Inventor launches 'cat cam'

Ananova ^ | 6/07/07

[GQuagmire]

Cat owners can now see what their pet gets up to once they go through the flap.

It follows the launch of 'cat cam' by a German inventor, reports the Daily Mail.

Jürgen Perthold, who lives in America, attached his light-weight camera to the collar of his tom cat Mr Lee.

"I wanted to find out what he gets up to, where he spends his days," Mr Perthold said.

"He goes out the whole day, sometimes he returns hungry sometimes not, sometimes with traces of fights, sometimes he also says out all night. It gave me the idea to equip the cat with a camera."

The camera takes one photo a minute for 48 hours and has revealed that the chubby tabby has the hots for a neighbouring feline, although he is in contention with another black tom.

Mr Lee spends much of his time exploring the undergrowth, looking longingly up at bird feeders and meeting other moggies under parked cars.

The camera weighs 70 grams including the batteries and Mr Perthold said it didn't give his cat any problems.

He wrote his own software to control the camera and perfected the design. He is now selling his invention for $30 in the US.

[GQuagmire]

Ping list material

[agent_delta]

"I wanted to find out what he gets up to, where he spends his days," Mr Perthold said.

There is a guy in need of a hobby!

TaЯd ping!

Thx, ES

[Spruce]

My cat would be 40 hours of sleeping, 1 hour of “doing the laundry”, and 7 hours of staring at nothing.

[agent_delta]

How do you know?

Have you been watching, Dr. Freud?

[Enterprise]

Kinda funny.

[Slings and Arrows]

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[Daffynition]

LOL ...talk about control freaks! There's the link from the Daily Mail w/pix.

[al baby]

can i get one for my wife?

[Daffynition]

Now the eternal quesion can be answered ..."It's 10:00 PM. Do you know where your cat is?"

[Lucky9teen]

[Hazcat]

No link to purchase one?

[Abathar]

I would want the microphone attachment so that when I see him walking through our field hunting birds I can randomly scream and watch him jump 2 feet in the air....

[Biggirl]

Great way to find out what your cat is up to.

[Slings and Arrows]

[martin_fierro]

lolz

[Biggirl]

More kitty videos for the Friday night Animal Planet’s Funniest Animal Videos.

[Dinsdale]

can i get one for my wife?

Don't give her ideas or you will wind up wearing a 'stop barking' shock collar.

[Daffynition]

Have you forgiven me for being flippant with you?

[Maximus of Texas]

How about a hooter cam?