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Let's not forget another back-in-the-old-days Slashdot favorite, the Bender Defender! The guy that built a cat motion detector in Linux and used it to trigger
by chrissnell 10y ago
Let's not forget another back-in-the-old-days Slashdot favorite, the Bender Defender! The guy that built a cat motion detector in Linux and used it to trigger a blender and strobe lights!
http://www.plasma2002.com/blenderdefender/ http://www.plasma2002.com/blenderdefender/
- fao_ 10y agoIt's probably easier to find something smelly the cat hates (Like a vapour rub), and place that where you don't want the cat to go.
- fao_ 10y agoI understand that this is taboo, but I am utterly baffled as to why I lost karma for this. Creating a system to traumatise a cat is objectively more harmful than making areas you don't want a cat to go repulsive to the cat. I've seen the latter method work beautifully with nervous cats, kittens, older cats, etc. Whereas I would have reservations about using the former method with those types of cats because it serves to be startling and traumatic to a cat.
- bduerst 10y agoI didn't downvote, but it's probably because you were splitting hairs on what is more of a Rube Golberg solution to an obviously simple problem. Not many people are taking it that as a serious cat training solution.
- bduerst 10y agoWhat makes this even better is that they didn't give it a way to deal with false positives - like friends visiting and getting a glass of water. "It's a feature not a bug."