Conference misery::feline_v1

    Hi - sure hope you don't get caught.  Landlords can be gruesome.
    Where I live if they catch you with an animal that isn't declared
    and has a pet deposit on it, they charge you 20.00 per day until
    you put up your deposit.  Could cost lots of money.  I'm hiding
    Corkie too.  I'm moving at the end of the month so I'm walking on
    thin ice too.  I've been there six months and have been lucky enough
    to avoid the pet deposit.  Corkie never hurts anything and I sure
    didn't have the 250 they wanted.
    
    If I put Corkie in a room by herself and shut the door, she reaches
    out under it and all you can see are little furry feets. She doesn't
    like to be closed out - wants to know always what's going on and
    she's saying "let me out".
    
    Pat
    

    Sherlock does the same thing!  He's definitely saying "Hey, how
    come this door is closed?  I want to know what's happening!"
    
    I'll keep my fingers crossed that neither T.K. nor Corkie get caught.
    
    Ande

    I rent a house down here that has pseudo strict pet regulations.
    (one dog, one cat).  Of course I own 8 cats.  The property is managed
    by a real estate firm, and they are quite nice (and distant).  The
    owner lives in Mexico city.
    
    well, about 4 weeks ago, The manager called and said that the owner
    would like to stop by and see the house. I naturally said fine,
    and made arrangements to stay home.  He said theyed be by around
    11am-noon, but don't be concerned if they didn't show up, as she
    usually decided not to actually go see any of her properties while
    she was in town.
    
    So here I am, nervous, with cat carriers all lined up, keeping track
    of six cats (two are allowed out during the day). 11Am, 12N, 1PM
    ...
    I relax, draw a deep breath, and start doing something.  35 minutes
    later, they pull up outside my house.  PANIC!!
    
    I grab 4 cats, stuff them into three carriers and head out the back
    door.  Both indoor cats rush in.  Set carriers down, scoop outside
    cats up and evict them.  Hear people coming through gate to the
    back yard.  Grab carriers and cut around the side of the house and
    scale 6 foot fence.  Owner has reversed her direction and is heading
    into front yard.  Back over fence and into car with carriers. Go
    for a short drive with 4 yowling cats. (of course the two that don't
    get along are in the same carrier).  Finally spot the car leaving
    and head home.
    
    I managed to get away with it, but I feel I earned my cat privilidges
    that day.
    
    Dave

     My Malcom does the paw under the door ALL the time.  I'm convinced
    that she does this as a form of playing.  And of course either I
    or my husband have to grab those cute little white mitts....  I'm
    convinced it's playing because besides under the door she goes in
    back of the open door stands up and sticks her whole arm out and
    waves it out.  It is quite a sight.  Fortunately our landlord asked
    for a $100 pet deposit.  We now have three cats but he never specified
    how many..........
    
    To Reply .3-   All I can say is that I would have LOVED to have
    been there to watch your escape technique Dave.  I couldn't help
    smirking to myself reading your message and picturing it in my 
    mind.  Hope they don't come visiting again for your sake......
    

    
    	Re : .3
    
    	Thanks for the laugh Dave.  I wish I could have seen it too.
    	
    	One question though.  You said that you have 8 cats.  Well,
    	two were outside, right.  And four were in your car.  Where
    	the heck were the other two??  Of course I'll bet it looked
    	a bit suspicious to the owner to find two cats sitting outside
    	your door waiting to be let in.  And you must have had a field
    	day hiding the toys, kitty litters, cat dishes and other
    	"evidence".  What a riot!!  You sure have guts.  The only reason
    	I got T.K. is that I knew that I was moving and I knew that
    	I could leave him with a friend if he got caught.  Otherwise
    	I would have gotten a kitten much sooner.
    
    	Well, have fun with your menagerie.
    
    	Oh, I think I just answered my own question about the two missing
    	cats.  The landlord allows you to have one cat and one dog so
    	you left two cats hoping that the landlord would think that
    	one of them was a dog, right??
    
    	:-)
    
    	Karen
    
    	P.S.  I had fun with this note!!

    I understand the panic of hiding your pet from the landlord.
    
    I've had my cat for 4 years now and for the first year anytime
    the landlord came around I would run around to hide toys, litter
    box, etc.  but I would forget that my cat is very curious.  Here
    I would be killing myself to hide everything and she would be standing
    in the door looking at him (the landlord) so much for keeping her
    a secret.  But I lucked out he never said anything about her excpet
    that she was very pretty and friendly (whew what a relief).
    
