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"IBen Getiner" moronically said: (snip) If you continue to demonstrate this kind of negligence regarding your pets, there are people here who will see to it that the proper authorities come and take them away from you. I can't believe that you just said that! The OP didn't leave the window open, the repairmen did. She frantically found all of the kitties. Why was she negligent? What did *she* do wrong besides let those imbeciles into her apartment, but sometimes you don't have a choice. Why is Usenet all about arguing with other people? I've been on Usenet for about 7 years now and have met some wonderful people, have shared some excellent ideas and advice, but it's getting a little petty. (I'm sure there will be plenty of flaming going on telling me to just get out.) Lighten up! kilikini |
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"kilikini" wrote in message ... "IBen Getiner" moronically said: (snip) If you continue to demonstrate this kind of negligence regarding your pets, there are people here who will see to it that the proper authorities come and take them away from you. I can't believe that you just said that! The OP didn't leave the window open, the repairmen did. She frantically found all of the kitties. Why was she negligent? What did *she* do wrong besides let those imbeciles into her apartment, but sometimes you don't have a choice. Why is Usenet all about arguing with other people? I've been on Usenet for about 7 years now and have met some wonderful people, have shared some excellent ideas and advice, but it's getting a little petty. (I'm sure there will be plenty of flaming going on telling me to just get out.) Lighten up! kilikini No, I don't think anyone is going to flame you and tell you to get out (except possibly for a troll ...which sometimes happens). The person you just responded to occasionally provides some useful information, but if you will check back on some of his previous messages, I think you will find that he gets his pleasure out of posting deliberately provacative (and nonsensical) messages. MaryL |
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"kilikini" wrote in message ... "IBen Getiner" moronically said: (snip) If you continue to demonstrate this kind of negligence regarding your pets, there are people here who will see to it that the proper authorities come and take them away from you. I can't believe that you just said that! The OP didn't leave the window open, the repairmen did. She frantically found all of the kitties. Why was she negligent? What did *she* do wrong besides let those imbeciles into her apartment, but sometimes you don't have a choice. Why is Usenet all about arguing with other people? I've been on Usenet for about 7 years now and have met some wonderful people, have shared some excellent ideas and advice, but it's getting a little petty. (I'm sure there will be plenty of flaming going on telling me to just get out.) Lighten up! kilikini No, I don't think anyone is going to flame you and tell you to get out (except possibly for a troll ...which sometimes happens). The person you just responded to occasionally provides some useful information, but if you will check back on some of his previous messages, I think you will find that he gets his pleasure out of posting deliberately provacative (and nonsensical) messages. MaryL |
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This sounds like burglery. Did you even call the police to have them come
out an investigate? They could have taken fingerprints and thus caught whoever did this. -- Panther TEK: Staying On Top Of All Your Computer Needs! www.members.cox.net/catprotector/panthertek Cat Galaxy: All Cats, All The Time! www.catgalaxymedia.com "Kalyahna" wrote in message ... Okay. So I get home from work today, looking forward to having a functioning kitchen light for the first time in a couple of months. I was a little confused because it was a ceiling fan, not a replacement of the fluorescent thing that had been up there. And then I looked around and notice something exceedingly odd. My window was open. WIDE open. So were the blinds. And I could only see the one cat, sitting on the bed, watching me. What's the first thing I do? Tear around the apartment hunting for my other two, and my absolutely petrified foster cat. None of them to be found. I flung open the window and yelled 'here kitty kitty kitty' several times, and to my great relief, my orange tabby Pandora pops up and meows at me, running toward the window. By this time, I had called my landlord because I had requested maintenance on the light. The receptionist calls back to tell me that both the maintenance man and the maintenance manager insist THEY didn't open any windows. At that point, I'm outside digging my shaved-a-week-ago new cat out of one of those odd gutters built into the ground to keep the earth and runoff away from the basement windows. I told the woman my cats don't have opposable thumbs, so getting the window open is impossible for them, and then hung up on her. I found the foster cat smashed against the wall, under the bed, too afraid to move. Everybody's alright, though I'm still ****ed off about it, and wondering how far I take this. I'll talk to the complex manager on Monday (I don't have any choice, between office hours and my work schedule, that's the first day I have off that they're open). I don't know if I want the stupid ******* fired or reprimanded, or just to admit that he did, in fact, leave the window open. What makes me so angry is that I work for a humane society... yes, I know I should have