Electrostatics are sometimes a horror for electronic circuits.
The question arises to me whether it makes sense to attach a grounding cable on the sofa or on the ceiling to a polyester blanket / fleece blanket / cuddly blanket, which is already very statically charged in humans and leads to unpleasant discharges, if a cat lives in the household Such a blanket is often used to protect a laptop on the sofa, for example.
For this purpose I would like to determine the capacity or the maximum field strength of the system "fleece blanket / cat fur / sofa", whether it is worthwhile to organize an additional, unsightly tangle of cables in the living room. Since I'm not very familiar with this, I hope that some cat owners who are powerful in the matter have an idea here.
Cables won't help. Because as long as the ceiling is not conductive, the charge can't flow to the cable.
You could wash the blanket with fabric softener. Fabric softeners usually contain substances that prevent or at least reduce static electricity.
Or you spray antistatic spray on the ceiling.
You can also spray the sofa. This makes the sofa conductive and people or animals on the sofa are discharged and / or do not become statically charged in the first place.
Buy a cotton blanket.
L. G. Lilly
In terms of capacity, you can forget that because you always get a short electric shock… Then the voltage is gone. Therefore this is only a very small capacity, otherwise you would get stuck on it until it is "empty".
At work, I had the problem that I had a conveyor system made of plastic rollers on which the well-known flat plastic lattice baskets ran, in which toasted bread was. When walking on the rollers, each basket was charged and when they were then automatically stacked to the pallet, you could not get closer than 10cm to the pallets in order not to risk a rollover on yourself. I was then able to solve the problem in such a way that the centering frame, which kept moving up and down around the pallet to be stacked to "straighten it out", was equipped with flat grounding mats on the sides. In your case, that would mean going flat over it a few times with something grounded. At home we also have a blanket made from acrylic sheep, which I called the "lightning & thunder blanket" because in the dark you can even see small lightning bolts from time to time when moving:-)
