Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!jpix!newsfeed1.dti.ad.jp!giga-nspixp2!spinnewsgate!attnet-tokyo!tm From: tm Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Mogi Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 12:55:24 +0900 Organization: Oort Cloud Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <2knnojF4e8gbU1@uni-berlin.de> <2kqdo1F563rrU1@uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 189.pool24.dsl8mtokyo.att.ne.jp X-Trace: newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp 1088999941 27972 165.76.42.189 (5 Jul 2004 03:59:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsadm@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 03:59:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) X-No-Archive: yes Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:15170 Ryan Ginstrom wrote: > tm wrote: > > designed a sleeping floor like this? The vomit... the woven grass... > > dear god. > > One of our cats vomited on our tatami mat recently. Big ole honkin hairball > with the consistency of tar. We managed to get the stain to fade a bit, but > it is still noticeable. Cats are outdoor beasts. Never bring them inside unless you have rodent infestations, even then a snake is preferable. Surprised they aren't sharpening their claws on the tatami (the cats, not the snake, almost everyone knows snakes have no claws). The consistancy means it spends an inordinate amount of time grooming the street. In my neighborhood we have thousands of water-filled plastic jugs beside every flowerbed to ward off evil asphalt-licking felines. Say, you got their tails lopped off? That is supposed to help somehow.