

hon30critter
Outdoor cats don't like to visit my backyard more than once or twice. We keep a slingshot by our deck chairs.

"Now I have a machine gun.  Ho, Ho, Ho"

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 9:19 AM

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by Attuvian on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 8:55 AM
Mr. Mik, If the creativity expressed in your eleven anti-cat devices is also reflected in your layout, it would indeed be a wonderful pike to behold! Good stuff. JB
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Posted by Mike Kieran on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 8:36 AM
Massive LOL!!!

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Posted by maxman on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 8:28 AM

Mike Kieran
Like deer, they're not the cute, cuddly, and innocent creatures that they're perceived to be.

Attack of the zombie squirrel OMG must own!!!

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Posted by Mike Kieran on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 7:42 AM

Like deer, they're not the cute, cuddly, and innocent creatures that they're perceived to be.

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Posted by SouthPenn on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 9:34 PM

Mike Kieran

I never knew that squirrels growl until I had to remove one that came inside.

It was trying to make a new home behind a radiator (it was summertime, so no slow cooking going on). I had someone hold a piece of wood at a 45 degree angle above the radiator and facing the window while I squirted it with a water pistol. It took 5 squirts of the water pistol before it shot up, bounced off the board, and went out the window. Oh yeah, did I mention that they growl?

When I trapped the squirrel in my basement, he growled at me when I got close to the trap. That was a real surprise.

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Posted by tatans on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 3:11 PM

I always thought the worst possible malicious joke you could ever play on someone was to wait for your neighbour to finish his 15 year struggle to complete his marvelous layout and then give him a cat, then I find out people that have layouts actually DO have cats, who knew???

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Posted by joe323 on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 2:14 PM

BroadwayLion

Nice Kitty!

 

ROAR

 

I was wondering when the big cat was going to roar

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 11:57 AM

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My cat is no longer allowed in my room at night....

If my wife and I locked our cat out, we've found she will claw the carpet at the edge of the door, destroying it.  Since she is a rescue cat, we had to agree not to declaw her.  We don't mind if she comes in and sleeps on the bed and she's mostly been no bother.

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 11:46 AM

ATLANTIC CENTRAL

Since then the wife says no more pets, too much trouble.......I just stay quiet.....

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My family, when I was a kid, always seemed to have pets, cats in the early years but they didn't last long because small kids traumatize cats.  Later it was a dog, a horse and many guinea pigs!  So I've always had a mild fondness for animals but being transient much of my adult life never had a cat or dog - only a few small parrots.

My wife has had cats for most of her adult life in England before she immigrated here in 2011 - yes, I married a cat lady, LOL.  The most she had was 5 in England and was down to 3 at the time she came here but they stayed behind with her adult daughter. 

Of course she wanted a cat but for the first couple years we were kind of poor and living in basements and pets were not allowed.  As soon as we bought a home, she was picking out her cat - this time a half Maine Coon who is pretty low maintenence and a nice cat.  I do keep it out of the train room because I don't want trouble.

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Posted by Mike Kieran on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 11:37 AM

I never knew that squirrels growl until I had to remove one that came inside.

It was trying to make a new home behind a radiator (it was summertime, so no slow cooking going on). I had someone hold a piece of wood at a 45 degree angle above the radiator and facing the window while I squirted it with a water pistol. It took 5 squirts of the water pistol before it shot up, bounced off the board, and went out the window. Oh yeah, did I mention that they growl?

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Posted by joe323 on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 11:08 AM

hon30critter

Outdoor cats don't like to visit my backyard more than once or twice. We keep a slingshot by our deck chairs. Don't worry, we use dried chick peas, not ball bearings, and the blackbirds get equal treatment when they are on the feeders.

I would consider getting another dog. That is as soon as somebody invents dog food that would make their poop glow in the dark. I hated searching for landmines when the leaves were on the ground in the fall!Smile, Wink & GrinLaughLaugh

Dave 

 

Know that feeling I stepped in poop over the weekend.

The dog is not allowed in the train room because I am afraid he could swallow something that could hurt him say a dropped coupler.

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Posted by nssd70m on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 12:15 AM

Thats funny Ricky! Earl....

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Posted by hon30critter on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 12:02 AM

Outdoor cats don't like to visit my backyard more than once or twice. We keep a slingshot by our deck chairs. Don't worry, we use dried chick peas, not ball bearings, and the blackbirds get equal treatment when they are on the feeders.

I would consider getting another dog. That is as soon as somebody invents dog food that would make their poop glow in the dark. I hated searching for landmines when the leaves were on the ground in the fall!Smile, Wink & GrinLaughLaugh

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Monday, March 20, 2017 5:45 PM

Nice Kitty!

 

ROAR

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by ricktrains4824 on Sunday, March 19, 2017 9:16 PM

Just showing he loves you by trying to feed you. 

My cat tried to do that once...

Background story - He has a toy mouse, that squeaks, and that is approximately the correct size.

He brought me a mouse in the middle of the night, woke me up,  and set it in my hand. 

I thought, "How sweet, you brought me your toy mouse."

Then the mouse moved.....

It got flung across the room, I turned on the light, and the cat looked where the mouse got flung too, then back to me, then back and forth a few times, then he looked at me and he had the funniest look on his face... Like, "Why in the world did you do that? I spent (who knows how long) catching that thing, brought it to you because I love you, and you just threw it across the room? What did you go and do that for?" 

I then ordered him, to, "First off, don't you ever do that again. Second, go get it, and kill it this time."

My cat then bopped me in the nose, and went after the mouse.

Yep... I am the one who got my nose bopped...

My cat is no longer allowed in my room at night....

And everyone is happy.

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Posted by SouthPenn on Sunday, March 19, 2017 6:18 PM

We had a cat once. It liked leaving gifts of dead animals at the back door. I fixed that by putting a collar on him that had a bell on it.

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Posted by SouthPenn on Sunday, March 19, 2017 6:11 PM

7j43k

 

 
SouthPenn

I'll trump your cats, dogs, and mice with a scared and hungry squirel in the dark running around my layout, for 2 days.

 

 

 

 

If it was rabid, you win.

 

 

Ed

 

 

I didn't get close enough to find out. Squirrels have some nasty teeth.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, March 19, 2017 4:07 PM

babefluff
I say why do you have a cat?

Happy wife, happy life.   She had to build the cat door to keep them out of the train room though.

Up until this afternoon I had a 3 rail floor layout, it had fallen into disuse since the cats arrived, and they were knocking stuff over, so I put it away, last few pieces are on their way to the basement.

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Posted by babefluff on Sunday, March 19, 2017 4:00 PM

I do not post much here but I do frequent a lot.  I have a cat and to all of you that bash cats and MRR, I say why do you have a cat?

 

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Posted by mbinsewi on Sunday, March 19, 2017 1:57 PM

Laugh  That's really good, Robert.  Our old cat used to do that too, than sit there and look at you like "aren't you proud of me now!"  He always left "trophys" on the back porch.  Old Whiskers died about 10 yrs ago.  Never got another one.

Mike.

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