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Nik Simpson - 11 Sep 2004 00:38 GMT

I often get involved in conference calls using a speaker phone at home.
Whenever this happens, Emily likes to join in the conversation, at first
she's down on the floor, pawing at me and my chair, then she gets on the
table and starts to talk. Pretty soon she's damn near sitting on the speaker
phone and waving her bum in my face, it can make the conference call quite
interesting :-)

Anybody else have a cat that likes to get involved with speaker phone
conversations?

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Kreisleriana - 11 Sep 2004 00:56 GMT

>I often get involved in conference calls using a speaker phone at home.
>Whenever this happens, Emily likes to join in the conversation, at first
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>Anybody else have a cat that likes to get involved with speaker phone
>conversations?

A ringing phone draws Stinky like tuna (not that he *answers* it :P).
Speaker or no. He is on me like a cheap suit when I talk on the
phone. ;)

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O J - 11 Sep 2004 01:59 GMT

On Fri, 10 Sep, Theresa wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Sep, "Nik Simpson" yodeled:
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>Speaker or no. He is on me like a cheap suit when I talk on the
>phone. ;)

Though mine will occasionally step on the 'speaker on' button as they
walk across my desk, prompting a loud dial tone nearby, they seem
unfazed by it, as if "It couldn't have been me".

I've yet to hear one of them answer the phone this way yet, but I
wouldn't count it out. If we're talking on a normal phone, you can
bet there'll be a cat there to 'help' us.

Regards and Purrs,
O J

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CatNipped - 11 Sep 2004 02:28 GMT

> A ringing phone draws Stinky like tuna (not that he *answers* it :P).
> Speaker or no. He is on me like a cheap suit when I talk on the
> phone. ;)

They're just like kids, the minute your attention if fixed anywhere but on
them they'll go to any lengths to retrieve it.

Hugs,

CatNipped

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Lisa Katt - 11 Sep 2004 11:08 GMT

CatNipped skrev i meddelandet ...

>> A ringing phone draws Stinky like tuna (not that he *answers* it :P).
>> Speaker or no. He is on me like a cheap suit when I talk on the
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>CatNipped

So true!
Elisabet

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Karen Chuplis - 11 Sep 2004 03:05 GMT

>> I often get involved in conference calls using a speaker phone at home.
>> Whenever this happens, Emily likes to join in the conversation, at first
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> Speaker or no. He is on me like a cheap suit when I talk on the
> phone. ;)

I have ocassionally found my phone knocked to the floor after a call came in
and I wasn't home.

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Steve Touchstone - 11 Sep 2004 03:27 GMT

Not a speaker phone, but Sammy does get in my face whenever I use the
regular phone. As a kitten she used to paw at the answering machine,
in fact she erased so many messages I retired it and now just use the
cell voice mail

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Pat - 11 Sep 2004 15:24 GMT

> Anybody else have a cat that likes to get involved with speaker phone
> conversations?

More than that. They make their own calls. And sometimes they really
embarrass me. Like this morning....

I have no idea what time it was, but it was pitch dark outside and I was
sound asleep, and suddenly I hear the sound you hear when you're making a
call and waiting for the other party to answer. After a few rings, someone
picked up the phone on the other end, said "hello" a few times, then hung
up. Of course I had to get up to unplug the phone after that, or else try to
sleep thru all the noises a phone makes when you leave it off the hook too
long.

I wonder who walked over the speakerphone button and then the "redial"
button. Abelard was in bed with me, Tommy and Eli were locked outside, and
Baby Eyes was hiding in her usual spot, I know not where that is.

The number that was called and the person the call probably woke up was not
someone I've ever spoken with before. The last number I called last night -
a number which did not answer at 8:30 p.m. - was that of a stranger with an
ad in the local classifieds.

I can only hope they haven't got caller ID.

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