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I want to KILL my cat!!!

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Posted by loathar on Monday, October 17, 2005 11:12 AM
I've got a pad lock latch on it but don't normally set it. The doors are really heavy and their weight usually keeps them shut. It must have been a pretty good wind to blow them open. I thought vandells at first, but I lve in the middle of no where with no neibors.
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Posted by jfugate on Monday, October 17, 2005 11:09 AM
I like cats ...

... they taste just like chicken. [:-,]

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Posted by rolleiman on Monday, October 17, 2005 11:07 AM
That cat would have quietly disappeared... Here kitty kitty [}:)]

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Posted by joeyegarner on Monday, October 17, 2005 11:05 AM
Hi lothar. I had this hapent to me several times years ago, I have my RR out back om a se[erate building and the cat started chasing birds and other critters there WOW!! Talk about a mess!! He eventualy moved away and the problems went with him. But they sure can make a mess. sorry hop you can recover.
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Posted by Train 284 on Monday, October 17, 2005 11:04 AM
Man that sucks!
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 17, 2005 11:02 AM
Ever thought of putting a spring closer on the door?

Better still use a pulley with a rail bar or piece of rail as a weight to pull the door shut... and another lump of rail to hold it open... paint it bright so you can see what you tripped over.

Blaming the cat is like blaming your computer... at least it was the cat not vandals or thieves.
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Posted by oleirish on Monday, October 17, 2005 10:50 AM
I guess I'am lucky my old cat don't seem to bother my lay out,I've seen her walk all over it and not touth any thing.[^]
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I want to KILL my cat!!!
Posted by loathar on Monday, October 17, 2005 10:43 AM
We must have had a big wind blow up the other night and I must not have latched my train building door all the way. Woke up in the morning to see the door blown open all the way. No big deal, right? WRONG!!! I walked in to see most of my rolling stock laying on it's side all over the layout. Locos ALL knocked over, buildings moved out of place, and to my horror, my brand new Spectrum Dash8 laying on the cement floor with several of it's parts scattered about. Trying to figure out what happened, I looked at my tunnel portal to see my cat sleeping inside the mountain on top of two trains she had knocked over.AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kitty got her first flying lesson! Had my pistol right there. REALLY wanted to shoot her but I didn't.
She is permantly banished from the train room.
Couldn't have picked on one of my crappy Tyco or LL locos.HAD to be the new Dash 8!!! All in all it took the fall pretty well. All the parts popped right back on. It hit right on the rear light. Dinged the paint pretty bad, put a little crack in the dynamic break houseing and the light doesn't work anymore.
I should have shot her![xx(][xx(][xx(][:(!][:(!][:(!]

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