Posted on 06/07/2007 12:52:34 PM PDT by 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.
My cats like it. It makes them hungry.
It’s just as well that they don’t have one. Neither of us would ever get any work done.
New and improved mega cat cam...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM
One day he will bea ble to watch his cat choke to death ...how nice.
Oh my gosh these are funny...LOL!
That’s a horrible picture to post.....
Truly riveting.
I can see how this guy wouldn’t want to miss a moment of this excitement.
yawnn
I thought this was a fun, silly thread. Didn't mean to make you nod off. (As I should be doing anyway....)
I was being sarcastic.
Take a nap - we’ll laugh again tomorrow.
Great video!
It can be paralleled to cutting and running in Iraq. At first the buffalo ran. The calf was caught and luckily for the calf he was not too far in the water. If he had been further in the water the croc would have had him.
But the army of buffalo returned and routed the lions.
We must stand strong in Iraq, together, not divided.
Battle Axe
I would love to put one on Bobby Lee but the one time I tried to put a collar on him he totally freeked out and finally, after about ten minutes, removed it.
Years ago, we got our first video camera about the time my son was building remote control cars. He stripped one down, duck taped the camera to it and did some really cool videos of the undersides of furniture in the basement. Talk about techo nerd.
Please tell me that’s a ‘chop...
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