He doesn't usually like watching TV.

[barbramon1@mas.to]

@rufustheduck I had a cat who watched "The Blues Brothers" beginning to end with me. Other than that, he never showed any interest in TV.

[john1126@vmst.io]

@rufustheduck It could be the ears. Lego Batman looks more like a cat than a bat. Your cat may think he's watching other cats.

[markgritter@mathstodon.xyz]

@rufustheduck I wonder if part of it is that Lego Batman has very expressive eyes!

[rufustheduck@mastodon.social]

@Barbramon1 I'll have to try it out on Max

[Gæst]

@rufustheduck it would be pretty cool to understand these creatures...

[josh0@babka.social]

@rufustheduck we had a cat who loved watching motorcycles on tv. There was some show we watched (this was about 20 years ago, so I don’t remember what it was) that had a motorcycle sequence in the intro, and he would always come running from wherever he was when the theme music came on.

[johndgriffith@twit.social]

@rufustheduck

One of our cats pays rapt attention to any tennis match on television

[nachtet@norden.social]

@rufustheduck oh wow, that's adorable. *melt*

My cats aren't interested in telly. I just get bats zooming in when Batman is running.

[rufustheduck@mastodon.social]

@josh0 that's wonderful

[josh0@babka.social]

@rufustheduck he was a wonderful little* goofball.

* 25 lbs.

[unn0wn@mastodon.social]

@rufustheduck He dreams of being his Catwoman.

[secondchancelemon@masto.es]

@rufustheduck We had a white one who liked to watch the YouTube channel of Paul dinning: Cat videos. He had a degenerative disease and left us very young. 4 years have passed and we still miss him.
We didn't know of any other cat that watches TV attentively until your post.

[rufustheduck@mastodon.social]

@josh0 an excellent picture of a clearly excellent cat

[rufustheduck@mastodon.social]

@secondchancelemon I'm sorry to hear that. I've actually got two cats who like TV, so here's the other one in solidarity

[secondchancelemon@masto.es]

@rufustheduck Your house is full of magic.
We also have two. A street teenager and a retired warrior.

[hadon@mastodon.social]

@rufustheduck
You know what he wants to be when he grows up

[maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza]

@rufustheduck Our cats are usually not that interested in the tv but when I watched the movie 'Flow' one of my cats was *really* into it. Even tried to jump into the screen.

[janeadams@datavis.social]

@rufustheduck our papillon has no interest in any "videos for dogs" but he watches Nimble the papillon champion agility dog for hours, and LOVES sheep herding videos

[zweifeln@chaos.social]

@rufustheduck Is it possible the movie is shown in 120 frames per second (or more)?

I read some time ago that cat eyes view a lot "faster" than we do. So for us movies become movies at around 25-30 frames per second - but for cats only above 100 frames per second.
So lots of movies for us are stop-motion-pictures for them - and therefore not very "real" - unless the framerate is higher than most movies made for humans.

(Sorry for being all technical. I'm sure he just wants to be catman.)

[stephdau@mastodon.social]

@linuxandyarn @rufustheduck That'd be quite ironic in French, provided a bat is somehow a "bald mouse" ("chauve souris", not kidding).