So tired...can't think...must stay awake...damn that cat
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It's 8pm here and I'm fighting to stay away until at least another hour. Stella (the cat) woke us up again at 5am this time with a mouse loose in the bedroom. Yesterday she just wanted us to get up for some reason and started romping around on the bed. I'm half asleep this morning and keep hearing these sounds like someone's breaking into the house, crashing and banging and realize the cat has brought us a present and is chasing this mouse all around the bedroom. The cat door seemed like a good idea a year ago but now... We live in the country on a couple of acres of land and get all sorts of odd things being brought to or into the house by the cats. One of the cats at least likes to actually kill and eat whatever she catches, she goes for brains for some reason, we often find dead mice with half their had chewed off. The funny part is that Stella felt so bad after we gave her all kinds of hell at 5am this morning that she promptly went out later on and brought a bird into the house as a consolation gift. It started flying around and she was jumping around like a lunatic trying to catch it...about 10% funny and 90% aggravating. Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time. I don't know how people put up with that noise. Anyway the bedroom door will be firmly closed tonight; if I don't stay away long enough I'm going to wake up early again and that would truly suck. I wake up after 7 or 8 hours like clock work no matter when I actually fall asleep. I think I'll crack another beer see what's on tv. Cheers!
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It's 8pm here and I'm fighting to stay away until at least another hour. Stella (the cat) woke us up again at 5am this time with a mouse loose in the bedroom. Yesterday she just wanted us to get up for some reason and started romping around on the bed. I'm half asleep this morning and keep hearing these sounds like someone's breaking into the house, crashing and banging and realize the cat has brought us a present and is chasing this mouse all around the bedroom. The cat door seemed like a good idea a year ago but now... We live in the country on a couple of acres of land and get all sorts of odd things being brought to or into the house by the cats. One of the cats at least likes to actually kill and eat whatever she catches, she goes for brains for some reason, we often find dead mice with half their had chewed off. The funny part is that Stella felt so bad after we gave her all kinds of hell at 5am this morning that she promptly went out later on and brought a bird into the house as a consolation gift. It started flying around and she was jumping around like a lunatic trying to catch it...about 10% funny and 90% aggravating. Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time. I don't know how people put up with that noise. Anyway the bedroom door will be firmly closed tonight; if I don't stay away long enough I'm going to wake up early again and that would truly suck. I wake up after 7 or 8 hours like clock work no matter when I actually fall asleep. I think I'll crack another beer see what's on tv. Cheers!
So nice to read :).
John Cardinal wrote:
Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time. I don't know how people put up with that noise.
Yeah.. at the begining that's a difficult job indeed. When I was a kid I used to bring home lot of pups (one at a time), I get permission from my parents after a looooong debate over the "induction" of the new little member. But as the night falls, they(the pups ofcourse) start shouting for no reason. And after everybody goes to sleep, it really becomes an issue . I keep saying this from my room, "shutttt your mouth up or you are gonna loose your job :|". and you know 99% of them lost their job after few days of trial. :(
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It's 8pm here and I'm fighting to stay away until at least another hour. Stella (the cat) woke us up again at 5am this time with a mouse loose in the bedroom. Yesterday she just wanted us to get up for some reason and started romping around on the bed. I'm half asleep this morning and keep hearing these sounds like someone's breaking into the house, crashing and banging and realize the cat has brought us a present and is chasing this mouse all around the bedroom. The cat door seemed like a good idea a year ago but now... We live in the country on a couple of acres of land and get all sorts of odd things being brought to or into the house by the cats. One of the cats at least likes to actually kill and eat whatever she catches, she goes for brains for some reason, we often find dead mice with half their had chewed off. The funny part is that Stella felt so bad after we gave her all kinds of hell at 5am this morning that she promptly went out later on and brought a bird into the house as a consolation gift. It started flying around and she was jumping around like a lunatic trying to catch it...about 10% funny and 90% aggravating. Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time. I don't know how people put up with that noise. Anyway the bedroom door will be firmly closed tonight; if I don't stay away long enough I'm going to wake up early again and that would truly suck. I wake up after 7 or 8 hours like clock work no matter when I actually fall asleep. I think I'll crack another beer see what's on tv. Cheers!
