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Story: Topper (RB) on my radio
My 12 days at home will be over in the morning so it's back up at 4:00AM assuming I don't smash the alarm. It's nice when I have time off as I can enjoy more time on a few technical forums and Usenet. As I return to my normal schedule I give you this small story. About twelve years ago, before Zak came to live with me I had my 13 year old black and white (with pink trim) cat Topper. While Zak talks a lot Topper actually seemed to say something. He had sounds for a dozen or more different things that I could decipher. At the time I was active in my ham radio hobby and would talk on a regular basis to a group of misfits many of whom I meet in person while traveling up and down the east coast. I still ran my business then and had much more free time than today (another story). One day I was in the middle of describing something to the group when Topper walked into the room and said meof-urp rowr. Without lifting my foot of the pedal that operates the transmitter I said "what?". When he repeated himself I said "someone is coming up the driveway? Now most of these guys knew I lived in a basement apartment and used the back door to the house so random people did not end up at my door. They chuckled at my trying to pull their legs and as I started to defend myself they all heard my doorbell ring. After that all they could talk about was how Topper could talk! A day or two later it got even stranger when I found topper in the room standing on the transmit pedal and "speaking" loudly! I turned the transmitter off real fast! To my knowledge he never got a reply from anyone. Andy |
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Story: Topper (RB) on my radio
I so relate, Miss Violette had sounds for the things she was interested in
discussing, food, out and dirty litter box being at the top of the list, Now tiger can say pounce and milk and talks all the time, Lee Outsider wrote in message . .. My 12 days at home will be over in the morning so it's back up at 4:00AM assuming I don't smash the alarm. It's nice when I have time off as I can enjoy more time on a few technical forums and Usenet. As I return to my normal schedule I give you this small story. About twelve years ago, before Zak came to live with me I had my 13 year old black and white (with pink trim) cat Topper. While Zak talks a lot Topper actually seemed to say something. He had sounds for a dozen or more different things that I could decipher. At the time I was active in my ham radio hobby and would talk on a regular basis to a group of misfits many of whom I meet in person while traveling up and down the east coast. I still ran my business then and had much more free time than today (another story). One day I was in the middle of describing something to the group when Topper walked into the room and said meof-urp rowr. Without lifting my foot of the pedal that operates the transmitter I said "what?". When he repeated himself I said "someone is coming up the driveway? Now most of these guys knew I lived in a basement apartment and used the back door to the house so random people did not end up at my door. They chuckled at my trying to pull their legs and as I started to defend myself they all heard my doorbell ring. After that all they could talk about was how Topper could talk! A day or two later it got even stranger when I found topper in the room standing on the transmit pedal and "speaking" loudly! I turned the transmitter off real fast! To my knowledge he never got a reply from anyone. Andy |
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Story: Topper (RB) on my radio
Outsider wrote:
snip A day or two later it got even stranger when I found topper in the room standing on the transmit pedal and "speaking" loudly! I turned the transmitter off real fast! To my knowledge he never got a reply from anyone. Great story! What a smart kitty! -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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Story: Topper (RB) on my radio
Marina wrote:
Outsider wrote: A day or two later it got even stranger when I found topper in the room standing on the transmit pedal and "speaking" loudly! I turned the transmitter off real fast! To my knowledge he never got a reply from anyone. Great story! What a smart kitty! My thoughts, too. I also wonder what some of the recipients on the other end thought of the transmissions of meowing kitty sounds? Joyce |
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Story: Topper (RB) on my radio
" wrote in
: On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:04:54 +0200, Marina wrote: Outsider wrote: snip A day or two later it got even stranger when I found topper in the room standing on the transmit pedal and "speaking" loudly! I turned the transmitter off real fast! To my knowledge he never got a reply from anyone. Great story! What a smart kitty! Cute! Did Topper ever get a "Mew-SL" from the other ops? I never saw any but maybe he had them sent to a post box I did not know about! How funny would that have been! (For the non-hams here, a "QSL" is a ham radio Q code to confirm receipt of transmission. Often exchanged via snail-mail as colorful postcards with the station callsign, time, date, operating frequency and mode among other items related to the transmission exchange. If you have a lot of them on display, it's "wallpaper". 73's 73! |
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Story: Topper (RB) on my radio
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:53:56 GMT, Outsider
