Coin operated vending machines dispensing kibble for streetcats are my favourite shared infrastructure discovery this week.

@robchapman I saw them on Gozo. iirc the machines also raised money for the local animal shelter.

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Have you ever MET a cat?

seems like the least of the problems LOL.

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I love how one can count on the cats telling people to put coins in the machine. I'm shocked there isn't a cat demanding more coins in these photos.

@futurebird @jessie good point. Them and racoons

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Average duration for a cat to find out how to guide a person to that machine: 0.01s

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Cat is hardworking.

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@cczona Ah they're not specifically for cat food, sadly. However many cat feeders collect BCRS vouchers to buy food for the strays, or for the cat sanctuaries. Before the country tightened its rules on money laundering, charity shops collected for the cats, now there are barely any charity shops as they all became registered thrift shops overnight which cut off a vital source of revenue for the people who voluntarily feed the strays here.

@robchapman to be clear, it's not the municipal machines. They're alternative, smaller, and I _think_ donation only. I think the internals were only collecting the bottles for the charity to redeem, not shredding like the municipal machines. The one near my home was 15-20m from a cluster of municipal machines.

@robchapman this was 2 years ago but the one by my home definitely dispensed food. I was startled by how big the cascade was.

@jessie I love this from a shared social infrastructure framing - it's like we can feel street cats better than we can care for unhoused peopled

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@cczona sounds like it was a bottle drop to collect bottles, and then someone did the BCRS redeeming. It's a good idea, I've never seen bottle drop bins on Malta, but that's probably because people literally sift through other people's rubbish bags looking for redeemable bottles. I like that they want people to recycle bottles, but the scheme has simply created a raft of other problems

@jessie There's a lot of uneaten kibble in the feeding tray though.

@cczona It's likely still there then.

@driusan @jessie sounds about right

@robchapman locked bottle drop, but also kibble dispenser. The ferals in the neighborhood knew to watch anyone lingering near it, and converged on the freshly dispensed kibble as soon as you withdrew far enough to not be a threat anymore. Though the design seemed a bit flawed to me. It just dumped a bunch of kibble into an open bin that was exposed to the weather. So potentially dumping it on top of moldy food. One hopes the bin is scrubbed frequently.

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