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| Looking forward to getting a cat soon. Any good GPS Tracking modules? |
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| nctnico:
--- Quote from: bigfoot22 on December 07, 2022, 01:52:48 am --- Its also weird to be walking with a cat on a leash but it might be what I have to do once a month to prevent it from going stir crazy. --- End quote --- I don't think it is particulary weird. It is just that not all cats like strange new places. When I was a teenager we got a kitten and I took him for a walk around the neighbourhood on a leash (*) to get him acquainted with his new habitat. After a couple of weeks he could roam around freely (which soon let to becoming friends with another cat from the neighbourhood so we ended up with 2 cats). Anyway, your best bet is to make a cat used to walking on a leash with a harness in strange places from day 1 and see if your cat has a good time or not. Every cat is different. * With a harness that goes around the chest; not just the neck as cats consist of 90% fur and they easely escape a collar if they have to. |
| tom66:
We had a few Tractive collars but unfortunately due to their size the cat tends to lose them (they get caught on shrubs etc), and if they aren't pointing in the right direction when they fall off, you often can't get a GPS fix on the now lost collar. So a number of times I've gone out with an Android tablet running a Bluetooth scanning app in the area the tag last reported itself, and have managed to find it after about half an hour of searching in both cases by using the RSSI... After the third time, no luck, I suspect our cat lost it near the river and it got swept away. So we stopped putting it on her, it is a significant cost to replace them every few months. She always comes back, as another poster noted, if you feed them they will be loyal :). |
| johnboxall:
https://catmax.com.au/ or similar. |
| DavidAlfa:
--- Quote from: nctnico on December 06, 2022, 06:32:14 pm ---Just feed a cat and it will always return. A cat is not cattle; you don't need to track a cat. --- End quote --- True, if they are ok. Cats rarely get lost, unless some mafia cat attacks/chases them, then he might end in some remote area and/or hurt and not be able to return. I lost a cat that way, we normally let him go to the outer windowsill, as we lived at the lower level, there was just ~6ft/2m to ground, so no risk of falling, in fact he ocassionally went away to see the world or try making friends with ferals. Then a very huge black feral appeared, all cats flew away and he became the only one around. My cat was a neutered male, so he didn't have any of the agressiveness, behaved like a big sweet kitty, so he went outside to salute him and got badly beaten, had to take some surgery because he got a deep bite at the base of the tail, got badly infected, was hard to detect with all that fur, until few days later a potato-sized lump appeared. The vet said it had become necrosis, but it wasn't very extended so it looked like it could go well, but few days more and it would have extended to the spine, that would've been really bad. Luckly he did great and healed in no time! We didn't let him outside anymore, the poor thing cried all day wanting to outside. Once we opened the windows for venting, accidentally left the door open without noticing, he probably took 2 nanoseconds to fly away and start smelling/watching everything. Sadly that was the last time we saw him. So yeah, a GPS tracker would have been be a great thing. Sadly not a common thing in 2003! |
| Rick Law:
To have an idea of where your cat may roam, watch this 50 minutes documentary. It is a study of what the cats do when they are out. The study was done in a town in Germany. A few cats were tagged with GPS and tracked by the researchers, analyzed, tried to understand and explain their movements. You may find it as enjoyable as I did. |
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