Over the years I’ve learned to trust my cat. If he’s on the counter, I tell him to get off, and he gets off.
If he doesn’t get off, I know him well enough to know that there’s a good reason. Like he’s looking at me with that same cat expression he always has, but I know he’s thinking, “Trust me, I’m allowed to be here right now.”
Ok, let’s do this.
We silently coordinate our efforts. I start moving appliances off the counter until the intruder is exposed. It’s a cockroach, a big one. It scurries. Bucky swats, stunning it. He gets it in his mouth for a second, but it’s gross so he spits it out. Once it’s disabled, I finish it with a shoe.
Mountain of treats. Glorious victory.
Alternate ending: it escapes under the fridge and Bucky stands guard for three days waiting for it to return. He knows his job.
Catdar locked; fire fur-missiles!
two
triangulation
Yeah.
You know the angles of both cats, and their relative positions (ie the angles A and C, and distance between them, b), then you can figure out the position B).
You’re using three inputs, only only one of them was merely implied. But the person sitting there can see where the cats are, and thus knows their relative distance.
If cat A was (from the POV of the human) in an unfixed position, like having 30 virtual duplicates around him, or be in a magic mirror house or something, still visible at what direction he’s looking at, but not where he is, then the sitter couldn’t know just from the position of one cat and the angle of both cats stares.
See?
Triangulation
Does the prospect of 2 cats staring at a point not immediately invoke the image of a triangle for most people?
They are both looking at the third point.
Plus you = 3 points??
That’s why I have 3 cats
Yeah, cats cat pretty cat.
