Oh, crap

[james_davis_nicoll]

I just found Eddie on the toilet seat, jiggling the handle. This can't end well. How many flushes does it take before the cat gets bored?

Comments

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

9 million.

at least he didn't figure out how to tap the end of the roll in first.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

One of the Herd has taken to snagging the loose end of the roll and then carrying it down the stairs to the main floor, leaving a nice trail of toilet paper to show where they have been.

[wdstarr.livejournal.com]

One of the Herd has taken to snagging the loose end of the roll and then carrying it down the stairs to the main floor, leaving a nice trail of toilet paper to show where they have been.

You probably already know this, but just in case: it really helps to install the toilet paper such that the loose end hangs off the inside of the roll rather the outside. Makes it at least marginally harder for cats to get a-hold of the end, especially if you're scrupulous about not leaving any excess hanging off each time you use the roll.

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

If he's anything like my late cat Jones, never. Jones loved playing in puddles, sinks, and toilets so much that I didn't dare leave a toilet uncovered the whole time he was alive. He once discovered the use for the handle: thankfully for us all, he fell in immediately afterwards, so he never had the opportunity to test his new discovery.

[thesaucernews.livejournal.com]

Depends. Do you own a goldfish?

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

This isn't a problem. It's an opportunity to teach him to use the toilet. Less litter.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I always wished I could have trained Vesta to use the toilet. Less housework for me.

[pameladean]

The one person I know who did train a cat to use the toilet regretted it forever. Just saying.

P.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good story.

[pameladean]

This cat, not satisfied with flushing his own productions down the toilet, would range through the house finding objects that he could drop in and flush down. Huge plumbing bills ensued. The family finally got their own members to remember to always always always keep the toilet lid down, but periodically a guest would forget, the cat would be seen running hell-for-leather towards the bathroom with something or other in his mouth, and everybody would cry, "Stop him, stop him!" and stampede after him into the bathroom, sometimes in time, sometimes not.

P.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I'm going to use that someday in a story. That's amusing.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

LOL! That's cute. (I know, it wouldn't be cute if I had to live with it...)

Vesta used to jump up and rest her front paws on the seat and watch everything go down when I flushed, but she never learned to flush it herself. I think she enjoyed torturing me by kicking everything out of her litter box and making a mess under the bathroom sink; using the toilet would have removed that source of fun.

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Oh my, oh my ... I do hope Minnow doesn't learn that trick.

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

If you live in California, you sure don't want your cat randomly flushing the toilet--think of the water bills! Out here in the water-rich East, the cost might not be so bad, and at least he wouldn't be shredding the couch or using the living room rug as a subsidiary litter box.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

You know, I've been toying with an idea about how to target hurricanes (so that they can be steered away from cities into less valuable rural regions). I wonder if there's a way to improve the rainfall in California?

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

Steering hurricanes? I'm curious. How do you propose to do that?

Bear in mind I have not thought this through

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't a large low pressure zone tend to attract hurricanes? And wouldn't blocking sunlight over a large region tend to create a low pressure zone? Or am I envisioning this incorrectly?

Re: Bear in mind I have not thought this through

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

Let me think out loud a bit myself.

Bear in mind that we want to move hurricanes, not create them. I thought that a large low pressure zone was part of how hurricanes are created.

Blocking the sunlight over a large region (and I don't know how large a region you'd need to block, mind you) would create a cold air mass. I think whether a low pressure zone results depends on the temperature of the other nearby air masses. So that would be a constraint on where you could move the hurricane.