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Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
A clamp (padded, preferably) on the scruff of the neck will temporarily brick a cat.
Try this only with familiar cats with whom you have rapport.
Don't leave them for too long. A few minutes at most.
Why would you try that with any cat, especially one that you're close to? The fuck.
But he only said he scruffed them (if I am reading it right), not that he grabbed them by the scruff, is this apparently something that is considered abusive or something? If a cat claws at my leg and I pinch there to make it stop that is absolutely not the same as grabbing them there. I would never actually try lifting them that way.
It doesn't work on all the cats, though. ~~Also, I heard that it's not painful for a cat to be lifted that way, but~~ I would prefer not to.
Edit: I was wrong