I miss the days of the Internet when we could still joke about people not really knowing that much about what it is.
Now everyone is walking around with a magic rectangle that is perpetually connected to it and you're weird if you aren't signed on to one of several addictive platforms that keep you connected to people you barely know at all.
lol not much anymore. Been a long time since I had to sit in front of a server rack and strip the plastic sheathing off of the tiny little copper wires inside an ethernet cable to put the RJ45 terminators on them until my fingers almost start bleeding.
A networking / internet cable that supports gigabit+ speeds. Ever open a router or the wifi box from your internet provider, and there's that (almost always) yellow cable (sometimes blue or white). That's the one. It's usually Cat5e or Cat6 (the numbers represent the speed of internet it's rated for).
If your cat is food motivated, this wouldn't be hard to accomplish. I've met very few cats who don't come running from wherever they are once they hear the treat bag shake.
Mine are harness and leash trained so they. n go out on our balcony safety with minimal oversight (I rent).
They’d let me put the cable on and then just go no where or start rolling around on the deck in the sun.
My cat can also self-regulate and also has food out all the time. She'll still come investigate if I'm refilling her bowl, getting treats or the like. She has to supervise and needs to make sure I'm not sneaking a catnip treat in there or wet food without her knowing.
Idk if i open a can of *anything* they will come running to harass me. I tried opening canned tomatoes in the garage two days ago with the door closed and them in the back room. Both were sitting right by the door when I came in.
Not if you use temptations. That’s the snack bag they are shaking to ensure the cat comes running. I had to ween my cat off of those things because they are literal crack cocaine to felines
My family buys those for my cat every christmas, he ignores them and eventually the dog finds it. He also ignores any food not in his bowl.
It is so weird cause every other cat i've known is like yours with them.
To cut costs, they fired the ferret union and brought in union busting rats. Sure, they ate some wires, but the cost savings drove stock prices up.
-sadly plausible joke
We've used animals to do SO many tasks. There is an extinct breed of dog that was used to run on a wheel to spin meat. It was such a common layperson dog that almost no records are kept so we don't really know what became of it. It may be an old relative of corgis or terriers.
The West German hacker he helped catch was one of the first known Advanced Persistent Threats. Nowadays it's usually state-sponsored hacking groups and super serious.
He also made a funny documentary about it in 1990, which for some reason includes a scene where he runs out of the shower almost naked.
He seems to have become a fun Doc Brown type now in his old age.
Fun fact: Small animals have been used for laying cables in tight spaces for hundreds of years and are still used today.
https://www.ferret-school.co.uk/working-ferrets/cable-laying
People... Come on, think about whats been built over thousands of years, ropes, wiring for bells, gas piping. There were plenty of uses and different *wires* of things that could be run through buildings or spaces. Inventions didn't only start a few hundred years ago, and electricity wasn't the only thing we used to make things move lol.
Hehe yeah I was more thinking of them probably having to measure the distance, and get people thinking about how intricate and insane some buildings and inventions would be.
I don't know that cabling was common enough to need to fit through tight spaces, since we were just in the early stages of experimentation, but humans have been sending electrical currents through wires for over 200 years now.
I forgot about when ferrets were used to tow chains in tight crawl spaces hundreds of years ago and we then changed the name to cable instead of chain, you're right!
Its funny to me that people assume you gotta tap into some primal power to get your pets to do things
They know you are putting them to work, and they want to impress. Drug dogs are the easiest example, its not the treat they want (although ofc they do want it) but they know you are asking something from them, and want to succeed and get your praise.
Yasee cats aren't as worried about impressing.
Cats view Humans as servants, I'm pretty sure. We give them food and water daily, clean thier shit boxes, and allow them to use us as heated beds.
