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bd139 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 6:40 pm
A friend's cat. This is an evil bastard. It spent the entire evening nudging people off furniture that it clearly considered itself the owner of. Very cleverly it'd snuggle up behind them and then ratchet its way across the furniture slowly pressuring them into falling off
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You have to find a way to deal with these things. My cousin had a Great Dane which would get on the sofa and push you off. When roughing about with him I noticed that one of his cuddly toys was a big maroon mouse he couldn't stand and seemed frightened of. I beat him about the head and shoulders with it and he just whimpered and slunk off. Later he got behind me and pushed me off the sofa. I told him to get down and he snorted. I told him I'd get the mouse and he snorted again. I got the mouse. I held it behind my back. I told him I'd warned him and he'd left me with no option but the mouse. He snorted again. I produced the mouse. He whimpered and slunk off.
All of sudden Harley has decided in the middle of night to raid all the loose articles on the lab bench and shelves and scatter them around as well as steal a few items. So he's upped his game from just stealing loose yellow BNC covers. I can't lock him out of the lab because his litter box is in there. That's a surprise I'd rather not find on the carpet.
An old gray beard with an attitude. I don't bite.....sometimes
Likewise, someone has been on the lab bench at night recently, batting stuff here and there over the floor. I could shut the door, but Binx would then come and settle on my legs at night (which I don't like). I asked who was guilty, but Heidi is too thick to be embarrassed (lovely nature, though) and Binx is too intelligent to care. The only real answer is to have a tidy bench. Sigh...
PS Apropos that video of cat leaping into snow, when I was a kid the cat next door loved snow; she would run as fast as she could into it, then put her nose down, legs and paws out, and skid so that snow flew over her head. She thought that was great fun.