Secret Life Of The Cat

[***super_nova***]

Last night I watched interesting program about domestic cats and their behaviour, if you missed it well worse looking up on line

" In The Secret Life of The Cat, a team of leading scientists stake out a community of cats to explore what our feline companions get up to in their personal time.

In a groundbreaking experiment, fifty cat residents from Shamley Green, a quaint village in Surrey, UK, are tagged with GPS trackers and collar cams for 24 hours.

Collar cam gives a somewhat edgier, unseen insight into a gypsy life on the streets and alleyways, patrolling territories, scaling fences and scavenging for food."

[bluecat*dancing]

I saw most of it. It made me laugh when it was discovered that cats were going inside other people's houses.

[idlewhile]

I gave up after all the time spent on discussing the collars.

[purple_haize]

I watched it all, found it very interesting. I have often wondered what cats get up to, now I know.

Liked all the cats that lived together.

[cat_mioux]

Of course I loved it!

My cats are indoor/cat enclosure cats only but I laugh when people tell me their cats never leave their backyard. Funny!

The family with the multi cat household are doing very well to have that many cats and not have a problem with them. It must be a relaxed household. I know a woman with 6 cats, all gingers, and they all live in an apartment and never go outside yet they are all healthy and well adjusted.

[bright.ton42]

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@idlewhile wrote:

I gave up after all the time spent on discussing the collars.

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Yes I found that a bit tedious too.   And I did love it but there were lots of scientists involved and hi-tech equipment and I

wondered who paid for it all as what I got out of it is what most cat owners know about cats ----    they will  pinch

food from neighbours,   they will do anything for food,  they guard their own territory, they kill wildlife (though not as much as 

one would think),   including other things,    and   they are fascinating, and did I mention that they will do anything for food.  . 

[bluecat*dancing]

Cats don't need to be outdoors. I have one who doesn't leave the backyard only because she is either too stupid or too fat to climb the fence. Another cat was assumed that he wouldn't jump the fence etc because of his failing eyesight  but managed to find his way around to the front door. Another would pick fights with any of thecats that were in her backyard. Another cat of mine turned escaping into an art form but now that I have set up a temporary enclosure, she has pretty lost interest in the great outdoors as have the others.  lol.

I was surprised that so many cats were allowed outside overnight.

[icyfroth]

Yes I watched it partly. There's nothing else much on at the moment.

I was amazed at how much wildlife they kill, considering they get fed at home and sneak into other places and eat other cat's food!

[***super_nova***]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Yes I watched it partly. There's nothing else much on at the moment.

I was amazed at how much wildlife they kill, considering they get fed at home and sneak into other places and eat other cat's food!

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Why would you be amazed that 50 cats allowed to roam free 24/7 managed to kill 20 animals in a week, mostly mice?  That is only 0.4 of animal per week per cat, or about one animal about every 2 weeks.  The anti cat lobby claims that cats kill at least 3 a day, and that people do not know what they kill because cats roam far away and do not bring their prey home.  This documentary shown that with exception of one they mostly stay pretty close to home. 

[aps1080]

Estimate in Aus is millions of birds and animals a week get killed by cats.

It would be a lot.