OT: Shop cat "Kitty-Cam"

Compressing the pet is hard to do isn't it ?

Tom

He is on patrol and has a companion on his lonely patrol activity.

Bob AZ

On the day of Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:30:15 GMT... "Tom Gardner" typed these letters:

Sounds like he enjoys his life completely and he owns people that feed him well. Over the years I've been owned by many cats. I've learned that cats are gonna do whatever they want to do. According to the cat, us people were put here for one reason. To serve the cats. If you are good to them they will leave some of the rodents they kill at your front door as an offering. Cats are curious and notice every thing that has been moved since their last visit to an area. They will investigate everything that has moved. Your cat's behavior sounds completely normal for a happy cat.

Devonshire

What kind of software are you using for the motion detection? I played around with one of these and the software choices I had all seemed to simply allow changing the "sensitivity" by changing the percentage of pixels that "changed". Unfortunately when a cloud comes by, the image "darkens" which counts as a change and the camera clicks on. Set the sensitivity low and you can walk across in the background and it doesn't come on as you are small on the screen and only count as a "small" percentage of pixel change. Seems to me that the software should try to group the pixels into objects and then see if objects move but maybe that's too much artificial intelligence to program.

Steve.

Three things - One, cancel Orkin or make sure they know about the cat on site, and they need to be Really Picky about what pesticides they use. Might want to have the same conversation with all the neighbors in the immediate area, too. All it takes is a few wobbly rats stoked on Warfarin (or other nasty kill-baits) and ready to croak, the cat sees the rats and does what comes naturally, and then you have a cat full of Warfarin. BIG Vet bills.

And make darned sure all the employees know about the cat - you can't leave any poisonous substances lying around like ethylene glycol coolant, cutting oils, WD-40, etc. You never know what the fuzzy dummy is liable to taste-test...

You need to get a lot more vigilant on Hazmat handling around the shop - and may have to go around during the day confiscating potentially poisonous products and leaving Nastygrams in their place till everyone gets the idea. "If you want the open jar of Methyl Ethyl BadStuff that you left here back, it's locked up, come see me for the key - Signed, The Boss"

Three - get a laser pointer, and a fishing pole with a feather teaser on the end. Wear the cat out during the day. You could try teaching him to Fetch, but don't get your hopes up... Mine would pounce on the ball, and then go "Okay, I caught it, so what am I supposed to do with it now?" ;-)

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When I was managing an alarm company..the cameras could be set to alarm on only movement in certain areas of the viewing area, and you could define boxes, circles and so forth. Like a square of blank wall with a high sensitivity rate..an area the cat would pass under, but an adult would not

Gunner

"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."

- Proverbs 22:3

Geovision V 7, It's going to take a while to master the software as it has lots of flexability in defining the sensitive area and sensitivity of the area and so on. It's supposed to be one of the best.

He's five years old now and was born here. His mother barged in one day and had a liter in the wall behind my desk...I still don't know how she got in there. She hung around for about a year and then just disappeared. We found homes for the other four kittens but we hardly ever saw this one, we weren't sure he even existed. Then one day, he appeared and just adopted my production manager and became a fixture. She has cats at home and he knew that. Orkin did adapt well to the cats and we are careful but he is VERY street-smart as we are in the ghetto and he's survived five years so far. He'll only let a person near him when he's in the wheel packing department, his home base. Any other place, he keeps a 15 foot distance and hisses. He does come back in the machine shop when I'm by myself on a weekend or late at night and gets under foot or lays on the BP while I'm working. He seems to enjoy being in the way.

There's this myth that cats are loners. This is not true and your cat probably just has a buddy. We had a cat once that made friends with the squirrels. It was very strange to watch them play. They would run up a tree and wait. The cat would chase after 'em but always stop short. This would go on all over the yard. ERS

Personally, I think it sounds like a solution, not a problem. We don't have animals and respect our neighbors property and space. Our neighbors do (have animals), and their cat thinks our landscaped yard is it's (sex unknown) personal litter box.

Its against the law in our county to let animals run loose. Apparently cat-lovers don't feel their cats are animals.

Okay, Cat-Lovers, you can unite and flame me if you like. SuperGlide

On the day of Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:37:39 GMT... snipped-for-privacy@bikernet.com typed these letters:

Not a flame. In my county Dogs must be in a pen or chained up. It's against the law for them to run free. That law doesn't apply to cats here. With the ability to climb, cats are a lot more difficult to restrain outdoors than dogs. If it is illegal for cats to run free in your county, why not just complain to the local animal control people and have the cat removed?

Devonshire

My old cat was no good for keeping down the rodent population - right up to the end at 18 he didn't have any hunting instinct - and nota mean bone in his body. Our young cat (9 now) is an indoor cat and is scared of her shadow, but is SUCH a sweety.

Animal control here will provide live traps to anyone requesting them for the control of feline sh*t factories allowed to run at large. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Well,Duhh You did say he was a Cat :)

jk

Rodents can smell a cat and are repelled, even if they don't hunt.

Tell that to the family of 3 that lived right under the old boys nose until I trapped them under the fridge. He DID follow one across the kitchen once to see what it was, but had no interest in doing anything about it.

Of course..its in the contract

To dogs..people are Gods To Cats..people are staff

Gunner

"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."

- Proverbs 22:3

So, what country is this ,that doesn't allow animals to run free?