[pianotech] cats

[Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft]

I was doing a repair and had all my felt mute sitting out. Well, three 
dachshunds took them and hid them all over the house. It took the owner and 
I about 1/2 hour to locate all of them. That was the last time I left my bag 
open with animals in the house.

Al



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From: "Tom Sivak" <tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 8:15 AM
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Subject: Re: [pianotech] cats

> Rick
>
> I took a tuning course when I graduated college, back in the mid70s.  At 
> that time, I purchased a basic set of tools, which then sat in my basement 
> for 20 years, until I decided to go into tuning again.
>
> I went down to the basement to take inventory, and discovered that 
> sometime in the 80s, my cat had peed in the open tool box, ruining many 
> things, but some of the simple metal tools, like my capstan wrench, were 
> salvageable, with some steel wool and elbow grease.
>
> Now, any time there is a cat in the house, where I am tuning, it is drawn 
> to my tool box like a fly to...you know what.   The smell is gone (to 
> human noses), and there are really only a couple of tools that I still 
> carry from that old tool box, but 30 years later, they still smell it.
>
> Needless to say, I need to be a little extra cautious about closing up the 
> tool box.
>
> Tom Sivak
> Chicago
>
>
> --- On Mon, 3/2/09, richard.ucci at att.net <richard.ucci at att.net> wrote:
>
>> From: richard.ucci at att.net <richard.ucci at att.net>
>> Subject: [pianotech] cats
>> To: "pianotech" <pianotech at ptg.org>
>> Date: Monday, March 2, 2009, 2:21 AM
>> List,
>> Tip of the day... Remember to close your tool case when
>> tuning in a cat owners home... lest the little darling uses
>> it for a litter box. eyyyyu, yuck, gross, . I really love my
>> dog.
>>
>> Rick Ucci/Ucci Piano
>
>