A woman who rang ABC Sydney radio said she found out about the Optus outage from her cat.
The cat has an automatic wi-fi feeder (connected to Optus) & when breakfast wasn't delivered at 6:10 am, the cat went to the bedroom to lodge a complaint with management.
downdetector.cat
or
downforeveryoneorjustmycat.com
?
@catsalad The cat presumably wants a root cause analysis, followed by a course of action recommendation to ensure life-safety critical systems are properly redundant.
After breakfast.
@catsalad when I shopped for a cat feeder, I found a good product with two versions. One had a clock you had to set for the cat's feeding schedule. It took 4 D batteries to handle power outages.
The other was internet-connected and cost $20 more. It had the same battery backup, but settings were controlled through a cloud service and it wouldn't feed your cat if the internet goes down.
I saved $20.
Daniel Isaksen
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Wookiee Parker 
Kadin
Adam Katz