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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:	Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:	FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:	MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO

Created:	Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:	Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5089
Total number of notes:	60366

1858.0. "cat self-training" by DNEAST::FIRTH_CATHY () Wed Oct 12 1988 07:26

    Recently we got a touch lamp for the living room.  Smokey has learned
    that if he touches it that it will go on.  If I return home in the
    daylight the light is NEVER on, but now if I return home after dark,
    it is on its  lowest setting so that I don't have to leave the light
    on all day or have a timer.  The first few days this was not true.
    He must have done it accidently once and now knows how to manipulate
    the lamp.
    
    Thought it was interesting .... he has come up with other imaginative
    ideas as well.  He is 6 months old.  As an adult I am not sure what
    he will be up to besides 24 pounds.  Right now he is taller and
    longer than Bandit who is 2 1/2!  He is NOT a maine coon cat either.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1858.1	lamp & cat = fun	WFOOFF::GONCALVES		`Wed Oct 12 1988 08:23`	10
	We have touch lamps, too, in the house. Mijo right away learned how to make them work. It's amazing how quickly they learn how to make them work. I ended up putting the lamps in my spare bedroom because he liked having the lights on all the time. I would shut it off and he would go over and put it back on. What a riot!!!!!! Shelly, Selina, & Mijo
1858.2	I HATE PLANTS, MOM	AIMHI::OFFEN		`Wed Oct 12 1988 12:06`	7
	DejaVu is just the opposite. She doesn't like lights so she is forever turning OFF my plant light. My poor plants don't have a chance with Deja around. Sandi (Lightning, DejaVu & Thunder's mom)
1858.3	Kitties like the lights on	CADSYS::RICHARDSON		`Wed Oct 12 1988 12:41`	7
	If we leave the door to the study open, the cats hop up on the desk in there and turn the light on - which is sort of funny, except that, as the only lamp in the room, it is one of those big old "student lamps", a big brass thing that tales 200w bulbs but produces glare-free light for doing work, so it wastes a lot of electricity and gets warm in there if a kitty decides she prefers the light on! I try to keep the door shut...
1858.4	Surprise, it works!	EDUC8::TRACHMAN	E.T.'s ZhivagoCats....DTN: 264-8298	`Wed Oct 12 1988 13:09`	3
	I have a lamp on the desk with a pull chain - my "chewers" like to chew on the chain, therefore, pulling hard enough to turn the light on, much to their surprise each time they are successful !