Cat door plans anyone?

[email protected] wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> J. Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
>
> You know, you are right about the chipmunks, but, I will never forget
> the commotion at my house the night that an adult raccoon managed to
> squeeze in through the cat door. ..
>
> Did you know that an adult raccoon, when being chased by an adult
> male with a broom, can climb ub a window frame, sink it's paws
> and claws into a textured ceiling, and actually _walk_upside_down_
> across said ceiling, ...

My girl friend never had raccon come through
the cat door but one evening a possum walked
out from behind the couch.

Did you know that an adult woman can jump up
and stand on a chair? Not on the _seat_ of the
chair, but on top of the back of the chair. Since
it was a lazy boy chair, this had amusing
consequences.

As to bringing presents, well, after I starte to feed
the barn cat next door I began finding presents on
the doorstep when I came home at night.

My cat used to catch crickets and spiders and
drop them on my pillow, still alive, in the
middle of the night.

--

FF

Rick's Cabinet Shop wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> A female "friend" of mine wants me to make her a cat door and it would be
> great if I could impress her and do it... Anyone have a plan for something
> like this or know where I can find one? What we don't do for these
> women........
>
I actually built one for a sliding glass door. It's an insulated box
maybe a foot wide and as tall as the door. It fits in the slots that
the door uses and is built the same way. To install, fit the top of the
cat door into the top slot, lift, move the bottom into the lower slot
and lower the cat door. Push the cat door into the vertical slot and
move the slider up snug. If you need to lock the slider, use a blunt
stick. The Borgs sell clear plastic flappers that you install in a hole
near the bottom of the cat door. Our cats seem to like these better
than the homemade wooden kind.

We remove the cat door at night (cats inside) and reinstall in the
morning. We don't have a problem with varmints coming inside except
when the cats carry them in. In that case put on a pair of canvas
gloves and join in the chase.

mahalo,
jo4hn (who has caught three live mice and a few more dead ones)

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:21:27 -0600, lwasserm wrote:

>
> You know, you are right about the chipmunks, but, I will never forget
> the commotion at my house the night that an adult raccoon managed to
> squeeze in through the cat door.

You wouldn't have had that problem if you had installed a bug-zapper as
part of the door.


:-0

In article <[email protected]>,
J. Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"Dave W" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> The other problem is that of neighborhood cats and chipmunks etc. finding
>> the best little chow hall in Town. They actually sell a radio controlled
>> cat/dog door which is activated by a thing on the pet's collar.
>
>Cats are territorial--your cats unless they are major wimps should take care
>of keeping the neighborhood cats out of their territory. With cats in
>residence chipmunks should not be an issue.
>
>
>

You know, you are right about the chipmunks, but, I will never forget
the commotion at my house the night that an adult raccoon managed to
squeeze in through the cat door. I should add, that this cat door was
in the door to the basement stairs. From the basement, the cats (and
raccoon) must go to _another_ cat door, set in the basement exterior
door, to actually reach the outdoors. We have a 45 lb dog that sleeps
in the basement and she was there at the time. (She did alert us to the
raccoon's presence, but chose to not physically intervene... I am
confident that had it been an adult human, she would have prevented
prevented the entry quite willingly)

Did you know that an adult raccoon, when being chased by an adult
male with a broom, can climb ub a window frame, sink it's paws
and claws into a textured ceiling, and actually _walk_upside_down_
across said ceiling, to a point roughly in the middle of the
room where the plaster bond is no longer strong enough to support it's
weight? And that when the raccoon falls 10 feet to the floor while
still clutching about 4 square feet of plaster, it will be apparently
unharmed? And that it will then be so angry it will _charge_ at the
aforesaid adult male, who will be so startled and frightened that he
then jumps up in the air and cannot get out ot the way of the raccoon
fast enough? (In retrospect and in fairness to myself I msut say that
I'm sure the raccoon was just as startled as I was. Or maybe not.)


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solution that does not work.

Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - [email protected]

>> A female "friend" of mine wants me to make her a cat door and it would be
>> great if I could impress her and do it...

Make it one way going out.

