X-Message-Number: 32082
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:24:48 -0700
From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: Re: Cats
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At 02:00 2009/10/17, David Stodolski wrote:
>What I found most incriminating was that a cat is allowed to rome
>about in what aims to be (ideally) a medical class facility. With lots
>of sensitive equipment around, this could cause major problems. Cats
>have claws and teeth that can disrupt electrical cables, etc. They can
>engage in a range of disruptive behaviors and be difficult to control
>due to their climbing ability, etc. They and their excrement often
>attract bugs. The presence of bugs in animal laboratories is known to
>be responsible for unreliability and failure of computer equipment, etc.


You are quite right about the problems that cats can cause. They 
should not be allowed to roam at will in a medical-class facility, 
and at Alcor they are not allowed to do so. The one cat at the 
facility (Aido, my cat) is in a sequestered area. So far it hasn't 
been a problem that anybody has complained to me about.

Mike Perry

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