You should try waking up to the sight of a bat fluttering around over your bed in the middle of the night :omg: The cats doing nothing but watching it (they are totally indoor cats and would not know what to do with anything alive if it came right over and landed on them) and the wife flipped out. left me to TRY to catch the damn thing and get it out of the house. I actually found one recently inside of a window fan for my office. I though it was dead. I was taking the fan out of the window and saw it in there all stiff looking so I started to take the fan apart, thinking that it wiggled its way in and got stuck and died. Big surprise when it started to move around while I was removing a few screws. I did not know that bats had that 'play dead' thing going on.
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It's 8pm here and I'm fighting to stay away until at least another hour. Stella (the cat) woke us up again at 5am this time with a mouse loose in the bedroom. Yesterday she just wanted us to get up for some reason and started romping around on the bed. I'm half asleep this morning and keep hearing these sounds like someone's breaking into the house, crashing and banging and realize the cat has brought us a present and is chasing this mouse all around the bedroom. The cat door seemed like a good idea a year ago but now... We live in the country on a couple of acres of land and get all sorts of odd things being brought to or into the house by the cats. One of the cats at least likes to actually kill and eat whatever she catches, she goes for brains for some reason, we often find dead mice with half their had chewed off. The funny part is that Stella felt so bad after we gave her all kinds of hell at 5am this morning that she promptly went out later on and brought a bird into the house as a consolation gift. It started flying around and she was jumping around like a lunatic trying to catch it...about 10% funny and 90% aggravating. Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time. I don't know how people put up with that noise. Anyway the bedroom door will be firmly closed tonight; if I don't stay away long enough I'm going to wake up early again and that would truly suck. I wake up after 7 or 8 hours like clock work no matter when I actually fall asleep. I think I'll crack another beer see what's on tv. Cheers!
John Cardinal wrote:
the way they bark all the time.
Dogs don't bark all the time if you train them right. There are just way to many people that think chaining a dog to a coop all day is ok. I've got a neighbor that does this and I'd love to kick his ass for doing so.
Found on Bash.org [erno] hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
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You should try waking up to the sight of a bat fluttering around over your bed in the middle of the night :omg: The cats doing nothing but watching it (they are totally indoor cats and would not know what to do with anything alive if it came right over and landed on them) and the wife flipped out. left me to TRY to catch the damn thing and get it out of the house. I actually found one recently inside of a window fan for my office. I though it was dead. I was taking the fan out of the window and saw it in there all stiff looking so I started to take the fan apart, thinking that it wiggled its way in and got stuck and died. Big surprise when it started to move around while I was removing a few screws. I did not know that bats had that 'play dead' thing going on.
You are very lucky that bat did not have rabies! If you find yourself in such a situation again, you should call animal control and have them deal with it. It's not worth catching rabies.
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You should try waking up to the sight of a bat fluttering around over your bed in the middle of the night :omg: The cats doing nothing but watching it (they are totally indoor cats and would not know what to do with anything alive if it came right over and landed on them) and the wife flipped out. left me to TRY to catch the damn thing and get it out of the house. I actually found one recently inside of a window fan for my office. I though it was dead. I was taking the fan out of the window and saw it in there all stiff looking so I started to take the fan apart, thinking that it wiggled its way in and got stuck and died. Big surprise when it started to move around while I was removing a few screws. I did not know that bats had that 'play dead' thing going on.
Ray Cassick wrote:
Big surprise when it started to move around while I was removing a few screws. I did not know that bats had that 'play dead' thing going on.
:omg: I've had a few close calls in the yard with them radar guided varmits :laugh:
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You are very lucky that bat did not have rabies! If you find yourself in such a situation again, you should call animal control and have them deal with it. It's not worth catching rabies.
With the way we treat animals, I'd say the bat feels lucky too that it ran into a human with no rabies.
