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hum... I wonder if there's some way to create a sort of localized GPS system in your house/back yard? That way you'd get to see a graphical representation of the exact route your feline compainion made use of, a la Jeffrey of Family Circle fame. |
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Oh, yeah, then use the patterns in digital art and make millions, neoculturalists would praise its vulgar display of technological power. |
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[po], what spurs you to put periods at the end of the 1% of titles that you put periods in? |
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Sampling the first ten of her ideas, it appears to be more like 50%. |
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Wouldn't it be a pawometer? |
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of course you won`t understand the answer but you can smile and nod and say "hmm" and the cat will feel better that you`re interested. |
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gfK, they are awfuk liars. |
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Personally I quite like the idea. But I was always fond of ideas with no practical value other than to find out things that you never really cared about. |
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Just tried this with my kitty, I used the little Mcdonalds one, and it worked for about 3.25 seconds, but then she rolled her 20-odd pounds of self onto it and broke the clip off. |
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Cute idea, po. However in my household the tally is pretty
much already known. Dustin one centemeter, claire 23
miles per hour. |
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(and why the hey is anyone discussing your periods, on a
public forum anyway? My god, is nothing sacred?) |
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Interesting idea, but you'd have to find a way to mount the pedometer such that it won't irritate the cat; otherwise 2573 "steps" will have been thrashing about on the spot (good exercise anyway, I suppose). |
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You wouldn't be counting any of the stealthy creeping they do while hunting, since pedometers seem to function by counting the oscillations. |
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I'm glad my [+] gave you two and a half pastries, as this is as original and implementable an idea as I've seen in my time in the ol' HB. |
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I like the idea of strapping things to cats. How about strapping a brick to them and seeing how far they can swim? |
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strap a brick to them and you`d at least know how far they`d walked. |
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If you've posted ideas based solely on tying things to cats raise your hand. |
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<<raises hand, posts link>> |
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possible name: feline wanderlust gauge |
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How do you know it was a hydrangea? Is there a pollen collector too? Bun for pointless feline technology retrofits. |
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It would have to be specifically designed to take into consideration a cat's average stride. |
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Yep. They typically count off half a meter or so for each click. Which is why po would need a cat-designed model to get a reasonably accurate reading. |
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I`ll bet my hat that you take longer strides than most cats then, UB |
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Given that cats have twice as many feet as most of us, would one "bump" correspond to one "stride?" |
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Yeah, unless the front part of the cat wasn`t connected to the back part. |
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Cats do scamper more than humas though, that might make a difference |
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It's so interesting to see how far one
idea goes on this site. The line of the
conversation has gone from
pedometers to periods to web sites to
the proper measurements for strides. I
am SO glad that I found this site! |
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you have taken me back 4 years Margot - thank you. |
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do you know Radar O'Reilly by any chance? because I feel like him very often. |
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sorry, it was the Iowa connection. |
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Actually I don't live in Iowa. I always say
I live somewhere else to make sure no
internet perverts try to find me, though
there's probably no way they could
anyway. So I could safely say that I live
in Nebraska. (or do I?) |
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why not just tape (or zip-tie) some radioactive lint to its back (like on james bond) and track it like that. |
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With no recorded movements three days after strapping a pedometer to my cat, it is now official: the big guy is completely catatonic. |
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\\`ll bet my hat that you take longer strides than most cats\\. What kind of hat is it? |
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If you use a human pedometer, can you just multiply the results by 2? |
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why stop at small cats? or bigs cats for that matter? or land based mammals? or fish? or astronauts? or planetary bodies? problem is strapping it to those things in question, and not getting eaten, trampled, asploded, drowned... |
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