Post by nightmist on Jun 25, 2014 11:06:14 GMT -5
OK just a robot arm...
I don't know if it is our very wet weather or what, but we have had an especially bad problem with squirrels in the walls this summer.
The cats have been going bonkers with it. Nothing quite like carrying a cup of coffee to your desk, then hearing mad chittering to your right, and suddenly being assaulted by a leaping cat from your left. Jiji is not so bad, he is mostly nine pounds of fluff. Spike however is 20 pounds of wannabe panther and when he flies into you you sort of take notice. The girls are plump and never make the height the boy cats do.
Our Ash is the owner of a cheap toy robot arm. it is plastic and has coloured LEDs inside, along with a voice chip. So when you trigger it it glows all different colours and says either "Hello earthing", or "I do not understand" in a stilted computer voice.
So DH was strolling through one of our two rooms with suspended ceilings when he heard that chittering over his head. He grabbed the robot arm off the top of the toybox and waved it at the cats while pulling the trigger. The cats beat a hasty retreat with that "What the heck!" look on them that cats are so good at.
Then DH stuck the arm up through the ceiling tiles and triggered it.
I do not think the squirrels expected an attack by an alien robot. One of them actually screamed. There were at least two up there since there was a mad scurrying in two different directions.
DH says he is going to make a couple of those sonic devices that drive out rodents, and the cats can just suck it for a day or two. Allegedly cats are also annoyed by the sonic devices.
I don't know if it is our very wet weather or what, but we have had an especially bad problem with squirrels in the walls this summer.
The cats have been going bonkers with it. Nothing quite like carrying a cup of coffee to your desk, then hearing mad chittering to your right, and suddenly being assaulted by a leaping cat from your left. Jiji is not so bad, he is mostly nine pounds of fluff. Spike however is 20 pounds of wannabe panther and when he flies into you you sort of take notice. The girls are plump and never make the height the boy cats do.
Our Ash is the owner of a cheap toy robot arm. it is plastic and has coloured LEDs inside, along with a voice chip. So when you trigger it it glows all different colours and says either "Hello earthing", or "I do not understand" in a stilted computer voice.
So DH was strolling through one of our two rooms with suspended ceilings when he heard that chittering over his head. He grabbed the robot arm off the top of the toybox and waved it at the cats while pulling the trigger. The cats beat a hasty retreat with that "What the heck!" look on them that cats are so good at.
Then DH stuck the arm up through the ceiling tiles and triggered it.
I do not think the squirrels expected an attack by an alien robot. One of them actually screamed. There were at least two up there since there was a mad scurrying in two different directions.
DH says he is going to make a couple of those sonic devices that drive out rodents, and the cats can just suck it for a day or two. Allegedly cats are also annoyed by the sonic devices.