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Friskies released some iPad games for your cat to play last year. Now they have a game that you can play against your cat! “You vs. Cat” was unveiled at the SXSW interactive Festival in Austin last night.
The game is simple enough: At one end of the screen the human slings a piece of animated cat food onto the playing board.
The goal? Get the item across the screen into a goal box before you cat stops it by putting its paw on the item.
It’s sort of a 21st century air hockey table for you and your favorite feline friend.
Shown is Buddy the Cat, the current game champion, who demonstrated the game at the unveiling. “You vs. Cat” will be available as a free download next week. Link
Tifa may have been a dog in a previous life. She plays fetch, pants, and wags her tail like a dog! This video was taken when she was about six months old. -via The Daily What
Browsing through the Library of Congress’ photostream on Flickr, looking for something else, I came across this fascinating cat picture from 100 years ago. Mrs. A.McAllister poses with her beloved cat in a photograph by George Grantham Bain dated somewhere between 1910 and 1915. Alcyone is the name of the Smoke Persian cat in the picture. He was a prize show cat, but also the loyal companion to John McAllister as he was confined to his deathbed in 1912, according to a newspaper article saved in pdf form provided by commenter artolog.
Nestling upon the lap of his atrophied patient, amusing the ill man with his antics at play, or running to call the mistress of the household when her presence is needed, Alcyone, John. McAllister’s pet, companion, friend and attendant, illustrates the fact that a cat is some good in the world in other ways than as a mouse catcher or a prize winner.
Alcyone is a beautiful smoke Persian, winner of two prizes in the recent cat show in Grand Central Palace and a highly intelligent animal, but he is more highly prized for his faithfulness and loyalty to his owner, condemned by slowly increasing paralysis to pass the greater part of his time for five years in bed.
If it were not for Alcyone, as well as for the devotion of Mrs. McAllister, Mr. McAllister might long ago have become desperate.”
You can read the rest of the story by downloading the clipping from the Flickr comment. Link
(Image credit: Flickr user The Library of Congress)
If controlling a laser pointer for your cat to play with is just too much work, you can build a machine to do it for you! Instructables user joe built one because his cat was obsessed with a laser pointer and wanted to play with it 24/7. By following his tutorial, you can make one, too. Link -via Laughing Squid
Hank, the cat running for U.S. Senate seat from Virginia, is the victim of a mudslinging ad. His name is dragged through the litter box, but he won’t respond -because he’s a cat. The YouTube video is labelled, “Paid for by Canines for a Feline Free Tomorrow Super PAC,” but the account behind the attack ad is a comedy group called The Big Honkin’. Link
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This gif, which probably originated at 4chan, shows a cat realizing who is actually moving that feather. Oh yes, that’s anthropomorphizing, but is certainly what it looks like to us. Let’s just hope he never finds out about the laser pointer, because he might never recover! Link
The attractive cat who modeled the Newsboy Cap a few days ago is becoming a celebrity! He is a purebred Abyssinian named Toki Nantucket. Read all about this handsome cat and see more pictures at Laughing Squid. Link
Comments Off I knew cats could swim, but I’ve never seen one do it so… voluntarily. -via Arbroath
In a breakthrough that will affect cosplay and furry cultures, researchers in Tokyo have developed a cat mask that can be controlled by the wearer’s facial movements. So far, only the eyes and mouth are controllable, they are working on the ears and eyebrows. -via The Daily What Geek
See also: Animatronic Cat Ears
Gatonovela is a soap opera starring the cats from Kitten Massage Therapy, Kagonekoshiro, and other viral cat videos. In this episode, a drug cartel throws its weight around. Other episodes are available at YouTube. Link -via Buzzfeed
You know what would make the best feature films of 2011 even better? If Maru starred in them! The Cheezburger Network has a collection dedicated to both the Academy Awards and the internet’s favorite cat. See the movie posters as they would be with Maru in the leading role. Or directing. Or just looking good on the poster. Link -via Buzzfeed
Look at this -it’s got everything you need in a piece of art: a robot, a cat, music, and a smile. Is that rain or snow? This work by DeviantART member Goro Fujita is available in a print if you like it. Link -via reddit
Instructables member abetusk designed a set of cat ears that move under your control, making you both cute and geeky! Several pre-programmed movements are controlled by one button in your pocket. The directions are all there if you want to make your own. Link -Thanks, Karen Howard!
