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Is a "Fly swatter" circuit appropriate for a cat?
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vk6zgo:

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--- Quote from: eti on November 11, 2022, 07:42:26 pm ---With animals, love and kindness ALWAYS work best... and PATIENCE... and if you have none of those, don't have a cat. It's a blessing to you, not a nuisance to be fixed. Patience PAYS OFF.

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Any advice for the neighbour's cat that persistently craps on your lawn then?

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Advice to the cat?------ "Get off my lawn!"
xrunner:

--- Quote from: Fred27 on November 15, 2022, 10:47:42 am ---I would never advocate cruelty to animals. However, cats are evil little douchebags and deserve everything they get.

In fact, I find it odd that anyone who like animals can like domestic cats too. You just have to see them torturing rodents for fun or aimlessly killing birds to realise that they're a huge net negative in the natural world.

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Some of you may not remember the TV show "Kung Fu" but it had many clips of wisdom I remember to this day -

Fraser:
The topic of cats is always divisive but I love them, and their Big Cat cousins, and always will  :)

P.s. I am a guardian to 4 well balanced adorable cats who want for nothing, live in our large house and have an outside play area. They are not allowed to roam the neighbourhood causing trouble killing birds and wildlife or pooping in peoples gardens. We are responsible cat guardians  :-+
Interesting to note… many cat rescues support cats being kept indoors rather than allowed to roam neighbourhoods where they are at risk of harm or causing a nuisance ;) I lived in Australia so understand the harm that cats can do to indigenous small animals and birds.
Zero999:

--- Quote from: Fred27 on November 15, 2022, 10:47:42 am ---I would never advocate cruelty to animals. However, cats are evil little douchebags and deserve everything they get.

In fact, I find it odd that anyone who like animals can like domestic cats too. You just have to see them torturing rodents for fun or aimlessly killing birds to realise that they're a huge net negative in the natural world.

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The problem is, you're projecting human emotions on to animals. Cats are no worse than other animals. Animals might look cute but they lack morals. Rats and mice for instance will eat one another. Birds will eat other birds. Other animals also kill others and don't eat them: wolves will kill coyotes and not eat them.

What's controversial is keeping cats as pets. They can be a nuisance to other people and kill engendered species, but they also control harmful pests. There are things which cat owners can do to minimise the impact of their pets, such as keeping them in at night, but some consider that to be inhumane to the cat.
paulca:
I have tried hard to keep my cat an indoor-at-night cat.  The plan was to never let her be out after dark, so she never got that drug in the first place.  That of course didn't work.  She managed to stay out all night several times and that was that over with.  I often feel sorry for her, because she asks so desperately to get out after dark and looks so distraught when I tell her "no.".  Most likely why she turns to me as a toy in the evenings.  Although weirdly, she has started to tell me to go to bed!  I think it's because she wants to be in the room with me, but as it's nighttime, she doesn't like the main lights on, she would prefer that I come and join her in the darkened bedroom where she is more comfortable.

Cats are not free from predators in sub-urban and urban areas.  A quite frighteningly large percentage of domestic cats are killed by their no. 1 predator.  The family car.

On keeping them in at night being "inhumane".  I'd rather it not get run-over, but yes..  I have been looking for a robotics project with a purpose and having a few random toys around the place which spontaneously activate at night might benefit us both!

Probably starting with a single servio attached to a laser pointer in the hallway.  Mosfet to turn it off.  Try and make it respond to the cat, but also be stuborn and not respond sometimes as well.

My cat likes games.  I feed her these jerky style treats, she goes NUTS for them.  So i took to placing them just out of easy reach, or hiding them in hard to get to places.  After a while the cat would start dropping the treat again and looking at me like the challenge I had set was too easy.  The last one was thrown into a pile of cardboard boxes in the junk room.  Took the cat half an hour to get in there and find it.
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