Kitty clock

My mother-in-law thought it would be really fun to give us a kitty clock for
Christmas. It's a really cute clock, so my husband immediately stuck in 3
(yes it takes 3!) batteries, took down our regular living room clock, and
hung up the kitty clock.

Every hour on it has a picture of a different kind of cat; it's colorful, it
has a nice wooden frame and it's not so tiny that you can't read the
numbers.

We were watching TV and we heard this odd cat cry. We looked at each other,
our cats fled from the room and then we realized......... it was coming from
the clock! You guessed it, it meows or purrs on every hour with a meow that
kind of goes with whatever cat is on the hour, if that makes any sense.

For instance, on the Siamese number, you get that weird, Siamese meow.

The gesture of the clock was nice, but we had to hang it on the wall in the
back bedroom because it not only freaks us out every hour, but our cats go
nuts! Their hair stands up, they run and hide, they think their space is
being invaded. I wish there was a way to turn off the sound or turn it
down, we searched, there isn't. It's kind of funny, just not in the living
room! :~)

kili

"kilikini" wrote in message
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My mother-in-law thought it would be really fun to give us a kitty clock
for
Christmas. It's a really cute clock, so my husband immediately stuck in 3
(yes it takes 3!) batteries, took down our regular living room clock, and
hung up the kitty clock.

Every hour on it has a picture of a different kind of cat; it's colorful,
it
has a nice wooden frame and it's not so tiny that you can't read the
numbers.

We were watching TV and we heard this odd cat cry. We looked at each
other,
our cats fled from the room and then we realized......... it was coming
from
the clock! You guessed it, it meows or purrs on every hour with a meow
that
kind of goes with whatever cat is on the hour, if that makes any sense.

For instance, on the Siamese number, you get that weird, Siamese meow.

The gesture of the clock was nice, but we had to hang it on the wall in
the
back bedroom because it not only freaks us out every hour, but our cats go
nuts! Their hair stands up, they run and hide, they think their space is
being invaded. I wish there was a way to turn off the sound or turn it
down, we searched, there isn't. It's kind of funny, just not in the
living
room! :~)

kili

We had one like that - it drove us *crazy*. After a while, when the
batteries just kept going and going and going, we cheated and took the
batteries out! Now it's just a nice wall decoration in the garage! ;

Hugs,

CatNipped

CatNipped wrote:
"kilikini" wrote in message
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We had one like that - it drove us *crazy*. After a while, when the
batteries just kept going and going and going, we cheated and took the
batteries out! Now it's just a nice wall decoration in the garage!
;

Hugs,

CatNipped

If we had a garage that's probably where this clock would go eventually as
well. LOL. I'm wondering how much longer it's going to be before it finds
itself stuffed back in the closet amongst the old computer parts. :~)

kili

Ahhhh the old lets drive the human nuts clock
I have 5 of them but have then I turned the meows off they cats were
getting ****ed plus at 4 am in the morning when it meows and the furballs
fight because of a strange cat cry well you get the picture



"kilikini" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:
"kilikini" wrote in message
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We had one like that - it drove us *crazy*. After a while, when the
batteries just kept going and going and going, we cheated and took the
batteries out! Now it's just a nice wall decoration in the garage!
;

Hugs,

CatNipped

If we had a garage that's probably where this clock would go eventually as
well. LOL. I'm wondering how much longer it's going to be before it
finds
itself stuffed back in the closet amongst the old computer parts. :~)

kili

If the thing has speaker holes on it somewhere, cover them with several
layers of packing tape. It works wonders for muffling the volume (we
use this on the kid toys that are annoying, i.e. all of them!).

Cheers and meows,
Caroline S.

kilikini wrote:
My mother-in-law thought it would be really fun to give us a kitty clock for
Christmas. It's a really cute clock, so my husband immediately stuck in 3
(yes it takes 3!) batteries, took down our regular living room clock, and
hung up the kitty clock.

Every hour on it has a picture of a different kind of cat; it's colorful, it
has a nice wooden frame and it's not so tiny that you can't read the
numbers.

We were watching TV and we heard this odd cat cry. We looked at each other,
our cats fled from the room and then we realized......... it was coming from
the clock! You guessed it, it meows or purrs on every hour with a meow that
kind of goes with whatever cat is on the hour, if that makes any sense.

For instance, on the Siamese number, you get that weird, Siamese meow.

