He doesn't usually like watching TV.

[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).

[garthderby@mstdn.party]

@rufustheduck
My parrot watches cartoons on PBS in the morning, and Bird videos before bed. He also enjoys movies with good music like “Strictly Ballroom”. If I have to go out for a while, I put on a music channel from PBS. He loves Opera and Operetta, but any classical music will keep him calm yet amused. Even tries to whistle and “Amazon strut” along if he’s so inclined. Nuttier than squirrel poop sometimes, but he’s great fun.

[praewasia644@mastodon.social]

@rufustheduck you love watching bird's videos

[holocene@techtoots.com]

@rufustheduck his boxy shape reminds him of boxes.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@rufustheduck i love this so much LOL