notes to animals
May. 11th, 2010 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioDear Baldur,
It is wonderful -- nay, astonishing -- that you chose to get some exercise last night. If cats could sweat you probably would have worked one up. That's great for an elderly tubby tabby. So I really hesitate to say anything, but... that squeak-toy was not provided by any of the household humans, and you know how I feel about ambulatory toys, especially on the similarly-colored carpet where I might not see their remains. I'm sorry I took it away from you while it was still moving, but you know the rules. Yeah yeah, cycle of life and all that, but not where I'm going to have to deal with it, ok?
Dear squeak-toy,
I hope you made it. If you did, please warn all your murine friends that the cats who reside here are either too stupid or too self-centered to kill you quickly, and they are also too well-fed to eat you afterward, so your death would be in vain. We'll all be happier if you try another house. I nominate the guy up the block who never shovels his sidewalks; he's got a karma deficit.
It is wonderful -- nay, astonishing -- that you chose to get some exercise last night. If cats could sweat you probably would have worked one up. That's great for an elderly tubby tabby. So I really hesitate to say anything, but... that squeak-toy was not provided by any of the household humans, and you know how I feel about ambulatory toys, especially on the similarly-colored carpet where I might not see their remains. I'm sorry I took it away from you while it was still moving, but you know the rules. Yeah yeah, cycle of life and all that, but not where I'm going to have to deal with it, ok?
Dear squeak-toy,
I hope you made it. If you did, please warn all your murine friends that the cats who reside here are either too stupid or too self-centered to kill you quickly, and they are also too well-fed to eat you afterward, so your death would be in vain. We'll all be happier if you try another house. I nominate the guy up the block who never shovels his sidewalks; he's got a karma deficit.
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Date: 2010-05-12 11:38 am (UTC)I know, I know, irony....
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Date: 2010-05-12 01:03 pm (UTC)I don't know how it would work in the context of a larger house, but one of the other Pennsic home-owners (Baroness Megan, in fact) taught me a trick. Since the mobile houses are stored out in a field all year it's natural that they'll attract critters unless they're really well sealed. She recommended leaving a cardboard box with some tissues and such on the floor somewhere. If mice get in they're likely to use the provided space and nesting materials because it's easy, making it more likely that they'll leave the rest of your stuff alone.
Mind, none of the home-owners I know store canvas in them because of the storage conditions, so I don't know if it'll help with that.