Cats are the better photogs

[Marsu42]

Oh my, the net is about to be flooded with another type of pictures: cat- and dog-cams! Maybe birdcams will be next? I have to admit I always found the idea intriguing and would like to have access to a 24/7 horse-cam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWofshPDFMA
http://petapixel.com/2015/03/23/catstacam-turns-your-cat-into-an-instagram-photog/

Is anyone here using such a device yet?

 

[Don Haines]

Oh my, the net is about to be flooded with another type of pictures: cat- and dog-cams! Maybe birdcams will be next? I have to admit I always found the idea intriguing and would like to have access to a 24/7 horse-cam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWofshPDFMA
http://petapixel.com/2015/03/23/catstacam-turns-your-cat-into-an-instagram-photog/

Is anyone here using such a device yet?

My friend put one on the cat's collar. The cat went outside and lost the collar. She bought another one in the hope that in the cat's patrol, that she would be able to spot the first one. The cat went outside and lost the second collar.....

 

[candyman]

Oh my, the net is about to be flooded with another type of pictures: cat- and dog-cams! Maybe birdcams will be next? I have to admit I always found the idea intriguing and would like to have access to a 24/7 horse-cam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWofshPDFMA
http://petapixel.com/2015/03/23/catstacam-turns-your-cat-into-an-instagram-photog/

Is anyone here using such a device yet?

My friend put one on the cat's collar. The cat went outside and lost the collar. She bought another one in the hope that in the cat's patrol, that she would be able to spot the first one. The cat went outside and lost the second collar.....

ha,ha,ha....not funny for your friend but.....sorry, I had to laugh.
It is actually interesting to see what the cat is up to when walking in the neighborhood...isn't it? May give some eye-openers
Soon, you discover the cat witnessed a crime....oh my : ....nice starter for a movie scenario

 

[fragilesi]

Funnily enough . . . (but nowhere near as funny as Don's story) I was only thinking the other day how interesting it would be to see where my cat goes.

When we went on holiday once we got a call from the local pub (1 mile away) to say he had been there every night and could we come and collect him. He had become quite a favourite with the regulars. Now they've knocked it down and built yet another Tesco (Boo hiss!) on the site I wonder where his "local" is now.

 

[zim]

and sound.... imagine!

Although I suspect all we would get is a single 'still' image and hear a lot of snoring ;D

 

[fragilesi]

and sound.... imagine!

Although I suspect all we would get is a single 'still' image and hear a lot of snoring ;D

I was going to put it on the cat not me

 

[Maximilian]

... The cat went outside and lost the second collar.....

I suppose your friend does not understand cats
The cat did not lose the collar but just got rid of it.
You know the novel "Felidae" by Akif Pirincci? "Men are just can-openers"

 

[zim]

and sound.... imagine!

Although I suspect all we would get is a single 'still' image and hear a lot of snoring ;D

I was going to put it on the cat not me

;D ;D ;D ;D Good one!

 

[fragilesi]

and sound.... imagine!

Although I suspect all we would get is a single 'still' image and hear a lot of snoring ;D

I was going to put it on the cat not me

;D ;D ;D ;D Good one!

 

[Don Haines]

apparently, the big cats have been into photography for years.... (not my pictures)

 

[candyman]

apparently, the big cats have been into photography for years.... (not my pictures)

Your signature is more right than ever! ;D

 

[markhbfindlay]

I'd love a camera and GPS device for our cats, but the problem is they are just too good at getting rid of collars... I once tried one on one of our fiendish pair. Gone within a day (fortunately without expensive cam). The devices still seem to be too large in any case, and liable to get caught up on undergrowth etc, although the BBC produced a couple of amazing programmes featuring cats with cams and GPS. Revealed quite a lot about these actually quite mysterious creatures.

 

[danski0224]

I don't need one for mine.

She is sleeping on the couch, sleeping on the bed, sleeping in the middle of the hall, sleeping on the bath mat by the air register, a pause to eat. a pause to use the litterbox, visit the resident human for a spell... repeat.

If reincarnation exists, I want to come back as a cared for kitty or dog.

 

[yorgasor]

Great, soon we'll be hearing about lawsuits against people who installed cat cams, and then the cats happened to be watching the neighbors sunbathing in the backyard, or up by their window looking inside.

 

[Marsu42]

apparently, the big cats have been into photography for years.... (not my pictures)

Very nice collection, thank you for digging these out and posting here!

Great, soon we'll be hearing about lawsuits against people who installed cat cams, and then the cats happened to be watching the neighbors sunbathing in the backyard, or up by their window looking inside.

That's a very interesting point, and surely this will debated sooner or later: If you fit your pet with a cam and it "happens" to stumple into off-limit areas - are you as responsible as deliberately flying/steering a drone across your neighbor's wife while topless sunbathing? Can I frame you by grabbing your cat-cam-pet and throwing it across the fence of the White House or Area 51 ?

 

[MrFotoFool]

There is a strong argument against letting cats go outside period, due to the damage they cause to native wildlife. In parts of the eastern hemisphere where wildcats (their ancestor) are native, they also endanger the native wildcat by hybridizing with it. I would tend to agree with this argument myself.

 

[Marsu42]

There is a strong argument against letting cats go outside period, due to the damage they cause to native wildlife.

That's true, and the reason why hunters around here (Germany) are very eager to shoot any unguarded cat (or dog, btw) they encounter.

I don't know about the radius of a cat though, for example if you have one cat on a farm with greenland around it, the cat is unlikely to encounter any protected wildlife but probably chases mice and rats as ordered.

 

[danski0224]

...but probably chases mice and rats as ordered.

You obviously are a dog person.

;D

 

[Marsu42]

...but probably chases mice and rats as ordered.

You obviously are a dog person. ;D

Actually I've come to discover I'm neither, I like vegetarians better. I'm a (wild) horse person outside and rabbit and guinea pig person at home . All of these are absolutely oblivious to any orders, which imho is excellent behavior ... but their problem too, as indeed most humans aren't ready to deal with this.

So my "as ordered" was ironical, I just forgot the smiley