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i’ve been thinking about this for a while but cannot
come
up with a way to install it, without hurting harming or
disturbing my cat. But he is very disturbed when I step
on
his tail in the dark which happens sometimes a couple
times a week.
possibly an easy solution would be to just dip
the tail
into
glow in the dark paint, but I’m sure it will wear off and
will need repeated dippings.
another idea is a bodysuit that is very light and has some
netting where the tail slips through and some type of
battery operated light could be installed. you know a cat
will try to get this off from the very first minute!
The last attempt will be to shave 1 inch of the tail and
get
the cat a piercing there. Now a little Piercing that lights
up
might do the trick.
Instead, what about one of these, but with glowing eyes?
No_20More_20Cats_27_20Arses
[hippo, Feb 04 2021]
Night Vision Goggles, military-surplus
https://kommandostore.com/products/qtnvg
Instead of stepping on cat, become cat. [sninctown, Feb 04 2021]
Self-acting portable cat reducer.
https://en.wikipedi...Betsy%22_(1912).jpg
Very effective [8th of 7, Feb 04 2021]
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// Wait, how did I get to this before 8th? // |
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You didn't. We were watching and waiting ... |
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[+] for the idea. We won't go into details as to why ... |
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// dip the tail into glow in the dark paint, but I’m sure it will wear off and will need repeated drippings. // |
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There is a way round that. <Sniggering/> |
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// Is there a clinical term for amputating the tail? // |
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//term for amputating the tail// |
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Were you thinking of docking, or will you insist on something
ending in -ectomy? |
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[xandram], I was going to say not to mind the mean old Borg,
and that your cat is perfectly safe, but then I remembered that if
it were perfectly safe it wouldn't need this idea. |
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What if you installed a much lighter- coloured floor? |
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thanks [pert] the dance floor from Saturday night
fever might work, but I will never sleep with that
much light. I don’t mind the Borg, he’s really just
a pussycat! |
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//just dip the tail into glow in the dark paint// - a spray
might be easier |
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The alternative would be a metal tail thimble, held in place by a painfree piercing stud. This would protect the tail in the event of an accidental tramping incident, and being as an item of cat adornment, would also look great and make other cat owners quite jealous. |
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//We won't go into details as to why// It's to shine brightly enough that it can't show you its butt isn't it? |
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Forgot to mention this is also for my own safety.
My cat weighs 22 pounds, is 99.9% black, and is
almost 16 years old. In the dark I have almost
fallen into things after stepping on his tail and
trying to jump away quickly. |
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I like the thimble
idea kind of like cat bling! |
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What are those GPS trackers on phones and cars etc. Smack
one of them on his ass and then look at the phone as you
gently walk in, Makes sense to me. Just clip it where he can't
get to. For my cat that is somewhere just slightly north of the
kitty butt. If it won't stay, yah, piercing there with GPS.
( I was sure this was xenzag's work.) |
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Piercings for cats are gooood .... |
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<Hefts pistol crossbow thoughtfully/> |
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^ perhaps attach the GPS device to the cat's collar. Knowing that the
cat* is 1.2 meters dead ahead will help you avoid walking into any
part of it. |
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*and the typically-attached tail |
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Since a cat will typically try to remove any attachments, it
needs to be somewhere the cat can't see or reach.
So attach a blinkenlight to the back of it's head (top of neck,
thereabouts). A small clip to the fur should suffice (none of
this piercing malarky...). |
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Would not children's shoes or slippers with those light displays work? Even for the cat. |
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Why stop there? Get a suit of armour for the cat made of
something suitably squash proof. I think the cat would be
very happy to strut his stuff with the neighbouring kitties. |
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The balance of power would shift and you'd probably want to
put lights on it to avoid being harmed if you tread on it. |
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// made of something suitably squash proof. / |
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Radium. Nicely visible in the dark ... |
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[Xan], can you elaborate on how this unfortunate
situation vis a
vis the cat tail occurs? Does the cat like to sleep in
doorways? |
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A lighter colored floor covering, head lamp and/or
night lights seems fairly practical. A different
approach would be purchase of a night vision
device. |
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Cats can be tricky. One time long ago a stray cat
came into the house through the cat door and laid
low for several days before anyone confirmed that
there was an extra cat in the house. |
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cat is black. night is black. cat lays by wood stove,
but he is SO big that even if he is far enough
away...his tail is right in the way of where i am
walking...and then you know...he wags it so it
moves! ( under my foot) it’s a cat science |
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Oh-ho, there's your problem, right there. |
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If you reduce your cat by one dimension, the problem is solved. What you need is one of <link>. |
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Pale death knocks with the same tempo upon the huts of the poor and the towers of Kings. |
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That was before medical technology improved enough for wealthy people to live longer. |
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More to the point I think access to a few million "donated" organs will help him out a bit. |
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One of my cats (black as night, 3.5lb) has had white paint
on various parts of her since she investigated the recently
painted thing, she's not bothered, even by the extra
weight on the end of her whiskers. I reckon you could
easily dip the tail in a rhodamine/fluorescein based
acrylic fluorescent paint, then just set up a couple of
UV/blue LEDs wherever. You don't need much power. It
will eventually come off as hairs fall out and the cat picks
at it, but it isn't toxic. |
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Changing the heat source will also work, my cats sleep
either on the router on top of the kitchen cupboard, on a
server, on me somewhere elevated. But I guess that would
mean giving up on a fireplace, which isn't a sane option.
Some kind of elevated fire-adjacent platform? With
contrasting color? |
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I for one signed up for cryogenic freezing and look
forward to an eternity as part of the future hive-mind
after the Great Assimilating. |
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About the cat paint thing, the cat might eat it as part
of self grooming. Not ideal. |
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//cat might eat it as part of self grooming.// |
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I'm sure it will, but if children's pain were toxic, we'd know
by now, and if Fluorescein were toxic, then the city of
Chigago would be in trouble with all sorts of authorities,
since they use it to dye their river green each St Patrick's
day. |
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<Re-reads Wikipedia article on the Radium Dial girls/> |
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<Re-reads Wikipedia article on Radithor/> |
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<Hiccuping and arm-flapping/> |
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But... but, children's pain "is" toxic! |
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As for the idea; a cat should be supremely aware of its environment at all times and, unlike you [xan], can see just fine in the dark.
Therefore I imagine that your feline roommate is manipulating you for affection over and above what it receives from you already, because you are its slave. |
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You just need to accept that and worship it in the manner to which its current whim dictates. |
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That is very sweet [2fries] but sometimes i worry
that at his age he is getting feline dementia! |
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Best to open up his skull and find out, then. |
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