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GENIOUSE!!
spelling= HEINOUSE.
Humour aside, this _is_ a great idea. Notice the cord to the small exhaust fan in the main pipe. This would be no harder to install than a dryer vent, and I know at least one person whom I *wish* would do something like this.
Ceiling Cat?
*faa-whoomp* pneumatic kitteh tube delivery noise
Followed by incredibly loud yet muffled cat screeching. *RAWRRRRR*
I hope they don’t activate the vac-o-stink when the kittehs are in there.
Snicker!
actually, my / the cats’ bathroom needs this.
thats the birth place of the long cat
No, it’s a long cat creator machine!
How can a kludge that is pure WTF get such a brilliant title?
Living in a multi-cat household, I totally need this!
kludged and owned by the teller who services the drive-up bank.
It’s always nice to see your own handywork. The fan is on all the time, it’s a 92mm 120 cfm computer fan. the vent blows outside. Been like that for 3-4 years with no problems. Every few months i clean about a cat worth of hair out of the fan though.
Dave,
Add a lint trap before the fan and it’ll be a lot easier to clean out the hair, no more un and re taping.
I’d PAY someone at least plumber’s rates to install something like that at my house! The only place I can put my two litter boxes for three cats is in my laundry room, so as soon as the wash/dryer is done I have to whisk the clothes away to dry elsewhere so they aren’t perfumed by cat poo. . . .
You do know you still have to clean the boxes, right? Maybe that’s why yours smell that bad.
Yes! Otherwise, the cats are just taking their now extra-dirty selves all over everything in the house anyway.
@Amanda– Try looking for a less dusty litter, one for multiple cats. Worth the money, no doubt about it.
Hey, KC…I’m pretty sure bulimia meant that as a joke.
Well, I can’t say that for sure; you’ll have to ask about that yourself. Meanwhile, Anna is commenting to someone with an obvious catbox dilemma. Ohhh, my sides are splitting! That’s always so hilarious! Now ask me if I’m kidding about that or not.
I don’t have to ask, it’s obvious that you are.
Doesn’t all the duct hardware make it difficult to tilt back the lids of the litterboxes to tend to the litter??
Love it. Dave, you should have marketed it before you put the pic up here. By now, someone has already got a patent on it.
To Adolph’s cats these look like harmless cat boxes. But after they enter the “final solution cat box” and the deadly gas is released, the cats poop their final poop.
Nazi jokes, not funny.
If you cant laugh at Nazi Jokes, then the Nazis have won!
You’re right there’s nothing funny about Nazi’s.
sincerely,
Colonel Hogan
Aww…I was modded…
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Always gotta be on the lookout for these things, slapchop.
So, you’re saying the cats get Mengeled, I mean mangled!
Keeping cats indoors is pure dirt. Even if they were nice creatures, they still do reeking cat mucks laced with parasites to make you love them more.
let me guess — it’s never snowed where you live, right? the point of having an animal as a pet is to get to see them and interact with them, not to let them run feral and leave them to their own devices. let the cat out as much as it wants, but give it the means to stay in when it wants, too.
on topic — this looks like a great idea!
grrrrr… if you let your cat out, does that mean someone ELSE has to clean up its poo? Or are you living in the country so it can go somewhere that no one else has to maintain?
Currently having trouble with new neighbor who brought three country cats to the city (house about 15 feet from mine) and just lets them run wild. The first day here, they decided that my mulch was their litter box. I asked nicely, I begged, I scolded (the owners), but no dice. I had to call the city on them to get it to stop (for a while).
So, if you kept rabbits in those kennels, could you use those pipes as a hare dryer?
lol.
HA! i found Waldo!(took long enough)
The title makes it appear like the cat vent is the kludge (using a computer fan instead of, say, a Radon evacuation fan /is/ a tad kludgy), but sneaking into the background is that the electric meter is poking through the wall facing the inside of the scne. Since electric meters face outside, allowing people from the power company to read them, the weirdest part is that this must therefore be *outside*. Who provides litter boxes to outside cats? Why is there a ceiling fan and curtains in an exterior room? So many questions!
maybe the kludge is the meter sticking through the nicely framed cork board. Well done!
That’s my favorite part, too!
I’m going to guess that that corkboard conceals the line in, the meter box and the breaker box. Not a bad solution to what looks like it wants to be some kind of home office space. That also explains venting the cat boxes outside!
Why not take the time and clean the poop on a daily basis?
