how to store, away from cat

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he will get the record he scratches the side of the thing the record is in he knocks the record he eats the plastic his hair is everywhere

my cat scratches at my record shelves to wake me up in the mornings if/when he needs food. i find that if i make sure to feed him before bed he will not do this. although he chews the shit out of the plastic sleeves sometimes. partic the plastic i have on "music of indonesia" (folkways box.)

My cats leave my records alone *touch wood*

They do have a habit of sitting on the record player lid when I'm playing them though. Especially if I'm ripping them. They make them skip just to fuck with me.

i have a friend who lives in a punk house with pet rats running free and the rats hoard people's 7"s!!!!!!!

punk house rats should start their own punk labels. i would totally buy their stuff.

i know one named jelly

he got stuck on a bike and i helped him down

My cat scratches the tops of my records. I've given up on stopping him.

theres gotta be a better way!

*hands on hips*

glass cabinet? keep in boxes with lids?

only use the highest shelves? my cat can only get at the bottom two.

boxes with lids...

maybe i will make some tbh

I keep my records in a nice trunk with a lid, those fucken cats can't get to em

http://www.sleevetown.com/record-storage.shtml

too bad there isn't some sort of repellent spray for cats. one that smells like dogs. or a motion sensor device. one that makes the sound of a vaccuum cleaner if your cat gets too close to your records.

the cat and my two kids know - without me having to say anything - not to mess with my records or they will suffer a fate worse then death. it's understood.

http://www.humane-society-idaho.com/abuse/Idaho-Humane-Society/electric-fence.jpg

the cat would go through the cardboard boxes tbh

by scratching through them

i was thinking of making some storage cabinets with doors or lids, out of wood

we'll see

get softpaws for the claws, a cork for the mouth

our cats don't mess with records except to rub their cheeks against from time to time. and if you lay a record flat on the floor and close your eyes, when you open them there will be a cat asleep on top.

^^^^^ gott punch is good, gott punch is wise

a cork!??!?!

The dog and one cat don't bother with the records, but the other cat uses the exposed spines (and plastic sleeves covering them) as a scratch pad. I got new shelving and the lower shelves are now books and cds, the records start the 3rd shelf up and no problems any more. But some of the records still have claw marks in the spine -- boo.

my cat has not discovered the pleasures of clawing records and i hope she never will

my vinyl collection is still rather small so i haven't any shelving for them -- i've been keeping them in a couple of the larger ikea SNACK boxes, which are pretty good so far, sturdy plywood w/ metal reinforced corners and can be mounted onto casters, though not quite deep enough to completely house an upright LP. If you got the shallower version of the SNACK box, though, if would probably serve as a completely cat-proof lid.

Put an actual scratching post right next to the records? Then praise cat effusively if you catch her using the post -- petting, treats, tons of positive reinforcement.

hahahahahahhaha yeah right.

I dunno, that's how cat people say you're supposed to redirect them to a desired location. I have definitely seen cats trained by this method go to their scratching things (post/box/etc) and scratch furiously and then look around to make sure you have noticed them doing it. It's cute.

hey guys, i got a new receiver yesterday so if everything goes well, i should be able to play vinyl again tonight. hi.

my cats leave my records alone, but the slipmat always gets covered in cat hair which gets on the records, even if i try to clean it off. i had to start putting an extra slipmat on top of that one when not in use.

try using sticky tape to get the hair off of it. kind of annoying and tedious, but it should work.

thx. what should i be doing for the furry records?

i guess just clean them as good as you can. see: record-cleaning thread

my cat is a very sweet boy and quite cute, but he forgets that he can walk through doorways and loses his treat after he has already eaten half of it

i believe other cats may well be trained by this method, but my cat is special

he forgets that he can walk through doorways

our white cat is like that. she will sit by a doorway and just meow sadly until you nudge her through.

My cat would chew on the corners of all the cardboard record covers, so theve all been rendered a bit un-collectible now I suppose, though thats not as bad as my limited to 1000 special release of EVOL that I stood on and broke in half ;_;

Dont play or leave my rekkids out often enough for cat to roon. She just roons all my posters instead the beetatch.

at least my cat has stopped pretending to be a dj. she would always put her paws on records that were playing and scratch like a sick turntablist.

http://users.rcn.com/rschrade/dumdum.jpg

^^^ yes like that!

aw i had a cat that did that too RIP

do people generally bother with the outer sleeves that protect the jacket? i thought i would be diligent and bag everything up, but they are such a pain in the ass and come off when you slide them off the shelf, or stick out which looks bad. i know there are ones with sticky flaps but presumably those wear out pretty quickly?

you can arrange them with the opening facing up, but that extrication combined with the inner sleeves is like solving a puzzle every time i want to play a record.

alternatives? really i am hoping for the hive mind to justify not bothering.

I use sleeves on most of my records, open side up for easy shelving. Some people I know, not me, keep the LP outside the jacket so they can just slide it out w/o taking the plastic off. I don't mind taking plastics off really. It can be a pain, but...

yeeah. guess i am stuck. all part of the ritual of vinyl enjoyment, eh.

i mean, there are tons of folks who don't use sleeves at all! it just means more ringwear if they're packed tightly together. i used to be less diligent about it, then one of my old roommates had a party & someone puked on my records... so now i try to protect them.

haha. i've had an amp fried by "party bodily fluids" (sadly, the perp was not immediately electrocuted) so not as unlikely as one might hope. in the end guess i am too anal to not attempt maximum protection. you would think there'd be some clever solution to the outer sleeve problems, perhaps from japan.

i know there are ones with sticky flaps

I hate these. half the time they stick to the record when you're trying to stick it back in. I use the regular plastic ones

ones with sticky flap are also more prone to tearing.

bodily fluids aren't the problem so much as spilled beer...

not a fan of flaps.

I try to use one of these bad boys on most of my non-$1 records:

http://www.bagsunlimited.com/cart/detail.asp?cat=2&subcat=11&product_id=slp3

yes, open side up for easy shelving. It takes, what, 2 seconds to slip it off before taking the record out?

maybe i'll try switching to the sleeve puzzle method. sloth is a fault.

fuck the sticky flaps

that's what she said

I've lived in a number of places and these are my solutions.

1) Use closet shelves that hug the ceiling, not the floor. I once had a brilliant closet / dressing room where the shelves wrapped around the perimeter of the space.

2) A garage or garage loft, if you have one.

3) Throw an attractive cover over shelving unit or row of records when you leave for the day.

4) Use one closet, if you have one to spare, to store LPs.

The cat also knocked iced tea on one LP, it plays fine, but to this day it looks like she peed on it.

maybe i will keep the cat on a closet shelf that hugs the ceiling not the floor

Some people I know, not me, keep the LP outside the jacket so they can just slide it out w/o taking the plastic off.
― ian, Wednesday, August 12, 2009 3:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I do this. Am I potentially ruining my records or anything?

no. collectors do this so that they don't damage covers taking records out and putting them back in.

i do this. i recently changed from side-opening bags to top-opening bags, cause my expedit keeps the dust off, and everything slides out of the side-facers too much.