Pretty cool.

Must...have...one

Ceiling Cat Is Watching Your Nanny State.

This guy just beat the living shiat out of headline on a shirt didn't he?

You feel that sting Drew? That's pride, farking with you...

Most. Awesome. Idea. Ever.

If I owned a cat I might find that article interesting.

Strangely, people rarely feature in the cats' snaps, suggesting we are not as important to them as we think.

Until the little buggers get hungry.

I want streaming video and my cat decked out like a TV remote van, with microwave antenna and friggin lasers

dougfm: If I owned a cat I might find that article interesting.


Nobody "ownes" a cat. Dogs have owners.

Cats have staff.

Jack approves

Ceiling cat is watching photographing you masturbate

if yesterday was Caturday is today coontday?

Obamacam


McCaincam


Bushcam


Cheneycam

"Poor little guy would probably be alive today if he wasn't wearing this thing, m'am. What is it anyway?"

Shame this couldn't be posted on CATurday

Can you imagine have a dogcam? All you would see is dog butts, people butts, any butt that the dog could sniff.

michaeld5: Obamacam
McCaincam -- Bushcam - Cheneycam

All that porn on the internet, and no Bill Clinton Cam? You disappoint ;(

BillyWilly: if yesterday was Caturday is today coontday?

damn, the filter got me

BunkyBrewman: Can you imagine have a dogcam? All you would see is dog butts, people butts, any butt that the dog could sniff.

Welcome to Nosevember

I don't let my cats out. I like them in one piece and leukemia free.

Live on Bertha by David Cattenborough..

"And here we see the common Domestic Scraghair in her natural habitat, shuffling about early in the morning, making its distinctive groaning call. No one knows what this sound, made in the few minutes after rising, is for. But some experts who study humans believe it may be related to their sleep patterns. Despite decades of study, no one has yet determined how they're able to get by on less than twenty hours' sleep."

....

"Many domestic humans habitually disappear for hours in a row every day, not allowing their owners to tag along, though they often bring along their gigantic Driveway Beasts. No one knows for sure where they go or what they do during this time, though most experts speculate that is is somehow related to hunting, as they often return with great quantities of mysterious new-smelling material, a small portion of which is actual food. Though the smells associated with these travels are often consistent, they remain mysterious and unrevealing."

....

"It's been proposed that domestic humans might be fitted with small cameras to record their movements when they go where their owners cannot follow. Unfortunately, however, domestic humans have the inconvenient habit of shedding their entire coats as often as two, three, or even four times per day, including collars and the like. This has so far frustrated efforts to place recording equipment on them. This strange activity may be a kind of cleansing activity. Humans are rarely seen to groom themselves, and only sometimes each other. Shed coats disappear into the Loud Whirring Box and re-emerge smelling bad but free of hair and other body discards. Humans also have the strange habit of occasionally, if rarely, cleaning their domestic environments. This activity is highly correlated with the Bag-Bellied Carpet Howler, which is of course universally regarded as terrifying, but scientists insist is quite harmless."

....

"Attempts to question humans on return from their mysterious travels has not resulted in any new information. Humans make many noises, some of which may be a kind of primitive language, which they do seem to share with each other, including during their perplexing and unexplained post-shedding wrestling matches on the the Big Soft Square Thing. But since these fruitless queries do often result in petting and treats, professional and amateur investigators are all to happy to persist."


/and so on
//time for nappies

A wildlife preserve did this a little while ago. Letting the critters take the pictures got the researchers great pictures of things they could never get near.

Links to examples of the new craze?

/disappointed

Mandapants: Links to examples of the new craze?

/disappointed

THIS!

/we can still say that right?
//I've not been keeping up with the current farkism

Moggy (new window)

wydok: I don't let my cats out. I like them in one piece and leukemia free.

I am sure that my cats have shorter life spans than a cat kept indoors. However, the best way to punish a cat seems to be to keep it on the opposite side of whatever door it wants to be on the other side of. I cannot imagine keeping a cat indoors its entire life even if that does make it shorter.

