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[surprisepig!]

What would a petfood company do with this data?

http://bigpondnews.c...one_403889.html
Wednesday, December 09, 2009


A study reveals 22 percent of a cats' time is spent looking out of windows while home alone.

What do cats do when their owners are away? There was one way to find out - 'cat cams.'

Fifty house cats were given collar cameras that took a photo every 15 minutes.

The results put a digital dent in some human theories about catnapping.

Based on the photos, about 22 percent of the cats' time was spent looking out of windows, 12 percent was used to interact with other family pets and 8 percent was spent climbing on chairs or kitty condos.

Just 6 percent of their hours were spent sleeping.

'What surprised me was how active the cats were.

'I believed my three cats were sleeping during the day,' said Jill Villarreal, an animal behavior scientist who collected the data for Nestle Purina PetCare's Friskies brand of cat food.

The 777 photos studied by Villarreal showed the cats looking at a television, computer, DVDs or other media 6 percent of the time and hiding under tables 6 percent of the time.

Coming in at 5 percent was playing with toys; eating or looking at food finished at 4 percent.

Will the cats get movie cameras next? 'We are in the think tank now,' Villarreal said.

[stiperules!ok]

Big Brother is watching..........cats!

[Mary]

It cracks me up that someone decided to study this.

[slinky1]

I am pretty sure my cats are up to no good when I am not at home.  Making phone calls, playing on the internet,  harassing the dogs and such. :p

[OneArpeggioPete]

slinky1 said:

I am pretty sure my cats are up to no good when I am not at home.  Making phone calls, playing on the internet,  harassing the dogs and such. :p

caught in the act... :p


:-)

oneArpeggiopete:cool:

[Kelly A]

Mary said:

It cracks me up that someone decided to study this.

Now I want to put cameras on my own cats.

[Red Frog]

I went the other way and put cats on my cameras.

They spent 100% of their time being clogged with fur and getting batted around on the kitchen floor until they slid under the piano.

[eva83]

Red Frog said:

I went the other way and put cats on my cameras.

They spent 100% of their time being clogged with fur and getting batted around on the kitchen floor until they slid under the piano.

Interesting new field of study, how many cats per camera? ten? eleven?

[capi]

Anyone else remember Mr. Lee? I came across this cat's photo site a few years ago and got a kick out of it.

This guy designed his own system to find out what his cat was up to.

"Sometimes I have some challenging ideas, or crazy like some other people would say. This time I thought about our cat who is the whole day out, returning sometimes hungry sometimes not, sometimes with traces of fights, sometimes he stay also the night out.
When he finally returns, I wonder where he was and what he did during his day. This brought me to the idea to equip the cat with a camera. The plan was to put a little camera around his neck which takes every few minutes a picture."

Pics and vid of Mr. Lee's adventures are on his website. Anyone who wants a glimpse into the secret life of a pet can order a cat cam from him.

http://www.mr-lee-ca....de/pe_cc_u.htm

Click on these pics to see more.

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Mr. Lee Videos




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[montie]

If they studied my cat they would find he sleeps or lays around for more that 80% of the day....