Cat’s might not want to schedule their toileting around your work. Unless you want to jump up and scoop every time Mr. Binkles or FooFoo drops a steamer, it would be nice to have the stink carried away.
Hilarious! Drops a steamer!
if these were done outside… then… why is there an electrical outlet outside the house?
Garage, dude. Garage.
i’ve lived in several homes with the meters (gas and electric) inside. if i wasn’t home to let the meter readers in, I had to call in the readings
v.good
A kludge? Just because they duct-taped the vents to the cages?
But yeah… the hydro meter inside of the room… that’s sort of weird.
Do they have to let the guy in every time they want to do the readings?aaaaaaaahhhhh…. now I’m gettin’it. The hydro guy was complaining the smell so they had to come up with something…
“Get rid of those smelly cats or we will not charge you for the electricity!!! EVER AGAIN!!!”
And that’s how hydro-vent was born!
In our (100yr old) house, both the water meter and the gas meter are inside the basement. Dunno why. And yes, we have to let the meter readers in…
Have to agree with some of the other posters, tho, if the boxes are kept clean this kludge wouldn’t be needed.
you’ve never smelled the cat box room after Marianne has done her dirty kitty business.
no kidding, my cat refuses to cover hers, a habit leftover from our multi-cat household days where she was asserting herself as queen of the house. so *i* get to be the sand-flinger if i dont want to lay in bed smelling a fresh loaf
The boxes are cleaned weekly, and taken apart then scrubbed monthly. They might look a little dirty in the picture but i assure you i take my cats health and happiness seriously.
It just helps to control the funk from their daily duties, it’s basically serving the same purpose as a bathroom fan. It also improves the performance of clumping litter.
As a lucky no-bloody-cat-in-100miles-radius kind of a guy it’s hard for me to judge the necessity of having this venting setup in place, but from a handyman point of view you done an excellent job
Not a kludge I say!
That may be one of those smart meters that can be read from the main office (no reader required)
yes, our water/gas meters are inside the basement of the building but we dont have to let anyone in cause theyre read uatomatically from the gas company. pretty neat
Nobodys inside. I bet they managed to escape and are now onboard the NebuCATnezzar. Some of them still wonder what would have happened if they had taken the blue Friskies instead.
The homeowner appears to be experimenting with collecting and converting methane gas from cat feces into a viable means for energy. The meter on the wall measures power consumed so far from the waste’s gases alone. Add another…oh…250 boxes and 400 cats, and they’ll have a sustainable source of energy capable of powering the whole home.
It was brilliant up to the point of the additional boxes and cats. That defeats the purpose and what little energy converted by the waste gases collected would go to powering the fans. There would not be a break-even point after paying for all those boxes, vents, fans, and kibble to keep the cats “going.”
Now, if more hog farms would utilise the concept, it would be great. Some already do, up to the point of being nearly off the grid.
Well, the cat milking business had reached a marginally profitable state before the economic downturn, largely thanks to the increase in interest in organo-kitteh foods. Now, if the methane collection concept works, the additional revenue stream should increase profits and interest in cat cattle drastically. EDS is already anticipating significant contracts for the requisite cat herding.
I was in a town with massive hog farms around, and didn’t see how anyone could LIVE there! Almost gagged just standing outside car. I know, a person can get used to almost anything, like the chocolate smell in Hershey.
After college, I lived in a neighborhood where I bet that would have been totally doable, had people just been organized about it. I should have observed before signing the lease that, wow, there were a lot of cats roaming around, but I suppose it wasn’t as easy to notice until after dark, when there’d be 4-5 fighting out in back of each apartment every night. I didn’t stay there too long.
I have a similar setup with a bathroom exhaust fan over the two litter boxes in the sump pump room in my basement. The difference is that I have a outdoor lights motion detector that turns on the fan and a light for 10 minutes when the cats goes into the room through the cat door.
Excellent idea !
the guy is heating the house from hot pussy – we all do it, one way or another, right?
This is why parents of children of certain ages should better monitor the kids’ online time.
Don’t let your kids on this site. (And whats with the bullsh*t over moderation going on here?!)
I have 8 cats. this idea is *brilliant*. Someone should actually MAKE these things more professionally and get them in stores. NOW would be nice.
yeah, why there aren’t kits for this I have no idea…they could make so much money…
THE INTERNET: A series of tubes, full of cats and crap.