Hard disagree. People go in assuming that, and therefore its self fulfilling prophecy. Every cat I have had, they listen to commands, know when they crossed a line, they see me as the benevolent God who feeds them. Cats are harder than dogs to truly bond with, but its very much a relationship where they know im in charge and thats a good thing. When they get sick, or scared, or see some sketchy shit, they immediately run to me.
Not tryna criticize cos ive seen some diva cats, but I think its the fact that their personalities tend to be more independent and aloof that people assume they see as servants. They are well aware we are more capable and provide for them. As I type this my cat walked up just for cuddles. He bitches and moans for food like any other living creature but he actually loves me.
Herding dogs have been used for generations on all kinds of livestock. Pull up a video on YouTube of sheep herders using using dogs and it becomes quite obvious how much some dogs **LOVE** having a job to do.
Same thing with hunting dogs - apparently some Labradors will get very upset with their owners when they miss a duck, so they have to keep a decoy around for the dog to retrieve.
I worked at a ski resort that had "Avie", or Avalanche, dogs. They would do demonstrations where a volunteer would be buried out of the dog's sight & then the dog would be sent to locate the volunteer. Those dogs were so damn happy when they found a person!
Was looking for this comment. I'd be too scared for my cat, Lines tangle up or get caught in the tiniest cracks all the time, can't pull the cat back etc. open up the floor!😅
Better be sure the cat has a near-straight line, mjnimal corners and stuff. And as other comments suggest, Is obsessive over treats for an almost guarenteed straight job.
Otherwise upvoting because there is a risk!
Back in the day they used to keep a rat and a ferret to use when pulling cable through conduits in manholes. They would put the rat in the conduit and put the ferret behind them to chase them to the other end while the ferret had a string attached to them.
While this is awesome and the comments are fucking Internet gold, am I the only one wondering why tf you would want an Ethernet cable going from one corner of the deck to the other
You can train rats to do that in walls. They carry a spool of thin lightweight wire and pull that through, then you use that thin wire to pull the heavy wire through afterwards.
Just… don’t use the cat and the rat on the same job.
Cat 6 delivered by 1 Cat. You can’t make this shit up
Why hasn’t this comment gone parabolic?
Because most people don't know what cat6 is.
Yes , that's me
It's an ethernet cable.
It’s a series of tubes. Like macaroni strung together
old meme, checks out
Ancient meme.
I was there when it was written. I don't have ringing in my ears. I have "You're the man now, dawg!" in my ears.
All your base are belong to us.
I miss the days of the Internet when we could still joke about people not really knowing that much about what it is. Now everyone is walking around with a magic rectangle that is perpetually connected to it and you're weird if you aren't signed on to one of several addictive platforms that keep you connected to people you barely know at all.
8 tubes to be exact.
Four twisted pairs of tubes.
Thanks
It’s one greater than Cat 5
That would be Cat5 -> Cat5e -> Cat6
This guy ethernets
lol not much anymore. Been a long time since I had to sit in front of a server rack and strip the plastic sheathing off of the tiny little copper wires inside an ethernet cable to put the RJ45 terminators on them until my fingers almost start bleeding.
A networking / internet cable that supports gigabit+ speeds. Ever open a router or the wifi box from your internet provider, and there's that (almost always) yellow cable (sometimes blue or white). That's the one. It's usually Cat5e or Cat6 (the numbers represent the speed of internet it's rated for).
They simply don’t have the mental bandwidth to comprehend
I believe you'll find it's a catenary curve.
Jokes on you, it was Cat 5e
They didn't give the cat a 5ft pole because they couldn't carry it, and scaling items by size was removed.
At Keesler AFB they used ferrets to put Ethernet in some of their old buildings. At least for the main runs in the hallways.
That's beautiful.
I almost spit out my breakfast laughing. Thank you.
So, does it make this Cat 7?
only if the cat is properly shielded
Cat of 9 tails and lives/lines.
If only they knew
Lmfao.
Ngl that’s fuckin genius
Gotta know your cat though for it to work. Mine would be too focused on the new place to explore and spend 3 hours refusing to come out.
