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T42

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1900 on: 10 May, 2023, 01:32:12 pm »
Driving me round the fcking twist, that's what our feathered bastard in the kitchen corner is doing.  His latest thing is calling out my name in MrsT's voice several times a minute for ten minutes at a stretch.  So far I've managed to forbear from getting out the plant spray, but if he keeps it up much longer aversion therapy's coming his way.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

SoreTween

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1901 on: 10 May, 2023, 10:36:43 pm »
Now where do you get those GPS trackers so I can find out where she has been going?
Hmmm difficult. There was a time I'd have recommended Pawtrack. We had one and it worked just fine. That's not to say well but it worked as well as someone with reasonable expectations of GPS and mobile phone networks living in a hilly & tree filled location would anticipate. Sometimes it could be scary accurate (a few times we found our cat within a metre of where the tracker said), others it said he was a hundred metres outside reasonable bounds travelling at warp speed. If you expect something off a spy movie you'd be frothing on antisocial media. If you expect & understand cafe drift & dead spots you'd likely be more sanguine.
The two batteries it came with were excellent, just swap them over each morning.
The charger died & no quibble pawtrack sent a replacement far outside warranty.
But then we started to have trouble connecting to the servers. Two account resets got us working again but the third time we could get no response to emails & bad reviews started to appear online.
The entire system went down for a year, just had to cancel the direct debit & move on.
And then Pawtrack reappeared with new design of collar. And the bad reviews continued.

My theory is there's someone in the UK designing good hardware but they're not so cute at costing their back-end services or their pricing.  In particular they struggle with all the global gsm contracts.  I'm really tempted to get another, it could be a total loss but the version we had was good kit IMO for the 2 or 3 years it worked.

None of the competitors are within a mile of as neat, compact or shaped right. Pawtrack is a collar shaped object with GPS capabilities. The rest are cubes obviously phone sub-pcbs in a custom case you dangle off a regular collar.
2023 targets: Survive. Maybe.
There is only one infinite resource in this universe; human stupidity.

Mrs Pingu

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1902 on: 10 May, 2023, 10:44:28 pm »
You mean people aren't just using those i-Things that creepy blokes use to stalk women?
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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1903 on: 11 May, 2023, 08:23:38 am »
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Now where do you get those GPS trackers so I can find out where she has been going?

Make sure she will wear a collar before you invest in tracking tech.
Our present cat was less than a year old when we took her on.
As she is allowed outdoors, I bought her a smart, highly recommended, flourescent collar.
She went out and we never did find the collar

Jaded

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1904 on: 11 May, 2023, 08:35:27 am »
You mean people aren't just using those i-Things that creepy blokes use to stalk women?

They would work well in urban situations where there are other iDevices about, or on luggage handing systems.

Out in the wilds of furrybotoonshire, not so much.
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1905 on: 11 May, 2023, 09:53:14 am »
Sleeping on her favourite, fur-coated chair.

She must be exhausted, it takes a lot of energy to fling animals about so much that there is BLOOD SPLATTER UP THE DOOR AND ON THE CEILING!

My office is like a crime scene from Silent Witness.

If she wasn't so effing cute, I'd chuck her out.


Anyone know of good ways to remove dried blood from emulsion?
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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1906 on: 11 May, 2023, 10:05:53 am »
Was a bird the victim, rather than a mammal?
Detective work called for.
Or has all the evidence gone?

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1907 on: 11 May, 2023, 10:27:44 am »
Was a bird the victim, rather than a mammal?
Detective work called for.
Or has all the evidence gone?
Hard to say. I didn't spot most of it (out of direct eyeline, I don't have much peripheral vision), so has probably been there for a while.

She's definitely brought in mice/rats/birds in the past week.
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ian

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1908 on: 13 May, 2023, 03:24:33 pm »
You mean people aren't just using those i-Things that creepy blokes use to stalk women?

They would work well in urban situations where there are other iDevices about, or on luggage handing systems.

Out in the wilds of furrybotoonshire, not so much.

Friends of ours did that with an AirTag on their cat's collar. Worked really well, though they found he mostly went out to sleep behind the shed.

T42

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1909 on: 17 May, 2023, 01:56:47 pm »
Our dogs as were.  I thought YouTube had scotched the video because of music copyright but it's still there. Lo-res 400 fps slo-mo on a Nikon J1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T16EJJ1Xfw

Two years dead now. :(
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1910 on: 20 May, 2023, 06:47:49 pm »
Cat sitting while the Aussie does her moonwalk this evening:

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1911 on: 22 May, 2023, 08:50:24 am »
Hunting

What was she doing yesterday?
Hunting
What was she doing Saturday?
Hunting

The tally for the past 3 days so far is:
Sat - humungous rat, alive (lots of rat poo to clear up, and the dog killed it)
Sun - Live mouse in kitchen, Vomited up mouse bits on landing
Mon - THREE mice so far, thankfully all dead.
<i>Marmite slave</i>

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1912 on: 22 May, 2023, 01:10:33 pm »
Cat usually catches 2 rabbits a day at this season, but 3 yesterday.
Usually stashed under the Landrover - mostly headless.
There may be more we don't know about....

In other news: Husband caught two mice in the plant house, they are not under the L/R

T42

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1913 on: 23 May, 2023, 10:35:43 am »
Crapping on Anne Hathaway's cleavage. Well, on the Versace ad featuring her in Le Monde, which is now living a second life as a parrot's carpet.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

hellymedic

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1914 on: 04 June, 2023, 07:42:52 pm »
Occupying his latest, bespoke cat bed.

Wowbagger

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1915 on: 04 June, 2023, 10:12:21 pm »
Our neighbour's cat has some sort of tracker on her collar. They tell me she spends a great deal of time in our garden. I know she does, mostly shitting on the veg patch. I was weeding the parsnips and onions earlier and I couldn't get away from the stench.
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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1916 on: 06 June, 2023, 08:54:26 am »
Disgracing herself this morning, first thing she did was go outside, eat grass and then be sick on the carpet in two locations.  :sick:

PaulF

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1917 on: 06 June, 2023, 10:07:10 am »
Having a tooth pulled out :(

Jaded

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1918 on: 06 June, 2023, 10:35:31 am »
Making a noise, thumping, and similar. I shall have to go and look what she has knocked over.
It is simpler than it looks.

Jaded

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1919 on: 06 June, 2023, 10:56:50 am »
Well, she was empty.  :sick: :sick: :sick: :hand: :hand: :hand:

Had to put off having a shower for half an hour, until the eye-watering atmosphere had cleared.
It is simpler than it looks.

hellymedic

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1920 on: 06 June, 2023, 10:27:30 pm »
[Not my pet] Stray Ginger is in trap awaiting retrieval by cat charity, to be neutered & returned.

ETA: Collected at 0230 7 June.

ian

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« Reply #1921 on: 07 June, 2023, 09:21:48 pm »
Bad Cat is suspiciously regarding the garden foxen – a very laid-back mother and no fewer than five energetic cubs, aka foxicles, who are providing daily entertainment for the non-feline residents of the Asbestos Palace. The father still appears occasionally. Be sad when they finally depart for their own territories, though the cats will be relieved, I'm sure.

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« Reply #1922 on: 07 June, 2023, 10:00:56 pm »
This post needs photies!
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« Reply #1923 on: 07 June, 2023, 10:26:45 pm »
Occupying his latest, bespoke cat bed.


Fluffy cuteness.

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« Reply #1924 on: 08 June, 2023, 08:09:59 am »
Drusilla the vampire cat brought in a little blue tit this morning and proceeded to throw it's remains around the lounge before I could get it off her. The first kill for any of my cats this year..
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