Well subby, I learned a new word today thanks to you. And found yet another area of life in which I can be said to fail miserably with a ten dollar word.

/Sartorially challenged.

Yes Sound: wydok: I don't let my cats out. I like them in one piece and leukemia free.

I am sure that my cats have shorter life spans than a cat kept indoors. However, the best way to punish a cat seems to be to keep it on the opposite side of whatever door it wants to be on the other side of. I cannot imagine keeping a cat indoors its entire life even if that does make it shorter.

They get fat and bored living inside all the time.

dahmers love zombie: Ceiling Cat Is Watching Your Nanny State.

You win the thread.

Yes Sound:
I am sure that my cats have shorter life spans than a cat kept indoors. However, the best way to punish a cat seems to be to keep it on the opposite side of whatever door it wants to be on the other side of. I cannot imagine keeping a cat indoors its entire life even if that does make it shorter.

I grudgingly understand this now that my GF and her outdoor cat live with me. Of course, cats kept indoors don't know what they're missing and are a lot safer, as are the local small fauna. But if it's already an outdoor cat, you have to keep letting it go out or it'll be miserable (and will share the misery with you and your carpets).

PirateFreedom: Yes Sound: wydok: I don't let my cats out. I like them in one piece and leukemia free.

I am sure that my cats have shorter life spans than a cat kept indoors. However, the best way to punish a cat seems to be to keep it on the opposite side of whatever door it wants to be on the other side of. I cannot imagine keeping a cat indoors its entire life even if that does make it shorter.

They get fat and bored living inside all the time.

The "put the cat out" thing was only ever supposed to be for rural cats, particular those on a farm, so they could wander the plot and kill vermin that would otherwise eat the grain and trouble the farm.

Putting a cat out in a city is just plain cruel. There are cars, mean people, kids, dogs off the leash, and numerous other threats in an urban setting-- Not to mention it's unfair to your neighbors, who may not want a cat in their yard.

We've got three cats. All were strays, or very possibly former "outdoor cats" that wandered too far from home got lost. No, cats don't have some sort of super-radar that makes it possible for them to always find their way home. They can get lost or wander too far. Now that they're all living with us, they go out on a harness & leash every day.

One loves it. He gets all excited when we grab leash.

One dislikes it. She'd rather be on the couch all day, but she'll venture out to nibble some grass if the mood strikes her.

One likes it, but is so afraid of kids, cars, strangers, and other things that she's quick to run back inside if her alone-time is interrupted.

All three go back inside fairly quickly, and never try to run off, even if we let go of the leash. If they are spooked by anything, the only place they run to is back into the apartment.

As for the "fat and bored" myth, that's just not true. One of our cats is a skinny old guy who is still as spry and active as he was 15 years ago. One is a younger female who enjoys playing and running around indoors. The couch kitty is the only fat one, and she's that way because she had some serious surgery a few years ago and just never felt like moving around much after that. She's queen of her couch, though.

It's not just that cats can die if you put them out in an urban or suburban area. It's HOW they'll die. Squashed by a car. Tortured by cat-haters. Shot by a neighbor. Poisoned by a neighbor. Accidentally killed by a stupid child who picks them up by the tail and swings them around. Kicked by a mean person. Torn apart by a dog. Ripped to shreds because they fell asleep in the engine compartment of someone's car. Slow, painful death thanks to Feline Leukemia. Killed in a fight with another cat. Infected by a wild animal.

I care about my cats too much to just send them out into the neighborhood and hope they don't get killed or maimed. If we were in the country, it would be different... but we're not, and anybody who puts a cat out in the city or suburbs is not doing their cat-- or their neigbors-- any favors.

Reminds me of a comic book story where the villains kidnap the superhero team's mascot cat, plant a videocamera in it, and secretly return it to the superheroes' HQ so they can spy on the goings on there.

They were rather disappointed to find out most of their spy photos were of the cat drinking out of the toilet.

