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[la_marquise]

Horus has decided he can, in fact, use his new cat flap. He'd prefer to have the door opened, of course, but the flap will do.

More rewriting, very slowly, on Grass King. I'm revisiting Aude's childhood. My elbows are complaining. I'm blaming the weather.

Skirt of the day: jeans. It's freezing here.

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[athenais.livejournal.com]

It's quite cold here, too, so you have my sympathy. Also, I absolutely love Aude's name.

[eleyan.livejournal.com]

I find that a long skirt over jeans is actually a lot warmer than either alone. Bag-lady-dom looms. But if you're at home and nobody to see you, who cares?

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I do that one. Or two skirts, or skirt and leggings. Warmth is the key thing.

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

good for Horus! It took a bit for mine to agree that the flap on the litter box was acceptable, but now it seems not to phase them.

[cianthecat.livejournal.com]

I have to tape their litter box flap open. They look so funny with their tails poking out.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

It's so funny when they do that. Horus tends to leave his tail in the cat flap for the first minute or two when he goes out, as he likes to loiter on the doorstep.

[stina-leicht.livejournal.com]

yay, horus! hurray for writing! boo on the elbow pain.

it's gotten a bit cold here too as of last night. i've got the space heater running in my office. :)

[fireun.livejournal.com]

I am happy it is not colder here- all this rain we are getting would translate into quite the accumulation of snow...

I am happy Horus has decided the cat flap is acceptable. We finally gave up and just detached most of the doors in our apartment as Phaedrus finds closed doors offensive and cannot be bothered with flaps.

[leita-love-bug.livejournal.com]

I have two cats. Shadow learned very early on. Then I got Sebastian, and he delights in closing them. Especially with Shadow trapped on the side he cannot manage to open the door from. :D

[leita-love-bug.livejournal.com]

"Shadow learned very early on TO OPEN DOORS." Geez.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Both Horus and my first cat, Caspian, can open doors.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Yay Horus!

Do you currently have snow?

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

We have the end of snow -- we had maybe two inches on Monday, but it's now in that melt-slush-freeze-melt stage.

[themonkeycats.livejournal.com]

Yay! Horus!

We's not usin our catflap much these days--indoors in warmer.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

You are wise.
Mooncat.

[glass-mountain.livejournal.com]

Good one on the rewrites! Not so good the elbows.
We are freezing too but not much snow.
Good points: we have groovy new Hanukkah lamp!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

New lamps are good.

[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

Woolly socks, those are good too. Or if you can't tolerate wool next to your skin, silk or cotton ones first, and the wool over.

In your experience, do you think it would be viable to fit a cat-flap in the wall rather than the door? The door in question is (or will be) a rather complex, multi-layered affair involving iron grilles, magnetic insect screens and possibly motion sensors, so adding a cat-flap is actually not going to be easy. I thought that just putting one in the wall might be easier. Could a cat make it through, do you think? It would be a wall of a couple of bricks' thickness, nothing unusual.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Woolly socks are wonderful.
A friend has a flap fitted through the wall and it works well for her cats. But the long wiggle through was a bit much for the oldest one when she was in her last months and very stiff.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Alternatively, you could teach your cats to ring the doorbell.

(Disclaimer: this worked for someone I know. He taught his cats to rub against a piece of carpet and eventually added a doorbell underneath the carpet. Still needs human interaction, and I'd reccommend choosing a different sound to the main bell....

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Caspian -- the cat in my icon -- used to rattle the window-grill as a signal to get us to let him in. They are smart creatures.

[anef.livejournal.com]

I have seen the cat flap in question fitted through a wall, with no problems.

[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's very helpful.

[cianthecat.livejournal.com]

Horus sounds cool. I love cats. Life would be so dull and pointless without them!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Horus is the world's daftest cat. He's loving and playful and has no common sense whatsoever. He's the youngest of the three I have. Oldest cat is Moon, who is sweet natured and sensible and follows me round the house supervising. In the middle is Teh Evil -- Iskander, or Ish -- smart, devious, up to no good.