I want to KILL my cat!!!

[loathar]

WOW!!! What the heck did I start??? Been at work all night while replies where coming in.
I really would not have shot the cat, I hate most cats, but this one is cool and serves a purpose. (good mouser) Does puke all over the place, but it is an outdoor cat, so not a problem.
Cats ARE the only animal that kills for fun.(other than sick humans)Too bad they don't kill toads because I have a toad problem too.
I've waisted a few coons and opposumes for getting in my garbage and there is a skunk that's been lurking around at night that I haven't seen but can smell at night when I'm out working on layout late. NO, I don't eat them, but if their fur was worth anything, I'd skin then them out and sell it.
(I used to fur trap when I lived up north, PLEASE don't throw any blood on my house, humans have done this for thousands of years before trains where invented)
I keep the pistol out there because I'm worried about brown bears that occasionally wander into the area. (There are NO CHILDREN where I live and if one did do the same to my layout, he would get a good scoulding and not a gun aimed at him(give me a friggin break)).
The pistol aimed at the tabby is REALLY GOOD!!!(I don't even care if it had a clip in it , that's funny)
In closing, the cat is fine, I've forgiven it, no major damage was done,(it's a temp layout that's getting ripped up this week anyhow so I can start my new benchwork) I now make a practice of latching the door tightly to avoid future mishaps.(I still worry when I'm out there late, I've heard loud banging on the building walls when I'm out there late[:O][alien]).
Now lets get past this before I'm accused of being a troll posting non train topics.
[:O][?](I really can't beleive the replies???)

[Big_Boy_4005]

QUOTE: Originally posted by loathar

I'm really not a cat fan.This ones a REALLY good mouser. That's the only reason she's still breathing. The weird thing is she was always in there with me and never showed any interest in the train or jumping up on anything. I'm starting to wonder if another cat chased her up there.

My my, you seem to have struck a nerve, four pages!!! Did it ever occur to you that perhaps a mouse got in first, and the cat was doing her best Tom and Jerry impression?

Around my house, the rule is: no pets, no problems. If I absolutely had to have a pet it would be something that lived in water. I haven't heard of fish destroying things.

Last night we had a wonderful dinner of Mongolian Beef. I happen to know it was BEEF, because I saw Big Girl take it out of the package and cut it up. You can find the mix packet in the ethnic aisle at the grocery store.

A couple of Saturdays ago, while out chasing trains, we stopped in a small town and ended up at the local Chineese restaurant for lunch. There I ordered the pepper beef. The texture was totally different, but very tasty.

If you happen to be a fussy eater, when ordering Asian cuisine, you may want to live by the rule: Know your server. Otherwise just order the vegetarian dishes.[:0][swg]

[Leon Silverman]

Loather:
I put my garbage out with the trash in uncovered trash cans on the side of the house and have yet to see any evidence of them being distrubed by wild or wondering domestic animals during the five years I have lived here. We place sunflower and wild bird seed mixture seeds on our rear deck to feed the squirrels and birds that come by. Since the food is readily obtaineable on our rear deck, the animals do not bother our trash cans.

[Anonymous]

Great thread!
Love the tabby!
Ever seen "Cat's Revenge. 101 Things to do with a dead human"? Now that is sick!
Jack Russels... only animal on the planet apart from a mongoose and a few snakes that will attack a rat in its home... that's what they were bread BRED [that was definitely the computer, wasn't wrong before first edit... don't want someone to be unreasonable about my posts...] for (In Manchester / C19). People say "Oh what a lovely little dog"! They're *************************** insane! (Not that I'm biased).
The people that wouldn't hurt / kill / eat anything living... what do they eat? Igneous rock?
(I feel sorry for cabbages... can't even try to run and hide...)
Foxes also kill for fun... so the PC / anti rich people brigade have banned fox hunting... putting a lot of ordinary folks jobs at severe risk... real neat... and what happens next time we get a rabbis (OOPS! that should have been rabies... I don't want to get accused of being anti-semitic) scare?

That tabby... it's enjoying playing pattercake... does anyone really believe it's putting its hands... correction... paws up...?

Just fix the door would you???????

Oh yeah... and anyone know a REAL solution to slugs... big fat 5" green spotty things... DISGUSTING. Have tried salt, copper spray, copper wire, beer. brick, commercial sprays, bait... never known anywhere like this for the things... they come and eat/ transit the barriers on their cousins corpses ... YEUK!!!

[Big_Boy_4005]

Cat, it's what's for dinner.

