Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 03:06:48 04/30/05
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On April 30, 2005 at 05:33:26, Steve B wrote: >>The difficulty is that my three year old cap-and-saddle Cookie Cat believes that >>every small movable object (like a chess piece) exists only for her >>entertainment. Unauthorized position adjustments would be unavoidable. Also, >>she is very jealous of any item I spend time with instead of with her; she once >>ruined a keyboard by dousing it with cat piss. I suspect that Saitek's >>electronics are equally vulnerable. >i have a cat as well >to safeguard all of my computers i have force fed my cat various cat treats and >other high caloric food over the years so leaping and jumping are now a thing of >the past for her > >she cannot leap more then perhaps 1-2 feet in the air >so any computer i set up on my desk(about 3 feet high)is out of attack range Cookie Cat is one of those high-energy felines that eats a lot but manages to work it off despite sleeping sixteen hours every day. Also, she's magically able to convert excess food into shed cat hair with astounding efficiency. I also have Smokey Cat, an older black longhair mostly Persian who was rescued from the alleys of Lowell Massachusetts. He had been surviving via the garbage can diet and was about regular size and somewhat battle scarred when he came into my home. He will eat anything and unsurprisingly is now rather hefty and so is no threat to items 50 cm or more above floor level. He is dangerous only when he sees me making a deposit to his food bowl; twice I've tripped because of his ankle surfing. I've read that Alekhine had a pair of cats named (in Russian) Chess and Checkmate. Less believable is the story that he would on occasion deposit them on the chess table to distract an allergic opponent in OTB competition.
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