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They have very different understandings of "high-res image" and "full size image" than I do. I'm wondering if this is related to a TV show I saw tracking house
by rconti 7y ago
They have very different understandings of "high-res image" and "full size image" than I do.
I'm wondering if this is related to a TV show I saw tracking household cats in the UK. I can't remember if it was Derby or not. They did a lot of GPS tracking and showed that cats often 'share' territory by time-sharing; one cat's schedule tends not to overlap another's.
There were also TONS of instances of cats going into multiple homes for meals. Sometimes sneaking in the cat door and snacking while the residents were unaware.
- trufflepig 7y agoThat time sharing thing is cool. I wonder how long it takes for them to synchronize and how they do the synchronization
- newnewpdro 7y agopeeing on things
- trufflepig 7y agoMakes sense..
- daodedickinson 7y agoThey also mark possessions with phermones by rubbing their cheeks against things.
- pseudolus 7y agoI believe the documentary you're referring to is "The Secret Life of the Cat" which fitted cats with tracking devices and cameras. It's available online [0]. [0] https://vimeo.com/84794829 https://vimeo.com/84794829
- sandworm101 7y agoOur family cat, a rescue, would invite other cats in for lunch. Id come downstairs and see a strange cat eating out of the bowl. Our cat just stood a foot away like a waiter waiting on a table. I think he just wanted to share this magical food bowl that was always refilled.
- microtherion 7y agoWe had 2-3 cats in a rural area, and several times, when their numbers fell low, they'd recruit an additional cat. So all we did was make sure the new recruit truly was a stray, and if so, go along with the adoption.
- iamben 7y agoSo goes the saying - you don't own a cat, a cat owns you...
- philliphaydon 7y agoHaha it’s true. My mum gets hay fever from cat and horse hair. We used to have a stray in our yard sometimes and my mum hated it cos it would dig our vegetable garden and poo in it. She would throw stones and bricks at it, hose it, etc. (Never to hurt it, just to scare it away) One day it came up on our back deck at 11pm at night with a flee collar around its waist really tight. So my dad and Uncle cut it off and have it some left over meat from dinner. We had a ladder leading against the house near the bathroom (about 4 feet away from the window) which only opens about 2 inches cos of the security latches. This cat went up the ladder and somehow crossed 4 feet of nothing to the window. Climbed in and got caught upside down in the blinds. Mum said any cat that willing to stay can stay, BUT ITS NOT ALLOWED IN THE ROOM!! It sat at the door and howled and howled so mum said “ok it can stay in the room BUT ITS NOT ALLOWED ON THE BED!!!!”. It jumped on the bed, mum kicked it off, it jumped on, mum kicked it off... after 2 nights of this mum gave up and let it sleep on the bed. Tiger stayed with us for the next 8 years till he passed. Was my first pet. He was an outdoor cat. But they are smart. If mum came home from work. He wouldn’t be seen till dinner time. But sometimes mum would have a bad day at work. She would get home. And only on the days she had a bad day, he would be home within minutes of mum getting home and he would bump her legs until she picked him up. Always made mum feel better. He knew when something was wrong.
- mirimir 7y agoWe had a male cat. And I know that he was "ours" because I watched him being born. But some years later, he disappeared. So we put up posters. And discovered that several neighbors thought that he was their cat. He never did return, though. To us, anyway.
- ben_bai 7y agoCats don't have owners, they have servants. ;)