[dinner][dinner][dinner][:-,][(-D][(-D][swg]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Big_Boy_4005

Cat, it's what's for dinner.

[dinner][dinner][dinner][:-,][(-D][(-D][swg]

How'd you know it's not Mexican / Indian / Chinese / Portugese ... Aw heck... all this PC equal opportunities / non discrimination wrecks the gag...

[Anonymous]

Yes, I agree with your last post loather, the problem is that people who get annoied, ops, that should be annoyed, or is that the wrong way of spellin it? well, by replying they just continue their own misery! they fuel the fire by tryin to put it out with petrol! (better things to do with that considering current prices!) I am neutral towards cats, but like a joke too(the pic)[}:)][}:)][}:)] Could it be ghosts outside your place making noises(just joking, who knows, might get in trouble for that!) I used to have a parrot(died of natural causes, while i wasn't here(no, not starvation)) and it like the plastic pine trees and the red model apples on those expensive ones you can buy! I called him my biologial terrorist, and told him the greenies wouldn't be happy with him. but I just had to look at him while he was doing it, and he would run to and into his cage, They aren't dumb ay?
ps, what else would you have done all night if it wasn't for this[8D][8D][8D][8D][8D]

[Big_Boy_4005]

True David, any cuisine that uses strong flavors would do to disguise unusual meat selection. However, it is Eastern Asians from many countries that have a well documented propensity to consume animals which we westerners would consider taboo or disgusting. Trying desperately here not to be politically incorrect.[;)]

Not being from America, you might not get the joke "Cat, it's what's for dinner." That line is from the American Beef Council's TV ad campaign, only substitute beef for cat.

By the way, that is only a seasoning packet. You need to add the meat of your choice.

[Anonymous]

Gee as this went on and on I thought a MHT flame had started. For all the vegitarians out there, have you heard a broccil or cabbage screaming durning harvest? I digress!
I suspect the culprit was freaked out by the storm, or another critter in the train building durning the storm and was after shelter from the chaos, hence the tunnel. Panic affects all of us God's critters. The advice of securing the door is the best solution to avoid another disaster, or you will have to drop tabby off behind a Chinese or Thai restaurant. They are always looking for good mousers. Right!
Now you have a great "It was a dark and windy night..." train wreck story to explain the damage to the Dash 9.
Glad your sense of reason prevailed, and tabby won't wind up dinner!
Will ... over run by 6 "house" cats!

[Anonymous]

I've eaten a great variety of animals during my lifetime but I could never eat a cat.

I don't like the taste of cat. [:D]

Bill

[BRAKIE]

I HATE CATS! PEROID! END OF SUBJECT! And yes I am yelling I hate cats as much as they hate me![}:)]

[RedLeader]

QUOTE: Originally posted by davekelly

Got rid of my cat problem the easy way.

The ex got all three of them from the divorce.

(Reminds me of a story. Way back when, one of my NCO's asked if he could leave work a little early because he needed to pick up a Christmas present for his son, who was 4. I asked him what he was getting him. The NCO said "a drum set." I of course said "a drum set? for a 4 year old? you've got to be kidding!!! why would you ever do something like that?" His answer? "The ex got custody." Told him to go get that present now!

LOL You're lucky your marriage ended right, other may last forever!

Anyway, loathar sorry for your loco.

[loathar]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Leon Silverman

Loather:
I put my garbage out with the trash in uncovered trash cans on the side of the house and have yet to see any evidence of them being distrubed by wild or wondering domestic animals during the five years I have lived here. We place sunflower and wild bird seed mixture seeds on our rear deck to feed the squirrels and birds that come by. Since the food is readily obtaineable on our rear deck, the animals do not bother our trash cans.

I wish I could say that. Living in the country, people have the tendancey to say-Oh,look...they live in the country.I bet they could use a free pet.(mostly cats).My garbage cans are always fair game. Got packs of semi wild dogs and hordes of cats roaming around.(not to mention coyotes). Another reason for always having a pistol close at hand.
Someone posted that the cat had good sence picking on that peice of crap. I really like that loco.Good looking, real quite,good puller and stays on track well. Really happy with the quality for $50. I plan to get two more.(Trying to steer this back to trains[^])

[Anonymous]

It sounds like leaving your train room door open to such a furry beast with legs was a CATastrophic error in judgment. You should yank out a enough furr to make a cat-weed on your layout and then call it even.[:p]

[dgwinup]

The difference between cats and dogs:

To a dog, you are the light of his life, his best friend, benevolent master and all-around good buddy.

To a cat, you're staff!

Darrell, not being catty, just quiet...for now

[Anonymous]

Back at trains...

