You’ve Been Selected, Resistance is Futile!

[Fueling Around]

Even if Velvet connected it to you, it would be a love hate relationship and you would be mostly forgiven.

Today was the first day of Velvet's training, and of course I had to be the disciplinarian.
...
And the good thing is she never connected it with me.
...

My wife got a cat from friends that couldn't keep her.
Cat (affectionately called "Kitty") decided I was her #1 human.
Funniest was when we went on vacation for a couple weeks and had people that would house and Kitty sit. When we got home Kitty demanded a lot of attention. She would sit in my lap and purr, purr, purr. Then stop purring, look at me and hiss a couple times, then return to purring.
Everyone else just got lap time and purring, no hissing.

 

[Brokenhandle]

I was thinking that is one talented cat.
The better perspective and you got one of them sissy cat walks.
More fun dragging my fat butt up the vertical ladder and laying on the top to see how much room before it hits the top of the ring.
You still use the drag auger to unload the bin?

Those sissy catwalks work well at times... especially when the wind is gusting to 50 or 60 mph when time to take bin lids off or back on. Plus much safer for my 87 year old father. Safer is not sissy... ever! And almost all bins have power sweeps now.

Ryan

 

[chilerelleno]

Even if Velvet connected it to you, it would be a love hate relationship and you would be mostly forgiven.

My wife got a cat from friends that couldn't keep her.
Cat (affectionately called "Kitty") decided I was her #1 human.
Funniest was when we went on vacation for a couple weeks and had people that would house and Kitty sit. When we got home Kitty demanded a lot of attention. She would sit in my lap and purr, purr, purr. Then stop purring, look at me and hiss a couple times, then return to purring.
Everyone else just got lap time and purring, no hissing.

Kitty says, "Leave me again, and I'll make you regret it!"

 

[JLeonard]

Those sissy catwalks work well at times... especially when the wind is gusting to 50 or 60 mph when time to take bin lids off or back on. Plus much safer for my 87 year old father. Safer is not sissy... ever! And almost all bins have power sweeps now.

Ryan

Shoot your dad has a lifetime on me and even with the sissy catwalks I‘d have to think long and hard before I climbed up there. Me and heights don’t get along!

Jim

 

[clifish]

Shoot your dad has a lifetime on me and even with the sissy catwalks I‘d have to think long and hard before I climbed up there. Me and heights don’t get along!

Jim

Me too and I spent 12 years as a volunteer firefighter...lol but was much younger then.

 

[Fueling Around]

Those sissy catwalks work well at times... especially when the wind is gusting to 50 or 60 mph when time to take bin lids off or back on. Plus much safer for my 87 year old father. Safer is not sissy... ever! And almost all bins have power sweeps now.

Ryan

We have those conditions too. Winds have lifted the lids even with a concrete block on top.
More power to your dad.
The matriarch on the farm when I started only worked ground. He felt guilty that at 85 he could only put in a 10 hour day. When he had to retire we really felt the gap.
We use a grain vac to empty the bins. First semi loads are a breeze. Last 2 are more work.

 

[chilerelleno]

I've been wanting a new 50 sized cooler.
This deep freeze we're about to experience was the purrrrfect excuse to turn my old Igloo 50 into an insulated subzero Cat House.
Her pumpkin bed fits great inside, and adds more insulation as it takes up 75-80% of the space inside.

 

[gmc2003]

I like the trim work John.

Chris

 

[Nefarious]

I've been wanting a new 50 sized cooler.
This deep freeze we're about to experience was the purrrrfect excuse to turn my old Igloo 50 into a insulated subzero Cat House.
Her pumpkin bed fits great inside, and adds more insulation as it takes up 75-80% of the space inside.
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And if you wanted it a little warmer, a small reptile heating pad [4W] under the pumpkin bed would add just a little extra. With a proximity sensor you could turn it on and off when she entered or left.

 

[chilerelleno]

I like the trim work John.

Chris

Duct tape fixes everything.

 

[chilerelleno]

And if you wanted it a little warmer, a small reptile heating pad [4W] under the pumpkin bed would add just a little extra. With a proximity sensor you could turn it on and off when she entered or left.

I have one somewhere from when I had a snake, but can't find it.

 

[chilerelleno]

Well as of Tuesday Miss Velvet is an Indoor Cat.
God help her, she's gonna have to learn to leave the frikkin Budgies alone.

She was having issues we initially though were allergic reactions to mosquito bites on the back of her ears and on her face.
It got really bad looking, pustules/blisters that burst and crusted, which we thought was caused by allergies and scratching.
Had to be extremely uncomfortable and painful for her and her scratching at her ears was starting to get really bloody results.
It got worse and nothing we tried worked, I feared she'd lose her ears.

So she got a trip to the vet, and the diagnosis was that the damned cat has an autoimmune disease called Pemphigus.
The disease is often exacerbated by excessive sun exposure, and this was definitely plausible in her case living outdoors.
So she got a steroid shot and an ointment, with those and the fact that she's been indoors since Tuesday the improvements are already significant.

 

[DRKsmoking]

Lucky kitty, to have you guys as parents.
In door living is good and indoor caged food , perfect

Just kidding about the caged indoor food.

David

 

[chilerelleno]

She that wanted in now wants out.