That damn cat. It finally happened to me. The cat got locked in my storage room with my several hundred albums. Yep you guessed it. What a mess. Should I kill the cat ?
Scottht. Do you ask your wife to approve your audio spending? That may be her first attempt to rid you of the audio hobby - destroy the software that is hard to replace :)
Saw the response from Cajunpepe and had to chime in - my cat LOVES opera! She usually just goes away with pretty much anything else, she does not like it, especially if it's loud, but play opera (she is partial to classic italian works) and she stops mesmerized, staring into space toward the speakers. Really funny...
My cat used the grills on my first speakers as scratch posts. As all (sane and normal) cat owners, I constantly plan to make stew out of her, and somehow end up spoiling the beast even more. What sorcery is this? If the vile creature but released me from the grip of its mind control powers...
You know I think I am blaming the wrong creature. My wife is the one who locked her in there. She was putting my clothes away in that closet. Because of course she gets the closet in our room. I get the spare room closet. Typical. Think I'll have to take it out on her!
Yeah, it's the cats fault! Little crap follows me around like a shadow. meowing and purring.... little bastard :) Oh, and thaks for the advice, I will try to be a man.
Not to catechise, but I think we can categorically state that it would be neither catallactic nor catholic (even if it were cathartic), to catapult the grimalkin for catalysing catgut from your vinyl catalog, despite the cathectic situation. Rendering catatonic the feline, even after such a cataclysmic catastrophe, would be catering to cattiness.
Time to teach the feline some music appreciation. May I suggest for some heavy rotation, at 110 db SPL: I thought of this idea. Think it's the best solution.
Why wasn't this on CNN? Such a drama! Worse than the fires in Australia! Those people have lost more than just a vinyl collection, believe me! Come on, get serious! The cat had to do something while being locked up in there, just be lucky she didn't wet your records. At least the cat has manners! Yes, I'm in defense of your cat. I'm her lawyer! NOT GUILTY!
I should add that years ago on a few occasions, my girlfriends doberman had pee'd on my Quad 63's Arcici stands. I believe he did it simply for spite, probably not just to mark his territory. The stands were usable but rusted a bit. At least he didn't pee higher, directly into the panels. If he did he would have gotten a hell of a shock to a sensitive area, and rightly so.
I am not a fan of cats! I could care less what happens to them. It's a good thing house cats don't weigh 80 lbs, because they could, and would kill you given the chance. Personally I don't think they are fit for cohabitation with humans.....
With all that being said, I think it's clearly not the animal's fault, and the vinyl is perfectly fine. You lost your album covers. I'd be pissed too, mostly at myself.
Maybe buy all one color LP covers for the collection, and display them proudly. I just saw a home design show where they said take the jackets off your books, so they look more cohesive sitting on a shelf.
One day, at my wife command, I took the garbage out to the garage while my Goldmund Studio was running with my Urushi Black. I returned to the house and it was in total silence. My son dropped a ball on my TT and broke the Urushi. It actually took me 2 min before I decide to spare his life. Now 4 years later, my son is still my son, the broken Urushi still broken. So here you go if there is any consolation. So, take 5, you might come to the right decision.
Anyone that would even think of killing a Cat over albums or stereo equipment is an asshole that deserves to be locked up, and watch someone take a torch to all of their equipment.
One of my cats recently "modified" the dome tweeter on one of my speakers. It's now an "inverted" tweeter! Fortunately the hit to the wallet wasn't too bad. So the cat's off the hook. Besides I'm a vegetarian so barbeque was never an option.
A little off topic but might give some insight as to what pet owners might tolerate.
I was over at Dusty Vawter's home a couple years back auditioning his D-200 amps. Dusty has a very nice set-up that includes a set of Von Schweikert speakers. Well a friend of mine and I were listening to some LPs and CDs when out of the blue comes this cat that decides to scale the front of the right channel speaker leaping off to run a few more laps that included scaling the left channel speaker as well. Dusty acted as if it were par for the course and upon inspecting the speakers more closely it must have been a normal routine as the face of the speaker had several scratches.
As far as I could tell the performance of the speakers was unaffected.
Wee Hughie was in the garden filling in a hole when his English neighbour peered over the fence. Interested in what the mad man was up to, he politely asked, 'What are you doing there, Hughie?' 'My goldfish died,' replied Wee Hughie tearfully without looking up, 'and I've just buried him.' The English neighbour was very concerned. 'That's an awfully big hole for a goldfish, isn't it?' Wee Hughie patted down the last heap of dirt then replied, 'That's because he's inside your cat.'"
I wouldn't be too harsh on the cat, it was probably just looking for your Cat Stevens albums, or perhaps the single Cat Scratch Fever. And you can't blame it for getting locked in the closet...
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