Conference misery::feline_v1

    I thought that with all the thunderstorm activity my 2 Siamese
    would have a problem.  However, they have surprised me!!!  They
    actually like it.  They sit in the window watching the lightning
    light up the sky.
    
    They amaze me each and every day.
    
    

    Edd,
    
    I've got the same thing here.  Now that the waterbed is gone, they've
    got more room, but they're still scared.  Last night, at the first
    rumble, Honey (who was trying to be brave), sat on the bed with
    his ears pinned back and his eyes wide open.  As the storm drew
    closer, he finally gave in to fear and flew under the bed and curled
    up around Chauncey, who had already taken refuge.  Poor things...
    
    Mary

    You wanna talk about scardy cats?  My four top them all!  Last night
    we had a big thunderstorm.  There was one MAJOR thunder clap that
    shook the whole house.  All of the sudden, I had four cats in bed
    with me under the covers!  They stayed with me for at least an hour
    after the thunder storm was over.  And all of them HAD to be touching
    me in some way.  I had four SCARED cats with me.  I'm surprized
    that I don't have any claw marks on me this morning.
    
    Holly
    

    Oh... Pookie is just petrified.. one sound and she is under the
    waterbed.. Happy on the other is very unaffected by it all....
    she just sleeps her way thru the storm.It is funny, moi is
    not all that brave herself, and Pookie was watching me bless
    the house with holy water, and I know she was thinking, how about
    a little over this way mummy, and don't forget to do MR MOUSEY,
    and the the rest of my toys..
    regards
    kate

    When the storm started last night, I gathered my gang up and we
    all cozied up in the bedroom.  I tried to tell myself that it would
    be better if we were all in there just in case the house was hit
    by lightning, and I had to get all of us out at once.  After a while,
    though, I had to admit to myself that I just needed a little company
    during the big thunder-boomers!  I'm such a chicken!
    
    Marion

    Last night, we had the closest-sounding thunder and fast-paced
    lightning I've heard or seen in years.  One sonic boom sounded
    like it emanated from our garage...Touey ran in my room first and
    hopped up to be comforted...Guntie (my huge dog) heard me soothing
    Touey and tried to join us but couldn't get his big hind on my bed,
    kicking out the bottom shelf of my typewriter cart, scattering tapes
    and records everywhere.  Then Dopples, our lop-eared rabbit, began
    making a racket in his cage out in the air-conditioned living room.
    Touey, Guntie and I went to join Dops to keep his company.  I lifted
    the top of the cage to pat his head and he jumped out and went
    FLYING down the hall to my mothers bed.  Boy, did he want his mommy!
    I retrieved him and put him back in the cage since he was too nervous
    to be held, but we stayed out with him until the worst of it passed.
    Just another night in the Roy household...

    Well, I now know who are the scaredie-cats in my house - Katenka
    and Yurii (the mousie and the elephant) were hiding in the back
    of one of the closets in my bedroom.  Yurii also dives under
    the covers on my bed - all you can see is the huge lump in
    the middle of the bed!  He thinks that if he is under the
    covers nothing can touch him and no one can see him!  I
    haven't he heart to tell him differently!

    With last nights storm , both Portia and Oscar were outside when
    the thunder started.  Since on various instances they bothe learned
    the hard way that it's better to be indoors during a storm, they
    both headed towards the door at the first thunder clap.
    
    Meanwhile, my boyfriend and I decided to sit out on the back porch
    and watch the storm.  We had the back door wide open and eventually
    Oscar and Portia both decided that it was time to be brave.  After
    all, if mommy and daddy are brave enough to watch the storm, so
    are Osco and Porty.  At this point the thunder and lighting had
    stopped for a while, and the cats were wandering around the porch
    a bit more, investigating the rain drops.  All of a sudden we got
    a huge thunder boom.  2 cats flew across the porch and dove into
    their mommy and daddy's laps.
    
    So much for being brave!
    
    	-Nancy
    

    During last night's storms, I learned a valuable lesson.  Never
    console a frightened kitty during a thunder storm by holding her
    in your lap.  This is even more true when you are wearing shorts.
    Oh well, what's a little blood letting!
    
    Marion

    I opened up the windows in my studio last night and poked a couple
    microphones out. Now I have a 45 minute full stereo recording of
    a thunderstorm.
    
    Go ahead, Aja, claw the furniture. I'll play *the tape*....
    
    Edd

    Rep.-1 Hey Edd now all you need to do is hack a device together
    with a few sensors on your furniture and wire that to your tapedeck..
    
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