Cat Cam - Pet Tracking

Slept, rested and groomed! They only spent a small portion of their time
actually doing something....

 

So they got all the benefits of indoor cats with none of the safety. I see.

 

Why? You're making a lot of very unsafe assumptions here.

 

What assumption is unsafe? That the cat is a hunting animal by
nature?

 

Yes, we can now have pet passports in Britain. I think it is just for
Dogs at the moment though but maybe for cats too I'm not sure?

There is a very tiny microchip placed under the skin of the animal
which when you put the scanner over the pet it brings up the number
that is also the same number inside the passport. It is in the
European Union for safe transit of pets over borders and to show that
they don't have rabies etc and are healthy, as well as for their
identification. These microchips though I don't believe work with
positioning (maybe I am wrong on that) but I understand they are just
for scanners to id the pet if lost then found, and for immigration and
passport control in the EU.

They have already done it though with a small domestic cat. I believe
the BBC or SKY made the film.

I would agree it is not good at the moment for an average person to do
and will have to wait a bit longer. The smallest wireless camera I
have seen is about the size of a one penny piece. If you include
minimal small battery to provide a small duration of power you would
probably be able to have the whole package the size of a matchbox. 3cm
x 2cm perhaps.

With this cat though it would have to be a lot smaller and a lot less
obvious and noticeable otherwise he would take it apart in seconds

As far as the range of the devices go, I don't believe that would be
much of a problem. Some I have seen have a range up to 300 meters.
Some less to only 100. I don't see this as much of a problem because
the cats territory here in urban England is not that big a range, it
is within a close radius of the home. The problem I can see, is if it
ventures into other homes to visit its cat friends then the picture
might disappear with the extra walls being an obstacle.

I am going to keep researching and hoping for smaller cams to be
available then I will make the film followed by phone call to Stephen
Spielberg. "Close Encounters of the Cat Kind!" That has a nice ring
to it don't you think? Or perhaps I will call George Lucas with my
proposal "Attack of the Cats" You never know though, perhaps I will
call Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion, if the film shows him with a
lot of his cat girlfriends. Their new logo could be the cat instead of
the bunny.

John

 

Let's start with your assumption that cat owners will be disappointed if
their cats don't catch much. I really couldn't care whether my cats catch
rats and mice when they're out. What I do care about is that they're having
a good time.

Then you could move on to your assumption that cat owners will be
disappointed by their cats' behaviour full stop.

 

Silly me, I assumed the cat is a predator because she has four canine teeth
in the front corners of her upper and lower jaws, which I again assumed are
tools for seizing and killing prey. Silly me also assumed the cat's
condyloid process are bar-shaped to allow her to hold struggling prey.

If that's not bad enough, I also assumed the cat is an instinctive predator
and cannot be dissuaded from hunting and killing her natural prey.

 

Exactly.

I think its funny when outdoor proponents tell stories about their cats
visiting neighbors' homes through their cat flaps. They let the cat out to
go *outdoors*... and the cats go *indoors*! LOL!

 

What has any of that to do with a cat's owner's feelings of disappointment
or otherwise? It would help if you tried logic.

 

LOL! Logic? Not one of your silly posts made any sense!

 

Serious question here. Do you really think that the *other* animals around
the neighbouhood stop and actually *think* to not not go near this cat
purely because s/him has a Rooti as a brother?

Because that does sound a bit silly.

 

Hey dude I was just reding this and I wonderd what's with the "silly" crap?