Comments on: Mystry Of Dora’s Cathouse

By: anti-dog

anti-dog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:46:19 +0000

Let freedom ring.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:42:44 +0000

Wow!
Somebody with some actual facts sure shuts down a discussion!
(Wonder if that will happen on any of the other subjects.)
😉

By: neighbor

neighbor — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:11:20 +0000

There are no cats living in the house, just a couple cats that hangout around the bushes in the back and are fed by retired people from the aprtments to the north. No smell either. The owner does indeed visit the home twice a day. Kind hearted neighbors(not me)mowed the grass and brush. The home is still owned by a descendant of the original owner/builder and has no intent of letting it leave the family. She plans to move in one day soon.

EDITOR NOTE–Thanks Neighbor for the update. It is great the way we all get “linked” by the internet–and the GUARDIAN.

By: Sam the sham

Sam the sham — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:23:27 +0000

As Gordon observed, cats do age and pass on. So if the cats have been neutered, they decline in number, but if one is receiving a stipend for feeding them, would one continue to “feed” the cats even if there was only one – or – none?
Certainly someone is keeping track of this situation as Dora would have realized that someday the last of her beloved cats would be joining her. What was her provision for her house at that point?
Note: people are buying up perfect little north end homes and razing them all of the time (just to put up a “modern” look alike (kinda) cottage, only larger.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:07:17 +0000

How does the cat food get to the cats? Someone must be taking it inside, hence at least a little human contact.
And how does one open a door to a room or rooms with umpteen cats inside without having at least half an umpteen scoot our the door? (Not easy to do with even just two cats inside.)

Also, I believe Boise has a law about how many cats can be kept in a house. Unless all those that were left there originally were spayed and neutered, there’s gotta be a whole heap of the critters by now.

Plus, after five years, there’s gotta be a few dead ones, just on the law of averages. (No stink complaints from the neighbors?)

Hmmm. Very strange.

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:49:50 +0000

I adopted a cat from that lady about 25 years ago to keep my dog company. What a shame to have the house fall apart and the remaining cats unsocialized. They surely are breeding like rabbits and the new kittens, if not exposed to human contact, will be feral and unable to bond. Doesn’t sound like a good situation to me.

By: paul

paul — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:53:21 +0000

A five gallon bucket of KILZ and a good mop will take care of the odor. May take a day or two to dry but it will do the job on just about any odor issue in a subfloor.
Of course you have to get rid of all floor coverings down to the wood subflooring before you mop on the KILZ.