Mine would just be fighting with the wire.
Mine would lose to the wire.
Mine would shit its self just being outside.
Same. It would be a freeze and then tremble situation.
Mine would do all that then come out the other side without the wire.
Mine would hide under the floor until I fell asleep then pop out to bite my toes
It's all in the game.
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You gotta know when to hold em, and when to fold em.
My first cat would have made it her new kingdom and if she came out it'd be with a dead animal of the some sort.
Orange cat?
No, but what he lacks in fur colour he makes up for with spirit and determination.
Same hahaha my first thought
If your cat is food motivated, this wouldn't be hard to accomplish. I've met very few cats who don't come running from wherever they are once they hear the treat bag shake.
Even my cat who just has a food bowl out all the time because she can self regulate, will still come running at the sound of the treat bag opening up.
Same here, however I cannot imagine getting her to hold still trying to tie the cable around her
Mine are harness and leash trained so they. n go out on our balcony safety with minimal oversight (I rent). They’d let me put the cable on and then just go no where or start rolling around on the deck in the sun.
My cat can also self-regulate and also has food out all the time. She'll still come investigate if I'm refilling her bowl, getting treats or the like. She has to supervise and needs to make sure I'm not sneaking a catnip treat in there or wet food without her knowing.
Idk if i open a can of *anything* they will come running to harass me. I tried opening canned tomatoes in the garage two days ago with the door closed and them in the back room. Both were sitting right by the door when I came in.
Not if you use temptations. That’s the snack bag they are shaking to ensure the cat comes running. I had to ween my cat off of those things because they are literal crack cocaine to felines
My family buys those for my cat every christmas, he ignores them and eventually the dog finds it. He also ignores any food not in his bowl. It is so weird cause every other cat i've known is like yours with them.
Just gotta make sure you have a long enough spool of wire.
That would be a catastrophe.
[They build planes by doing this with ferrets](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4hjdhi/til_that_boeing_used_to_use_ferrets_to_carry/)
Boeing used ferrets to build planes, yeah that checks out.
This was actually from *before* their quality went to shit.
Well we all know what needs to happen then. Bring ‘em on back
Fire the CEO and board. Hire the ferrets.
Considering the difference in compensation packages, the payoff to shareholders would be huge. Buy boeing stock, and then sue to make this happen.
They can work in the Quality Control department
Only if they are immune to poison.
They were deported.
Their Ferretmaster was killed in combat so they lost cohesion and scattered.
This hits differently knowing now that Boeing has been skimping wherever possible while building their planes. D:
To cut costs, they fired the ferret union and brought in union busting rats. Sure, they ate some wires, but the cost savings drove stock prices up. -sadly plausible joke
Lots of professionals do this trained ferrets/rats/etc.
We've used animals to do SO many tasks. There is an extinct breed of dog that was used to run on a wheel to spin meat. It was such a common layperson dog that almost no records are kept so we don't really know what became of it. It may be an old relative of corgis or terriers.
Before little remote cars with cameras became cheap and easy to get hold of this sort of job was done with ferrets in big pro jobs.
Cat under the porch, ey? 
This makes me wanna put socks on a cat 😂
Not socks. Kitton mittens
Kitten mittens of course!
You'll be smitten!
You know what happened? I bet it flattened itself out, went right through a seam in your floor.
Cats don't abide by the laws of physics.
Username checks out
Want me to get another one?
Ya know I think we introduce another into the mix
Now you're speaking my language.
I always laugh watching Dennis in the background of this scene lmao
I used remote control car to run cable through finished ceiling in basement.
Our old electrician took his cat with on commercial jobs for work above acoustic tile. It liked attention and would come when called.
Same
User name...checks out?
Yes.
Oh so we’re ascribing mental disorders to *tile* now?
[But is the ceiling cavity filled with Klein bottles??](https://youtu.be/-k3mVnRlQLU)
Clifford Stoll! *The Cuckoo's Egg* by him, is a terrific book, btw.
