She’s an indoor and garden cat and we just moved, so this is totally new to her.
Seems unsafe.
Yeah, probably best to keep your critters away from machinery designed to cut stuff
She is keeping her distance and both me and my neighbour are watching closely.
If a lawnmower hits a rock, it can project it with deadly force. That’s why lawnmowers have guards on the side facing the driver, and warnings to stay a dozen or more feet back.
Lawnmower robots have much smaller blades with less inertia. I don’t doubt a direct hit would hurt, but rocks just won’t get thrown very fast by it. A direct hit would also be pretty hard to achieve because the skirt stops anything big from getting under the robot and the blades stop immediately when it gets lifted up.
Just imagine how many lawsuits the manufacturers would have to deal with if these things were only slightly unsafe.
That’s not how physics or lawsuits work.
If they are using smaller blades, those blades are most certainly spinning much faster than the large blades of a riding or push mower. Thus you’re just trading mass for speed and the energy exchange can remain largely the same. You can see this for yourself if you drop items (like a handful of sunflower seeds to simulate rocks) through a spinning ceiling fan or a smaller table fan spinning significantly faster; both can easily throw those seeds that get hit by the blades around a large room. This is how the smaller blades on a lawn mower would even be able to do the same work as the larger blades of a mower.
Also many devices, like table saws, chainsaws, and lawn mowers and considered inherently dangerous to operate. Lawsuits over injury as a result of misuse (like letting children or pets into the yard while mowing) usually have to factor in this inherent danger. There are certain safety measures in place, but I guarantee no mower operator manual suggests letting kids or pets play around a mobile set of spinning metal blades. If you fail to follow the basic instructions in an operators manual while operating a dangerous device, you don’t have much ground in a lawsuit.
I’ve read about places banning their use at night because they kill hedgehogs.
Yes, I have heard about that too, which is why I only let mine run at daytime.
Good point. I’ll take care not to let her out when the mower is running.
That shit fucking hurts. I thought it broke my finger. I was very fortunate
I was really hoping that I wasn’t about to watch a cat get turned into hamburger meat.
Looking around like “yo! Is anyone else seeing this!?”
“This mockery of my primacy is an outrage.
I’m offended by the mere existence of this contraption.
Why must I endure this grotesquery?
I pity this fool and hate everything about him.
Yet, curiously, my intrigue is both utterly enthralling and unbearably delicious.”
Aww. Looks like her fur is standing on end. But she’s pretty brave, getting so close to the Ungeheuer (monster). Nice to see her exploring her new home.
Nah she’s a maine coon mixed breed, that’s her normal fur. She is cautiously brave. Maybe because she has been watching it through the terrace doors so she knows it doesn’t do any sudden movements
The height of the grass along the wall of the house 😳
An “indoor and garden cat” is not an indoor cat.
It is if the garden is enclosed and they can’t get out
Words spoken by every cat owner whose cat has gotten out.
If they are outside, they should be on a leash.
What a bizzare take. Stop saying that. Are you just here to sling insults and boss people around, too?
Veterinary recommended advice is a bizarre take? Okay. I’m not sorry if sound pet care advice insults you, I think I’ve been civil.
