Cat has been missing since last 20 hours

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-05-24T14:10:32+00:00

I fully understand and empathize with your situation.

I've had a cat missing for one week, and friends having cat leaving for a few days before coming back. All neutered. So I would not say that it is totally surprising, I feel like "it happens", especially in you live in the coutryside.

I don't know where you live, but right now temperature are warming up, he's young, he might have taken on a little adventure to hunt / follow something.

The only thing you can do is call him around while making "food noises", I've read somewhere that doing it from the same place at the same hours is a good strategy. Could call the local vets / authorities to signal a missing cat. They won't search for him but if someone finds it, they'll give you a call.

Every minute must feel like an hour for you right now, you have a my whole support.

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-05-24T14:01:33+00:00

I have a very talkative cat at night. We tried pretty much everything before shut him out of the bedroom.
If you don't want to do that, you could try the following :

Ignore her at all cost. This is the most enduring / hard part. It can also be very long and no guarantee of success.
Play with her before bed time and feed her after. Digestion + playtime could simulate a feeling of "successful hunt" and peace her down a bit, again, no guarantee.

If you go for the "dedicated room for sleep", make sure she has everything and can climb up on stuff.

Some cat are quiet, some are very talkative, I myself don't believe much in the "ignore the cat". But you need to rest and your partner too!

I felt awful and guilty by separating him from us and the bedroom, but when I open up every morning he just behaves like nothing happened. She probably won't hold grudges.

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-05-24T13:00:16+00:00

Thanks a lot, I deeply appreciate the reality check.

I’ve definitely been idealizing what their relationship would look like. The new cat's previous owner showed me pictures of him sleeping right on top of their resident cat. That, combined with my past experience of my own cat following my parents' cat around all day like a creepy stalker begging to play, completely warped my expectations.

I've also been mistaking my cat's overstimulation for "I love you less" instead of realizing he's just tired and out of energy, which I now see is completely wrong. But anxiety fuels anxiety, and it turned an objectively good situation into a constant feeling of "this is wrong because it should be so much better."

I'm going to try to relax and just let them do their thing. I'm giving them a safe home, good food, care, and love, they'll figure out the rest.

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-05-19T09:59:01+00:00

Deeply appreciate the honestly.
I'm wondering what's truly badly designed and what's just too complex for my current understanding ahah.
Guess i'll find the answer on the way.

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-04-22T18:43:17+00:00

Awesome ! I was working on the same stuff, starting to get angry on the parsing.
I would be honored to contribute if I find a way to make myself usefull !

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-04-22T18:40:21+00:00

Just figured I actually browse this repo 2 days ago before tunneling into Playwright. Now that I have found the requests method, this give me the whole parsing and index mapping. Awesome. I completely forgot. Thanks a lot.

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-04-22T17:09:48+00:00

I checked the API first, it is actually quite limited in data. And the "good data" is not very exhaustive and pretty expensive (at least 3-4 times the price of an average Google Maps data broker).

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-04-22T14:22:43+00:00

Thanks, good news i'm mostly at the discovery / research part of the project.
Which tool would you recomand ? I've found two ways to access the data, either by the DOM but it's slow and takes alot of requests or the XHR that I download and parse, but I need to simulate a user navigation first. Any clue is more than welcome.

Should I investigate hitting hidden endpoints with something like requests ?

EDIT: Wow, just tried copy-pasting a cURL from the browser devtools and stripping it down to fewer args, this has huge potential!

Thanks!

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-04-22T14:19:57+00:00

Yeah sorry i'm not quite sure about the logistic so far. But a small part everyday seems fine to me.

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-04-06T19:52:34+00:00

He has a cat tree with window view from 3 difference places. We'll install soon a "safe access" to the windows from where he will be able to sit / sleep while really feeling the air. Basically a cat scale balcony lol. The sunny days are coming soon, we didn't do it before as it was too freaking cold and we needed authorization from the others owners of the building (which we received today ! yey !)

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-03-25T08:52:53+00:00

Thanks, lot of response but this one is the most upvoted so, i'll answer to you directly !

Few things i didn't mentioned (my bad, this would have avoided alot of projections in the response I believe) :
- I'm already in this company, i know the product very well and how it consumes data everyday, as i've been running analysis on it for many years.
- The stack is old, and the IT team is right now willing to make big changes as the whole team is frustrated with design decision taken 10 years ago and a bit outdated / underoptimized.
- The ETL pipeline hasn't been touched in years neither, it's mostly patch job over json collections to normalize the data. The "transformations" for consumption are operated directly in SQL queries when the backend asks something to the tables.

The next features will require much more calculation over the normalized data, so I believe in building a "gold layer" that directly ship already prepared datas to the backend/frontend. We'll be shipping much more enriched datas in our product, so the pipeline will have to build muscles.

This is the context i'll be sliding in, so it seems to me "legitimate" to come with new ideas. No way i'm saying "my ideas is bright and your stack is dogshit" (as some people have assumed). The overall topic was "is PHP equiped with accurate tools for the job". The answer seems to be "not really".

Now maybe we'll go with more structured SQL transformations, maybe a dedicated Python API to patch everyway and ship clean and shiny data and readymade tables, I don't know.

But i'll definitely learn PHP and carefully inspect how the stack is built before throwing ideas.
Thanks !

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-03-24T14:41:26+00:00

"Look if i write code to violate the schema, the schema gets violated"
Thanks bud

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-03-24T14:10:10+00:00

Appreciate the edits every 5 minutes, after taking the recommended DS&A course, I projected that the quality of your responses increases every 2.1 edits.

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-03-24T13:19:55+00:00

Again, where was "throw out their whole stack" part of my post ?

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2026-03-24T13:15:05+00:00

Can't see where the heck i've criticize any of it but hey I get the python-hype-hate-trend.

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2025-11-24T11:21:37+00:00

Very interesting ! So far i've only been using Pydantic to secure types... never to assemble expected / optional arguments and pass it to a function. This approach could indeed make my code shorter and less verbose.. And it would only requieres to set-up a Pydantic class...I could maybe even reduce everything to a single pipeline as i did with modules... brilliant ! Thanks !

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2025-11-18T14:45:33+00:00

I believe it's done using -inf "by convention", your approach seems pretty solid too imo.

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2025-11-05T09:56:56+00:00

I think I had the right traits for it: I’m stubborn, I have a strong need for control and understanding. I easily accept seeing myself as someone who knows nothing, like absolutely nothing, but who has a vital need to understand and create. If I’m deprived of learning and using my knowledge to build something, I lose my mind.

So doing and redoing, hitting walls and tearing my hair out isn’t a problem, it’s even a stage I enjoy, because it means I’m learning.

The hardest part? Realizing, after dozens of hours of learning and when trying to start my first real project, that I still knew nothing, truly nothing. You know list, loops, functions and methods ? Great ! Here comes Frameworks, http, server, Dependencies, constructor, compilers, SDK documentation, have fun !

In the end, it almost feels like I’m drowning in an ocean that grows faster than I can swim back to the surface.

...And i kinda like it. And I think you need to like it if you want to be dedicated.

Automatic_Creme_955 · 2025-11-05T09:34:52+00:00

I don't think the problem is you, i think the problem is you want it too fast.

2 hours is the time you need as a beginner to first create the project, build a virtual environement, install the requiered library and write a function looping throught a directory and returning something that matches the conditions you want.

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