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Cat Recognition Algorithms?

Posted by michael on from the bad-kitty dept.

skunkeh writes "So your cat keeps bringing dead (or half dead) animals in to your house. What do you do? Obviously, you set up a digital camera to monitor the cat door and lock her out if she has something in her mouth..."

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  1. He knows more about technology than cats. by dbc · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I grant that this is very clever, and gets many tech cool points. However...


    Mother cats teach their young to hunt, first by bringing dead animals to the nest, then not-quite-dead animals, and finally injured but fairly lively prey. When the youngters can dispatch a wiggling dinner, they are ready to go on a hunt. What cats are doing when they bring dead or nearly-dead animals to the house is they are trying to teach the slow-witted and lazy humans that they live with to hunt!! We just don't get it.


    Never has a cat had a student more resistant to instruction.