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.

[Slings and Arrows]

Damn! That was a FIGHT!

[Lady Jag]

[agent_delta]

SO CUTE!!

[Lady Jag]

Gluing captions is for beginners.

These are expert catculated translations!

[agent_delta]

[MEG33]

A CAT CAM??

Invasion of Privacy!

[MEG33]

;0)

[Lady Jag]

[Oztrich Boy]

can i get one for my wife?

Post picture of wife so we can decide if it's a reasonable trade.

[agent_delta]

My kitty and your kitty must party together.

snicker

[Lady Jag]

Covered.

[MEG33]

;0)

Love it!

[Lady Jag]

Party food!

[MrEdd]

bookmark thread for pics

[To Hell With Poverty]

Forget the shadows, my cats just lay there at the end of the bed...or wherever... ;)

[Allegra]

Take a nap - we’ll laugh again tomorrow.

A nap? It was late at night..I took a much-needed eight hours. ;-)

[Allegra]

ROFL! All of the kitties I've ever had have done variations of this as youngsters.

My Finbar not only took it all off the spool, but shredded it all over the place. All of this while I was at work, of course. :-)

[eastforker]

All of this while I was at work, of course. :-).................I certainly hope you left plenty of food and water out for him!!!!LOL

[Allegra]

I certainly hope you left plenty of food and water out for him!!!!LOL

LMAO! Now, that's funny...

This was while I was still living in Houston. Finbar is being well taken care of by friends in Tulsa. In fact, he has proceeded to corrupt my friends' cats by teaching them how to open drawers and cabinets and and steal catnip and stuff.

That's my BOY! {beaming proudly}

[agent_delta]

Oh... are you on weird hours at work or do you live in Europe or something?

;-)