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A better approach: keep only plants that are safe for the cat to eat. Cats need to eat grass or other plants, they do that to stimulate regurgitation of their o
by squarefoot 5y ago
A better approach: keep only plants that are safe for the cat to eat. Cats need to eat grass or other plants, they do that to stimulate regurgitation of their own hair they unwillingly eat when they clean themselves, and that if not expelled could clog their digestive system.
Image recognition could be used to open a cat flap door when the right cat arrives, and a timer could keep it closed for a while after the cat went out to eat some grass. It usually takes a few minutes to the cat from eating grass to regurgitating it, so it's just a matter of keeping it out for a while.
- puttycat 5y ago+1 While this a very a nice project technically, cats really need greens and grass to facilitate digestion. So the outcome of this project is unnecessarily cruel to the cat.
- danmur 5y agoI like harvesting grass by hand. They only like a small subset of grass (my spoiled cats anyway) so I might as well get credit for it.
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- DrAwdeOccarim 5y agoYou can also use an RFID reader to open the cat flap door when your cat (if chipped) comes.
- gruez 5y agoI think you're greatly overestimating how much range RFID has in that scenario.
- namdnay 5y agoAre you talking about an RFID cat flap? They’re quite common
- gruez 5y agoI stand corrected!
- DrAwdeOccarim 5y agoI have always wanted to build one, but since I keep my only cat indoors I never really had a reason to invest the time.
- dheera 5y agoOr alternatively, just spray the inedible plants with some sort of transparent capsaicin solution? They'll be unpleasant to eat and they would probably stop very quickly.