Guest Posted September 2, 2004 Report Share Posted September 2, 2004 This was just too good, got this in my E-mail. quote: Beware! Our cats have taken an aversion to computers, & have peed on more than one of ours, for reasons totally unknown to me. (Until this started happening, they had been quite trustworthy in the house.) The first time, I was BUILDING a computer on a table in the dining room, & an unidentified feline peed inside the open case. (This is wrong on SO many levels -- they know they aren't supposed to be on the table, too.) The next time I turned it on, blissfully unaware that it was freshly peed on, half the expensive new components fried. Under the smell of new computer components & fried everything, I couldn't even really smell cat piss separate from all the other stinks, & wasn't 100% sure what had happened. But the stains I found inside the smouldering wreck sure looked like cat piss... Then I found an old derelict computer that I had been harvesting parts off of which had been peed on more than once by the time I found it. Since recognizing this pattern, we keep the cats out of rooms where there are computers, & if I am working on one, I cover it with towels when I am not in the room. However, I recently decided to see if I could get an old computer working to give away -- & it was FULL of crystallized cat piss. (This particularly perplexed me, as the machine was snugged up against the wall, in an area where the cats don't usually go, & they apparently managed to pee inside an open drive bay or an open expansion slot. I can't even IMAGINE the posture they had to assume to get pee inside those tiny & ill-placed openings. There was very little pee on the outside of the case, but the inside was FULL of it. Anybody know where I can sign these cats up for the precision pissing contest?) My sister lives in Missouri -- her cat never MET our cats. But she had a computer that got peed inside, too, & she, too, reported that he apparently peed on the front of the case & somehow managed to soak the innards. (And my sister doesn't work on her computers, in the dining room or anywhere else, & nobody can think of anything he was, excuse the expression, pissed about...) I don't know if they resent the time we spend with the computer, or if they dislike the chemically smells coming from inside, or if they just accidentally picked a fiendishly effective target for expressing anger. Needless to say, cat piss can totally destroy a computer. (If you find it before you turn the sucker on, the parts can actually be washed in hot soapy water. This little fact has been discovered by technicians whose computers have been pissed on, so this is not an isolated phenomenon. You have to dry them VERY THOROUGHLY before you put them back together, & there is no guarantee that the acid in the pee hasn't ruined components anyway... And it is also hard to remove all residual odor, which could be quite a problem with the computer all warmed up.) This is one of those cases when prevention is obviously FAR superior to salvage... I cringe when people talk about their cats liking to sleep on a warm monitor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MIKE113 Posted September 2, 2004 Report Share Posted September 2, 2004 As a TV repairman I have seen this many times. I don't know why they do it but we should see if we could train them to pee in Terrorist computers! After they make a copy first of course. No seriously I have seen many circuit boards and components totally corroded away from it. If you get it soon enough you can use soapy water but who checks their TV inside? Nobody!! By the time I see it it's too late! Denatured Alcohol works to clean it but usually some components are useless. With computer circuit boards being mutilayer thats real trouble for the component feedthroughs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennyMala Posted September 2, 2004 Report Share Posted September 2, 2004 Never heard of such... and I have four cats and I've ever had cats..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quassamo Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 I hav 2 cats and theyv'e never pissed into my machine, probobly because im never away from it longenough for them 2 get it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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