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I used to form lines with cat food. Looked a bit like farming.
Birds then would try to eat the remains, only to become additional cat food.
I've heard some vegans force their cats to become vegans as well. I think it is not healthy.
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Im not a cat owner and this might seem a bit strange. Why not just out the cat in a cage with food/water/bed before going to sleep?
Cats don't like being in cages, and they are nocturnal animals. Personally, I just put him with food and water in the garage (and a trapdoor to go outside), but then I live in the countryside. If I forget, he wakes me up to go outside anyways...
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I've got the same one and it doesn't stop cats tailgating other cats. It was however hilarious during the 'training' phase watching the stupidest of our two barrel towards the flap and go crunching into it. Did have a good idea for gamifying it though - a cat airlock with a camera, $5 a month, getting bored old ladies on Facebook to compare the cat in the airlock and making the decision to let it through or not...
Someone did this 10-15 years ago with a webcam and a silhouette of the pet.
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I recently got a SureFeed RFID feeder. It can read your cat's microchip or an RFID collar tag. When an authorized kitty approaches, a flap raises and lets the cat eat. I got it to prevent other family pets from stealing my cat's food. It works well for that purpose and seems well designed. The feeder has clear side "walls" and the flap itself acts as a wall on the rear of the feeder, helping prevent food theft during…
I recently got a SureFeed RFID feeder. It can read your cat's microchip or an RFID collar tag. When an authorized kitty approaches, a flap raises and lets the cat eat. I got it to prevent other family pets from stealing my cat's food. It works well for that purpose and seems well designed. The feeder has clear side "walls" and the flap itself acts as a wall on the rear of the feeder, helping prevent food theft during…
I wired up my Super Feeder ( http://www.super-feeder.com/ ) to a relay and C.H.I.P. ( https://getchip.com/ ). I wish I had multiple animals so I had an excuse to RFID it. So far these are the triggers: 1. I put a hall effect sensor and another C.H.I.P. on his exercise wheel ( https://onefastcat.com/ ) so it feeds him every few revolutions he runs (not sure if he's associated the two yet) 2. Alexa skill. 3. Daily 5am…
That might be easier to work into the system on a future refactoring of the system.
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Cats have also been known to resort to terrorism, viz., climbing onto high shelves and systematically knocking fragile items to the floor until their demands are met.
Ha! Yes they do - I just posted an anecdote describing this very behavior https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13233945
This is the best up-armoured cat feeder I've seen this week. Kudos to Quinn for never giving up. I'm terrified to think what the next step will be once Sprocket chooses to escalate.
It looks like a prison cat feeder.
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Don't feed your cat until 7am no matter what. Ignore all foot rubs and meows. He'll eventually learn and give up. Operant conditioning. Watch out though for that extra-hard last ditch effort he will put out before giving up. Stay strong.
We tried this with our cat for years. He had a designated feeding time. We never broke it. His internal clock is pretty good but not exact, so he starts to pester for food an hour or two before feeding time. So he would surely wake us up if fed at 7:00am, so one solution is to feed at night. This results in a cat constantly underfoot begging for food for two hours, which is literally a tripping hazard. The solution i…
> This results in a cat constantly underfoot begging for food
> for two hours, which is literally a tripping hazard.
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Don't feed your cat until 7am no matter what. Ignore all foot rubs and meows. He'll eventually learn and give up. Operant conditioning. Watch out though for that extra-hard last ditch effort he will put out before giving up. Stay strong.
Don't feed your cat until 7am no matter what. Ignore all foot rubs and meows. He'll eventually learn and give up. He'll maybe learn to give up. Or he's like one of our cats where we have to install a baby gate on the outside of the closed door to our bedroom to make it difficult for him to bang on the door all night/morning so that we can sleep.