Video demonstrating how I’m firmly pressing my thumb on a little red plastic wheel turning it through four configurations. The configurations are positions of the wheel where fins block the cat flap from opening in certain directions: in-only, out-only, fully blocked, fully open.

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   Sven A. Schmidt (finestructure@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 06:29:20 JST Sven A. Schmidt

   I posted before how Hobbes is a smart cookie. He's figured out quite a while ago how to pull in the cat flap and go out when it's in one-way configuration:

   https://mastodon.social/@finestructure/111175356738100738

   I've since started flipping it to block both ways at night. Here's a video where I cycle through the settings and I hope it shows that this isn't easy to turn. I don't think a child could turn this little wheel. It's quite small, which means you have little leverage to turn it:

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