them all collared and tagged, but collars and tags help people contact the owner, they don't prevent the cat from getting into all the trouble they can get into when allowed outside in an admittedly bad neighborhood... so I'm aware of all these risks... but there were inches of snow on the ground this morning! It was below freezing on my way to work, and not much better than that on my way home. I'm so grateful they're okay and they were smart enough not to go far and they were smart enough to respond when I called (all Peaches did was meow loudly, but it was enough to find her)... but I'm SO furious that they lied! I mean, the window has a latch that you have to lift and hold while you're opening the window. My cats, smart as they are, don't tend to cooperate to get into the cabinets, much less open a friggin' window. Any cat that wants out is going to squeeze through the smallest space, not open it three feet wide first. Plus, I have those lovely venetian blinds that only open or close or rotate if you use the hangy-turny thing to do so, and my cats can't open the blinds or rotate them the opposite direction of the way -I- always turn them (so that the slits of light don't reflect on the computer screen). AUGH! I want to pummel the man into a leaking mass of bloody goo. |
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This sounds like burglery. Did you even call the police to have them come
out an investigate? They could have taken fingerprints and thus caught whoever did this. -- Panther TEK: Staying On Top Of All Your Computer Needs! www.members.cox.net/catprotector/panthertek Cat Galaxy: All Cats, All The Time! www.catgalaxymedia.com "Kalyahna" wrote in message ... Okay. So I get home from work today, looking forward to having a functioning kitchen light for the first time in a couple of months. I was a little confused because it was a ceiling fan, not a replacement of the fluorescent thing that had been up there. And then I looked around and notice something exceedingly odd. My window was open. WIDE open. So were the blinds. And I could only see the one cat, sitting on the bed, watching me. What's the first thing I do? Tear around the apartment hunting for my other two, and my absolutely petrified foster cat. None of them to be found. I flung open the window and yelled 'here kitty kitty kitty' several times, and to my great relief, my orange tabby Pandora pops up and meows at me, running toward the window. By this time, I had called my landlord because I had requested maintenance on the light. The receptionist calls back to tell me that both the maintenance man and the maintenance manager insist THEY didn't open any windows. At that point, I'm outside digging my shaved-a-week-ago new cat out of one of those odd gutters built into the ground to keep the earth and runoff away from the basement windows. I told the woman my cats don't have opposable thumbs, so getting the window open is impossible for them, and then hung up on her. I found the foster cat smashed against the wall, under the bed, too afraid to move. Everybody's alright, though I'm still ****ed off about it, and wondering how far I take this. I'll talk to the complex manager on Monday (I don't have any choice, between office hours and my work schedule, that's the first day I have off that they're open). I don't know if I want the stupid ******* fired or reprimanded, or just to admit that he did, in fact, leave the window open. What makes me so angry is that I work for a humane society... yes, I know I should have them all collared and tagged, but collars and tags help people contact the owner, they don't prevent the cat from getting into all the trouble they can get into when allowed outside in an admittedly bad neighborhood... so I'm aware of all these risks... but there were inches of snow on the ground this morning! It was below freezing on my way to work, and not much better than that on my way home. I'm so grateful they're okay and they were smart enough not to go far and they were smart enough to respond when I called (all Peaches did was meow loudly, but it was enough to find her)... but I'm SO furious that they lied! I mean, the window has a latch that you have to lift and hold while you're opening the window. My cats, smart as they are, don't tend to cooperate to get into the cabinets, much less open a friggin' window. Any cat that wants out is going to squeeze through the smallest space, not open it three feet wide first. Plus, I have those lovely venetian blinds that only open or close or rotate if you use the hangy-turny thing to do so, and my cats can't open the blinds or rotate them the opposite direction of the way -I- always turn them (so that the slits of light don't reflect on the computer screen). AUGH! I want to pummel the man into a leaking mass of bloody goo. |
