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Subject: [Leica] Warning cat picture
From: daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:19:33 +0200
References: <AANLkTimgcPuTyV+o+TVmoH7zU2MHAMzD38fNyxmYQBbj@mail.gmail.com> <C89CDDBA.25C4%mark@rabinergroup.com>

We ended up just tying the bags into knots. Worked. But you still
heard that "scratch, scratch, scratch" in the middle of the night.

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
> Foodbags?
>
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> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> mark at rabinergroup.com
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>> From: Daniel Ridings <daniel at dlridings.se>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:42:11 +0200
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Warning cat picture
>>
>> Igge isn't "tame". He or she is extremely near-sighted. I wrote
>> "porcupine" before, but its a "hedgehog". Same sharp needles, just not
>> as long.
>>
>> If you get too close, it turns into a pin cushion, with the pins
>> pointing out. The cat knows that. Our other two do too. I've seen when
>> kittens have their first experience of hedgehogs. Serves them right
>> with all of those sharp claws they have themselves.
>>
>> Ewa and I took a bike vacation this summer and spent two weeks tenting
>> around the south of Sweden:
>>
>> http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100707-_DSC2416-1.jpg.html
>> http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100704-_DSC2308-2.jpg.html
>> http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100705-_DSC2385-2.jpg.html
>>
>> You can imagine how it feels to wake up in the middle of the night and
>> here this rustling through your bags in the dark. These things might
>> be part blind, but they can smell food a mile away. The first two
>> nights they actually crawled into our foodbags to hide when they heard
>> us go up to chase them out. We'd have to dump out the whole bag to get
>> them out. Ewa used to think they are cute. She thinks they're little
>> stinkers now.
>>
>> Google has some better pictures of them:
>>
>> http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=hedgehog
>>
>> They hibernate and live in our yard. They like quiet, unkept spaces.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at 
>> lighttube.net> wrote:
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>> Pretty girls always trump food!
>>>
>>> How tame is Igge? ?He/she looks like an interesting critter.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Ridings" <daniel at 
>>> dlridings.se>
>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 2:16 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Warning cat picture
>>>
>>>
>>>> We bought a whole collection of doormats :-)
>>>>
>>>> But now it's evening here, and as always, Igge comes to eat up the
>>>> left-overs:
>>>>
>>>> http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100826-IMGP0416-2.jpg.html
>>>>
>>>> He really, really, likes Rebecca. It's uncanny. He just waits and
>>>> waits for her. I'm the one who gives him food, but she's the one he
>>>> adores.
>>>>
>>>> http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100826-IMGP0410-1.jpg.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Now you need to get a doormat for the door.
>>>>>
>>>>> Enjoyed your cat story.
>>>>>
>>>>> Robert
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 26, 2010, at 3:03 AM, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The placement of the door mat was slightly impractical and has been
>>>>>> adjusted:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/s2010/20100826-IMGP0406-1.jpg.html
>>>>>>
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