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- From: oexmann@convex.com (Carla Oexmann)
- Subject: When the Cat is Lost...
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.031824.2400@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:18:24 GMT
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- Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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- Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
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- What would you do when your cat is lost ? Two weeks ago, we let the
- Q out into the back yard, which is, or so I thought, cat proof. She
- hasn't returned....
-
- What we've done so far :
- 1 : Made up flyers with her picture, description, and reward offer,
- which we then rubberbanded to the front door of the houses in the
- neighborhood.
- 2 : Ad in the paper
- 3 : Regular checks of the animal shelter
- 4 : Register with Pet-Track
-
- Any other ideas ?
-
- Our cats have all enjoyed going out. Knowing that totally indoor cats
- live much longer lives, and knowing how much they like going out, I
- tried for the best of all worlds by trying to make the back yard into
- a feline paradise with "caves" and elevated sunning platforms. It has
- a six foot woooden fence with chicken wire at the top and bottom to
- discourage escape artists ( looks like stalag 17, with the wire canted
- over at the fence top. ) We convinced them that the back yard was *good*
- ( tuna, treats, and kitty games out in the backyard ), and that the front
- yard was *bad* ( any cat going out the front door ran into prolonged
- "rain" ). Somebody drove through the fence back in the alley, and I
- didn't find out until the morning....
-
- Ritual disclaimer : My opinion and mine alone ! Convex, as best I can tell,
- doesn't have opinions, being a corporate entity...
- Carla Oexmann {allegra, sun, harvard, uiucdcs, ctvax}!convex!oexmann
- Convex Computer Corp. 3000 Waterview Parkway P.O. Box 833851 Richardson, TX
-