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Get someone to stay at your place when repair people or anyone has to enter the place!! Very simple. Okay. So I get home from work today, looking forward to having a functioning kitchen light for the first time in a couple of months. I was a little confused because it was a ceiling fan, not a replacement of the fluorescent thing that had been up there. And then I looked around and notice something exceedingly odd. My window was open. WIDE open. So were the blinds. And I could only see the one cat, sitting on the bed, watching me. What's the first thing I do? Tear around the apartment hunting for my other two, and my absolutely petrified foster cat. None of them to be found. I flung open the window and yelled 'here kitty kitty kitty' several times, and to my great relief, my orange tabby Pandora pops up and meows at me, running toward the window. By this time, I had called my landlord because I had requested maintenance on the light. The receptionist calls back to tell me that both the maintenance man and the maintenance manager insist THEY didn't open any windows. At that point, I'm outside digging my shaved-a-week-ago new cat out of one of those odd gutters built into the ground to keep the earth and runoff away from the basement windows. I told the woman my cats don't have opposable thumbs, so getting the window open is impossible for them, and then hung up on her. I found the foster cat smashed against the wall, under the bed, too afraid to move. Everybody's alright, though I'm still ****ed off about it, and wondering how far I take this. I'll talk to the complex manager on Monday (I don't have any choice, between office hours and my work schedule, that's the first day I have off that they're open). I don't know if I want the stupid ******* fired or reprimanded, or just to admit that he did, in fact, leave the window open. |
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Get someone to stay at your place when repair people or anyone has to enter the place!! Very simple. Okay. So I get home from work today, looking forward to having a functioning kitchen light for the first time in a couple of months. I was a little confused because it was a ceiling fan, not a replacement of the fluorescent thing that had been up there. And then I looked around and notice something exceedingly odd. My window was open. WIDE open. So were the blinds. And I could only see the one cat, sitting on the bed, watching me. What's the first thing I do? Tear around the apartment hunting for my other two, and my absolutely petrified foster cat. None of them to be found. I flung open the window and yelled 'here kitty kitty kitty' several times, and to my great relief, my orange tabby Pandora pops up and meows at me, running toward the window. By this time, I had called my landlord because I had requested maintenance on the light. The receptionist calls back to tell me that both the maintenance man and the maintenance manager insist THEY didn't open any windows. At that point, I'm outside digging my shaved-a-week-ago new cat out of one of those odd gutters built into the ground to keep the earth and runoff away from the basement windows. I told the woman my cats don't have opposable thumbs, so getting the window open is impossible for them, and then hung up on her. I found the foster cat smashed against the wall, under the bed, too afraid to move. Everybody's alright, though I'm still ****ed off about it, and wondering how far I take this. I'll talk to the complex manager on Monday (I don't have any choice, between office hours and my work schedule, that's the first day I have off that they're open). I don't know if I want the stupid ******* fired or reprimanded, or just to admit that he did, in fact, leave the window open. |
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"whayface" wrote in message ... Get someone to stay at your place when repair people or anyone has to enter the place!! Very simple. Not always so simple. When I was renting, I worked and *every* onwe of my friends also worked. I had no relatives closer than 1300 miles away. There were some people who lived in the apartment buildings who did not work -- but I did not know them well enough to give them access to my apartment. I don't have that problem any more because I own my home. Ironically, now I have a number of friends that I would trust in my home; but please don't be so quick to assume that it's "simple." It may be in the OP's case, but not necessarily. We don't know the circumstances. MaryL |
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"whayface" wrote in message ... Get someone to stay at your place when repair people or anyone has to enter the place!! Very simple. Not always so simple. When I was renting, I worked and *every* onwe of my friends also worked. I had no relatives closer than 1300 miles away. There were some people who lived in the apartment buildings who did not work -- but I did not know them well enough to give them access to my apartment. I don't have that problem any more because I own my home. Ironically, now I have a number of friends that I would trust in my home; but please don't be so quick to assume that it's "simple." It may be in the OP's case, but not necessarily. We don't know the circumstances. MaryL |
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I'm really glad the cats are OK and sorry for your mental anguish, but
really, again, get something positive out of the situation and collar and tag the cats. Stuff happens. When we lived in an apartment in Chicago, one of my neighbors had her indoor cat (young, about a year) slip out the door unnoticed when she went away for the weekend UNCOLLARED. The little cat was smart enough to cling screaming to the stairway, and we followed the noise and brought it into our apartment before someone else shooed it away into the night. It lived in our spare room for three days (where our kitten made goo-goo eyes at it through the glass door LOL) till she finally came home and saw our sign and came to get him in tears. If the cat had not been found or found by someone less patient than us, it wouldn't have gone well for the cat as there is no space in any Chicago no-kill shelters AT ALL. With a collar, we would have known the cat belonged to her and could have left a message on her machine. It's just the sensible thing to do. |
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