[TheForge] cats very ot

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Advice taken:
Should have known better than to get in a pissing contest with a tom 
cat...Thanks Frosty!

Jerry Frost wrote:

>Pete:
>
>Ammonia and water is ineffective. Ammonia will encourage animals to use a
>particular area as a urinal, a good way in fact to "toilet" train them. Give
>the litter box a squirt of dilute ammonia to train the kitten to use it, for
>example.
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>Use white vinegar and water, 1:1. Not only to dogs and cats really dislike
>being squirted with vinegar, a 1:1 dilution won't hurt them where ammonia
>can. Vinegar will also neutralize the natural ammonia pet stains have and
>help discourage repeat acts.
>
>Frosty
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>If it ain't forged
>it ain't real.
>Wrought iron is.
>The FrostWorks
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>Meadow Lakes, AK.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
>To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:00 PM
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] cats very ot
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>>I had an orange tom that kept spraying in the shop, which i hate. So i
>>got a squirt bottle of amonia finally ( plain water didn't make enough
>>impression) and was waiting. I was working at the treadle hammer when i
>>saw him sneak in out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head to hiss
>>at him, spot the ammonia bottle and brought the treadle hammer down on
>>my thumb. It was a mistake. It was a lesson the cat did not learn. My
>>thumb was very flat.
>>Living where we do, we have a choice of cats or rodents. Sometimes we
>>wonder if  the rodents wouldn't be more tractable.....Pete F
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>>Connsmith722 at aol.com wrote:
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>>>That is one of the best damned stories I've heard in a long time... just
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