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Editorial
If you are like most peo- that. Like the old advertise- not so fully functional now, I
ple, you have some sort of ments of the boy on his belly, suppose.
pet or another. I, myself, wide-eyed and staring at his In the end, if you have the
have cats. Many people find train coursing down the track, sweetest creature of the fur
that having an animal around with good old faithful Spot variety or a tiny fuzzy de-
helps them relax, but when it next to him. Or sometimes mon, pets are just one more
comes to my model railroad- when you aren’t sure about if thing that many of us model
ing hobby, that is the number you should put that building railroaders have in common.
one place my pets are abso- to the left of the mountain or And, bad or good, what
lutely not allowed. to the right of the town and would our hobby be without
Don’t get me wrong, I you move it around a dozen them?
love my kitties like family, times. The look your best
but you know the saying: friend gives you is nonjudg-
-Bonnie
“Hell hath no fury like a mental and can even seem-
woman who has just had her ingly give you the answers
cat walk through her wet you desire.
paint pallet and grab her Z While the unconditional
scale boxcar just to run off companionship of some pets
and bat it under the refrigera- is wonderful, the painful in-
tor.” Well, if it wasn’t a say- difference of others is a real
ing before, maybe it should thing. Occasionally, that in-
be. Having said that, I love difference is more like a
my furmonsters, but I have to deep-seated loathing for the
put into perspective how Z hobby we hold so dear. I
scale tracks don’t react well know of one gentleman
to cat fur. whose cat would sneak into
I know of people who his basement and wreak hav-
spend hours in their base- oc on his layout at every op-
ments working on their lay- portunity. In one particular
outs with their faithful instance, the cat got into his
companions by their sides newly completed fully func-
and there is something so tional catenary section. Well,
wonderful and pure about
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