Comments on: Down The Tubes

By: Shelly Kneupper Tucker

Shelly Kneupper Tucker — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:47:37 +0000

Let’s hope my cats don’t decide to chew through the flexible tubing! Knock wood, we haven’t had a problem with mice or rats. We have feral cats in the neighborhood who dine on the rodents… and coyotes who dine on the rodents and feral cats. You would think that eating the tube would have killed that rat

By: Joy

Joy — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:30:49 +0000

Sounds like the price we pay for living in the Technological Age. Cat Lover but not a writer of Cat Stories (you have to be there). Not a cat story, or even a pet story, but an Animal with Flexible Tube story.

New washing machine still under warranty. One day, water everywhere. Repair Man showed me the flexible water tube connecting the washer to the waterline that had been chewed away. Devoured, more like it, fully 50% of the tube had disappeared. What the . . .? A rat, he said. They go after the water source, and he’d seen this kind of damage in city centers – home to lots of large, hungry vermin – but never in the suburbs. Replacement tube installed.

Called the Pest Control Man who confirmed Repair Man’s diagnosis. I gasped at the cost of his Rat Riddance Treatment. He suggested that I put down a pack of rat poison from the hardware store. Done. No further problem. Days later, the same Pest Control truck seen parked outside my neighbor’s house as pest sought new, more vermin-friendly residence. She wasn’t as smart, however. She paid Pest Control Man for the expensive Rat Riddance Treatment. Same result.
.-= Joy´s last blog ..YET ANOTHER SALAD UPDATE =-.

By: Shelly Kneupper Tucker

Shelly Kneupper Tucker — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:16:16 +0000

Is it hormones? I can relate to that.

You tell me you have 9 kittens, and my first thought is, “Awwwwww! I want one!”

Fortunately, sanity prevails — and you live far away .

By: Shelly Kneupper Tucker

Shelly Kneupper Tucker — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:12:15 +0000

Bwahaha! You are in denial Every cat that I have ever seen is neurotic … but then, maybe my definition of “neurotic” is equal to your definition of “quirky?”

By: Shelly Kneupper Tucker

Shelly Kneupper Tucker — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:10:15 +0000

Blackadder would lose his mind at our house! Mr. Tucker pulls out the electric guitar at night so that all the cats will clear the bed. They run to hide … guess they don’t like rock and roll.

Why, I wonder, does he bite when you talk on the phone? Is it one of those “love nips,” where he is trying to get attention?

By: Shelly Kneupper Tucker

Shelly Kneupper Tucker — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:05:07 +0000

Yes, and I still have two to wrap! So far haven’t noticed lamp cords and things getting chomped.
Muffin sounds a bit like two of my cats. I brought them home together, and I guess they got excited about being held. Both will weave between your legs begging for attention … as long as you don’t pick them up!
Wasn’t it Mini that did the climbing?

By: Shelly Kneupper Tucker

Shelly Kneupper Tucker — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:02:44 +0000

Awww. You made my day.