Evie's owner said that the ragdoll meows at her from another room if she does not tend to her running wheel fast enough.

A bored cat is an aggressive one! Cat wheels may look a little silly, but they provide cats with an opportunity to run around and get their energy out without jeopardizing your belongings.

[Scott Cutler] has a young cat, [Cygnus], that loves to run on a cat wheel and [Scott] had some some important questions about [Cygnus]’s usage of the cat wheel like, how often it’s used ...

and this instrumented cat exercise wheel was the result. To pull this off, [Brent] used what he had on hand, which was an M5Stack ESP32 module, a magnetic reed switch, and of course, the cat ...