Are you handy?

I actually had a problem with a door handle and my cat opening it. It was a lever either. It was a regular turn knob and I have no idea how he could do it. I don't think replacing the door knob will do much good but as many times as he has scared me when I walk in there and he is sleeping in the bathtub, I have half a mind to change the knob around so that the lock is on the outside and I can lock him out! LOL

If I had the screws and screw drivers I could probably figure it out. I have pulled out and replaced a hard drive in my computer and loaded the operating system in it. I dust out the tower once a month. I change all the light bulbs around here as well. * I love your curious fur ball getting into your roommate's room!

It has been a few years, but I have replaced door knobs. I have not replaced faucets yet, but I could, I am sure. I can totally understand about cat herding. Ours have removed the back screen. Hubby bought stuff to replace it months ago, but has not. I am very grrrr with him. He had to buy the most expensive, cat proof stuff, and it is just sitting. There are a few other grrrs around here, but I will not go off on it.

oh gosh I am anything but handy, if you tell me to turn on an appliance I get scared lol. I have always been useless that way.

Over the years, there have been two feline residents here who learned how to open the interior doors by jumping up to hang on to the door handle which are all of the lever type. None of the current residents really need to do so because I rarely close any of the interior doors so they are free to wander anywhere they want to, apart from the downstairs front room, which is the "best" room and off limits to cats. Being basically lazy and this being freedom hall for cats as well, I really can't say that I've been prompted to do something like that because of a cat learning something new. By the way, I've never had any luck with cat herding, any tips there???

Yes, I'm handy, but I'm also lazy... so it's taken me several years just to strip the staircase... (93 years of paint and varnish, and carpet glue, and carpet tacks, too). But no, I can't say as I've been prompted by a pet to do any repairs.

Well, pets, especially cats can be quite interesting, and learn how to open the doors to many things if you let them. I have had friends who say their cats have learned how to open the refridgerator door, etc. Our neighbor cat will open anyones front door and walk right in if you do not have the door completely shut as it has happened to us a couple of times. But when it comes to Fixing things, I can honestly say I am not the person to ask. Usually I have to rely on my husband or others out there to get something done. But, I bet if I tried, I could fix a couple things around here as well.

Yes, LOL. I have had to learn new tricks because of my doggie. He is so smart. I have days where I am very handy and skilled also. You have to be so frugal and clever also sometimes. I can replace things like that too. Good job.

LOL! I have had to take the toilet paper off the spindle and put it on top of the toilet tank cause she likes to steal it or unroll it and tear it apart. I am still trying to find a way to keep her from grabbing it.

[i]Hi Elic, I am very dependent to my Mom and Dad before..I admire my Mom who has the skills really to almost everything about fixing in the house, she can even work on our roof before..ANyway, maybe if I will be in a situation where hubby isn't around and I need to do it right there and then, Maybe that time I can do things..LOL! I haven't tried yet but of course I love to learn from simple fixing to more complicated! Congrats for that![/i]

Since Hubby is disabled I've taken on alot of the minor handyman chores around the apartment. I can change lightbulbs, smoke alarm batteries, replace a toilet seat, fix metal office chairs and even hang mini blinds and shower curtains. It doesn't sound very impressive but I'm still proud of myself. You do what you have to do. As for the pets, Morgana is very picky and like the other day she wanted to climb up on some high shelves so I had to move a bunch of stuff so she could get around. I am forever leaving the door open to the laundry closet b/c she goes in there to play in the dryer. She pretty much rules things around here. [b]~~IN SEARCH OF PEACE WITHIN~~ **AGAINST THE STORMS, I WILL STAND STRONG** [/b]

I can replace some things and not others. I'm partally handy. I replaced water heater electric bos, but couldn't replace the element. THat cat is too handy! Take care.

Hi ElicBxn, Never mind the cats, my husband got a new door from my neighbour for our living room door and well he fixed up and everything, but he have to change the door knob and will have to get a new knob for the door, it was 8 months ago and there is a hole where a knob should go, he still has not fixed it, I do everything else around the house and he can't even bother to do one thing, if I can do it I will. The kazy so and so, he spend to much time going bike riding with his mates. Tamara

Cats are smarter than people give them credit for. lol One of the worst things I've ever had to replace was a door knob. I had to stop and regroup several times. Dropping the screws and the screwdriver were the least of it. I couldn't get the screws to line up mostly. Finally, after about 30 minutes, I got it. I do some stuff around the house. I've replaced the flapper on a toilet recently and repaired computers. Mostly I let my son do it. Makes him feel needed. :)

Minor reapairs as stated I can handle. I used to do caretaking of apartment buildings so I know a few things. I can change knobs, locks, water faucets, fix drips, that sort of thing. Major repairs dealing with electronicall things I am at a loss there. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

This isn't exactly a new trick but we certainly have a lot of scratching posts all around the house to deter them from destroying the sofas. I'm not handy with mechanical things at all and fortunately my husband is.

Things I've done because of pets. Learn to hide the mouse and keyboard when I'm done.(Tony surfs the web). Close the toilet lid(Tony decided to start acting like a dog a few weeks ago. Louise calls it kittytimers). be excedeingly cautious with lazy boy chairs(I currently don't own one), Tony has a large scar on his shoulder where the recliner mechenism took a chunk out of him when he hid under one. There's probably other tricks I'm forgetting. As for handy, it comes naturally in my family. What I can't do I can usually have a family member teach me or I can learn it in a book if I can't figure it out for myself. My first PC type computer(my computers before that were great learning tools with the power of a good calculator) was one I built from parts I bought at a computer show. My brother and I wandered around the place getting deals on various pats from various vendors until we had what we needed and went home, only to find out the P!!! barebones we bought didn't have a P!!! CPU in it. A friend found them on ebay for us and we were up and running. Ith a sound blaster card and a voodoo vidio card the thing still works over 10 years later. I'ts blown one hard drive, one floppy drive and one power source. It runs a bit slow with XP loaded and only a 133Mhz prodessor with 96 megs of ram but, it does run and I can still use it. Unfortunatly it's probably the best computer I have other than the E-Machine my wife bought for herself a couple years ago. I really need to get myself a new computer. I solder plumbing, fix brakes, replace faucets, rebuild cabinetry, etc... itmay not always be pretty when it's done but almost everything works when I'm done. if it doesn't its almost always because what I was trying to fix was to old and to far gone to salvage.

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