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It's 8pm here and I'm fighting to stay away until at least another hour. Stella (the cat) woke us up again at 5am this time with a mouse loose in the bedroom. Yesterday she just wanted us to get up for some reason and started romping around on the bed. I'm half asleep this morning and keep hearing these sounds like someone's breaking into the house, crashing and banging and realize the cat has brought us a present and is chasing this mouse all around the bedroom. The cat door seemed like a good idea a year ago but now... We live in the country on a couple of acres of land and get all sorts of odd things being brought to or into the house by the cats. One of the cats at least likes to actually kill and eat whatever she catches, she goes for brains for some reason, we often find dead mice with half their had chewed off. The funny part is that Stella felt so bad after we gave her all kinds of hell at 5am this morning that she promptly went out later on and brought a bird into the house as a consolation gift. It started flying around and she was jumping around like a lunatic trying to catch it...about 10% funny and 90% aggravating. Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time. I don't know how people put up with that noise. Anyway the bedroom door will be firmly closed tonight; if I don't stay away long enough I'm going to wake up early again and that would truly suck. I wake up after 7 or 8 hours like clock work no matter when I actually fall asleep. I think I'll crack another beer see what's on tv. Cheers!
I've made a live choice: I rather tumble down the stairs to let the cat in at 5 a.m. than deal with half-eaten mice, head-eaten mice and the occasional everything-except-nosetip-eaten mice.
John Cardinal wrote:
Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time. I don't know how people put up with that noise.
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You should try waking up to the sight of a bat fluttering around over your bed in the middle of the night :omg: The cats doing nothing but watching it (they are totally indoor cats and would not know what to do with anything alive if it came right over and landed on them) and the wife flipped out. left me to TRY to catch the damn thing and get it out of the house. I actually found one recently inside of a window fan for my office. I though it was dead. I was taking the fan out of the window and saw it in there all stiff looking so I started to take the fan apart, thinking that it wiggled its way in and got stuck and died. Big surprise when it started to move around while I was removing a few screws. I did not know that bats had that 'play dead' thing going on.
Stif bat in a fan? She was probably on a dare...
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It's 8pm here and I'm fighting to stay away until at least another hour. Stella (the cat) woke us up again at 5am this time with a mouse loose in the bedroom. Yesterday she just wanted us to get up for some reason and started romping around on the bed. I'm half asleep this morning and keep hearing these sounds like someone's breaking into the house, crashing and banging and realize the cat has brought us a present and is chasing this mouse all around the bedroom. The cat door seemed like a good idea a year ago but now... We live in the country on a couple of acres of land and get all sorts of odd things being brought to or into the house by the cats. One of the cats at least likes to actually kill and eat whatever she catches, she goes for brains for some reason, we often find dead mice with half their had chewed off. The funny part is that Stella felt so bad after we gave her all kinds of hell at 5am this morning that she promptly went out later on and brought a bird into the house as a consolation gift. It started flying around and she was jumping around like a lunatic trying to catch it...about 10% funny and 90% aggravating. Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time. I don't know how people put up with that noise. Anyway the bedroom door will be firmly closed tonight; if I don't stay away long enough I'm going to wake up early again and that would truly suck. I wake up after 7 or 8 hours like clock work no matter when I actually fall asleep. I think I'll crack another beer see what's on tv. Cheers!
John Cardinal wrote:
Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time.
Agreed. I hate dogs. It's more than the barking though. It's the jumping at you. The endless running around being a pain in the you-know-what. The digging holes, doing their business wherever and whenever they like. IF dogs can be trained not to do this (and I highly doubt it), I've never seen one trained well enough.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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John Cardinal wrote:
Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time.
Agreed. I hate dogs. It's more than the barking though. It's the jumping at you. The endless running around being a pain in the you-know-what. The digging holes, doing their business wherever and whenever they like. IF dogs can be trained not to do this (and I highly doubt it), I've never seen one trained well enough.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Ryan Binns wrote:
I hate dogs.
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Ryan Binns wrote:
It's more than the barking though. It's the jumping at you. The endless running around being a pain in the you-know-what. The digging holes, doing their business wherever and whenever they like.