In the 1800s there was a whole string of newspaper stories about cats getting from London to Edinburgh or Glasgow (about the longest non-stop runs) by holding onto leading truck axles or similar. Now, if you think that's daft... somewhere in the pile I've got photocopies of learned treatises printed in the "Letters" sections of "The Engineer" and "Engineering"... both cutting edge serious journals of the day... discussing the dynamics, necessary pounds per foot of grip etc. for diferent speeds and axle diameters.

At one point my late wife and I had ten adult cats and twelve kittens in our large Edwardian house... kept her entertained and NEVER messed in the house... but an excellent way of sorting out good care workers from idiots. The cats lived on cupboards each side of the kitchen door and would hurtle off the moment any stranger walked in. 22 low flying cats is a pretty good test of a "professionals" ability to deal with the realities of life.

I used to tell the checkout girls (who processed the pile of cat food) that I'd TOLD the wife not to buy a lion... some of them really did believe me... still haven't worked out whether a certain young blonde believed me or was winding me up... guess she won...

Then again, moving to dogs (to get back to trains)... story I was told years back...
[to set the scene Heysham is a small port just below the Lake District on the NW coast and used to have a ferry to/from Belfast in Ulster (as it then definitely was). The station wasn't big but had all facilities including an MPD (Motive Power depot /loco facility) because of the traffic it handled. Crewe was/is one of the major West coast route junctions and once had major works... in fact it was an entirely railway town. Night mail trains were priority over everything except Royal trains and wreck trains going to an incident... delay one more than a couple of times and you could certainly get demoted if not fired. Night mails were Class One and got the most senior drivers and the best locos (usually 4-6-0s)... if they didn't get all Green "sticks" right through anywhere they blew all the way through and out the other side... the whole town knew about it].

Okay so... story goes.

A Permanent Way (MoW) gang were getting together at Heysham for a nights track work and George didn't show up. The Ganger , Fred, asked if anyone knew what had happened. Someone thought that George's dog had died.

Fred gets John to go round to George's with him. They knock on the door and when George calls them in they go in to find George sat one side of the fireplace, his wife sat the other and the dog dead on the floor between them. Both are crying.

Fred and John say all the right things and arrange that they will take the dog away for decent disposal while George gets his wife off to bed and comes in to work so that he doesn't lose any money/get into trouble.

Fred and John return toward the P way lobby with the dog in a sack. Passing the MPD George disappears toward the Night Mail loco for a few minutes.

George comes comes into work and they all go off for the nights work.

About three in the morning they are all having a break, mug of tea, sandwiches, smoke. Everyone is a bit quiet in respect for George's loss.

After a bit George muses. "I wonder where the dog is now"?

From the back a voice says "If he's running right time he's just past Crewe".

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Big_Boy_4005

True David, any cuisine that uses strong flavors would do to disguise unusual meat selection. However, it is Eastern Asians from many countries that have a well documented propensity to consume animals which we westerners would consider taboo or disgusting. Trying desperately here not to be politically incorrect.[;)]

Not being from America, you might not get the joke "Cat, it's what's for dinner." That line is from the American Beef Council's TV ad campaign, only substitute beef for cat.

By the way, that is only a seasoning packet. You need to add the meat of your choice.

Just to be historical...
The spice trade (which probably used TRAINS of pack animals) was massively important to bring spices to Europe so that we could hide the (probably disgusting) taste of "past it's sell-by date" meat somewhere between December and Spring depending on how well the meat had been preserved at the Autumn/Fall slaughter.

"Curry" is statistically the most popular food in the UK... depite the next-day-results.
Most "IC1" English still haven't learnt that you should drink water with curry NOT lager.

I guess that the indigenous population of N America didn't need the spices where they could hunt Bison all year round. There's a book by a Canadian, Farley Moffat, about tribes living on Elk/Caribou... his description of the parasytes he found in the FRESH meat is nauseating.

We don't have a clue how much of history and how much of the modern world people have been glad just to get protein to eat.

I believe that in the Great Depression many Americans ate a lot of squirrel... I guess that if stores sold it today they'd have to label it "Caution! May contain nuts".

[Anonymous]

Regarding the slugs, have you tried crushed shells? Works on snails as the sharp edges don't go well with their undersides.

[Anonymous]

if it happened to me, and i had my BB gun, that kitty wouldnt last long. thankfully i have a black lab, too lazy to care about the mysteries on top of the table.
Gearhead426

[davekelly]

QUOTE: Originally posted by RedLeader

QUOTE: Originally posted by davekelly

Got rid of my cat problem the easy way.

