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Big breakthrough
I caught Maya using the Littermaid this morning. When Bruiser started
using it it I never saw her use it again. Not that big a thing because in the summer she usually goes outside. But this means I don't have to keep the second litter box and I can move the littermaid back to the spare bedroom. This seems to be a major step in Maya's acceptance of Bruiser as well. The funny thing was Maya likes to move a lot of litter. She piles all the litter up at one end, goes, then moves all the litter to the end and takes care of the rest of her business. Bruiser was watching the whole proceedure with real interest. Bruiser just scoops a little goes and scratches a little over the top. This afternoon I slept in late and heard a lot of digging going on. Maya was on the bed with me. So it looks like he decided that big cats dig a lot. The little guy copies everything Maya does. I don't think I mentioned that Bruiser managed to pull one of the Katwalks out of the wall. He hooked his claws between the wall and the shelf, turned himself 90 degrees to the wall, hung his butt way out in air and started throwing all his weight backwards. He managed to pull the expanding drywall anchors out of the wall on one end. I am completely clueless why he wanted to do this. I am going to have go get some of the anchors that flip open after going through the wall and pull against the back of the wall as you tighten the screw. |
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I don't think I mentioned that Bruiser managed to pull one of the
Katwalks out of the wall. He hooked his claws between the wall and the shelf, turned himself 90 degrees to the wall, hung his butt way out in air and started throwing all his weight backwards. He managed to pull the expanding drywall anchors out of the wall on one end. I am completely clueless why he wanted to do this. I am going to have go get some of the anchors that flip open after going through the wall and pull against the back of the wall as you tighten the screw. Amazing! Sounds like Bruiser is trying to live up to his name. Dan |
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 20:27:23 -0700, Daniel & Nancy Mahoney wrote
(in message ): I don't think I mentioned that Bruiser managed to pull one of the Katwalks out of the wall. He hooked his claws between the wall and the shelf, turned himself 90 degrees to the wall, hung his butt way out in air and started throwing all his weight backwards. He managed to pull the expanding drywall anchors out of the wall on one end. I am completely clueless why he wanted to do this. I am going to have go get some of the anchors that flip open after going through the wall and pull against the back of the wall as you tighten the screw. Amazing! Sounds like Bruiser is trying to live up to his name. Dan I found it pretty amazing myself. I was shocked he was able to do it but looking at them it is not that hard to do. Structurally they don't resist that way. They are meant to bear weight in any direction but straight out. Why any cat would want to tear it out of the wall baffles me. The fact he instinctively knew the way to do it scares me. They had some new stuff at the store I never used before. Big plastic screws wide but shallow. They screw right in so I did not have to drill a bigger hole. The screws compress the wall board making it very strong. The brass screws that came with the Katwalk then screwed right into the the prefabricated holes. Each one is supposed to hold 50 pounds. I replaced all of them. Easier to do it once since I had everything out already. |
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