Today's better mousetrap department uncovers The Liberator, a replacement for bells on your cat in the attempt at providing birds with an early warning system. What bird wouldn't flee when faced with a "threatening tonality" triggered by a sudden change in cat inertia?

This won't do any good for our cat->bird problem. Smudge merely waits for a bird to fly into one of the windows and then munches down on the stunned victim. We've filled our windows with threatening bird of prey silhouettes without any reduction in bird bonkings. Maybe a fine, transparent fish netting hung a few inches in front of each window? It might start a whole new bird sport: window net bungy bouncing.

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