Bolt found on drivers seat!

[decrep]

I'm glad it's not just me it happens to!
Trouble is, it's very hard to do experiments, to find out just what is going on.

 

[Ian Key]

I live on my own and the TV remote and my camera went missing. Could I find them? I Looked everywhere. Then the culprit materialised.....

She had hidden them in her bed. Not even a tooth mark on them.

 

[decrep]

She looks disappointed that you found them

 

[Lovemyev]

While enjoying a cup of tea at my daughters house, my wife turned her head to the patio doors and said :- “Why is the Sky remote sticking out of the soil in your flower bed”.
My daughters Jack Russel was the culprit!.

 

[AlAcrity]

I was reading this on my phone and wanted to reply but I couldn't find my phone anywhere so I haven't been able to. I've looked everywhere but can't find it at all. 1 upvote for alternate dimensional mischief.

Sent from my iPhone

 

[Slipstream]

Morning team

Got in my MG4 Trophy extended range just now, only to find this bolt on the driver's seat. There wouldn't be any obvious reason for it to have fallen out of my pockets and i'm the only one that drives the car.

Just one of those worldly mysteries or could it be from somewhere on the car?

The only other item that could be the culprit is my Stoplock Pro steering lock that i put on each evening, but had a look at that and it all seems solid.

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Did you leave your sunroof open?. Could have fallen from a passing airliner.

 

[Deleted member 11291]

Did you leave your sunroof open?. Could have fallen from a passing airliner.

If he has sunroof, we are definitely in a different dimension……..

 

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Some time ago I had a knife disappear from a matched set that hangs on its stand in my kitchen. At the time I had a cleaner and thought she might have thrown it away by accident. But since then, when I had no cleaner and actually very few visitors because of covid, a fork also vanished from the set. I presume the two wanted to be together.

Also, the radio sensor to track my cat's radio tracker collar vanished. I had it when I replaced the battery in the collar, but then when I needed it to track the cat, it was gone. It can't have left the kitchen, it wasn't as if I'd been out searching with it, but it was nowhere to be found. I even fished the rubbish bags out of the bin and went through them, and found the torn rubber cover for the tracker unit I had discarded when I changed the battery, but no sensor unit.

Poltergeists. It's the only answer.

Your cat probably took the remote for its collar, for privacy reasons.

 

[Rolfe]

Your cat probably took the remote for its collar, for privacy reasons.

If he did, he failed miserably. I bought a new one which has a longer range and better battery life.

 

[Ian Key]

If he did, he failed miserably. I bought a new one which has a longer range and better battery life.

Reply deleted on the grounds of taste.

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

If he did, he failed miserably. I bought a new one which has a longer range and better battery life.

Who do you use @Rolfe?

I use PetTracer.

 

[Davn]

Who do you use @Rolfe?

I use PetTracer.

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Is that cat stalking?

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

Is that cat stalking?

Little Bugger goes miles!
(Not in those two examples obvs?)

 

[Rolfe]

I just use a Tabcat. I can't follow him on that, I just have to go out with the sensor and wait for the bleep. Fortunately there has only been one occasion when it was the actual cat I was looking for (he was locked in a neighbour's garage). About 20 times and counting I've found the collar he had ripped off, either by getting tangled in bushes, or fighting. Sometime I could wish the safety release was just a teeny bit less safe.

I did use a Pawtrack (GPS) for a while but I had quite a lot of trouble with it, and then they replaced a faulty one with a completely revamped model which was absolutely useless so I gave up. But by then I had enough data on his range to know where to look and where not to bother. I've got to the point where I just take my bike, cycle the roads I know cover his range, and wait for the beep. I can find the collar in 20 minutes, even under a bush. Or on one occasion, in someone's house, after they'd found it on their driveway.

I might try the Pettracer if you think it's good. Mind you, the great thing about the Tabcat is that once you get the beep you know you will find it, even if it's buried in leaf mould in a narrow gap between a garden shed and a leylandii hedge. Yes that did happen. No, me neither. You can track it to the inch. I worry about the GPS collars, if the collar is lost and you only have an approximation of its position.

 

[DixieTGS]

I worry about the GPS collars, if the collar is lost and you only have an approximation of its position.

I can confirm that when we had the tracker disconnect from the collar. It took me half an hour to find it in a very open cow field, even though it was within 10m of the position shown on the map.

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

I just use a Tabcat. I can't follow him on that, I just have to go out with the sensor and wait for the bleep. Fortunately there has only been one occasion when it was the actual cat I was looking for (he was locked in a neighbour's garage). About 20 times and counting I've found the collar he had ripped off, either by getting tangled in bushes, or fighting. Sometime I could wish the safety release was just a teeny bit less safe.

