Cat p***ing in the sink! Help.

I have more than one cat in my house. Lately, one (or more) of them has taken to p***ing in the kitchen sink. Does anyone have an idea for a video surveillance system? I would like it have/be:

8 hour battery or run on A/C power
be able to record 8 or so hours of video, 640x480 is OK
(Will 8 hours of 640x480 fit on a 16GB card?)
SD card, micro-SD acceptable

I can setup my laptop nearby if necessary.

I have an SX260HS and a 60D, if either of those can be used somehow. Like can I stream/record video from the 260 to my laptop? I don't do video and have no clue where to start with this.

So do you intend to present the video evidence to the cat, I doubt it will give a hoot to be honest

LOL.

The sink is better than your pillow!

lol.
The free Magic Lanten works on a 60D. They have a great timelapse option that will give you 8hrs of coverage.
Not video but it should do the job.
Is your intent to do a crap in the cats bed for revenge?

If I can ID the cat doing it, he (she) will be finding a new home.

I had a cat that would get on the kitchen counter and shred the paper towel roll. Was easy to know which cat it was because the older cat never gets on the tables or counters and the new one was always jumping on everything. I can't stand animals walking around on any surfaces where food is eaten/prepared, so that jumper had to go to a new home! If he pee'd in my sink he may have been drop kicked lol! I feel your pain... but I don't smell it

Here's a possible solution... For $300
http://www.logitech.co​m …ty-systems/master-systems
It detects and records motion so you can watch the ten seconds of cat pee rather than watching eight hours of the sink...
I've used them to watch the house and occasionally to catch our dog counter surfing.

Get rid of the sink.

mike21951 wrote in post #15469634
Here's a possible solution... For $300
http://www.logitech.co​m …ty-systems/master-systems
It detects and records motion so you can watch the ten seconds of cat pee rather than watching eight hours of the sink...
I've used them to watch the house and occasionally to catch our dog counter surfing.

Thanks for the tip! I did some searching around and came up with two options. The first is a Logitech web-cam with a motion detect feature. It goes for about $50, and I can hook it to my laptop. The other is a dash-mounted looping recorder that truckers use for insurance reasons. Costs about $40 and and records constantly into 5 minute files, until the SDHC card is full, then re-writes over the oldest ones first. Duration of recording is dependent upon resolution and card size. I am going with the web-cam first. At least I can use that for other stuff once the offending kitty has been evicted.

Should I expect to open up the 135 box and find a cat stuffed in there?

Put a few of those sticky mousetraps in the sink and see what you catch...

Its probably territorial or stress spraying/peeing. Has anything changed recently, new cat, new furniture, etc? Does each cat have its own litter box?

The simplest solution is a web cam. Either one with motion detect in the camera. Or just using laptop software with motion detect.

You do not want a system where you have 8 hours of video to scan. With motion detect, you only need to look at the minutes where there have been action.

A web cam also have the advantage that you can use it for other tasks later.

Don't kick the cat. Figure out why it does it and teach it not to. Lifetime deportation for doing something it doesn't know is wrong is a hard punishment. Getting a cat means you decided to accept the responsibilities involved - including teaching the cat to stop with this.

convergent wrote in post #15470507
Should I expect to open up the 135 box and find a cat stuffed in there?

Sadly, no. No free cats. You will find some old South Bend Tribune newspapers, though. After I find out which cat is doing it, would you like him (her)?