Lou Judice <judice@sulaco.enet.dec.com> (05/24/90)
I've had exactly the opposite problem. When my answering machine picks up and someone talks, my two cats immediately jump up and start playing with the buttons, invariably rewinding it, or in one case, fast fowarding it to the end of the tape. I've turned the volume all the way down to avoid missed messages. /ljj
David Tamkin <0004261818@mcimail.com> (05/26/90)
Lou Judice wrote in volume 10, issue 382, about Illinois Bell's ad campaign that suggests phoning your answering machine at home to give your pet the reassurance of hearing your voice over the speaker: |I've had exactly the opposite problem. When my answering machine picks |up and someone talks, my two cats immediately jump up and start playing |with the buttons, invariably rewinding it, or in one case, fast- |forwarding it to the end of the tape. I've turned the volume all the way |down to avoid missed messages. That pretty much explains why Illinois Bell always features dogs in the print ads and television commercials for this campaign. (There's also the factor that hearing your voice say its name doesn't mean diddly to the stereotypically aloof housecat of urban folklore.) Turning down the speaker when you're not home (and the speaker is therefore unneeded) is one solution if you can't find a cat-proof place for the answering machine. Others are switching to voice mail or replacing the answering machine's built-in speaker with one placed some distance away, so that the voice coming out of it will attract the cats to a location where they can do no harm. David Tamkin P. O. Box 7002 Des Plaines IL 60018-7002 +1 708 518 6769 MCI Mail: 426-1818 CIS: 73720,1570 GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN +1 312 693 0591