The person who submitted this photo to Black and WTF took the picture himself in the 1950s. Link -via Buzzfeed
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A mysterious box appeared in a parking at Erie Community College campus in Amherst, New York, Friday afternoon. The state police bomb squad responded and took an x-ray of the sealed box, which showed a cat inside! Police turned the cat over to the local SPCA. Gina Browning of the Tonawanda SPCA says the cat is okay.
“The cat was not malnourished, not dehydrated, didn’t need any kind of veterinary care. So, it had a happy ending. What concerns me is the people capable of doing this might be capable of doing something worse,” Browning said.
Just who would put a cat in a taped up box and leave it in a parking lot remains a mystery at this point.
Capt. Camilleri said, “Right now it doesn’t appear there’s really much to follow up on. It didn’t have any identification on the box or anything like that.”
The upside to this is that the cat, named “Truffle,” is fine, healthy and back with her owner. Tracking down the person responsible is unlikely, if not impossible.
If found, the persons responsible could be charged with animal cruelty. Even Erwin Schrödinger never wanted to try his famous thought experiment on a real cat. Link -via Arbroath
Aw, how cute, a dog with a kitten in its arms. Uh-oh, better watch what you dangle in front of a kitten! And now we know where the phrase, “Cat got your tongue?” came from! But Murkin the dog still loves kittens. -via The Daily What
This Twaggie was illustrated from a Tweet by @DrTwittenheimer. Wouldn’t it be nice if our lives were as simple as our house cat’s lives are? Link
The Buena Vista Museum in Bakersfield, California, was the scene of a burglary Wednesday morning. A window was broken and two stuffed animals -a leopard and a dingo- were missing. Two blocks away, police found 55-year-old Henry Silvers, who had a stuffed dingo with him.
“I was just bored and decided I wanted to be a cat burglar,” Slivers told 23ABC in a jailhouse interview. “So I kicked in the window and tried to steal the lion but it was too heavy, so I stole the cat.”
“I took the leopard to my hotel. I then decided I wanted the dingo so I went back and took it. I took it to Jack In The Box because I wanted to have breakfast with it.”
23ABC asked Slivers what he was planning on doing with the dingo and he replied, “I was going to take it around town with me.”
Slivers told 23ABC he hadn’t taken his medicine for over a week.
Police found the other animal, an African leopard, in Silvers’ hotel room. Link -via Arbroath
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In the 1979 film Alien, there are two survivors. The hero Ripley, of course, and her cat Jonesey. Anne Billson knows that Jonesy is much more important to the film than most viewers realize. So she wrote the story of the spaceship Nostromo and its crew from Jonesey’s point of view. Here’s a small excerpt:
Nostromo is making hysterical hooting noises and flashing its lights on and off. This is all rather exciting, but as I’m being ferried through the passages and walkways I feel helpless, and would really rather be free to run around. Also, the can-opener is hurling herself around like nobody’s business, so it’s not a smooth journey, I can tell you. Anyhow we roll to a stop, and I can tell straightaway it’s because we’ve run slap-dab into the hairless kitten again. Only I’m not sure I can call it a kitten any more – it’s really big now. Honestly, it’s like a super-giant cat. But since it’s still only a few hours old and clearly hasn’t been housetrained and hasn’t a clue how to groom itself or behave in can-opener company, I shall continue to call it a kitten. Because, technically, that’s what it is.
