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Jim B. · #12 10-29-2013, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Stoneseller

As a kid mom always had at least 1 Siamese cat in our household. All were female. I remember from time to time the local resident tomcats would come around the house at night, howling up a storm looking for sweet kitty. Mom did not approve, and took to keeping a bucket of water with some ammonia added at a convenient 2nd floor window. When Tom began a howling, he was greeted with a bucketful of stinky water. I don't think any of the toms ever got substantially soaked with the concoction, but it sure seemed to discourage their desires to meet up with the sweet smelling felines of the household.

About a dozen years ago in San Francisco, there was a very large colony of feral cats that lived near the parking lot outside the Condo complex where I was living and had my SEC parked.

But the cats loved to hop up onto the hoods that were very warm on cars that had just been parked in their assigned spaces (this was on Twin Peaks which often is VERY foggy, damp and windy).

And the cats would tend to scratch the paint on the cars too when they jumped on and off of them as their claws dug into the cars for purchase.

They were a REAL pestilence, made worse because people sometimes left food for them outside. which brought more and more of them.

Sometimes, then, I'd open the 3rd floor bedroom window when I saw some of the cats, and lob fresh eggs from the refrigerator in the kitchen, down at them.

Those eggs were eerily silent when I tossed them and picked up a LOT of speed when they went down 3 stories.

* SPLAT * when they hit!!! They achieved TOTAL surprise, and they say a cat is one of the few animals that can act as fast as they think, and when a high speed egg hit the ground near them , BOY would they run quick.

After some tries, considering the distance and wind, I got a lot better at it, and once I actually got a direct hit on the feral cat's back. from 3 stories up!! I doubt THAT one ever came back.