Homeschool Journal 12-16 (Cat Inventor)

Some of this stuff I didn’t actually do the week I was supposed to do it but it is still this weeks stuff, so who knows when I actually did it. I had to brainstorm an invention, we just got a cat two days ago so I picked cat toys, I was supposed to write what they do and how I could improve it. I wrote for cats to play with and I thought, wouldn’t it be awesome it the cat toys would play with the cat by them self? I know other people have already tried this. I’ve seen the feather that goes in and out of the holes, the robot mice, and even the mice that spin around. But I wanted to do something else, so I tackled a few problems people have with their cats. Number one, dehydration; cats will get dehydrated just a water bowl and wet food every once in a while is fine, but I wanted something else. So I came up with the idea of the water bowl being attached to them, it would be attached to their collar and it would be breakaway so when they jump it would detach. Number two, getting their collar off; now the only way to really be completely guaranteed it won’t come off is for a non breakaway collar, but you really don’t want that. So I figure the cat won’t try to get it off if they want it on. Now think about that, does it make sense? Of course it makes sense but how would I get them to want their collar on. This sounds a bit cruel but it isn’t that bad really. Take their food bowl away for half a day and give them a treat ball that opens by it’s self if it senses their collar, it might take a couple tries of doing this and putting the collar back on and showing them they get the treat if their collar is on for some cats, but it could work. I have a couple more ideas but they will have to wait because I already have a word count of 359.

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