Later, Jonesey confronts the alien and tries to share the secrets of charming the “can-openers.” From the delightful blog Cats on Film. Link -via Maximum Verbosity
Instructables member TigrisLi make a tank for her kitten out of cardboard, and posted the instructions so you can make one, too! Even if you don’t want a kitty-sized cardboard tank, don’t miss the short film she made of her kitten using it to blow the enemy away. Link -via Laughing Squid
Comments Off We’ve shown you Canine Musical Freestyle competitions and Bunny Show Jumping competitions, and now we have Feline Agility Competitions, too! In this video, a 5-week old Tonkinese kitten named Jumpin Jack Flash starts his training. He’s already got a blue ribbon in “adorable.” Find out more about these competitions from the Cat Fanciers Association. Link -via Buzzfeed
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It's a cat, of course! Artfully done by Svetlana of Fat Cat Art: Link - Thanks Svetlana!
Previously on Neatorama (also by the same artist): Art with Cats
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A driver in Sacramento, California, had trouble getting his car started. He heard a funny noise coming from the engine and found a cat tangled in the motor belts.
Firefighters cut through the belts and were able to free the cat, which was severely injured with several deep cuts.
The cat was taken to the Sacramento Cat Hospital in Carmichael, where life-saving surgery was performed.
The cat, nicknamed Blaze, will be put up for adoption when she recovers in a couple of weeks. Link -via Fark
(Image credit: Sacramento Metro Fire Department)
Ignoramusky is back with another cat video dramatically enhanced with a soundtrack. If I saw my cat looking like this, I’d be worried about my safety -or at least my curtains! -via Cynical C
I don’t know what Mannings is advertising here, but it’s a lovely story of selfless devotion nonetheless. A Babelfish translation of the related site offered no help, but if you can read Chinese, you may be able to clue us in. Link -via Everlasting Blort
If this were in my local paper, I’d help pay to have a picture of the cat posted. After all, there are young people who don’t know what Barbra Streisand looks like. -via Criggo
Plucky Andrea the stray cat used up a couple of her nine lives, but would not succumb to the animal shelter’s attempts to euthanize her.
Officials at West Valley City’s animal shelter in Utah say the cat named Andrea hadn’t been adopted for 30 days when shelter officials tried to put her to death in October. She survived, so they gassed her again.
Shelter officials detected no vital signs and presumed she was dead after the second try, so they put her in a plastic bag in a cooler. But when they checked the bag, they saw she had vomited on herself and had hypothermia but was alive.
The shelter then decided to stop trying to kill her.
“It was just one of those things where they thought this cat obviously really wants to live,” West Valley City spokesman Aaron Crim told the Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/ylvSDw). “Let’s give it a chance to find a permanent home.”
Andrea has since been adopted, and is settling well into her new home. Link -Thanks, Skully!
(Image credit: Community Animal Welfare Society)
The Tweeting Cat Toy is handy for keeping up with your cat’s activities while you’re gone, but wouldn’t it be nice to pet your cat or even groom him from a remote location? Taylor Veltrop hooked together a Nao robot, a Kinect sensor bar, two Wii remotes, a head-mounted display, and a treadmill for the purpose of brushing his cat. Rube Goldberg himself would have been proud! And all this technology only worked because the cat is extremely tolerant. But Veltrop shows that it can be done, even though it took a year to perfect the procedure. Link
Marc
de Vinck's wife misses her new cat when she goes to work and always bug
him for updates. So what's a geek to do?
Chester is a spunky little stray who’s always looking for fun. Even if it means knocking a few things off my desk as I write this article. The only problem is, when my wife goes in to work, she misses her new cat and always wants to know his whereabouts.
She used to ask me for updates, but after a while I realized that I needed to make something that would take me out of the loop, and let the cat communicate with my wife directly via twitter.com. I needed a Twittering cat toy. And that’s how Kitty Twitty came to fruition, after some basic soldering and crafting with just a few parts.
Best of all, Marc posted the instruction on MAKE Projects so you can make your own Kitty Twitty Cat Toy: Link - via Techcrunch
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