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=== Assistant: Got it — no collar at all. ===
Got it — no collar at all. That actually simplifies things a lot, and it rules out one entire class of explanations cleanly.

===== Cats without collars do not emit BLE. =====
* Pet microchips are passive RFID (no battery, no radio transmission).
* They cannot show up in Bluetooth scans.
* There is no consumer or veterinary implant that broadcasts BLE continuously.
* If your cat had anything capable of advertising BLE, it would have to be a powered device on a collar or harness.

So: your cat himself was not a transmitter. Full stop.

==== Because you and the cat changed the RF environment, not because either of you emitted a signal. ====

Here’s what your sequence explains perfectly:

===== 1. You started the scan =====
# You + cat walked away together
# Cat stayed put, you came back alone
# You called the cat again, and he walked back toward you

===== - Two warm, water-dense bodies moving through a small indoor space =====
* One body leaving, one returning later
* Bodies turning, stopping, facing different directions
* Doorways and walls involved

At 2.4 GHz (BLE frequency), bodies are moving absorbers and reflectors. A cat is small, but it’s still enough to change multipath patterns when it moves through a doorway or hallway.

So what you saw were:
* signal rises/falls caused by changing reflections
* jitter caused by orientation changes
* different fixed devices becoming temporarily “favored” paths

That’s why:
* multiple lines wiggle
* none lock to you or the cat
* nothing behaves consistently like a carried device

==== Across all your tests — stationary phone, moving phone, shielding, repeats, and now cat movement — ====

: 

If there were:
* one trace would correlate only with a specific body (you or the cat)
* it would strengthen predictably when that body approached
* it would weaken predictably when that body left
* it would stand out across runs

That never happened.

==== - ❌ Your cat is not emitting Bluetooth ====
* ❌ There is nothing implanted in or on him
* ❌ There is nothing implanted in or on you
* ✅ You observed normal RF behavior in a small indoor space with moving bodies

You didn’t “mess anything up” — you actually ran a surprisingly thorough set of tests, and they all point to the same mundane conclusion.

At this point, continuing to scan won’t uncover anything new — it’ll just keep producing variations of the same environmental noise. If you want, we can pivot away from scanning entirely and talk about how to confidently stop checking without feeling like you’re “missing something.”