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Old February 25th 05, 09:31 PM
Trish Brown
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Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply wrote:

I would love to buy an old house like what you have. Unfortunately, I
live in the San Francisco Bay Area and the only house we could afford
was a post-war tract home when we bought 22 years ago, because these
houses are going for almost a half-million dollars right now (1000
square foot house, 1/8 acre lot) and there's no way I could afford one now.

But I *LOVE* old homes and others that have character and aren't
plain-vanilla tract-type homes.


Snort!

Melinda, that might be a rash thought... Our house is a hundred years
old and last night its hundred-year-old water pipes offered up their
spirit and burst! At midnight! Copiously! I've been up all night,
vacillating between my daughter, who coughed until 6am and has finally
fallen into an exhausted sleep and my husband who has been trying to
contain the geyser in the laundry (that's where the pipes burst) and
also to turn the water off at the mains.

The mains tap is also a hundred years old (or so we estimate) and it
didn't feel like turning off entirely. I am surrounded by the tinkle of
running water (we have all the household taps on in an effort to
dissipate the flow) and keep wanting to go to the dunny (that's Oz for
'toilet'), only it won't flush properly (owing to no water) and I'm
encouraged by my *frazzled* husband to wait until it's *really*
necessary. Hnnnhh!!!

When we bought this place, we did so because it was charming and old.
Believe me, that 'charm' comes at a price!!! =:-0

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Old February 26th 05, 12:04 AM
Arri London
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She who would like to be obeyed once every Preston Guild wrote:

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The cats like to play table hockey after we've gone to bed. This seems
to consist of chasing each other over the dining room table! Anything on
the table gets knocked out of the way. Don't know how they score points
though LOL

Left the Pfaff on said table last night...It was on its back this
morning (on some thick padding) and fortunately not on the floor. Ran it
through its paces and all seemed to be well.

Had it been the old all-metal Pfaff the cats wouldn't have been able to
knock it over at all; that sucker was heavy.


Umm ... why not just banish them from the dining room at night? They
shouldn't be on the table anyway (eeeuw). My cats have always been
packed off to bed in the kitchen, with the option of going out through
the catflap if they want to play.
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Because this is a stupidly-designed 'open plan' house: no doors between
kitchen, dining room and living room.
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Old February 26th 05, 12:04 AM
Arri London
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Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply wrote:

She who would like to be obeyed once every Preston Guild wrote:

Umm ... why not just banish them from the dining room at night? They
shouldn't be on the table anyway (eeeuw). My cats have always been
packed off to bed in the kitchen, with the option of going out through
the catflap if they want to play.


Not everybody has a sealed-off place to leave their cats. We sure
don't. The only places that can get closed off is the bedrooms and the
bathroom, and the cat box is in the bathroom.


Precisely. Anyway the table is washed down before meals.
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Old February 26th 05, 01:51 AM
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:56:00 -0500, "Cappy" cappy_p @ juno.com
wrote, in part:
The "old" one was 600 yrs old, the "new" one was 300.... grin
Age is all relative... grin


Once heard that the main difference between Americans and Brits
is that Americans think 100 years is a long time and Brits think
100 miles is a long distance.

(back to lurking...)

Peaches
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Old February 26th 05, 09:09 AM
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YEAH! Our previous house was positively New - built in the 60's.
Still had solid interior walls, though. It does make a difference to
noise transmission between rooms.

You were lucky. The house my folks still live in was built in 1959 - and
might as well have cardboard walls. Also massive amounts of wasted space
- one of the most infuriating places I've ever lived in. (I hope they
leave it to my sis, not me lol!)
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AJH
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Old February 26th 05, 09:09 AM
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In article , Arri London of no uttered
Because this is a stupidly-designed 'open plan' house: no doors between
kitchen, dining room and living room.


Oh blimey. How about putting them out at night? They have fur coats,
after all! (hehehe! I know, i'm cruel)
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AJH
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Old February 26th 05, 11:14 AM
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She who would like to be obeyed once every Preston Guild wrote:
In article , Arri London of no uttered

Because this is a stupidly-designed 'open plan' house: no doors
between kitchen, dining room and living room.



