For the second or third time since beginning to work with my new stash of beads, I knocked against the table which caused a gazillion and three mostly seed beads to fall on the floor. Is there a bead picker up gizmo that'll grab the beads but not harm the berber carpet?
I have a small glass tray, with some velvet in the bottom, into which I put a moderate amount of beads at a time. It seems inevitable that from time to time, beads are going to get scattered.
There is a little gizmo called a bead grabber that one can put on the finger and it has a rubber insert in it, rather like old fashioned 'fingers' clerks used to use when counting wads of money. They are efficient at first but soon lose their grabbing ability.
With 2 cats, who like to 'help' me, I have learned to pour out a small number of beads at one time, and then close the container. I also work on top of an old baby quilt, so the beads don't roll as far. Then I scoop them up with a coffee spoon.
Dora
Jeanine3 said
Eureka! That worked great!!! Thanks much!!!
Funny that - my old guy, 14 on the 21st. - still knows when I have beads out. I begin to wonder what they are made of - my vet told me the lure of plastic grocery bags is that soft plastic contains bone meal in it.
bungadora said
I must confess that I exaggerated alot when I said a gazillion beads. I had really poured a small selection of many of the colors into divided boxes and those are what fell to the floor, not whole tubes.
Even though the nylon over the nozzle technique worked, I might put a piece of leftover vinyl flooring under my work area which I think might make seeing the fallen beads easier if a similar 'disaster' occurs in the future.
Ah, thanks, Lucretia: FINALLY an explanation of why one of my cats(about 14 years old) has always chewed on plastic shopping bags, ziplock bags, soda-can shrink wrap. . . .hardly anything in soft plastic is safe from her(at least, the plastic isn't.) Same cat also loves to shred cardboard and magazines---and she's starting to teach the 9-month old kitten that trick! Arrgh...
-- Carey (my, what a wealth of knowledge there is in this group...)
Thin material (tights or something?) over the nozzle of a vacuum cleaner.
Pat P
It's their super tasting and smelling I guess. I asked because like you, I could not figure this love of grocery bags and particularly plastic blinds. In my house, with wide windowsills, I had more plastic blinds with cat dental imprints than I care to remember lol
Sheena
Translate that for NA as pantyhose lol
Beads are small, they roll, you're paying attention to them. I'm convinced my cats use beads to make me give them whatever they want so the cats will leave me alone.
Dora
What cleans wine off the monitor easily ???
A damp towel. I didn't suppose you'd want to lick it off! Cheryl
Just be grateful it isn`t a "WOOL EATER". One of my Siamese was one of those - only she didn`t confine herself to wool - nylon, cotton, was all the same to her. Sweaters, socks, were all grist to her mill. I remember her eating one of our son`s red and white (nylon!) football socks, and the startling sight that appeared in the litter tray the next day! Large red and white striped "whoopsies!"
Pat P
OMG!! Spewwww>>>
(I do hope kitty wasn't injured by her exotic diet; friend of mine had a cat that had to be taken to the vet for surgery after eating something like string or rubber band. I usually do a fast search-and-grab if I hear chewing and can't identify the item by sound. I just yell for plastic bags, for all the good it does.)
-- Carey
I remember a dog years ago who ate a great many of the metal icicles hanging on the Christmas tree while his owners were out. He had to have his stomach and bowel checked out as it was capable of cutting. Very expensive trip to the vet and they had to put up with all sorts of jokes for years from us, their friends lol
Sounds like my youngest dog would be right at home with your cats, Carey! Came home yesterday morning after dropping my youngest DD at her ride to school, gone maybe 5-6 minutes at the most and the dog (who's a year old now) had chewed the end of the remote control for my tv in the kitchen. And you'd think with 4 tvs in the house, another remote would work but noooo! Oh, well...not much on during the day anyway! I'll throw in a movie and get some stitching done!
Donna in Southern Indiana
Ahh, pets: gotta love 'em.
-- Carey
No - kitty ( named Kittyhawk Aemelia, or "Amy" for short) was eventually found a new home, as I bred Siamese and she never managed to have kittens that survived. The next day I had a phone-call from her new owner, who had gone downstairs and found her birdcage mysteriously open, no canaries in sight and Amy sitting there with a "What - ME???" look on her face - somewhat spoiled within half an hour by her sicking up three pairs of canary feet and three beaks!!! She went on to have a long and happy life.
Pat P
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