The gesture of the clock was nice, but we had to hang it on the wall in the
back bedroom because it not only freaks us out every hour, but our cats go
nuts! Their hair stands up, they run and hide, they think their space is
being invaded. I wish there was a way to turn off the sound or turn it
down, we searched, there isn't. It's kind of funny, just not in the living
room! :~)

kili

"kilikini" wrote in message
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My mother-in-law thought it would be really fun to give us a kitty clock
for
Christmas. It's a really cute clock, so my husband immediately stuck in 3
(yes it takes 3!) batteries, took down our regular living room clock, and
hung up the kitty clock.

Every hour on it has a picture of a different kind of cat; it's colorful,
it
has a nice wooden frame and it's not so tiny that you can't read the
numbers.

We were watching TV and we heard this odd cat cry. We looked at each
other,
our cats fled from the room and then we realized......... it was coming
from
the clock! You guessed it, it meows or purrs on every hour with a meow
that
kind of goes with whatever cat is on the hour, if that makes any sense.

For instance, on the Siamese number, you get that weird, Siamese meow.

The gesture of the clock was nice, but we had to hang it on the wall in
the
back bedroom because it not only freaks us out every hour, but our cats go
nuts! Their hair stands up, they run and hide, they think their space is
being invaded. I wish there was a way to turn off the sound or turn it
down, we searched, there isn't. It's kind of funny, just not in the
living
room! :~)

kili




Reminds me of the year my MIL got us a clock that projects the time on the
ceiling at night. We got rid of that one pretty fast, and were just
grateful that she lived far enough away not to question what happened to it
till we could say it broke.

In theory it was fine. In practice it creeped us out.

Jo

mers wrote:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:08:40 -0500, "kilikini"
wrote:

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The gesture of the clock was nice, but we had to hang it on the wall
in the back bedroom because it not only freaks us out every hour,
but our cats go nuts! Their hair stands up, they run and hide, they
think their space is being invaded. I wish there was a way to turn
off the sound or turn it down, we searched, there isn't. It's kind
of funny, just not in the living room! :~)

kili

A screwdriver of the appropriate kind to take it apart and a pair of
diagonal cutters ("dikes" in tool lingo) applied to the speaker wires
will do wonders. That's how we silenced an hourly chime clock that had
no switch or sense of day/night. Some novelty clocks I've seen
advertised (the Lionel train clock comes to mind) do shut up at night,
seemingly there's a light sensor in the clock. No light - no sounds.

That is an EXCELLENT suggestion! Thank you!

kili

Jo Firey wrote:
"kilikini" wrote in message
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Reminds me of the year my MIL got us a clock that projects the time
on the ceiling at night. We got rid of that one pretty fast, and
were just grateful that she lived far enough away not to question
what happened to it till we could say it broke.

In theory it was fine. In practice it creeped us out.

Jo

I think that would creep me out, too. :~)

kili

kilikini wrote:

My mother-in-law thought it would be really fun to give us a kitty clock for
Christmas. It's a really cute clock, so my husband immediately stuck in 3
(yes it takes 3!) batteries, took down our regular living room clock, and
hung up the kitty clock.

Every hour on it has a picture of a different kind of cat; it's colorful, it
has a nice wooden frame and it's not so tiny that you can't read the
numbers.

We were watching TV and we heard this odd cat cry. We looked at each other,
our cats fled from the room and then we realized......... it was coming from
the clock! You guessed it, it meows or purrs on every hour with a meow that
kind of goes with whatever cat is on the hour, if that makes any sense.

For instance, on the Siamese number, you get that weird, Siamese meow.

The gesture of the clock was nice, but we had to hang it on the wall in the
back bedroom because it not only freaks us out every hour, but our cats go
nuts! Their hair stands up, they run and hide, they think their space is
being invaded. I wish there was a way to turn off the sound or turn it
down, we searched, there isn't. It's kind of funny, just not in the living
room! :~)

Sounds fabulous! It also must have taken them a good deal
of searching to find it - the only "cat" clocks I've ever
seen are the ones like cartoon cats, where the eyes roll and
the tail moves like a pendulum. (Those are cute for the
kitchen, but probably not something you'd hang on the living
room wall.)


kili

kilikini wrote:

CatNipped wrote:

"kilikini" wrote in message
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We had one like that - it drove us *crazy*. After a while, when the
batteries just kept going and going and going, we cheated and took the
batteries out! Now it's just a nice wall decoration in the garage!
;

Hugs,

CatNipped


If we had a garage that's probably where this clock would go eventually as
well. LOL. I'm wondering how much longer it's going to be before it finds
itself stuffed back in the closet amongst the old computer parts. :~)

Can't you at least TRY to get used to it? It sounds so
neat, a real conversation stopper! (I'd LOVE to have a
clock like that, but have never even seen one.)