On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:15:56 -0700 (PDT), Dana <dcarpend@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>On Apr 17, 12:09 am, Bob Ward <bobw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:00:53 -0700 (PDT), Dana <dcarp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
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>> >On Apr 16, 10:56 pm, Veronique <veroniqueuni...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >> On Apr 16, 5:02 pm, Dana <dcarp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> >> > A case of peanut butter can go under the bed. Hell, under the
coffee
>> >> > table.
>>
>> >> Everyone has a coffee table?
>>
>> >Some people have a cardboard box instead -- been there, done that. I
>> >could have fit sale peanut butter into it.
>>
>> Our living room has no coffee table - we have a large wooden cable
>> spool covered with a circular tablecloth. Apparently the cats think
>> of it as an enclosed running track - two or three of them disappear
>> beneath the tablecloth, there is a considerable bit of scrambling,
>> scrabbling and scratching, and all three cats shoot out at random
>> angles, much like the ball trap on a classic pinball machine.
>
>Cool. I would, however, contend that with such an arrangement you
>could, if your nutritional status depended upon it, arrange a dozen
>jars of peanut butter under the table, around the center of the spool,
>to be covered by the table cloth (although I would also contend that
>hiding one's bulk purchases, though perhaps desirable, is not
>essential.) This might put the kitties' noses out of joint for a
>while, but if you threw in a can of cat food on top of each jar of
>peanut butter, I suspect they would become resigned to the arrangement
>eventually.
We have a contract with the cats. We don't store food on their race
track, they (mostly) stay out of the pantry, unless we accidentally
leave the door open and blink our eyes.
The contract becomes null and void when they learn how to open canned
cat food without assistance.
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