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From: todd@uop.edu (Dr. Nethack)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: pussy whipped
Summary: cat-stration
Message-ID: <1510@uop.edu>
Date: 29 May 88 15:19:05 GMT
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In article <10117@sol.ARPA>, ray@cs.rochester.edu (Ray Frank) writes:

> Please, any useful suggestions may save my cat's life. 8-)

Have him fixed, and close the door to the workroom.
Also, pick up your tools when you are done!!
Cat spray can be mighty corrosive!
(and it smells so wonderful too)  ;-)

Failing that, a piece of window screen on the top of the table would
(if wired up) give your cat a jolt.  Another trick is to put something
akin to punji sticks on top of the counter.. not too easy to get a
good grip on.. cat jumps down.

This is behavioral though for males, did you just get another cat?
Maybe a neighbor?  He feels threatened, bored, claustrophobic, and
is simply staking out his territory.

Beating the sh*t out of your cat will only further his nervous behavior.
So you might figure out what new thing has been added to his realm,
that causes him to do this.

Failing that, get a pit bull, and put him in the basement when you go
to work.. that should do it.

Or come to think of it, maybe if you have a tape of a doggie barking,
it would scare your cat off the bench.. provided it was LOUD and went
off when he jumps up..

I can see it now.. wife comes down, throws mail on table...

;-)

           "Not all men are stupid, some are still single" 
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