On our previous story listed here is the "Office Memo" by Ailurophile Enterprises, management to its all-feline office staff regarding some workplace problems. Now here's an update about a member of that staff, Emily Catt.

Emily does not like computer work much except to sleep on the monitor, so recently she found an ingenious way to temporarily avoid it. In Ailurophile Enterprise's home office on the second floor, the resident human tried to go on line to send an email but the server wouldn't connect. So he tried to call the Internet service provider's (ISP's) technical support line, but discovered that the phone was dead. So THAT was why he couldn't get on the Internet -- the computer's modem is connected to the phone line!

He rang the phone company from downstairs (those phones were working), and they said they'd send a repairman around the following day. However, early that morning someone in the family who was down in the basement looked up in the rafters and saw that a thin phone line leading inside the wall up to the second floor was dangling down and severed. And guess who likes to climb up around those rafters, and (though she never touches electric wires) had bitten through the phone wire? Right -- Emily!

The chaos caused by one mischievous kitty? A forest of emergency phone cords strung up the stairs to get the computer temporarily back on line. A hasty soldering job on the severed wire. And worst, a visit by a frustrated phone repairman whose company the human had told to cancel his services but who hadn't relayed the message to him. Cats? -- Rats!

Copyright © Bobcat
September 9, 2001