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#Caturday, February 21, 2015: There’s a cat on my skylight!
by 1389AD ( 24 Comments › )Filed under Caturday, Open thread at February 21st, 2015 - 2:00 pm
#Caturday, February 14, 2015: Butterflies – Simon’s Cat (A Valentine’s Special!)
by 1389AD ( 37 Comments › )Filed under Caturday, Open thread at February 14th, 2015 - 2:00 pm
On YouTube:
Published on Feb 12, 2015 by Simon’s Cat
‘A lovestruck cat has a bad case of the butterflies’Have you seen our Happy Valentine’s Day animated GIF?
http://www.simonscat.com/Blog/2013-02-13/Happy-Valentines-Day/CREDITS
Directed by: Simon Tofield
Animation: Stephanie Mercier, Laura Nailor
Clean Up: Setareh Seto
Assistant Clean Up: Liza Nechaeva
Animation Supervisor: Isobel StenhouseSound: Shrooty
Executive Producer: Mike Bell
Producer: Edwin Eckford
Brand Manager: Mike CookSimon’s Cat Team:
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Butterflies was made using Adobe Flash.If you want to email us:
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#Caturday, 1/24/2015: Employees at this Tokyo office have 9 cat coworkers
by 1389AD ( 77 Comments › )Filed under Caturday, Japan, Open thread at January 24th, 2015 - 2:00 pm
Rocket News has the story:
When you live in a cramped city like Tokyo, owning a pet is a luxury many people cannot afford. Apartments usually come with strict no-pets policies, and the only way Tokyo dwellers have been able to get their pet-fix is by visiting cat cafes. Sure, it’s nice to sip on a delicious drink while petting a purring kitty, but you can’t stay there forever. What are you supposed to do during those other, horrible cat-less hours of the day?
One company in Japan has come up with a solution. They’re bringing the soothing cat cafe experience to the office by filling their workplace with adorable cats.
The cat-populated workplace is the brainchild of Ferray Corporation, an internet solutions business which mainly deals with webpage construction, application development, and other IT work. The company own nine loveable rescue cats that are allowed to roam the office on a daily basis, sleeping, causing adorable trouble as cats will, and just generally being cute little balls of stress-relief.
#Caturday, 1/17/2015: Tablet apps let cats catch critters in cyberspace
by 1389AD ( 88 Comments › )Filed under Caturday, Open thread at January 17th, 2015 - 2:00 pm
Yahoo News has the story:
This August 2011, video frame grab provided by T.J. Fuller shows a cat named Maxine playing “Game for Cats” on an iPad in Valencia, Calif. Fuller, Nate Murray and their company, Hiccup, created “Game for Cats”, “Paint for Cats” and “Catzilla.” (AP Photo/T.J. Fuller)LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Laura Fritz’s felines play with her iPad, her fat cat loses the urge to eat, her scaredy-cat loses his fear and her youngest just loses interest.
If you’ve had enough time to play with the tablet you got for the holidays, try turning the device over to your tech-savvy cat. Every cat app, no matter the maker, has something for felines to electronically track, stalk or hunt, such as mice, bugs or laser dots.
“Cats are attracted to things that move, and that is the ‘magic’ for most of the apps,” said Dr. Bonnie Beaver, a professor at Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and executive director of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists.
“The motion in most apps is jerky and quick, much like an insect,” she said, adding that any sound component would quickly be eclipsed by the draw of movement.
Every cat is different, but if they’re like two of Fritz’s, they will love pawing the screen to catch critters, which breaks anxious Maxie out of his shell and gives hefty Mr. Brutus a way to exercise, said Fritz of Waltham, Massachusetts. But they may be like her youngest, Pansy Rose, who couldn’t care less.
Maxie and Brutus work together on the app “Paint for Cats,” chasing a mouse and leaving a trail of splattered paint where they have pawed, rubbed, jumped or made other marks with their movements. Many cat owners see the results as art worthy of sharing on social media, so the app allows people to email the creations.
It is among three popular apps created by T.J. Fuller and Nate Murray’s Los Angeles company Hiccup. The company also features a mouse chasing game called “Game for Cats” and monster crushing game dubbed “Catzilla.”
There are several cat apps on the market. “Pocket Pond” for Android tablets allows cats to follow fish or dragonflies with their paws. Friskies’ “Cat Fishing” also taps into the fish theme for Android and Apple devices.
Some people worry about damage to the devices, but claws won’t hurt the screen, said Fuller, who ran many tests. But nobody has tested for teeth, and Karen Rittmuller of Salem, Massachusetts, found a problem with a bite.
Rittmuller tried to get her calico cat Pixel to live up to her high-tech name, so she downloaded “Game for Cats,” but her pet will only stalk, pounce and bite the iPad, so she took it away.
“I did not want the device ruined or her hurt from biting too hard,” Rittmuller said.
Also see:
- Hiccup: iPad Game for Cats
- Hiccup: iPad Paint for Cats
- Hiccup: iPad Catzilla
- Friskies: Games for Cats
- Google Android: Pocket Pond
