Chasing intruding cats from your home with machine learning

“I decided to drive this cat out of my house using data science.”

“Unfortunately, in all fairness I must admit, the success did not last.”

‘Twas ever thus.

https://youtu.be/FJl_4IsQJ2g

(The Cat Came Back - Award-winning Canadian short.)

I enjoyed reading this article, it makes me think of a farside comic or the like.

The troll in me wants to say, they wasted 70 euros and a weeks worth of work when a two euro pillow case, a couple of rocks and a trip to the river would have been easier and more effective.

The truth is I could never do that and I really like cats, so instead I would say, if the designer built on their concept and trapped then caged the cat, kept it in their house for a week or so, their cats would become accustomed to it. Chances are if it was a stray the owners would post flyers then they could return it whilst informing them of it's miscreant behavior. If it was truly feral, a week in a cage would be enough to keep it away for quite a while and if it returned just rinse and repeat, it will get the message soon enough.

Finaly, my cat is an inside cat so I wont ever have this problem. I know it's hard and almost impossible to turn an outside cat into an inside one, but there is no issues if you raise them as inside cats in the beginning.