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Gahhh – once again – clean your litterboxes for ceiling cat’s sake. I can see the inside sides of the boxes from the picture and they are filthy. If you clean your box properly all these ventilation systems are unnecessary. Change out the litter entirely at least once a month – this is after you add fresh litter as needed when you scope the boxes DAILY. When the box is entirely emptied out, wash with good hot soapy water, rinse with white vinegar and water, let air day (preferably in direct sunlight), and then refill with fresh, clean litter. Also, since plastic (unless treated with antimicrobials) can begin to grow bacteria over time, should be buying entirely new plastic litterbox at least once yearly (if you are not able to use litter pan liners). Gahhhhh……
Your cat has trained you well.
Seriously, if my wife had that many cats that I needed to hook that up, I would punch her in the face.
Your wife called and asked if I had a baseball bat handy. Thought I’d let ya know.
Should have ran it to the middle one. The left one still will stink like this
The cat’s out of the bag. It’s Julie Newmar’s nursery school.
Ahaha, waldo! Stop it with the Catwoman cr*p, already!
soo, you sit on the floor and reach your entire arm in to clean them? yum.
That is no kludge, sir. THAT…is a brilliant contraption!!!
This is one of those ingenious double deceptive kludges. The litter boxes are not pumping methane to power the house – but the pipes vent into the evil mother in law’s upstairs prison chamber. She is allergic to cats and sneezes 24 hrs a day. The sneezes turn a windmill which produces electricity which is fed back into the grid. Thus the indoor electric meter adjacent to the litter boxes.
Some places have indoor gas and water meters around here. The utilities have a cable going from the meter to a box on the outside of the house. The meter reader holds an electronic widgit near the box to the box to get meter reading.
What does a constantly running exhaust fan do to your heating bill in the winter? For those of us near the great white north, this looks like an expensive stench removal system, when it is running.
Yep, electronic gas, water and electric meter. They just drive through the neighborhood and all the info gets sent to their computer.
Never saw a difference in the heating bill, this is in the basement which stays about 60-65F year around even when it’s -20F outside.
I see Basement Cat has switched to bio-warfare against Ceiling Cat.
Heehee! As the Mayans always knew, by the end of 2012, we’ll know how this turns out!
Nasa is testing the new cats’ room for the International Space Station.
So THAT’S where they come from!
*meow*
“Hey, what’s the deal? Can’t a cat have a little privacy when he uses the bathroom? Let’s start with the curtain- you hung it up but you never think to pull it closed when I’m doing my business? Then there’s the meter reader who comes tromping in unannounced scaring the… well, you know. And now you’ve added TWO MORE boxes? This place is starting to look like Porta-Potty row at the county fair. And what’s with this new thing? The wind, the constant whirring noise… it’s so distracting. Sorry, I’m venting…”
These pipes are for sending messages to cats… Just joking.
Or so that cat can be heard meowing.
This appears to be some kind of Schrödinger’s Cat game show. One of the litter boxes contains a new invisible bicycle
LOL. U all are grate!!
it does suck, lol
Just wait until the fan gets turned around, then you have a smelly dust storm.
Thank you for using Ceiling Cat rapid transit service. Have a pleasant day.
pregnant wife laughs her butt off and says, “you could spend the money on tidy cat or… you could attach fart fans the the cat box.”
Get a freakin dog people!
Living in a multi-cat household, I totally need this!
You know, this is one of those submissions that make me wonder about the people posting stuff to this site. It’s not a hazard, it’s not even a *kludge* since that pipework is installed rather neatly even where it enters the litter boxes. Why is this even on *this* site? This is nearly as bad as that holiday decoration that was posted on here as well as a couple of dozen other sites. :-/
And there’s a huge buildup of feces right at that corner – poorly designed!
In soviet russia, cat gasses human.
OMGawd. Genius. If I hook that up to a reverse-cycle air vent, I can gas the little bastards, and then dispose of their bodies without having to touch cat.
i need one!
I have 3 Maine Coon cats (MCs run 18-22 lbs), plus 3 DSHs (domestic short hairs) aptly named Rascal & Trouble. Any of the 5 of them could follow the noise from the outside, stalk it and kill it. Rascal & Tom Sawyer even have the very un-cat-like behavior of working together…that could mean the end of the whole vent system!! And with that entry into the ceiling, anything is possible. Cashew would even take out the curtain too, just as a courtesy of course.
Super-cool kitty transporter, just like at the bank and Costco…