Sewing room wreckage

You trained your cat? Is he secretly a dog?

;) Trish

The cat is an important factor in all sewing and sewing room projects... NOTHING is complete without cat fluff!

No - I trained mine too! I'm on the second pair that sit for food: no bums on floor = no dinner! I got tired of them pulling the dish out of my hands as I tried to put it down, and ending up with kitty dinner between my toes!

I cured the jumping on us at unholy hours trick: combination of cat flap to outside world, and closed doors with access to stairwell...

No - good owner: hissing is what mama cat would do, and spraying them with water does them no harm! I have been known to bat mine on the nose with a finger, like mama cat would, if they are particularly naughty, like biting my feet while I'm trying to sort out their dinner!

Make her a shiny attractive cushion/quilt of her own!

Ours prefer to drink out of the old saucer that used to have a plant on it, the rain butt, the sink, the drip from the bath tap, or the green slime in the ancient bucket by the back door... There is NO cure for this! Failing all these places of well matured water, next door's fish pond is nicely seasoned with goldfish...

Grab by the scruff of the neck - but wear chain mail gloves! You can see my two at work if you hit the URL below...

Kate posted:

Went to your website, Kate. Besides the awsome sewing, you cats are adorable! I wish my cats would curl up together...their favorite greeting to each other is a hiss and growl.

Cindy in WV, where it's unseasonable warm and lovely

Hi Kate,

You missed one important source of cat drinking water - the toilet bowl! It is so funny to see a cat suspending itself head down by the back paws in order to reach the water. Amazingly I've not had a wet cat yet.

Lizzy

Hehehehehe! The present two haven't done that yet!

One of mine prefers the bath, and he did actually come a cropper the day before yesterday. Strangely, this didn't appear to bother him and he just licked himself dry. Weird critter.

I have another one that will only drink from the running tap in the kitchen...

;) Trish

OH! Don't talk cats in the bathroom! I'll have to sue you for psychological stress. DSs GF's bathroom (twa-lay to you uro-peons) serves as the den for a pissed-off, over-sized, fanged and toothed semi-feral cat, a fact which I discovered when I went tearing in, dropped my drawers and sat, only to hear what sounded like a steam valve under great pressure under my arse. Talk about performance anxiety!!! Cea

LOLOLOLOL Kate!!!!!

Bum deal, huh?

CEA!!!!!........where was the spew alert on that post?! It's a good job I had just swallowed a mouthful of coffee prior to clicking on it! Thanks for the belly-laugh of the day, puts a whole new mental image on the phrase 'scaring the s%!& out of you'!!!!!

Larry

Small cat? Large bowl? My step-daughter had the experience of sitting, minding her own business, with her infant son on her lap, when a sewer rat came up the pipe

-- in Seattle, where the old pipes are actually made of redwood. She leaped up, slammed the lid shut, and piled heavy stuff on top of it, and began apartment hunting.

Re: OT: cat shenanigans, was Sewing room wreckage (Pogonip)

YEKK! This has not happened to me, though I WAS there when a friend of mine opened her kitchen drawer to find a rat sitting in it! Levitation is NOT a myth!

Hi all, I'm new here but I know SewStorm (Karen) from AOL. I just have to tell you that kitties are not the only terrors in the sewing room. My female Bichon Frise attempts to grab anything that is resting on my sewing table - she loves to chew up entire spools of embrodiery thread!!! And then the male thinks he should sit in my sewing chair even when I'm working - he moans and groans at me. When I'm cutting material, both of them lay on the fabric if it hangs on the floor. I'm thinking that Bichons are part cat since they like to walk on table tops or anywhere else they can jump up to.

Looking forward to learning lots from this list.

Ronni in Sun City West, AZ