It started with a video of a cat playing Games för Cats on an iPad. I thought it would be interesting to test that game on our cats – would they react as the cat in the video? I bought the app. My cat Silver was interested from the start. The cat is supposed to try to catch the mice that are running on the screen. Every time the cat lays its paw on the screen, the mouse will squeak, and the cat gets 100 points. At first, Silver was a bit confused, but the next day he scored with 4800 points. After that, he seemed to be filled with chasing the mouse.
But now he was interested in my iPad! Now and then, he came to sit by my side while I was using my iPad, and he watched it very intently. He looked at me like he was saying,” Come on, do something fun with your iPad!” When the game ” Games for Cats wasn’t funny any longer, I started using Smule piano, which is also like a game with green dots floating on the screen, and when you touch the dots, you hear a tone. It has some similarities with the cat game and got Silver’s attention. He even tried to touch a couple of the dots, but he was more into watching me play the game.
Then he lost his interest in the piano game. But he still looked like he wanted me to have more fun with my iPad. So, what could I do? I started a watercolour app and painted a mouse.
And that brought back Silver’s attention! How strange. He sniffed on the mouse, touched it with his paw. Watching it. I started to paint a little green bird, but then I lost his attention, and he walked away…
Today, he was back looking at my iPad. I went through the schedule with the cat-game and the piano-game, but he wanted more. I started painting a pheasant… and now he’s alert again!
When I took some photos with my iPhone, he lifted his paw, touched the pheasant, and even managed to enlarge the picture. He watched it a bit more, and then he was satisfied. Enough for today!
I find it very interesting that he notices my iPad. My cat Doris is not even interested in the cat game.
