When Felicide becomes a realistic option...

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I have cats, three of them, and they are my children. I really believe that they are in fact the kids I will never have.

Today, felicide, murder of a cat, became a realistic option in my household.

I have been working, off and on, during my few off hours available amongst my student teaching, class work, and two part time jobs, assembling a horribly manufactured amodel RB-57F. I'm kit- bashing it with the Italeri B-57 kit for details and etc.

The main ceter section of the fuselage wings DOES NOT FIT with anything else. It fits together in its two halves, but NOT TO ANY OTHER PART OF THE MODEL! It's almost as if the autocad dude dropped the percentage a few points in the physical reproduction process! I've finally gotten everything together, the engines on the wings, the details painted, it's aboit to be decaled for the up- coming contest in February, and one of my cats jumps up on my desk and steps on the starboard wing...

At least the little furry bastard (yes, he is one) had the guts to look up at me with that (OH S*IT!) look on his face when his foot went just a LITTLE too far and he heard the *CRACK* of the super glue and styrene...

He's already an 'it' so it's not as though that is an option. But I've been working on this kit for over

7 months. He's not getting any squishy food to- morow, I guarantee that!

Val Kraut · Accepted Answer

This has happened to all of us at one time or another. I had a 1/32 Revel Stuka - the one with the snake on the side. I air brushed all the markings with stencils I cut out from magic tape overlayed on wax paper and cut out with a scaple. The edging on the crosses and swatstikas took forever. It survived two moves - one day one of the cats jumped on it - total loss. I've had to rearrange my shelves of unbuilt kits - the latest cat took great joy in pushing a box off the top and seeing in splatter on the basement floor. The stories go on. But you're the smart one - it's up to you to take a few extra precautions - put work in a drawer, a high shelf, or in a box so the cat can't get to it. Not that much extra work - and it does pay-off.

Val Kraut

Gray Ghost · Answer

"Val Kraut"  wrote innews:yNdEd.50949$    snipped-for-privacy@fe10.lga: My soulution: Adding a wall in the basement to keep all uninvited pests from my model area. This includes kids, pets and the odd visit from my wife.

Gray Ghost · Answer

grey     (Gray Ghost) wrote innews:Xns95D9975B1EADAWereofftoseethewizrd@127.0.0.1: PS, all of which I love. And the kids are to be let in when it's time towork on thier models.

Charles Ryan · Answer

I have yet to have the troubles with our 2 cats that others seem to suffer through. When the first came to us (stray), she jumped onto the kitchen counter----- once. I walked over and pushed her halfway across the room, before her feet hit the floor. She has yet to get up on anything other than the couch and chair.

8 yrs later we took in another stray. He was the last one of 9 that called our backyard home. We found real homes for the other 8. In the 4 years he has been in the house, he has never sprayed anything or gotten up on anything other than the couch, chair and bed. If he had, he would have taken the same flight the female did.

Even the times they do come or go into the model area (two upstairs bedrooms), they lay by the doors or look out the front windows. I guess I'm just lucky :-)

-- Chuck Ryan snipped-for-privacy@REMOVEearthlink.net Springfield OH

Alexander Arnakis · Answer

You think that's bad? When one of my cats was about a year old, hejumped up on a 5-foot-high shelf and knocked my Revell 1/96Constitution to the floor. It had taken me *months* to build and rigthat thing, and now it needs a complete rebuild. (Love the little guyanyway.)

Mad-Modeller · Answer

Hmm, reminds me of the time when my son tried to get close to my modelling table and didn't look down before stepping on my first Shackleton.

OTOH, one of my cats got downstairs and for amusement was batting a cord hanging down behind the shelf with the Japanese fighters on. Some of them never were repaired. And he got the biggest scare of his life! After that the basement door was kept shut and Mr. Kitty was banned for life.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

TSR2 · Answer

All good advice, but I think felicide would provide greater satisfactionTSR2

AM · Answer

You people should really get a DOG and have mansbest friend by your side.

the Legend of LAX · Answer

Two Golden Retrievers here. They like to lay under my desk, at my feet. In transit to said spot, with the tails always awaggin', plenty of damage has been inflicted over the years. I've learned to keep things well back from the edge. When they try to crawl up on my lap though, well that's a different story. Unfortunately, they think they're lap dogs.AM wrote:

Digital_Cowboy · Answer

And the Legend of LAX  opened up and revealed to theworld news:suOdnR9YbZi7eH     I haven't meet a dog (of ANY size) that DOESN'T think that it's a "lapdog."  And usually the larger the breed the more determined it is to getinto one's lap. . .

AM · Answer

Two Borzoi here (Russian Wolfhounds :)Quiet dogs, fantastic hunters. They keep the backyardfree of anything on four legs !! Two legged critters justtake a look, and stay away.Models will survive if I keep them away. Otherwise they willget *nosed* to death.... (models smell different it seems)This pair (father & daughter) own the living room couch....

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