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Post by Silk on Jul 8, 2002 22:14:11 GMT
Okay I know the original thread was some time ago, but it took me this long to re-find the evidence of one very talented cat. Her name is Felia, and for those that don't know her, she is stone deaf, yet one very individual and determined cat. Anyway although I don't have a digital camera, we do posess a web-cam which is normally wired up to the PC. It doesn't get a lot of use due to the poor quality of image it produces, but it seems it has become a new toy for someone. One day I came home to see the auto start on the camera had begun, and just thought it was a quirk of the system, then it happened again a couple of days later and I was a little perplexed so I had a peek at the memory stored pics and this is what I found. Now youmight have to turn up the brightness on your monitor to see them, but I swear to you. I did not take these pics.  Part of the reason these are so dark, is because this spot is the one behind my speakers, next to the pc. It appears she has even worked out the delay factor, which allows her to press the button and then settle down and pose for her picture.  And just so as you can see what she would normaly look like, here is one I did take:  So there we have it a cat so enamoured by her vanity, she now takes her own photos. Mark |
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Post by Ann on Jul 8, 2002 23:31:20 GMT
Mark,
When you emailed me those pictures months ago, I still had my old low resolution monitor and had to play around with them on Photoshop to see anything at all. Now with my all singing all dancing flat screen monitor, I'm seeing them properly for the first time. They're amazing.
Ann
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Post by tutsmom on Jul 9, 2002 3:49:47 GMT
What wonderful photos! You definitely have a very talented and lovely cat, but do you worry what else she is doing that you haven't found out about yet?
I know that sometimes I come home and find the radio blaring and cats looking guilty--I'm just surprised the neighbors haven't complained.
Sharon
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Post by Silk on Jul 9, 2002 18:35:48 GMT
I come home and find the radio blaring and cats looking guilty-- Sharon Um isn't that a contradiction of feline behaviour? A cat trying to look inocent of the crime it is being acused of, maybe. But a cat looking guilty? Sorry but I was unaware that they had conciences at all  As for worrying about what else they do that I am not aware of... I try not to, otherwise I would lay awake at nights.... worrying.  |
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Post by Laurence on Jul 9, 2002 21:48:15 GMT
Mark, this is just giving me the creeps.... My hair are just standing on their ends...
Methink it's high time I stop reading all those anticipation novels of mine... brrrrr...
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Post by Maria on Jul 9, 2002 23:10:24 GMT
Mark - this surely has to win an award for the most talented cat! And there is something slightly spooky about a cat leaving a 'silent image' ...wow!
Felia is very beautiful! I wonder if she is using the internet when you are out because she is setting up her own website, or maybe joining a 'cat web dating agency'??
My cats are able to change channels on the TV, but I have to admit that it's only when they accidentally step on the remote control.
Maria
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Post by tutsmom on Jul 10, 2002 2:21:39 GMT
Silk,
I should have defined my terms. When I see cats tryng to look unusually innocent and devil-may-care, I interpret it as looking guilty--especially in conjunction with such things as radios-that were turned off before leaving in the morning-playing loudly or when they greet me in a group because they closed one of their siblings in the bathroom and can't let them out (amazing how experience with the dear furry ones distorts one's view of things.).
Sharon
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Post by Silk on Jul 10, 2002 23:29:07 GMT
Silk, or when they greet me in a group because they closed one of their siblings in the bathroom and can't let them out Sharon our five do that too, but they don't normaly meet me because they can't let them out. It apears they prefer to hide and then give a look as though to say : 'You mean they were locked in there? oh for shame, we didn't know guvnor... honest!' I've even opened cupboards to find a cat has been shut in there, (and although Silk is very adept at opening them, a couple of others are also good at closing them) Most recent incedent was a crash in the kitchen to find Felia dragging a sealed plastic bag of munchies, nearly as large as herself, across the floor as she tried to make off with them after pushing them off the counter... I wouldn't have minded so much, but the reason they were in a sealed bag in the first place was because they had all decided 'they didn't like that brand anymore' so they were put there so Cathrin could take them for someone elses cat.... |
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Post by Silk on Jul 10, 2002 23:40:25 GMT
Maria
Our house is full of them (as in talented cats)
Freyja is the one for turning on the TV, (rather than just changing channels). I often came home to find her on the sofa with the tv on almost full blast.
Silk is the door champion, he can undo nigh on any door, turn on lights (causing many arguments about 'who left that light on), and his piece de resistance is manipulating the twist lock on the bedroom door.
Drizzt is a package master. He has yet to master tins, but I believe even that is only a matter of time. anything else and he has the patience to just keep 'At it' untill he succeeds.
We once got an envelope with a couple of free sample packets of cat treats through the post. I got home to find he hadn't just opened the package but all three SEALED bags. (so how he knew what was in there, still confuses us).
whereas Felia seems very adept at moving large objects
All kibble boxes and bags have to be kept in the tightest cupboard or they will work as a team in order to get to them. Silk opens the door, Felia removes the package and Drizzt opens it... result (the last time this happened) five very stuffed cats, whoi had eaten so many IAM's we didn't have to feed them for nearly two days.
(And whats all that rubbish they put on tins etc., about cats being able to regulate their food intake?)
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Post by tutsmom on Jul 11, 2002 1:02:30 GMT
Ah, Silk, you do bring back memories!
When the kittens were truly kittens, Tut would talk them into getting in the cabinets and then close the doors on them. The kittens, being little, could not hold the door open enough to get out. I'd come home to little meows asking to be let out! (I suspect they slept most of the time in there, and I doubt if they were scared; it was just time to come out.) Tut would then grumble at me about, why did I let them out. He preferred out of sight, out of mind kittens.
And then there was the time that a person who was painting my hallway called me at work and asked if the cats were allowed to have the bread. It turned out they had managed to drag it out of its cabinet and they were having a grand time chomping on it. I worried a great deal about whether they had eaten the plastic that now had a big hole in it--but they never seemed to have any trouble.
Some people get grey because of their children; I can blame it on the cats!
Sharon
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