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Posted on 08/24/2005 9:50:25 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Well, I worry that 'Cartman' could really do damage if he decided not to tolerate them...
Kitty #6 tormented Ramius's Josie all the years he was at the beach house, but never really hurt her. He just hassled her.
I wouldn't have thought it would work to bring another cat in with Cartman, but he really did pretty well with that lost kitten, and we just threw them together rather unexpectedly because she just showed up.
I'll see your 280GB and raise you 12.1TB.
Oh... you meant home systems... nevermind... :-)
I love my SAN. Fibre-channel. I just like saying it. :-)
We had a lot of cats over the years, and even the most aggressive older (neutered) male never really hurt a kitten. They seem to know they're babies. Yeah, they may swat 'em good and even scratch a bit, but that's about it. And generally, they deserve it. ;-) Kittens, like puppies, are monsters.
As for neutering, I know Ruthy knows more about vet procedures than I do...but they can do it really young these days. Like two months, I think. I think Tam was maybe four and Halvah a bit more, but they can do them really young.
That's four MONTHS, by the way.
That's cool - It'd be fun to have a kitten.... It's been years since I actually had a kitten. All my cats just sortof show up at the door somewhere between their 4th and 7th life.
Heh, showoff. ;~D
If I had a Terrabyte, I'm sure I could fill it up... eventually. My 86 Gb music partition is almost full. I'll need to shuffle some stuff around and resize it pretty soon.
Last I heard, 8 weeks is the youngest.
I think that'll do ;~D
Halvah was my last kitten - she's the one Mom showed up with unexpectedly - came to where I worked and said she had been bad. I went out to the car and she had this absolutely adorable pudgy little fuzzball. She was one of the cutest kittens ever.
Tam, on the other hand, looked like a white rat with a Jimmy Durante nose. He was oooogly.
Tam is still a kitten in a lot of ways. Halvah still swats him on occasion for being a nuisance and not knowing when to quit.
It'll be another decade or so before I take on another Siamese kitten. I barely survived Tam's kittenhood. He was seriously a monster. I can remember calling Mom practically in tears to complain that I hadn't slept in nights and that he wouldn't SHUT UP, no matter what I gave him.
She wasn't very sympathetic. Heh....
But he at least would burn off energy playing with Halvah once she showed up.
heh.... I think it sounds fun...
These will be some kind of mutt cat.... Someone at Tiff's work.
At least you'll have two, so they can tucker one another out! And being normal cats, they'll be cute and playful and rambunctious for awhile, and then get over it. ;-)
And won't constantly LOUDLY demand that you do things like spin 'em on the carpet. Unlike Tambrat.
You gotta post pictures when you get 'em!
That's sortof why I thought it'd be fun to get two.
Well, I've had a heck of a long day, with another one tomorrow. So I'm gonna hit the couch.
"If you build it, they will come."
Of all of my failures... the one that bites me the most has been the absolute inability to enforce any storage discipline at all within the company.
For the twelve or so Terabytes of SAN storage I have, about seven are consumed so far. Of that, 2.5 of those TB are JUST MAIL. Mail for only about 300 out of 700 users. Do the math... it is just sick what we let these people get away with. They're spoiled stinking rotten.
Any normal company would be able to set mailbox quotas and enforce them. Not so here. I've tried. It can't be done. The worst abusers are also board members. 'nuff said. As long as they let me spend obscene amounts of money on disk space... I guess that's OK. :-)
It gets back to something I've always said about IT: It's easier to change the system to fit the people than it is to change the people to fit the system. Not cheaper, but easier.
I would think that a couple of kittens would be better tolerated by the adult cats, than a couple of other adult cats might be. I'm just s'posin' here.
The momma/daddy cat instinct ought to kick in somewhere in there.
If there is a daddy instinct... they aren't really pack animals, I think males often eat the progeny of competing males.... and probably some of their own just to be on the safe side.
But I saw a cat special once on TV that said 'cats aren't so much ~trained~ or ~tamed~ so much as they are prevented from growing up. While wild cats would live alone, domesticated cats live in perpetual kittenhood, with you being their momma. - Except maybe for the ones that turn out like Josie.
Heh, our IT director even has some server space set aside for us to store music on, so I have several gigs of mp3 to listen to while I work. Saves me from having to buy an iPod for now!
Josie is an unusual cat in many ways... But it isn't that she doesn't like other cats, or dogs, or people, or anything...
She just doesn't like ~anybody~.
That's why I ended up with her, after all... It was a favor for somebody [ahem] sometime back because Josie didn't like children and used her claws irresponsibly.
:-)
What a good idea!
I actually have a friend at church who takes care of stuff like this...had forgotten until a member of the BA CHEF egroup reminded me!
I may just talk to them on Sunday.
I did set up a thick layer of sand by the door...will hopefully get some better tracks. Gonna melt some wax and pour it into the track if I do...
I was gonna do plaster of paris, but I have wax. I think it'll do, but I'll take pictures first, in case I mess up the track.
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