Steve

In article <XmT0h.2542$gf5.1377@trndny01>,
Rick's Cabinet Shop <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hey there,
>
>A female "friend" of mine wants me to make her a cat door and it would be
>great if I could impress her and do it... Anyone have a plan for something
>like this or know where I can find one? What we don't do for these
>women........
>

Why don't you just give her a key?



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No dumb questions, just dumb answers.

Larry Wasserman - Baltimore, Maryland - [email protected]

"Rick's Cabinet Shop" wrote

> Hey there,
>
> A female "friend" of mine wants me to make her a cat door and it would be
> great if I could impress her and do it... Anyone have a plan for something
> like this or know where I can find one? What we don't do for these
> women........
>
Those women may not like you very much after you make this cat door. From
both my personal experience and hearing stories from others, you may regret
this decision.

See, cats are predators. They also like to hunt at night. And since they
think of their human friends as part of the family, they will bring the kill
home to feed and share with the family. I have heard horror stories of
multiple dead rodent bodies laying around the house when the humans got up
in the morning.

I won't bother with the gory details of what I have seen or heard about. I
will let your imagination do the rest. I have had to install and tear out
cat doors. And it is always lots of fun to repair the door with the big hole
in it.

In article <[email protected]>, "Lee Michaels" <leemichaels*nadaspam*@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>"Rick's Cabinet Shop" wrote
>
>> Hey there,
>>
>> A female "friend" of mine wants me to make her a cat door and it would be
>> great if I could impress her and do it... Anyone have a plan for something
>> like this or know where I can find one? What we don't do for these
>> women........
>>
>Those women may not like you very much after you make this cat door. From
>both my personal experience and hearing stories from others, you may regret
>this decision.
>
>See, cats are predators. They also like to hunt at night. And since they
>think of their human friends as part of the family, they will bring the kill
>home to feed and share with the family. I have heard horror stories of
>multiple dead rodent bodies laying around the house when the humans got up
>in the morning.

That's true although said gifts may not, in fact, be completely dead.
So you may have a live one running around the house, pursued by a
very excited cat.

The "kill" is not limited to rodents either. Cats will also bring
home small birds. Actually sometimes they're not that small either.
My cat was unable to force a half-dead seagull through the cat
flap, but he did make a very commendable effort!

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"Dave W" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> The other problem is that of neighborhood cats and chipmunks etc. finding
> the best little chow hall in Town. They actually sell a radio controlled
> cat/dog door which is activated by a thing on the pet's collar.

Cats are territorial--your cats unless they are major wimps should take care
of keeping the neighborhood cats out of their territory. With cats in
residence chipmunks should not be an issue.

"Steve B" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>>> A female "friend" of mine wants me to make her a cat door and it would
>>> be great if I could impress her and do it...
>
> Make it one way going out.


Sounds to me like the issue is neither cats nor doors but sex. Personally
I'd try liquor and/or flowers before I went to the trouble of making her a
cat door.

In article <[email protected]>,
Pat Payne <[email protected]> wrote:
>Normally I don’t like to mix woodworking and business; but in this case it
>is just too good to not include my woodworking friends.
>
<...snipped...>
>
>

You must be kitten.


--
For every complicated, difficult problem, there is a simple, easy
solution that does not work.

Larry Wasserman - Baltimore Maryland - [email protected]

The other problem is that of neighborhood cats and chipmunks etc. finding
the best little chow hall in Town. They actually sell a radio controlled
cat/dog door which is activated by a thing on the pet's collar.
Dave

I'm going to work that angle too, believe me..

--
Rick Nagy
Johnstown, PA

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"J. Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Steve B" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>>> A female "friend" of mine wants me to make her a cat door and it would
>>>> be great if I could impress her and do it...
>>
>> Make it one way going out.
>
>
> Sounds to me like the issue is neither cats nor doors but sex. Personally
> I'd try liquor and/or flowers before I went to the trouble of making her a
> cat door.
>
>

Normally I don’t like to mix woodworking and business; but in this case it
is just too

good to not include my woodworking friends.





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