From: nobody@but.us.chickens   
      
   On 9/9/2010 5:24 PM Bill Graham spake thus:   
      
   > "AZ Nomad"  wrote in message   
   > news:slrni8iu5o.8sa.aznomad.3@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net...   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:05:10 -0700, Bill Graham    
   >> wrote:   
   >> ...   
   >>> device, but in recent years (I am 75) I frequently get confused,   
   >>> and think that something from the TV is a real sound, (usually   
   >>> something behind me.) So, I jump up and look behind me foolishly,   
   >>> when the noise just came from the TV or whatever.....My cats, on   
   >>> the other hand, pay no attention to any program material from the   
   >>> TV, but should something real happen, they perk right up   
   >>> immediately, telling me that its a "real" noise.   
   >>   
   >> I have a phone app that generates high pitched noise and it is   
   >> amusing seeing who in a crowd can hear it. Unsurprisingly, the name   
   >> of the app is "Teen Repellant"   
   >   
   > One of my cats (B-K, whom I picked up in a Burger King parking lot) comes   
   > when I call him with a "dog whistle" It's amazing how far away he can hear   
   > that whistle. All I have to do is leave the front door ajar, and blow that   
   > whistle, and he shows up in about 10 or 15 minutes.....   
      
   10 or 15 minutes? How old is that cat?   
      
   D "my late cat Oscar lived to be almost 20" Neb   
      
      
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