cats

[stx44]

sometimes he can make it very hard to finish my models.....

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[davidchoate]

I once had a cat when I was in highschool, and when I would try tio do my homework he would lay ontop of the book I was reading.

[kittyfritters]

I once had a cat when I was in highschool, and when I would try tio do my homework he would lay ontop of the book I was reading.

Cats can't read and they don't want you to either.

Howard

[kittyfritters]

sometimes he can make it very hard to finish my models.....

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My cat, Schrodinger, is an invaluable assistant.

He assists with computer aided design,



does research with me,



supervises detail design,



and inspects parts.



Sometimes, I just don't know what I would do without him.

Howard

[stx44]

So it appears Ive been mis interpreting CAD. It actually stands for Cat Assisted Design?

[zoomie]

So it appears Ive been mis interpreting CAD. It actually stands for Cat Assisted Design?

HAHAHA! Good one, stx44! .

Pet cats often like some attention from their humans. They observe and know that to get attention, all they have to do is plop themselves down in the middle of the humans favorite space. It's like they're asking you to take a break from the modelling stuff and spend a little time with them instead.

I used to have an older cat that did this. All I had to do was talk baby-talk to her, give her a nice massage behind the ears for a minute or two and she would usually be happy and remove herself. If that strategy didn't do it, I found that opening a can of tuna-based cat food would work every time .


zoomie

[zoomie]

Patches looks right at home on that table .

David, do you ever have issues with cat hairs getting into fresh paint?

Also, have you ever accidentally used your coffee cup as a wash water container (easy to do, ask me how I know ) ?


zoomie

[slopemeno]

Back when my wife and I were first living together she had a cat "Honey" who really liked coffee. Leave a half full paper cup of coffee around? Honey-the-Cat would knock it over and then drink the contents.

[zoomie]

Regular or decaf? .

Bet the coffee had cream in it, that's prolly what Honey was going for.


zoomie

[stx44]

Preston (my feller at the top) loves tea. But only my wifes! She has milk and sugar, I have black, no sugar.

Apparently mines horrible, and hers is great!

[davidchoate]

I t6hink a dog would use a model for a chewtoy. Unless it was very old and relaxed; I can't see a dog being interesred in building models like cats are. cats just have the perfect attitude. They are intrinsically geared for it.

[SteveM]

My wife is allergic to cats so my childhood dream of having 100 cats will probably never be realized.

No more cat talk!



Just gerbils from this point onward.

[Steve Blanchard]

My cats destroy all that I build. They are no longer allowed into my workshop. Neither are my dogs, a 120lb Cane Corso (Italian Mastif) and a 70lb pit mix. They eat logs so I know the planes wouldn't make it very far in their grasp. When I transport my planes to my car from my workshop for a contest, I have to do it in stages and very carefully so not to attract too much attention. My dogs are very good and will not try anything stupid. My cats on the other hand, I can't say the same. I love them all but I don't want to give them the opportunity change that.

By the way I have to move my fly tying gear into my workshop as well as the cats LOVE feathers and fur as well as tying thread. They are troublesome animals.

Steve

[ADW 123]

Kittyfritters, your cat as named Schrodinger... as in Schrodinger's equation that we use for AP Chem? Just curious if there was a connection

[kittyfritters]

Kittyfritters, your cat as named Schrodinger... as in Schrodinger's equation that we use for AP Chem? Just curious if there was a connection

Absolutely! When Erwin Schrodinger first published his equations, in 1935, to illustrate the paradox of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory when applied to everyday objects, he included the cat-in-the-box thought problem that has been famously, or infamously according to your bent, known ever since as "Schrodinger's Cat".

When we found a week old kitten, abandoned in our back yard, (Screeching like crazy....he had a great pair of lungs.) we took him inside and I ran to Petco for a kitten bottle and formula. Since kittens that small have trouble keeping warm, that night, my wife placed a plastic filing box alongside the bed, put a heating pad into the bottom, turned it to low, put a folded bath towel on top of it, put the kitten in the box and put a dish towel over the top to keep the heat in. Every hour, or so, through the night my wife would awake and check the box to make sure that the kitten was still alive and not too hot. In the morning, after a night like that, what else could we name him?

Today, five years later, he weighs 16 pounds and acts as though he rules the house.