Air raid warning

Every first Monday of the month at 12pm we have a lovely sounding emergency warning siren go off to practice evacuation to the air riad shelters here in Maastricht. It is a spooky sounding siren which freaked out the cat this morning as he couldn't decide what was his priority. To bother a pair of mating frogs or take shelter and duck inside. Fortunately it was a practise run as usual so he only suffered from small paranoia from licking the afore-mentioned frogs.

Crap Inventions

I can't believe I bought this. Was a kind of a novelty impulse buy hoping our cat would entertain us. Turns out it's a pile of old crap, destined for eBay and the next mug.

I present 'Smart Cat'. I'm glad to see they didn't ™ it. Would have been a waste of Prolink Internationals money


Shit in a box

The idea is that as your cat approaches the bowl the lid raises up revealing din-dins then when it walks away the lid shuts again. Simple but ingenious I thought popping it in my trolley at the DIY store. In the summer it'll keep off the flies, keep the food fresh. What the ingenious boffins forgot to factor into the equation is that cats are jumpy creatures and they don't like being repeatedly twatted in the face by a metal lid.

So after about 4 attempts 'Spike' had decided he wasn't playing ball with this device and won't go anywhere near it. To prove why it doesn't work I "youtubed" Spike. He was hungry and with a few tasty biscuits in the fly-trap and 10 minutes cautious walking around it he went in again.