Re: Door Openers

["Sue" <sodom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Smart lady!

"ABLE_1" <royboynospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> There are smart cats and dumb servants.
>
> Then there are dumber servants and dumber cats.
>
> There are also smart servants and smart cats.
>
> That beings said, it would seem that one of the above may apply in this
> situation.
>
> My mother(servant) has a smart cat that goes by the name Sylvester.  So
> one day Sylvester decides he wants to go out so he reaches up and paws at
> the lever type door knob.  So my mother gets up and lets him out on to the
> enclosed carport.  After a little of this training of my mother he then
> starts to do the same when he wants back in.
>
> So my mother decides she is tired of getting up every time to let him out
> she takes some rubber bands and wraps them around the lever so that
> Sylvester can get a grip and open the door himself when he wants to go out
> to the car port.  Then when my mother want to 'at her discretion' goes and
> closes the door to either keep the heat in or cold out depending on the
> weather.  But then Sylvester does the same thing when he wants back in and
> she has to it again.  All seems well for a long time.
>
> Then my mother gets tired of always closing the door for Sylvester so she
> decides to come up with a plan to have the door close automatically.  So
> she takes a bungee cord and attaches it to the door and to the hand rail
> outside the door.  Now Sylvester can open the door to go out or come at
> his leisure and the door will always close behind him.  My mother does not
> need to tend to the cat since she is a smart servant of a smart cat.
>
> So this TRUE story brings us to this question.  Of the three listed above,
> which are you???
>
> Now I am sure that someone here will find it necessary to make some dumb
> snotty comment.  So for the sake of those that just can't wait read such
> dribble I will inject the following.
>
>>>>>>>So who gives a rats ass about your mother and her cat!!!!<<<<<<
>
> Have a nice day.
>
> Les
>
>
>>> We have a cat that is indoor/outdoor.  We like to keep him in at
>>> night as that is when the coyotes roam around here, and cats are
>>> ideal meals for them.  Unfortunately, despite the fact that we have a
>>> litter box inside, he decided long ago that he did not like it and
>>> insists on going outside.  Used to be he'd start howling to go out
>>> around 5-5:30 am, which is not bad since that's the time I usually
>>> get up for work.  Lately it's been anywhere from 2:30 to 4 am, which
>>> is disruptive to our sleep as we have to put on a robe and go
>>> downstairs to open the door between the house and the garage (we have
>>> a cat door so he can get out from there).
>>> Anyone know of some sort of powered door opener with remote that we
>>> could put on that door between house and garage so we could just open
>>> it from our bed?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Sue
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