wrote: My 12 days at home will be over in the morning so it's back up at 4:00AM assuming I don't smash the alarm. It's nice when I have time off as I can enjoy more time on a few technical forums and Usenet. As I return to my normal schedule I give you this small story. About twelve years ago, before Zak came to live with me I had my 13 year old black and white (with pink trim) cat Topper. While Zak talks a lot Topper actually seemed to say something. He had sounds for a dozen or more different things that I could decipher. At the time I was active in my ham radio hobby and would talk on a regular basis to a group of misfits many of whom I meet in person while traveling up and down the east coast. I still ran my business then and had much more free time than today (another story). One day I was in the middle of describing something to the group when Topper walked into the room and said meof-urp rowr. Without lifting my foot of the pedal that operates the transmitter I said "what?". When he repeated himself I said "someone is coming up the driveway? Now most of these guys knew I lived in a basement apartment and used the back door to the house so random people did not end up at my door. They chuckled at my trying to pull their legs and as I started to defend myself they all heard my doorbell ring. After that all they could talk about was how Topper could talk! A day or two later it got even stranger when I found topper in the room standing on the transmit pedal and "speaking" loudly! I turned the transmitter off real fast! To my knowledge he never got a reply from anyone. Andy Topper sounds like he was a real character and very intelligent. I wish I could have met him. -- CATherine |
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Story: Topper (RB) on my radio
"Stormmee" wrote in message ... I so relate, Miss Violette had sounds for the things she was interested in discussing, food, out and dirty litter box being at the top of the list, Now tiger can say pounce and milk and talks all the time, Lee Mike's cat, Qui Gun Kit, makes a certain kind of rusty mew with a flourish at the end when I call for Mike. He also has a mew for inquiries, certain noises for various friends and family, and a paw in the air greeting for his mom. He's very communicative, though he doesn't make a lot of noises, generally. The other cats also have certain sounds and body language that they make. Huey sounds like a really strange Kewpie doll cut off short when he's feeling insecure and wants someone to talk to him. Tanada has a sort of mew noise that she makes when she wants to let me know that she is not pleased and I'd better correct the situation right now. QC has a trill that she uses to let me know that she wants to be loved on. Sonya has a trill that she used for Qui Gun, but she rarely uses it now. I suspect that they no longer remember that she was/is his momcat. Pam S. Momcat to seven of the little stinkers |
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Story: Topper (RB) on my radio
Outsider wrote:
My 12 days at home will be over in the morning so it's back up at 4:00AM assuming I don't smash the alarm. It's nice when I have time off as I can enjoy more time on a few technical forums and Usenet. As I return to my normal schedule I give you this small story. About twelve years ago, before Zak came to live with me I had my 13 year old black and white (with pink trim) cat Topper. While Zak talks a lot Topper actually seemed to say something. He had sounds for a dozen or more different things that I could decipher. At the time I was active in my ham radio hobby and would talk on a regular basis to a group of misfits many of whom I meet in person while traveling up and down the east coast. I still ran my business then and had much more free time than today (another story). One day I was in the middle of describing something to the group when Topper walked into the room and said meof-urp rowr. Without lifting my foot of the pedal that operates the transmitter I said "what?". When he repeated himself I said "someone is coming up the driveway? Now most of these guys knew I lived in a basement apartment and used the back door to the house so random people did not end up at my door. They chuckled at my trying to pull their legs and as I started to defend myself they all heard my doorbell ring. After that all they could talk about was how Topper could talk! A day or two later it got even stranger when I found topper in the room standing on the transmit pedal and "speaking" loudly! I turned the transmitter off real fast! To my knowledge he never got a reply from anyone. Andy What a nice story! Best wishes, Polonca and Soncek |
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Story: Topper (RB) on my radio
tanada wrote: He's very communicative, though he doesn't make a lot of noises, generally. The prettiest cat in Christendom our Lady Isis (RB) did have a huge vocabulary which she regularly exercised sometimes rather loudly (we used to say "Speak up Issi they can't hear you in Birmingham"- seriously I once heard her through the front door...that's the one downstairs..) She used to hold enormously long chats with anyone who was passing by..she'd go "mrrrow" and I would say back "Mrrow" or my version of it and she'd reply and I'd reply and this would go on for ages... I was never quite sure whether she was imparting the wisdom of ages to me/telling me the lottery numbers for next week or quite possibly thinking "Can't this woman speak a word of cat properly?" Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs. |
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