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.

[agent_delta]

hahaha

I’m telling her when I see her!!!

[agent_delta]

Do you have problems tracking your ... owl?

[theFIRMbss]

>can i get one for my wife?

So long as you don't
see her on CNN, then
do you want to know?!

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

That really isn't funny.

[al baby]

I already have one

[martin_fierro]

Have you forgiven me for being flippant with you?

[dragonblustar]

Kitty want's a close up.

[Daffynition]

You know why I love techno-geeks ....they come up with the best solutions!

[al baby]

how about a tard cam or a teeny kitty cam ?

[agent_delta]

TEENY... CAM...

crycry

That would be way kewl.

Then we can find out what she’s been doing instead of hanging at the busstop.

[al baby]

flippant

[al baby]

yes i want to find out where she hides the remote

[Arrowhead1952]

Kitty ping

[Daffynition]

LOL ... you've seemed so cold lately.

[Daffynition]

I admit it. Sometimes I go too far.

[JRios1968]

This is probably the only situation you would NOT want to know what your cat's been up to...

[windcliff]

ping

[Jaysun]

They’re going to find out why cats can’t lead the blind. The reason is because the blind don’t want to stay in one place for hours in the middle of the day only to suddenly jump up, scurry across a bookshelf and a couch, and go back to laying down.

That's pretty much the route most cats take.

PS - Why do people say "work like a dog" when dogs lay on their arses most of the time?

[Slings and Arrows]

How about a hooter cam?

Hey, if pix of drooling guys are your thing...

[Lady Jag]