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Could GPS Keep Tabs On Your Pets?
An anonymous reader writes "Google Latitude has already made headlines for allowing phone users to locate their friends, and there are countless other iPhone and Android phone apps already designed to transmit your location — but could pets be the next big thing in GPS tracking? A number of device manufacturers are marketing GPS technology as a futuristic tool for tracking your cat or dog, and even discovering exactly where they've been. These devices are sold under a number of names and brands, including Sportdog, LoCATor, RoamEO, Petcell, Zoombak and Pettrack."
Cats are just bad pets. They are barely evolved from the wildcats that they descended from. They are not meant to be pets, they are meant to inhabit human settlements and clean up the rodents. If they are lucky, they can scavenge some table scraps.
Every animal that has been domesticated (dogs, cows, sheep, even the guinea pig) has evolved from pack animals. They know how to follow a master. Cats don't.
What is this "Meant" word you use?
I'm pretty sure the was no "meant" involved in the evolution of cats.
You are correct in one respect, namely that domesticated cats are a relatively new concept. In Roman times cats were tolerated in cities simply because they did keep the mice population down. They weren't pets. This may not have been the case in other civilizations.
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They can get catrepellent etc for their garden, for the rest, tough titties for them :P
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Many cats, once leash-trained, look forward to it.
You are a reprehensible excuse for a human being. All you have to know about this is that many prisoners, once locked up, never feel truly at home on the outside. Conditioning an entity to accept abuse doesn't make it no longer abuse. It makes them twisted, fucked up individuals. You want to alter a cat to conform to your idea of what it should be, instead of loving it for what it is. Are all your relationships like this?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"