Cat flummoxed by streaming bird cam

November 14, 2013 • 2:45 pm

Reader and artist Kelly Houle called my attention to a short but hilarious video of a cat going nuts while watching the live stream from a Cornell Lab Bird Cam on a flat-screen t.v. I’ve put a screenshot below, but to see the video, complete with frustrated paw-strikes and meows, go over to the original Flickr site.

Is this torture, or amusement?

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16 thoughts on “Cat flummoxed by streaming bird cam”

  3. My cats stalk birds on the back lawn, their failure rate must be greater than 99% but they keep doing it! While they have enormous patience and tenacity for the stalk, evolution has provided them with very phlegmatic natures when it comes to failure. They just pretend it never happened and move on.

  4. My dog was watching a documentary which showed a wolf burying some of its catch in the snow.

    He then went looking under the television to find where it had gone.

    1. My dog used to run up to the TV whenever there were horses or dogs on it. You could see how she’d get confused when she got up close & they weren’t really visible anymore but from far back you could see the whole horse or dog.

      My TV often had nose prints & lick marks.

      1. Yeah dogs and horses are his main interests, but pretty much any large quadruped will get his attention, particularly if there are vocal effects.

        Arctic / snow-country nature documentaries can be quite effective baby-sitting tools.

  5. My male tuxedo cat watches the HDTV and tries to catch images on the screen. The HD picture must have sufficient depth that it fools him into thinking the images are real.

  9. My cat was absolutely tortured by the “cat games” on the iPad. I had to stop showing them to her, poor thing. I feel the same way about the laser pointer. They seem to get over it quickly enough when you give them their noms.

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