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From: karen@randvax.UUCP (Karen Isaacson)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: cats and balconies
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 10:53:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  9 10:53:09 1985
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Just another cats + balcony anecdote.  When our cats were young (less
than one year old) we lived in an apartment with a balcony.  The
balcony was their idea of heaven.  If we didn't let them out there,
they would remove the screens (and once even a window - sort of a
louvered pane of glass that could be slid out of its frame) to be out
there.  One of them wasn't much of a problem.  He'd sit on the (wide)
ledge and watch the world, glare at the birds, and then descend to the
balcony to kill a threatening leaf.  But the other...  Orville has
fantasies that he can fly.  Or maybe they aren't fantasies.  He would
sit on the ledge for ten minutes studying the neighbor's ledge.  You
could see him thinking.  And then suddenly, zoom, no cat.  Our neighbors
were amused the first time he stopped by (they kept the door to their
balcony open for ventilation) and plopped down with them to watch TV,
but the charm wore off rapidly.  We fenced the ledge facing their ledge,
but he managed some ricochet shots off a tree.  So we finally had to
revoke his balcony privileges.  Talk about mad!

Later, we bought a house.  The houses in our development were at least
eight feet apart.  But he would climb our stucco so that he could jump
from roof to roof throughout the neighborhood.  Can't imagine our neighbors
were very thrilled, but at least no one complained...
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		Karen Isaacson
		decvax!randvax!karen
		karen@rand-unix.arpa


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