    She also stick's her paw's underneath the door's.  It is sometimes
    as game but I think she's trying to get the door open.  If this
    does not work she starts to work on lifting the latch (I don't 
    have door handles very old building).
    
    

    My cats do this paws underneath the door too.  I had assumed that
    they emporarily forgot there was a whole room on the otherside,
    and were fishing for mice.
    

    re : two cats.
    
    One, cause she's allowed.
    
    the other cause she can disappear better than any other cat I've
    seen (and not come out for days
    
    She immediately hides when the front door is opened.
    
    Dave
    

    While browsing thru the classified ads last night, I counted up
    rental ads: 4 said pets ok (one said "Cats welcome!"), 10 didn't
    specify, 5 said no pets.  Things seem to be looking up;  a few years
    ago all the ads seemed to say no pets.
    

    
    "Cats welcome!"    WOW!  Where *was* that, anyway???
    
    	;-)  uh oh, looks like you're on *that* coast  ;-(

    I just remembered something that happened to Tom and I when we were
    first married.  We had two cats, Salt and Pepper, and lived in an
    apartment complex that had special buildings for people with pets.
    We had to make a "pet deposit" in order to have the cats.  Well,
    believe it or not, we were evicted six months later because the
    man in the apartment beneath us complained that our cats were stomping
    on the floor all night long and keeping him awake!  Of course, his
    dog howling at all hours and his teenage son playing the electric
    guitar from 6 am to midnight didn't bother him.
    
    So, we had to move.
    
    Hope T.K. and Corkie's folks make out better than we did.
    
    Ande

    Re: .11
    
    yup, an hour south of San Francisco.
    

    
    We rented a house with a "no pets" rule for a while.  Of course
    we had 10 cats.  (We started out 3, but two were pregnant females.)
    
    The landlady was 75 years old, a Latvian woman with flame red hair.
    She would sho up like clockwork every weekend, and say, (in her
    marvelous Latvian accent) "Kets are nut allowed!"
    
    She would then go out to the garage and feed the kitties the can
    of tuna she'd brought them :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
    
    The kitties loved her for it.  She eventually took one of the kittens
    home to her Cambridge condo, where "Kets vere also nut allowed"!
    
    Rita
    

    From my experience, I don't think there's a *real* problem, as an
    entirely indoor pet is considered under the law as *personal property*.
    *Before* there's a problem, tho', I'd suggest you contact your local
    police Animal Control Officer, SPCA, Humane Society, or the like,
    as there's most certainly someone in one of those organizations
    who can come to your support, as I don't think the landlord has
    a legal leg to stand on . . . but he/she could make your life at
    home unpleasant, which is the worst he/she could do.
    
    Another tactic if he/she does hassle you, and nothing else seems
    to work, the threat of a letter to the editor has been known to
    work.

    
    	Three weeks till moving day!!!  I think I can keep T.K. hidden
    	till then ..... if he doesn't keep doing what he did this
    	weekend.  Three times he escaped the apartment.  I had the 
    	door open to let in a friend when T.K. ran out of the apartment
    	as fast as he could and started down the hallway.  My friend
    	was still on his way down the hallway when I went running the
    	other direction in pursuit of T.K. who I caught at the other
     	end of the hall.  Well I brought him back into the apartment
    	but before I could close the door he was out again.  And so
    	I ran after him again.  This time he made it up to the second
    	floor.  Thank God I managed to catch him with out two much
    	comotion.  None of the residents saw us at any rate.  Now,
    	when I move, this escape thing of his could be a problem since
    	the front door opens to the outside.  We are going to have to
    	be much more careful.
    
    	Karen
    

    RE: .0
    
    Ohhhh, that must have been a sight to see those precious little
    pawlees under the door (well, not if your landlord was standing
    there with you!).
    
    I too am harboring a kitty.  When I am ready to go out the door
    or when I am coming in Asia wants to see what is out there that
    keeps mom gone for 10 hours a day.  I have to drop everything and bring
    her back inside.  She doesn't understand that the hall is not part
    of my apt mostly because it is warm out there too.                         
    
    Somethings late, late at night (on the w/e's) I will take her for
    a walk to see what it is really like.  Talk about wide eyelees!
    
    Linda