Am I the only one here that hates cats? They piss on your stuff, shit in your vegetable patch, scratch up the furniture and leave hair all over everything. Plus fleas. I don't want fleas or piss in my Tek kit ![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
My neighbours cat has a black dot on it and as far as I'm concerned that's a target for the rocks I sling at it ![Smiley :)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
Some people and cats just don't get along, that is understandable.
Hardcore Dog People can't stand Cats because they will do whatever the hell they want.
I'm kind of a Cat Whisperer I understand them and can usually get them to behave, except for the most damaged among them.... Same with people the damaged ones don't play well with anybody.
The thing with my cat and the Weller soldering cord, I was always hoping she would find the 24VAC in the cord. I figure once she found it she would leave it alone...
Sometime before I moved to Texas she did find the 24VAC and left it alone.
The thing with cats is they understand force, they also will accept options.
I have a powder blue chair my cat clawed once....
After she realized I didn't want her clawing that chair, I offered her a cardboard box, and showed her what to do while making happy noises, she got the message.
Cleaning up scraps of cardboard is more desirable to the alternative.
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Even after four months short of ten years I still miss her a lot.
We always knew what the other was doing and how we felt.
According to my roommates she would get up on my chair that sat next to the window right around a half hour before I would walk in the door and wait for me.
When I walked through the door she gave me that "Oh it's YOU look" and say hi....
My work schedule was such that I never came home at the same time every day.
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Okay enough with that....
The Bristol wrenches arrived today.. The ones I needed to take the knobs off the 8569 front panel I have to rebuild.