I do enjoy how overly complicated this is. Wonder what we will be building in five years.
I fear in a few decades we would buy a cheap robot and command it to scare the cats perpetually.
Chasing Cats
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Re: Chasing Cats
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Cats poop too! And flower gardens are some of their favorite spots, because the dirt is so easy to kick back up.
Also my cats like to bite on flowers. Don't know why, they just do.
Cats do need to eat grass. If they didn't have access to grass, they eat any other plant they can find, including flowers. They do that to clean their digestion system from inedible parts(1), as for a home cat, that's mostly their own furballs.
"Cats regurgitate when they eat grass because they lack the necessary enzymes to break down vegetable matter. Does this mean your cat likes to throw up? Well, while it's doubtful that kitty enjoys the act, this up-chucking sensation may eliminate all indigestible matter from the cat's digestive tract, making it feel a whole lot better. This is important because cats eat their prey as is, including both the edible and inedible parts (fur, bones, feathers, etc.)"
Re: Chasing Cats
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It'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.
I 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…
I 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.