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My cat Hemingway preferred live food. Catching a chipmunk outdoors, she would eat the entire beastie except for the head, leaving that as a tiny trophy at the front door. But she shunned canned food, no matter how expensive.
Finally, she grew older and was no longer able to catch the chippies,
so I placed her food bowl over a small remote controlled car. Hemingway showed no interest in this until it began to move. Chasing it down, she hugged it with her paws and began to eat noisily. Now, every canned meal has to killed in the same way.
It’s a matter of pride.
Real Hemingway cats
http://www.hemingwa...m/HTML/our_cats.htm
they're polydactyl! [mrthingy, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Are you proposing a motorized cat food bowl that moves in a furtive manner? |
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Nice one , [bliss]. Good idea, [pluterday]. I don't have a cat, but it sounds like a fun way to feed one. |
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I think my 16 year old cat would sit and wait for the batteries to die. The younger ones, though, would most certainly be motivated to catch their supper. |
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And, reensure, dogs chase cars because they want a ride. It doesn't matter where to, as long as they can stick their heads out the window on the way. |
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This would be worth a fortune, if you could get it right. |
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Having said that, I was hoping it would be something to attract the attention of alcoholic, misogynistic, irascible cats with a fetish for Cuba, and Panama hats. |
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If the batteries die an alternative might be to capture and anaesthetize a few rodents with just enough sedative to keep the chase sporting but not too challenging. |
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[dalziel], you do realize that just as cats who eat mice who have eaten mice poison are also poisoned, that cats that ate sedated mice would also become sedated.... |
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Image of cat, snoozing gently, face down in bowl of cat biscuits, wearing a dressing gown and messy hairstyle. |
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[Marassa], if [pluterday]'s kitty-carnivore is anything like mine, a sedative would have little effect on her near-perpetual somnolence. |
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Heh, and I thought my cat was coddled. Great idea though, especially after bristolz input. |
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I am left wondering whos cat is strange, my cat seems to be the bizzaro version of yours (or vice versa), leaving the body of the unfortunate rodent on my porch and feasting on its crunchy skull (I know their crunchiness from observing her, not from personal experience). |
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<8th of 7's standard anti-cat rant ... > |
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Rather than radio control, if the bowl had PIR movement sensors it could automatically scuttle away from any approaching heat source. |
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<Image of UnaBubba, snoozing gently, face down in bowl of cat biscuits, wearing a dressing gown and messy hairstyle.> |
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[UB]'s image is shirley lifted straight from the Garfield cartoons. |
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No, Mommy Dearest came to mind. Imagining a cat, not feeling so well, after an alcohol and amphetamine binge. |
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Just a *little* more sinister than Garfield. |
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The sort of cat the Addams Family might keep ? |
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A Thing powered catfood bowl. Hmmmm.... |
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Not as attractive as a cat-fillled Thing-food bowl, though. |
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So many cats and so few recipes... |
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"A Moveable Feast", shirley ? |
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I did not realize you was quotin', my dear ..... |
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This could be adopted by boarding kennels. They tweak up the speed on their cat bowls and run the moggies around a track after them. Especially for overweight lap-lovers. |
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Whole new line of business springs up: Cat Spa & Diet Retreats. |
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