A Michael Broad Blog
A UK/German business, Pawly, is looking for Kickstarter funding to develop what looks like a very interesting cat flap (‘cat door’ in the US). A cat flap which will meet the requirements of millions of indoor/outdoor cat owners. Not all cats allowed outside unsupervised are keen predators but many are. My cat is in …
The infographic explains more or less what I want to say on this topic. I’ll add a personal experience. Like many cat caregivers I have an indoor/outdoor cat with a cat flap. For about 18 months a neighbour’s cat came into the home via the cat flap looking for food. They came at night …
Who invented the cat flap? An alternative question would be: “Did Sir Isaac Newton invent the cat flap?” The second question is asked because it is often stated that Isaac Newton did, indeed, invent the cat flap. And he lived between 1642 and 1726. I have a page which mentions Sir Isaac Newton’s cat …
This is a very classy and rare cat flap. It has been carved into an old wall which is part of a Grade 1 listed building at Oriel College at Oxford University. I found a post of 2008 online – the Blencowe Families’ Association Newsletter – which briefly explains some of its history. We …
In this video we see a woman climbing through a cat door in the US. Admittedly the cat door is larger than normal but everything in America is larger than normal! That’s meant to be a compliment by the way. Their “cat doors” are certainly about twice the size as “cat flaps” in the …
The “other type of lockdown” that I’m referring to is a mentality because the cyber criminals are trying to get into the minds of gullible people who now need to lockdown their brains and steel themselves to resist them. Educate yourselves on modern criminality, please. And, yes, watch the catflap too. Burgeoning cybercrime and …
Cat flaps can be a security risk. It depends on what the house owner does with the keys to the door in which there is a cat flap. I should know because when I was young and living at home I not infrequently got into my parents’ home via the back door without a …
This is a unique cat flap (door) designed by an Amazon engineer, which uses artificial intelligence to detect when a cat is trying to enter the cat flap with prey in his or her mouth. If it does detect prey it donates a sum of money to a US bird charity (National Audubon Society)! …
