Birds have pretty sharp hearing and they don't need much sound to warn
them. As for knowing where the cat is, right now I have two cats in this
house and I know where they are when they want me to know. They
accomplish that by jumping on my lap most every time I sit down or by
rubbing against my ankles when I go into the kitchen or by meowing at
me. When they aren't doing something like that I don't know where they
are except that I can check their favorite sleeping places. But I can't
say that I really need to know where they are. When they go outside they
don't go far and when they are inside the intervals between their
wanting me to know where they are are not that great. And, by the way,
when they start having a disagreement I can usually tell from which
direction the hissing and growling is coming.
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J.K. Rowling
“ I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing
in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist! ”
― J.K. Rowling
On 12/30/2018 5:28 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
So now that this cat has entered my life, I have a question. I've had cats
ever since graduate school, up until about 4 years ago, and I've always had
enough sight to see where they were if they were several feet away from me.
Now I don't. So today, Melanie bought a collar that has a tiny bell attached
so that I could hear this new cat moving around. However, the bell barely
makes a sound and my hearing is bad. So I'm wondering if anyone has a
solution. There's a place on this collar where an additional bell could be
added. Perhaps that would work. But we don't want to burden Madelaine with a
collar if it won't actually be useful. This collar has a bell that's part of
the collar, that looks like a little metal ball, and that, I doubt, would
warn a bird, if the cat wearing it were outside and about to attack. Don't
they put bells on cats' collars to warn birds?
Miriam