These are the things I admire with them! But you know, I love cats too. Or I can simply say CAnimals. :-D
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It's 8pm here and I'm fighting to stay away until at least another hour. Stella (the cat) woke us up again at 5am this time with a mouse loose in the bedroom. Yesterday she just wanted us to get up for some reason and started romping around on the bed. I'm half asleep this morning and keep hearing these sounds like someone's breaking into the house, crashing and banging and realize the cat has brought us a present and is chasing this mouse all around the bedroom. The cat door seemed like a good idea a year ago but now... We live in the country on a couple of acres of land and get all sorts of odd things being brought to or into the house by the cats. One of the cats at least likes to actually kill and eat whatever she catches, she goes for brains for some reason, we often find dead mice with half their had chewed off. The funny part is that Stella felt so bad after we gave her all kinds of hell at 5am this morning that she promptly went out later on and brought a bird into the house as a consolation gift. It started flying around and she was jumping around like a lunatic trying to catch it...about 10% funny and 90% aggravating. Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time. I don't know how people put up with that noise. Anyway the bedroom door will be firmly closed tonight; if I don't stay away long enough I'm going to wake up early again and that would truly suck. I wake up after 7 or 8 hours like clock work no matter when I actually fall asleep. I think I'll crack another beer see what's on tv. Cheers!
We had a cat drag a half eaten snake all over our house. It left a trail of snake parts and blood and other fluids. Nasty stuff, the stink was overwhelming. I actually dunked a piece of cloth in eucalyptus oil and tied it around my nose while cleaning up the snake. It wasnt even our cat.
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It's 8pm here and I'm fighting to stay away until at least another hour. Stella (the cat) woke us up again at 5am this time with a mouse loose in the bedroom. Yesterday she just wanted us to get up for some reason and started romping around on the bed. I'm half asleep this morning and keep hearing these sounds like someone's breaking into the house, crashing and banging and realize the cat has brought us a present and is chasing this mouse all around the bedroom. The cat door seemed like a good idea a year ago but now... We live in the country on a couple of acres of land and get all sorts of odd things being brought to or into the house by the cats. One of the cats at least likes to actually kill and eat whatever she catches, she goes for brains for some reason, we often find dead mice with half their had chewed off. The funny part is that Stella felt so bad after we gave her all kinds of hell at 5am this morning that she promptly went out later on and brought a bird into the house as a consolation gift. It started flying around and she was jumping around like a lunatic trying to catch it...about 10% funny and 90% aggravating. Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time. I don't know how people put up with that noise. Anyway the bedroom door will be firmly closed tonight; if I don't stay away long enough I'm going to wake up early again and that would truly suck. I wake up after 7 or 8 hours like clock work no matter when I actually fall asleep. I think I'll crack another beer see what's on tv. Cheers!
At least you have a cat to blame. I woke up at 4:00 this morning, apparently for no other reason than the fact that my body thinks 3 1/2 hours is all the sleep that any normal human being should require... Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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We had a cat drag a half eaten snake all over our house. It left a trail of snake parts and blood and other fluids. Nasty stuff, the stink was overwhelming. I actually dunked a piece of cloth in eucalyptus oil and tied it around my nose while cleaning up the snake. It wasnt even our cat.
Vivek Rajan wrote:
It wasnt even our cat.
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You should try waking up to the sight of a bat fluttering around over your bed in the middle of the night :omg: The cats doing nothing but watching it (they are totally indoor cats and would not know what to do with anything alive if it came right over and landed on them) and the wife flipped out. left me to TRY to catch the damn thing and get it out of the house. I actually found one recently inside of a window fan for my office. I though it was dead. I was taking the fan out of the window and saw it in there all stiff looking so I started to take the fan apart, thinking that it wiggled its way in and got stuck and died. Big surprise when it started to move around while I was removing a few screws. I did not know that bats had that 'play dead' thing going on.
Welcome to the club. I bought a 130 year old house three years ago. The first summer, we had one bat get in, at 2:00 a.m. I finally killed it. The next summer, we had five get in over a month. I eventually developed a 'catch-and-release' method. Since then, I've got the house pretty well bat-proofed (hopefully). I don't know about your area of the world, but in mine the animal control people are not allowed to deal with bats by law :wtf:. Exterminators are not allowed to kill them. The only (legal) recourse you have is to wait until they leave at night, and then cover up their access points.
