Cat in plane

"George Patterson" wrote:

Perhaps to you. I've had several cats that loved me.

Have you noticed that all cat haters you've met are people who were not
raised with cats as pets? I think this is because these folks simply do
not speak Cat, a language one must learn young, apparently. Thus they
misinterpret cat signals as hostility, aloofness, sneakiness, etc. I've
met only one person who came to like cats as an adult, and never met a
cat hater who was raised with them.

A cat is a project. It requires proper rearing to become a good pet.
Some people have the knack for it (it seems your family does), some
don't. The best pets usually happen when the animals are acquired very
young and handled with gentle discipline and love.

Exactly the same thing is true of dogs, of course, but one can get away
with ignoring the proper rearing of a cat with less dire consequences
than one suffers from a delinquent dog. Cats are lower maintenance than
dogs and thus tend to get ignored more often, resulting in the aloof,
shy animals that contribute to cats' reputation among non-cat people.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

skym wrote:

I hope this is a joke. Cats are not likely to try to hump your leg,
drool on you or your stuff, have terrible breath, fart like hell, or
crap indiscriminately.

My cats do 4 out of the 5; my dog does only 2.


All the best,


David

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:14:39 GMT, "soxinbox" wrote:

Has any got any experience with taking a cat in an airplane. Do they freak
out from the loud noise. Do they have problems with the change in altitude?


Years ago a friend and I decided to give a ride in a 172 to Ole Tom
from the local FBO. Gentle old sole you could kick and he'd just roll
over. Threw him in the back seat and he promply went to sleep -- at
least for a while. At 5000 feet over Ohio he woke up and looked
outside. All of a sudden he went into overdrive and was tearing
aroung the cabin in vertical and horizontal circles. Skin and
headliner were being shreaded big time. Only thing I could do was
open the side window. Poof - - - I always wondered if he landed on
his feet.

Long and the short of it. If you fly with an uncaged cat, leave the
window open.

Don Hammer wrote:
outside. All of a sudden he went into overdrive and was tearing
aroung the cabin in vertical and horizontal circles. Skin and
headliner were being shreaded big time. Only thing I could do was
open the side window. Poof - - - I always wondered if he landed on
his feet.


That wasn't the "only thing" you could do. Good thing you weren't based
at my airport, or else I would have beaten you to death with a baseball
bat, once you had landed.

--- Jay
(who values the lives of cats more than most people's)



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Jay Masino wrote:
Don Hammer wrote:
outside. All of a sudden he went into overdrive and was tearing
aroung the cabin in vertical and horizontal circles. Skin and
headliner were being shreaded big time. Only thing I could do was
open the side window. Poof - - - I always wondered if he landed on
his feet.


That wasn't the "only thing" you could do. Good thing you weren't based
at my airport, or else I would have beaten you to death with a baseball
bat, once you had landed.

What would you have done in the same situation?

-jav

Javier Henderson wrote:
What would you have done in the same situation?

I wouldn't be so stupid as to "experiment" with taking a cat in my plane,
but I would have pushed it away or let it claw me (and take it like a
man), while I landed the plane.

--- Jay



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Jay Masino wrote:
Javier Henderson wrote:
What would you have done in the same situation?

I wouldn't be so stupid as to "experiment" with taking a cat in my plane,
but I would have pushed it away or let it claw me (and take it like a
man), while I landed the plane.

OK, well, if the cat was really mad, I could see how landing would've
been really difficult or maybe even impossible.

Anyway... I haven't felt compelled to take my Siamese in my plane, but
she does like car rides. Maybe she'd like a plane ride. I wouldn't know
though, she refuses to tell me.

-jav