Do You Let Your Pets in Your Sewing Room and, If You Do, How Do They Help?
#211
My sweet BCs go where I go. In my sewing room, ShellSee will find a place to rest but my SueBee does a "You've got Mail" pup thing and gets up and follows me back and forth, back and forth, to and from my sewing room to my dining room where I do my pressing.
They have never found a resting place on my fabrics. They're good, sweet girls!! If inside, they stay beside me. I love them so much! :D :-D
They have never found a resting place on my fabrics. They're good, sweet girls!! If inside, they stay beside me. I love them so much! :D :-D
#213
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My cats and dogs go everywhere except the room where I store fabric, and iron. My sewing collects enough hair as I work on it. DH has a short haired dog and cat. Both of mine have LONG fluffy hair. Ever seen how much hair comes off a malamute who doesn't live in the arctic? (Pounds of it!) :thumbup:
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Originally Posted by lalaland
There's something about a closed door and a cat, they just can't STAND it. When I open the door to the sewing room, my cat is the first one in it. I can't tell you how many times I've shut him in there because I didn't know he was in there. Now we account for his whereabouts before we go to sleep at night.
Here's how my Buddy helps!
And here's how Floppy helps (my Avatar). She has a doggy bed in the sewing room but I guess it's not comfortable enough.
Here's how my Buddy helps!
And here's how Floppy helps (my Avatar). She has a doggy bed in the sewing room but I guess it's not comfortable enough.
He is almost too large to fit there. Look at it from his viewpoint, "It is just handy, I say"
Maybe he would like a larger? softer? bed of his own,? with a pinch of catnip inside?
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Originally Posted by madamekelly
My cats and dogs go everywhere except the room where I store fabric, and iron. My sewing collects enough hair as I work on it. DH has a short haired dog and cat. Both of mine have LONG fluffy hair. Ever seen how much hair comes off a malamute who doesn't live in the arctic? (Pounds of it!) :thumbup:
Curiously, I once knew a lady that had a large furry white dog, she was a spinner, and eventually she spun enough yarn to weave enough sparkling white cloth to make herself a chesterfield style coat from her dog's fur!
It was beautiful! It had a remarkable texture, very silky and shiny.
#217
Up until recently I did. There isn't a lot of room for myself and 2 dogs in my sewing room - my girls are big (they are my avatar.) A quilting friend from this board told me she sometimes has her dogs lay down by the door and I thought that was a great idea! It is too easy to trip over them and I don't want to step on them. This way my girls can be close by.
#218
Originally Posted by nativetexan
goodness no, i don't let mine in. i have 3 cats now. my earlier cat, we lost at 17 years, had evidently eaten a tiny, tiny bit of poly batting and started throwing up everything. he ended up getting a barium enema and x-ray and another enema to get rid of the barium.
so my 3 stay out. i have a bi-fold door and have to put a gallon of distilled water in front of it to keep them from opening it. but they behave and wait for me.
so my 3 stay out. i have a bi-fold door and have to put a gallon of distilled water in front of it to keep them from opening it. but they behave and wait for me.
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If some of you are wondering "how do you train a cat?"
Here are some ideas to think about.
Most cats have a vocabulary of words they know and understand.. It may be only a few or maybe more than 50.(because they don't choose to react to them, doesn't mean they don't know them.)
Try this first...
Walk around your house pretending you are your cat. Look where they can nap on a clean comfy place. Look through their eyes. Cats love clean!!! - Which is why they will curl up on new quilts or projects underway, like something being sewed. They also are fond of low open boxes. Ask yourself "If I were Kitty where would I be able to sleep?"
If there is no clean comfy place, maybe in the sun...
maybe you could make it(or them) a clean soft cushy bed from scrap batting and maybe covered with a pillowcase that can be washed and will hold a pinch of catnip as an extra bribe. It can be the ugliest fabric you have and kitty won't care!
To keep them out, a spray of water in their faces and a strong NO! that you realy truly mean will work. Curiously cats have conciences - haven't you seen them look guilty when you catch them doing something forbidden?
Another convincer is a flat piece of newspaper on a ironing board or other sewing surface. Carry a long rolled up piece of newspaper, or leave it handy, and when kitty sits or lays on the newspaper, give the flat newspaper a good noisy whack with the rolled up piece!
SaY NO loudly too. Don't Don't hit the kitty! Just make a sudden loud thwack! Kitty will probably jump off. Pick up the kitty and put it on the newspaper, and thwack the newspaper again. Do this a third time, kolding kitty down. It will run off, and likely will never come back to that place. This is one way people train cats never to get on kitchen counters or tables, or not to go in dangerous places.
Using cat manners - the thwack = your warning hiss, eventually will work with even the worst offenders.
Here are some ideas to think about.
Most cats have a vocabulary of words they know and understand.. It may be only a few or maybe more than 50.(because they don't choose to react to them, doesn't mean they don't know them.)
Try this first...
Walk around your house pretending you are your cat. Look where they can nap on a clean comfy place. Look through their eyes. Cats love clean!!! - Which is why they will curl up on new quilts or projects underway, like something being sewed. They also are fond of low open boxes. Ask yourself "If I were Kitty where would I be able to sleep?"
If there is no clean comfy place, maybe in the sun...
maybe you could make it(or them) a clean soft cushy bed from scrap batting and maybe covered with a pillowcase that can be washed and will hold a pinch of catnip as an extra bribe. It can be the ugliest fabric you have and kitty won't care!
To keep them out, a spray of water in their faces and a strong NO! that you realy truly mean will work. Curiously cats have conciences - haven't you seen them look guilty when you catch them doing something forbidden?
Another convincer is a flat piece of newspaper on a ironing board or other sewing surface. Carry a long rolled up piece of newspaper, or leave it handy, and when kitty sits or lays on the newspaper, give the flat newspaper a good noisy whack with the rolled up piece!
SaY NO loudly too. Don't Don't hit the kitty! Just make a sudden loud thwack! Kitty will probably jump off. Pick up the kitty and put it on the newspaper, and thwack the newspaper again. Do this a third time, kolding kitty down. It will run off, and likely will never come back to that place. This is one way people train cats never to get on kitchen counters or tables, or not to go in dangerous places.
Using cat manners - the thwack = your warning hiss, eventually will work with even the worst offenders.
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