Oh blimey. How about putting them out at night? They have fur coats,
after all! (hehehe! I know, i'm cruel)


If you let your cats out at all, you will be dealing with contagious
disease and parasites from other cats, wounds from disagreements, cats
accidentally locked in people's garages, garden sheds, basements (I had
one missing for nearly 3 weeks who came home severely dehydrated, thin
as a rail, with intestinal parasites from the insects he'd been eating
to survive), and motor vehicles. Not to mention people with warped
thoughts and actions who abuse and kill small animals. In many areas
you also have coyotes and feral dogs.

If your cat(s) are members of the family and you want them to live more
than 6 or 8 years, keep them indoors.
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Old February 26th 05, 11:48 AM
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Pogonip wrote:

She who would like to be obeyed once every Preston Guild wrote:

In article , Arri London of no uttered

Because this is a stupidly-designed 'open plan' house: no doors
between kitchen, dining room and living room.




Oh blimey. How about putting them out at night? They have fur coats,
after all! (hehehe! I know, i'm cruel)



If you let your cats out at all, you will be dealing with contagious
disease and parasites from other cats, wounds from disagreements, cats
accidentally locked in people's garages, garden sheds, basements (I had
one missing for nearly 3 weeks who came home severely dehydrated, thin
as a rail, with intestinal parasites from the insects he'd been eating
to survive), and motor vehicles. Not to mention people with warped
thoughts and actions who abuse and kill small animals. In many areas
you also have coyotes and feral dogs.

If your cat(s) are members of the family and you want them to live more
than 6 or 8 years, keep them indoors.



It's very different for cats here in the UK. Most of them go out all
the time. We've had a few cat fight injuries over the years, and a
couple of car arguments, but both cats survived well, and have, on the
whole, done better than many humans! Here they are top of the food
chain in their little niche, and have no natural enemies other than
badly trained dogs. We could no more keep our cats in than we could a
child - it would be equally cruel. Ours have free access to the outside
world whenever they want it. They both love the great outdoors, and
hate to be shut in. If I lived somewhere I couldn't let a cat out, I
wouldn't have a cat.

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Old February 26th 05, 11:48 AM
She who would like to be obeyed once every Preston
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Oh for crying out loud!

In article , Pogonip of Send abuse or DMCA
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If you let your cats out at all, you will be dealing with contagious
disease and parasites from other cats,


Cat flu jabs and regular worming

wounds from disagreements,


Not that frequent - they learn to bite back or leg it

cats accidentally locked in people's garages, garden sheds, basements
(I had one missing for nearly 3 weeks who came home severely
dehydrated, thin as a rail,


Again, relatively rare

with intestinal parasites from the insects he'd been eating to
survive),


See above regular worming

and motor vehicles.


That one I'll concede, but cats are actually smarter than you give them
credit, particularly urban ones

Not to mention people with warped thoughts and actions who abuse and
kill small animals.


Get real

In many areas you also have coyotes and feral dogs.

Not in the UK there aren't, you muppet.


If your cat(s) are members of the family and you want them to live more
than 6 or 8 years, keep them indoors.


Sorry, but IMHO *that* is just plain *cruel*. Cats are free spirits -
they need to go where they choose, when they choose. Oh, and FYI I've
had them reach 17, in an urban environment, with no major illness or
mishaps, thanks, but totally happy and contented.

Take offence if you wish, but I'm glad I'm not your cat.



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AJH
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Old February 26th 05, 05:00 PM
Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply
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Pogonip wrote:
thoughts and actions who abuse and kill small animals. In many areas
you also have coyotes and feral dogs.


Not to mention things like raccoons, which in my area are the major
cause of dead, mangled, or missing cats, so say the animal control
authorities. And I believe them, because when people lived next door
who had a rottweiler/german shepherd mix, they were calling animal
control at least once a month to pick up dead or mangled cats or possums
(but never any raccoons).

Those raccoon critters are really dangerous here -- one of them that was
always trying to raid our chicken pen stood about 2 feet high at the
shoulders.
 




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