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It's 8pm here and I'm fighting to stay away until at least another hour. Stella (the cat) woke us up again at 5am this time with a mouse loose in the bedroom. Yesterday she just wanted us to get up for some reason and started romping around on the bed. I'm half asleep this morning and keep hearing these sounds like someone's breaking into the house, crashing and banging and realize the cat has brought us a present and is chasing this mouse all around the bedroom. The cat door seemed like a good idea a year ago but now... We live in the country on a couple of acres of land and get all sorts of odd things being brought to or into the house by the cats. One of the cats at least likes to actually kill and eat whatever she catches, she goes for brains for some reason, we often find dead mice with half their had chewed off. The funny part is that Stella felt so bad after we gave her all kinds of hell at 5am this morning that she promptly went out later on and brought a bird into the house as a consolation gift. It started flying around and she was jumping around like a lunatic trying to catch it...about 10% funny and 90% aggravating. Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time. I don't know how people put up with that noise. Anyway the bedroom door will be firmly closed tonight; if I don't stay away long enough I'm going to wake up early again and that would truly suck. I wake up after 7 or 8 hours like clock work no matter when I actually fall asleep. I think I'll crack another beer see what's on tv. Cheers!
John Cardinal wrote:
Stella (the cat)
My first thought was, why did you name your cat after Harry Mudd's wife[^]? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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It's 8pm here and I'm fighting to stay away until at least another hour. Stella (the cat) woke us up again at 5am this time with a mouse loose in the bedroom. Yesterday she just wanted us to get up for some reason and started romping around on the bed. I'm half asleep this morning and keep hearing these sounds like someone's breaking into the house, crashing and banging and realize the cat has brought us a present and is chasing this mouse all around the bedroom. The cat door seemed like a good idea a year ago but now... We live in the country on a couple of acres of land and get all sorts of odd things being brought to or into the house by the cats. One of the cats at least likes to actually kill and eat whatever she catches, she goes for brains for some reason, we often find dead mice with half their had chewed off. The funny part is that Stella felt so bad after we gave her all kinds of hell at 5am this morning that she promptly went out later on and brought a bird into the house as a consolation gift. It started flying around and she was jumping around like a lunatic trying to catch it...about 10% funny and 90% aggravating. Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time. I don't know how people put up with that noise. Anyway the bedroom door will be firmly closed tonight; if I don't stay away long enough I'm going to wake up early again and that would truly suck. I wake up after 7 or 8 hours like clock work no matter when I actually fall asleep. I think I'll crack another beer see what's on tv. Cheers!
John Cardinal wrote:
Stella felt so bad after we gave her all kinds of hell at 5am this morning that she promptly went out later on and brought a bird into the house as a consolation gift
One of ours did something similar. Michael* disassembled a rabbit in our basement stairwell, which my wife found. She yelled at him, and he slunk off under the cars in the driveway. The next day, she found a nice big rat in the stairwell. There was no blood, and the tail was curled neatly around the body. My wife said it looked like the kind of 'presentation' that would make Martha Stewart proud.
* Three of our cats are named after the archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. It didn't help.
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John Cardinal wrote:
Stella (the cat)
My first thought was, why did you name your cat after Harry Mudd's wife[^]? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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Actually it was a two fold name, we like Stella Artois beer and thought it would be funny when we call her in the mode of a Streetcar Named Desire...which we do: "Stelllllllaaaaa!"
John Cardinal wrote:
and thought it would be funny when we call her in the mode of a Streetcar Named Desire
:laugh: Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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John Cardinal wrote:
Oh well at least we don't have dogs which surely must be the spawn of satan the way they bark all the time.
Agreed. I hate dogs. It's more than the barking though. It's the jumping at you. The endless running around being a pain in the you-know-what. The digging holes, doing their business wherever and whenever they like. IF dogs can be trained not to do this (and I highly doubt it), I've never seen one trained well enough.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Actually most of them can be traind to do all those things rather easily. The key is learning to to act like an alpha dog. No animal will every be perfectly behaved 100% of the time though, so if you want that get something stuffed.
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