hellison | Cats and Doors

Following an converstaion beginning on email re horrendously cold weather approaching and impossibility of closing doors if you live with cats, Sarah (the anon posting on the NG post)has decided to create an exciting and educational website for cats to teach them how to close doors, leading to warmer houses for us all and freeing us from participation in playing Other Side, tho I suspect that will take a lot of the fun out of it for the cats.

Knowing that many of you are Cat owners (or owned by cats), obviously this was the best place to ask for assistance, since you will all benefit from this exciting new educational tool for your furry little overlords.

Anyway, to further this great aim the following would be of great help!

(from sarah)
Yeah, on second thoughts, if we could do something like
1. Cat
2. Door
3. Cat by open door with big red X
4. Cat by open door with big finger pointing at cat
5. Cat by closed door with big green tick

That would make me very happy.....
We could do a bit of promotional gumph - welcome to shutthatdoormiaow.com, THE place for cat door shutting training. In just 5 simple steps, we will show you how to get rid of that
annoying door-opening habit!!

also
Yeah, and then need to find a hoster and somewhere to do the page, and someone who can do html to do the text - Any ideas for promotional text for our new venture?

ETA hehe, a tutorial session? http://eatin.fotopic.net/p10857750.html

ps those of you from Scene (alas, poor Scene) may remember Sarah as Thesme ;)

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Okok, a modelling session was on my mind, but only one - the bit after photo of cat beside open door (bad) and before cat beside closed door (goood)- i.e. I want a pic with cat, open door, and pointy finger. This may prove difficult though.

Otherwise, any situational images of cat-doorishness will suffice.

Your very nice blue lumpy icon reminds me of a black feline called Pedo (don't ask) who worked out how to use the front door knocker (she would leap up, hook her paws around the knocker and swing herself back and forwards). Sounded exactly like a human person and we spent so much '-ing' time running to the door only to find her ladyship walking daintily and smugly in. That kind of cat poses a serious threat in these chilly times, being the cause of much unnecessary door opening, but, GETTING OTHER PEOPLE TO DO IT FOR HER!

Should we feature the device known as a 'cat flap' and it's proper use (as opposed to its improper use as a weapon for batting at the neighbours cat during a feud)?

Heh, yours do that? Mine just either launch a a full frontal assault or occasionaly airbourne attack (JC) or come pelting at me at full tilt screaming (Lana) until I make it go away .

the 'cat flap' device has a fatal flaw - in that it allows the feline to waft draughts through the house resulting in chill. However, we could feature
1) draught proofing for cat flaps
2) the proper usage of cat flaps for well-behaved felines - not a weapon, not an invitation for catty chums to move in and get free dinner, not a route for interested toms to come in and pee all over the gaff.

My step-dad's cats appear to think that the proper use of a cat flap is for a human to come along and hold it open for them...this must also be targeted.

Another example of Incorrect Usage of Cat Flaps
http://eatin.fotopic.net/p6052797.html

It should be stressed that 'draught proofing for cat flaps' does not involved getting wedged as one tries to drap in a dead kebab (don't ask)

Presumably tho that's at least better than them dragging in a live kebab...

Not when you tread on it in the dark.

To this day I can feel chilli sauce between my toes.

A live kebab would have had the sense to get out of my way ;-)

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