Look for one with a battery back-up (or that fail-safes to an unlocked state when unpowered). Otherwise, your pet is stuck either inside or outside, during a power failure. Unless it’s Schrödinger’s cat, in which case it’s stuck both inside and outside, until you go look for it.
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I bought one and my cat LOVES it! He often trots a bit, or even just saunters, but he gets on it of his own initiative, even in the middle of the night!
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There was a failed crowdfunding campaign for the Kuna Puzzle wheel and the design was open sourced. Check out the instructable here.
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Hmm, I’ve been looking for something to incite my cats to kill me in my sleep, and this might just do the trick!
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And scratching and meowing until you take a look and let the collapsed state of the catfunction flow to the other side of the barrier.
Which resets the cumulative probabilistic function that determines when the catfunction gets its maximum near the barrier again.
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Yes, without having to put NASCAR on for the cat to aspire to eat tiny drivers, can an ambitious cat drive some modification of the wheel to look like a Stargate (but with lines from The Office cameo James Spader was in rather than juiced-up astronomical designations?) Or does the archetypical cat hate that noise?
No, if you want the cat to be incited you have to then redo your soffit and window-well work to have lots of interconnected loops in them and few carpeted pads. Then it’s a close contest for the cat to turn into delicious butter that’s been too many places, or nick the nerves you were using to breathe. You need to keep the second cat in restraining armor so that it can star in the reenactment and pay associated costs, maybe have some perfusion equipment in working condition.
Nice wireless set in the animgif! That cat looks ready to scent the area to follow through. (With enough determination, all perches are Pride Rock?)
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Oh, is the universal treadmill acting funny again when the kids try it? Try the inflatable hamster ball again, I put more skate wheels in the gimbal this time. Also can you check the counterweight on the kitchen door?
For reasons still undetermined, many animals seem to enjoy wheel-running, even when they have wide-open spaces in which to run. Animal behaviorists have place running wheels out in wilderness areas, with monitoring cameras. A good number of wild animals will run on the wheel, without any additional incentives. It seems they just like it.
The PETA crowd has long claimed that rodents running on wheels was a sign of psychotic behavior caused by being in captivity. That turned out to be a a load of codswallop. What a surprise.
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Here is Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame improving one of the first-gen wheels in his workshop.
I have a friend who has 4 cats and one of these. Only one cat uses it. What are the odds that one or both of my two cats would use this expensive toy? I’d like to try before buy.
I wish this came with a “my cat doesn’t use it” guarantee.
For that matter, I wish exercise equipment for humans had the same guarantee…
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