Over the weekend, we will deploy Reality version 8.23.07. This is a maintenance release to correct minor errors found in version 8.23.06, including a glitch that enabled animals to look outside of solid walls.
Trouble ticket submitted by Sharon H. (What’s really happening here, according to this writer at Google+: The dog poked its head through a dryer vent and was safely rescued.)
Dog: whut?
Rescuer stops to get pic first.
Epic!
Thank you for the explanation. This would have bothered all day long not knowing.
I like the one ear up/one ear down.
What the ……
(FYI – I’m in Sunny Florida on vacation!!!!)
(have a nice vacation, Birdcage)
“Hey buddy, I found the leak in your spacetime portal!”
That’s what happens when you take the red pill.
I wonder if there was a lot of tail wagging on the other side.
I would love to see rear view.
Some friends of mine use their ground-level dryer vent as a cat door. (They wanted their washer/dryer on the ground floor, rather than the basement, but the vent was already there, so . . . . ) They built an enclosed ‘catio’ so their cats have an outdoor space where they can be safe. It’s very cool. One of their cats, especially, LUUUURRVES it and spends lots of time out there. I wish I could do that for my cats, but I doubt I could get it past the condo association.
Catio! 😀
My parents used to have a screen house on the patio in the backyard (they got rid of it a few years ago because it was getting old). The garage has a back door that opens onto the patio, so the cats could go out from the living room into the garage and into the screen house. Well, Stripes did, anyway; he liked to hang out and stalk bugs on the other side of the screen. We brought Stars out one day and she huddled against the wall next to the door and cried until we let her back in the house.
Clever use of space! (or the space-time continuum)
If I can ever afford it, I’ll tear down the existing deck off my bedroom and build a screen porch for the cats.
I highly recommend your plan. My three cats absolutely live on our screen porch. They think it is actually theirs and we hoomins are only allowed to sit on it occasionally if we are very well behaved and bring treats to pay toll.
In other words, it’s a Catio.
here are some ideas if you have way too much time and money:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/08/31/dont-call-it-a-cage-its-a-catio/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.ffe1b839105d
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/09/15/the-best-of-readers-elaborate-catios-or-patios-for-cats/?utm_term=.bfd93ea86f9b
Others I’ve seen are bigger than my apartment! They’re basically the entire backyard.
So what would it be called if used by rabbits? My bun LOVES to sit in front of the patio screen door. I know he’d love to be outside.
Your condo association allows cats? I am SOOOO jealous!
My condo association limits the number of fish you can have!
Mine allows two cats and/or dogs. Dogs have to be leashed when they’re out and cats can’t roam the neighborhood. The documents don’t mention other pets.
Jeeze, why? Are the fish too noisy? Or do they leave their fur on the stairs? 🙂
I bet that they don’t allow for waterbeds either. And limit the size of the tank.
Correct.
So I sew myself fleece vests for the winter, and cotton sundresses for the summer, out of fabric covered with animals. And I wear them aggressively, and shed my own hair in the hallway!
I wouldn’t have bought the place if they didn’t allow cats! During the years I rented, that was always my first question–if they said ‘no,’ that was the end of the discussion. (Also, if they wanted to charge an extra “non-refundable deposit.” Don’t even get me started on that rant!) Our association rules are much like Allein’s: we can have two pets, one of which can be a dog. I think there’s a size limit. I don’t know if there are any rules about fish or caged pets (not my thing, so I didn’t look into it). They are not allowed to roam free, though I have broken that rule (hardly at all, since the time a few years ago when Jack the Big Fat Orange Cat stayed away for two days). I have a walled in courtyard, and I’d let them out there as much as they wanted if they’d only stay in it, but they can and do go over the wall. I’ve thought about extending it with chicken wire, but I’m reasonably sure the association (and my neighbors) wouldn’t go for that! Someday I just might get trellises, grown some vines . . . probably I could get away with that. My upstairs neighbor has FOUR cats, and she says no one has ever objected. But two is plenty for me–and just as when I was renting, I don’t ever want to try to ‘cheat,’ then get caught and have to get rid of a cat.
Mine doesn’t have a size limit, apparently. One guy has 2 Great Danes (or did; I haven’t seen them in a while). Someone else has a big pit bull.
I wish I could do that for myself! Screened in sunroom or patio or Florida room. I’ll sit with the cats. Though getting out the vent is a bit tricky. End up like doggo for sure.
Aw, man, this conversation just brought back a memory of my Claude, a cat I had for over 20 years. Way back in the last millennium, I had a ground floor apartment in Philly, and like most ground floor places in Philly, it had bars on the windows. I got them to put in some of the big, ‘bent’ bars so I could have a window air conditioner. But when the weather was mild and I didn’t have the a/c in the window, I would put a piece of plywood on the bottom of the bars to make a ‘floor,’ leave the window open, and Claude would go sit out there and look around. He was an all-indoor cat and afraid of pretty much everything, so that was all the ‘outside’ he ever wanted.
Wonderful memory. He liked to look and you enjoyed his pleasure.
🙂
Kids .. This is what happens when you go to Ludicrous Speed,
so DON’T listen to the helmet ..