The ex got all three of them from the divorce.

(Reminds me of a story. Way back when, one of my NCO's asked if he could leave work a little early because he needed to pick up a Christmas present for his son, who was 4. I asked him what he was getting him. The NCO said "a drum set." I of course said "a drum set? for a 4 year old? you've got to be kidding!!! why would you ever do something like that?" His answer? "The ex got custody." Told him to go get that present now!

LOL You're lucky your marriage ended right, other may last forever!

Anyway, loathar sorry for your loco.

Red Leader,

Wait, it gets even better. The new wife thinks me doing the model railroad thing is cool. We once went to Dallas (about 6 hours away) to visit some friends. On the way home SHE suggested we stop by a train show in Fort Worth that read about on the net. On another trip she suggested we stop by Discout Model Trains in Addison and thought it was way cool that after only an hour or so of going up and down the aisle I found some neat things to buy.

LIFE IS GOOD!!!

[Anonymous]

even though my layout is not yet done(i want to keep my door open)i plan to put up a thick layer of chicken(hm,hm good!)wire when the layout is not in use.it will be fold up,and down.but just in case one of my cats manages to get through,thatll be the end my railroad.[xx(]

[Anonymous]

cats have a way of seeing things as they really are.

i would'nt waste any time trying to fix the cat when it's obvious she is not the problem.

[loathar]

QUOTE: Originally posted by davekelly

QUOTE: Originally posted by RedLeader

QUOTE: Originally posted by davekelly

Got rid of my cat problem the easy way.

The ex got all three of them from the divorce.

(Reminds me of a story. Way back when, one of my NCO's asked if he could leave work a little early because he needed to pick up a Christmas present for his son, who was 4. I asked him what he was getting him. The NCO said "a drum set." I of course said "a drum set? for a 4 year old? you've got to be kidding!!! why would you ever do something like that?" His answer? "The ex got custody." Told him to go get that present now!

LOL You're lucky your marriage ended right, other may last forever!

Anyway, loathar sorry for your loco.

Red Leader,

Wait, it gets even better. The new wife thinks me doing the model railroad thing is cool. We once went to Dallas (about 6 hours away) to visit some friends. On the way home SHE suggested we stop by a train show in Fort Worth that read about on the net. On another trip she suggested we stop by Discout Model Trains in Addison and thought it was way cool that after only an hour or so of going up and down the aisle I found some neat things to buy.

LIFE IS GOOD!!!

You lucky, lucky dog!!! I got rid of my wife for more reasons than she thought "trains were stupid"(best move I ever made, after all, I am HAPPILY DEVORCED).Now I just need to find a good woman like you did.(she got any sisters???)
5 pages and counting[wow][wow][wow]

[Anonymous]

hey man that sucks but dont kill the kitty

[chateauricher]

QUOTE: Originally posted by David Foster
(...) There's a book by a Canadian, Farley Moffat, about tribes living on Elk/Caribou... his description of the parasytes he found in the FRESH meat is nauseating (...).

I think you mean Farley Mowat. Considering you Yanks won't let him in your country, I'm not surprised you got his name wrong. [swg]

"The highly ironic My Discovery of America (1985) speculates on the reasons he was placed in the American "lookout book" for undesirables and refused entry into the US in 1985." -- http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0005502

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by chateauricher

QUOTE: Originally posted by David Foster
(...) There's a book by a Canadian, Farley Moffat, about tribes living on Elk/Caribou... his description of the parasytes he found in the FRESH meat is nauseating (...).

I think you mean Farley Mowat. Considering you Yanks won't let him in your country, I'm not surprised you got his name wrong. [swg]

"The highly ironic My Discovery of America (1985) speculates on the reasons he was placed in the American "lookout book" for undesirables and refused entry into the US in 1985." -- http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0005502

[(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]

I'm pretty sure it says Moffat on the spine and title page... 'cos my pronunciation was corrected by a Canadian in a 2nd hand bookstore in Cornwall... ENGLAND ... as in UK... check out my other coloUrful spellings.

We seem to have thread drift here!

Have you read "Black Dog"?... I think it has a sequel... would you know?


Have a nice day now![8D]

[dgwinup]

Drifting thread? What the heck happened to the cat? What time is dinner? LOL

Darrell, quiet...for now

[Anonymous]

What happened to the train shed door? Has it been fixed yet?

[davekelly]

Who's on first?

[sleeper33]

I once had a cat that would sit in a cutting and let the trains run through his legs
and then bat it off the track!
like i said HAD A CAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!