...by hanging a tiny digital camera from their necks.



Neat idea but how is that thing considered "tiny"

We'll finally have some footage of random parts of rooms where nothing is happening. I mean, ghosts.

michaeld5: Obamacam


McCaincam


Bushcam


Cheneycam

Bringing politics into everything is lame. Go ask an adult about it.

THis article is a repeat of about a year ago.

In just the 3rd photo, we're already only inches away from Cat-Cam Upskirt Porn.

/Nice work, kitty.

thermoplast: THis article is a repeat of about a year ago.

Actually, this idea is a rip-off of the original: Mr Lee (new window).

FTA: Many of the photographs feature other cats looking warily at the camera, and a few even involve the pets' owners in various states of undress.

Time for some Cat Espionage!

Yes Sound: wydok: I don't let my cats out. I like them in one piece and leukemia free.

I am sure that my cats have shorter life spans than a cat kept indoors. However, the best way to punish a cat seems to be to keep it on the opposite side of whatever door it wants to be on the other side of. I cannot imagine keeping a cat indoors its entire life even if that does make it shorter.

I have a cat i found behind a "Family Dollar Store" in a very bad part of town. We lost him when he was about 2 months old, couldn't find him anywhere. We thought he might have slipped out the door. After about a week my daughter heard a "mew". He had fallen though a hole in our fire place. Just a gas one and was never used.
He was trapped 7 feet down and no way to get to him. I had to break up the bricks to get a rope in a loop around his body and haled him back up.He was very thirsty, but the first thing he did was rubbed my face and ran to the litter box down the hall.I looks like he waited all that time to go to the bathroom.
He got a little older and now he goes outside whenever he wants because after being stuck in a cold,dark hole with dead birds and god knows what else, I like to see him out in the yard basking in the sun or if it's hot under the bushes.But he rarely leaves my side when i'm home.

Since my cat sleeps about 20 hours a day and is awake mostly before dawn and after sunset, I'm thinking this camera thing isn't going to be interesting for me.
Maybe with a flash going off every 30 seconds, watching the cat would be more interesting.

Crudbucket: In just the 3rd photo, we're already only inches away from Cat-Cam Upskirt Porn.

/Nice work, kitty.

Message to self: Send catcam with wireless uplink to Angelina Jolie.

All my cats have been indoor cats, and very happy with it. If a door is left open, they shy away from it. My cats have lots of things to climb and hide in, things to play with, and many windows to look out of. They have all lived to be 17 to 20 years old.

It only took one time of finding my kitty dead on the road for me to decide that they would all stay inside after that.

/also has a house rabbit
//rabbit terrorizes the cats

ZeroCorpse: We've got three cats. All were strays, or very possibly former "outdoor cats" that wandered too far from home got lost. No, cats don't have some sort of super-radar that makes it possible for them to always find their way home. They can get lost or wander too far. Now that they're all living with us, they go out on a harness & leash every day.

Oh, really? Did you feel sorry for the poor, hungry little strays and feed them? That's why they've stayed, not because they got lost. But of course having them on harness & leash keeps them from running back home to that little girl who cries her eyes out each day because Fluffy ran away.

Snargi: ZeroCorpse: We've got three cats. All were strays, or very possibly former "outdoor cats" that wandered too far from home got lost. No, cats don't have some sort of super-radar that makes it possible for them to always find their way home. They can get lost or wander too far. Now that they're all living with us, they go out on a harness & leash every day.

Oh, really? Did you feel sorry for the poor, hungry little strays and feed them? That's why they've stayed, not because they got lost. But of course having them on harness & leash keeps them from running back home to that little girl who cries her eyes out each day because Fluffy ran away.

2/10...and only because I F***ing hate cats.

I want the video version, and always uploading to a URL so I can waste even MORE time at work watching my cat get into all kinds of trouble.

Cats are assbags.

A cat with a camera on its neck.

What's next? A shark with a friggin' laser on its head? Dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you?

What the fark is a moggie?