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 -------------------------------------------------- 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 > >
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