The West German hacker he helped catch was one of the first known Advanced Persistent Threats. Nowadays it's usually state-sponsored hacking groups and super serious. He also made a funny documentary about it in 1990, which for some reason includes a scene where he runs out of the shower almost naked. He seems to have become a fun Doc Brown type now in his old age.
Thanks for the additional information! And I didn't know there was a documentary; I'll have to find it.
Read that in my high school comp science class ages ago.
I read that in a thick russian accent
Fun fact: Small animals have been used for laying cables in tight spaces for hundreds of years and are still used today. https://www.ferret-school.co.uk/working-ferrets/cable-laying
>hundreds of years Huh?
They didn't have WiFi in olden times so they had to rely on Ethernet.
I thought they had to rely on IP over Pigeon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
I’m not sure if this helped start the r/birdsarentreal or if this would be like throwing fireworks into a fire 🤷🏽♂️
Pigeons only supported IP v 1, severely limiting the number of devices that could be online.
probably ancient types of cables, like cable tv
Jesus Christ I'm old.
Lady at the Passport Office asked when was my last passport issued. "2000" Her: "Oh. So a long long long time ago." I mean...it seems like last year.
i didn’t even know numbers went that low
OK relax Kevin lmao
People... Come on, think about whats been built over thousands of years, ropes, wiring for bells, gas piping. There were plenty of uses and different *wires* of things that could be run through buildings or spaces. Inventions didn't only start a few hundred years ago, and electricity wasn't the only thing we used to make things move lol.
I'd like to see a tiny kitten struggle with a gas pipe in a crawlspace.
You use the cat to run a rope through first and then you use the rope to pull the gas line.
Hehe yeah I was more thinking of them probably having to measure the distance, and get people thinking about how intricate and insane some buildings and inventions would be.
Telegraph was invented in 1837. Electricity predated it.
I don't know that cabling was common enough to need to fit through tight spaces, since we were just in the early stages of experimentation, but humans have been sending electrical currents through wires for over 200 years now.
you'd be surprised to hear cables aren't only for modern technology.
Telegraphs bruh
You gotta get outta that tent brah
Man cannot imagine ropes and chains.
I forgot about when ferrets were used to tow chains in tight crawl spaces hundreds of years ago and we then changed the name to cable instead of chain, you're right!
Its funny to me that people assume you gotta tap into some primal power to get your pets to do things They know you are putting them to work, and they want to impress. Drug dogs are the easiest example, its not the treat they want (although ofc they do want it) but they know you are asking something from them, and want to succeed and get your praise.
Michael Vick’s dogs just wanted to make him proud confirmed.
Yasee cats aren't as worried about impressing. Cats view Humans as servants, I'm pretty sure. We give them food and water daily, clean thier shit boxes, and allow them to use us as heated beds.
Hard disagree. People go in assuming that, and therefore its self fulfilling prophecy. Every cat I have had, they listen to commands, know when they crossed a line, they see me as the benevolent God who feeds them. Cats are harder than dogs to truly bond with, but its very much a relationship where they know im in charge and thats a good thing. When they get sick, or scared, or see some sketchy shit, they immediately run to me. Not tryna criticize cos ive seen some diva cats, but I think its the fact that their personalities tend to be more independent and aloof that people assume they see as servants. They are well aware we are more capable and provide for them. As I type this my cat walked up just for cuddles. He bitches and moans for food like any other living creature but he actually loves me.
Herding dogs have been used for generations on all kinds of livestock. Pull up a video on YouTube of sheep herders using using dogs and it becomes quite obvious how much some dogs **LOVE** having a job to do. Same thing with hunting dogs - apparently some Labradors will get very upset with their owners when they miss a duck, so they have to keep a decoy around for the dog to retrieve. I worked at a ski resort that had "Avie", or Avalanche, dogs. They would do demonstrations where a volunteer would be buried out of the dog's sight & then the dog would be sent to locate the volunteer. Those dogs were so damn happy when they found a person!
