My beautiful little Birman only died 2 weeks ago. She was 15 years old and had a great life. I miss her a lot. This is her recently.
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As a young kitten, she feasted on my Hakko soldering cord as it hung off the edge of my bench. It was the soft silicone she liked- nice and chewy. Replacement silicone cables were $50 each from Japan- I think I did three before I gave up. The last time I replaced the cable, I gave her the old one but about 10 minutes later, she had attacked the new one leaving it like this:
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I even gave her an old soldering iron lead, but she only liked 'mine'. I figured it was a small price to pay for having such a glorious animal in my life for 15 years.
Someplace I have the pic I took 14 years ago when she ate the first Hakko lead. I'll dig it out.