by pennsy
Rusty is a ten year old tomcat and resembles Morris. He is right handed, since that is the paw he uses to bat trains off the tracks. After he delighted in batting off a passenger train, and really enjoyed scattering freight cars all over the layout, I decided to have a "wall to wall" conference with him. I yelled, ranted and raved and he simply smiled and continued with his dirty work. After the third episode of my ranting and raving, he finally got the message. Took the old boy a while to understand me, even though he was answering me back as I yelled at him. He can yell too. Now he simply sits there and enjoys the trains passing by. I also learned, the hard way, not to have the trains go by too fast. Fast trains are too much of an urge for him to resist. So I am always safe with freight trains, and have to watch my speed with the sleek passenger trains.