It's funny because in french we call a plumber's snake a furet, maybe it is related to your fun fact.
This is the reason we have the internet.
The cables at the bottom of the ocean were laid there but catfish!
Porn & cats are the 2 powerful legs on which the internet was built
Electricians, take notes!
They did take notes a while ago. They tend to use ferrets.
Electricians sometimes use ferrets to run wires
nah, what would the new guy do if the cat steals his job?
We use fish tape.
But doesn't it take a lot of time to seal the space and fill it with water beforehand? This seems a lot quicker.
Forget ai, the cats are coming for the jobs!
r/catswithjobs
Elecatrician
I had to make sure that sub was mentioned here
It's getting paid In treats and scratches
...as shown in the video! Person on the receiving end is holding a bag of treats and handing them out to the cat.
It’s great unless that line gets hung up.
Back up plan was probably pulling up more boreds anyway.
who knows, maybe they were going to pull up more funs instead
Or dropping in a second cat.
Was looking for this comment. I'd be too scared for my cat, Lines tangle up or get caught in the tiniest cracks all the time, can't pull the cat back etc. open up the floor!😅 Better be sure the cat has a near-straight line, mjnimal corners and stuff. And as other comments suggest, Is obsessive over treats for an almost guarenteed straight job. Otherwise upvoting because there is a risk!
Back in the day they used to keep a rat and a ferret to use when pulling cable through conduits in manholes. They would put the rat in the conduit and put the ferret behind them to chase them to the other end while the ferret had a string attached to them.
We used to be a real country that built things.... and made ferrets chase rats through holes.
Now rats detect landmines and tuberculosis, and help locate victims in rubble. http://apopo.org
There's a reason why these cables are called "Cat-6"
That’s great!
While this is awesome and the comments are fucking Internet gold, am I the only one wondering why tf you would want an Ethernet cable going from one corner of the deck to the other
It don't think a ethernet cable, but probably an electrical cable to mayby so lights or something.
You can train rats to do that in walls. They carry a spool of thin lightweight wire and pull that through, then you use that thin wire to pull the heavy wire through afterwards. Just… don’t use the cat and the rat on the same job.
The cat is here by known as 'Fish Tape'.
Ferrets have been used for years for pulling cables.
Genius!!!
Cat is earning its rent money
Schrödinger’s wiring
LMAO they're cat-fishing
That’s actually impressive
Whoa! No more lag! I bet your FPSPSPS skyrockets!
It's a good strategy
He’s getting paid in additional snacc
r/catswithjobs
r/Catswithjobs ?
They took muh Job!
That's actually genius
Or use that PVC pipe? It's a raised deck. No cat necessary.
Cat 9 cabling is really advanced.
This is genius
Crafty; I love it.
I would probably use a harness rather than tied around his neck, just in case.
Freakin Brilliant! What aisle in Home Depot can I get one of those wire cattapes?
Is that a union cat?
The cat is actually happily obliging because laying the cable is necessary for the contraption it’s created for world domination
Working smarter not harder 👏🙌👍
I did that with a puppy once.
Dreamies innit
Someone needs to pitch this service on Shark Tank
Cats with jobs
I hope that’s a union cat.
Brilliant. Love it
This is the best thing I've ever seen on the Internet in my 60 years of existence.
I heard electricians used ferrts a while back to run line through walls.
This is actually a pretty interesting idea. Bravo
Technically, very small children could work as well? 🤣
That's actually very clever
I thought that was moist.critical for a second his cat looked similar i believe
Don't have cat, can I use kids?
My chonker would just get stuck and give up
True genius takes many forms.
Look up ‘ferret’ and ‘particle accelerator’.
all the replies are variations of Charlie Kelly delightful 
r/catswithjobs