I did use a Pawtrack (GPS) for a while but I had quite a lot of trouble with it, and then they replaced a faulty one with a completely revamped model which was absolutely useless so I gave up. But by then I had enough data on his range to know where to look and where not to bother. I've got to the point where I just take my bike, cycle the roads I know cover his range, and wait for the beep. I can find the collar in 20 minutes, even under a bush. Or on one occasion, in someone's house, after they'd found it on their driveway.

I might try the Pettracer if you think it's good. Mind you, the great thing about the Tabcat is that once you get the beep you know you will find it, even if it's buried in leaf mould in a narrow gap between a garden shed and a leylandii hedge. Yes that did happen. No, me neither. You can track it to the inch. I worry about the GPS collars, if the collar is lost and you only have an approximation of its position.

I can highly recommend PetTracer, but......there is a subscription every month (£13) 24 months
There might be a get out clause but I won't be needing it.

The collar has yet to come off and is good quality.

It just gives me peace of mind should I need to find him.

It's been very interesting finding all his hidey holes where he can sleep for hours at a time.

It uses GPS and Radio at the same time which is handy should he not be visible to the Satellite.

I didn't think I would care so much for a cat (always been a dog person) but this little numpty was left in my wood shed by his mother and might have died if we hadn't taken him in.
We left him 19 hours thinking she might come back.

He is such a character!!

 

[Fokmg]

Funny its usually a "nut" found on the driving seat ?

 

[Deleted member 11291]

I can highly recommend PetTracer, but......there is a subscription every month (£13) 24 months
There might be a get out clause but I won't be needing it.

The collar has yet to come off and is good quality.

It just gives me peace of mind should I need to find him.

It's been very interesting finding all his hidey holes where he can sleep for hours at a time.

It uses GPS and Radio at the same time which is handy should he not be visible to the Satellite.

I didn't think I would care so much for a cat (always been a dog person) but this little numpty was left in my wood shed by his mother and might have died if we hadn't taken him in.
We left him 19 hours thinking she might come back.

He is such a character!!

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Was always a dog person myself as well, but have had a number of cats over the years, each with a different character.? All have been rescues and we have been very lucky with them all.
They say that sometimes things happen for a reason, his mother knew what she was doing.

 

[Rolfe]

I can highly recommend PetTracer, but......there is a subscription every month (£13) 24 months
There might be a get out clause but I won't be needing it.

The collar has yet to come off and is good quality.

It just gives me peace of mind should I need to find him.

It's been very interesting finding all his hidey holes where he can sleep for hours at a time.

It uses GPS and Radio at the same time which is handy should he not be visible to the Satellite.

I didn't think I would care so much for a cat (always been a dog person) but this little numpty was left in my wood shed by his mother and might have died if we hadn't taken him in.
We left him 19 hours thinking she might come back.

He is such a character!!

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Aw, how cute! Yes, I think having radio tracker capability is important. The original Pawtrack had a beep you could turn on and if you were close enough to hear that then you were able to home in on it. But they removed that facility at an upgrade, and I dread to think how you'd find it, knowing only that it was somewhere in someone's garden, full of bushes and shrubbery. When I was trying out the newest version, which came off if you looked at it funny, I clipped the Tabcat to it.

I don't really need GPS functionality for Jori at the moment. It's seven years since he vanished for two months, leading me to research pet trackers in quite a lot of detail before settling on the Pawtrack. I had originally dismissed the Tabcat because of its short range, not really thinking that of course you go out walking with the sensor, and most cats don't go more than half a mile or so. You can sweep an entire garden in a couple of seconds. The downside is that you start searching blind, but knowing his range from having used the Pawtrack simplifies that.

He's a bit less scatty now, and since his Big Adventure as a feral cat, the only issue has been one episode of getting locked in a garage. So I probably won't go GPS again at the moment.

 

[Ian Key]

Also, the radio sensor to track my cat's radio tracker collar vanished. I had it when I replaced the battery in the collar, but then when I needed it to track the cat, it was gone. It can't have left the kitchen, it wasn't as if I'd been out searching with it, but it was nowhere to be found. I even fished the rubbish bags out of the bin and went through them, and found the torn rubber cover for the tracker unit I had discarded when I changed the battery, but no sensor unit.

And @Rolfe wins the 2024 award for starting the most successful thread diversion from the original topic ?

And her being a moderator too