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Gandalf - 08 Dec 2007 22:05 GMT

I live where it gets really cold. I mean, some winter I expect to see
woolly mammoths, and glaciers coming down from the north.

Today, it's 7F; that's -14C.

My calico cat, Kenzie, who spends 95% of her time on her electrically
heated bed, has begged me no less than three times to go out on the
front porch.

There are no birds to see, and no squirrels.

Just snow.

I don't think she has lasted more than 2 minutes out there, but she just
came into the living room, and was sitting by the front door yet again.

No Kenzie, it *still* isn't summer out there yet.

Check back in April; maybe.

Silly cat!

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"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

Life is very difficult. Once you understand that, life becomes easier.
-Buddha

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Marina - 09 Dec 2007 08:23 GMT

> No Kenzie, it *still* isn't summer out there yet.
>
> Check back in April; maybe.
>
> Silly cat!

Aww, poor Kenzie. I don't know, Miranda loves the Out even in the middle
of winter. I'm always surprised, because she has such a short thin coat.
Caliban, with his thicker and longer fur, is much more wimpy about the
cold. He'd rather just curl up inside where it's warm, thankyouverymuch.

It's not very cold here - my thermometer shows 4 C right now - but it's
wet and windy. Yet still, Mir is out in the enclosure, Caliban is
snoozing on the cat tree. :)

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Gandalf - 09 Dec 2007 11:53 GMT

>> No Kenzie, it *still* isn't summer out there yet.
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>wet and windy. Yet still, Mir is out in the enclosure, Caliban is
>snoozing on the cat tree. :)

That's pretty surprising about Mir. Given a choice, most cats would
choose to be where it's warm. But as we all know, it's dangerous to
generalize about cats.

I'm guessing Kenzie likes the fresh air out on my porch, as it gets
pretty stuffy in my house in the winter. All the windows are sealed with
window film, and the doors have very tight weatherstripping on them, to
cut down on heat loss.

~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

Life is very difficult. Once you understand that, life becomes easier.
-Buddha

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EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) - 09 Dec 2007 16:49 GMT

> I live where it gets really cold. I mean, some winter I expect to see
> woolly mammoths, and glaciers coming down from the north.
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>
> Silly cat!

You remind me of Robert Heinlein's short story collection:
"The Door into Summer". He gave it that title because of a
cat he had when he lived in a house with several doors to
the outside - in bad weather, the cat would follow him from
door to door, insisting he open each one. (He decided it
was looking for the door into summer!)

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Daniel Mahoney - 10 Dec 2007 16:44 GMT

> I don't think she has lasted more than 2 minutes out there, but she just
> came into the living room, and was sitting by the front door yet again.
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>
> Silly cat!

I think Kenzie must have been in communication with Ranger and Harri
Roadcat. They have been doing the same thing.

They're used to going out in the back yard every yard to explore and play.
But now that the yard is covered with snow and ice, I don't open the door
for them very often. Doing so causes the temperature in the house to drop,
and I'm worried about kitties freezing.

But even so, after keeping everybody inside for a couple days I'll have
two or three cats greet at the back door when I get home from work,
expecting to go outside. If I do open the doors for them Harri and Ranger
will go outside for a couple minutes and Amelia will stand in the door
looking at the nasty white stuff, then glare at me for allowing the
weather to remain cold.

Cleo, Tabitha, and Sammy have enough common sense that they don't even try
to go outside when they see snow on the ground.

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