Thursday, April 28, 2016

Pets as Gamers


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Fun for Pets


We know our pets love to play games. Cats and dogs are natural gamers. It might be a simple string, a ball or in today's world, one of the many gaming apps developed for pets. As an experiment, I purchased the app Catch Paint for my senior cats. My elderly 14 year old cat was slightly amused, the 9 year old cat was not amused and hid, peeking out at me in an accusatory manner. Interestingly, my small dogs were thrilled with Catch Paint. I believe with cats, it is the age they are introduced to tablet games that seems to make a difference in how much they interact with tech games. A younger cat, who grew up with tablet games, may be entertained for a few minutes all the way up to the battery going dead. Watching your pet and playing these games with your pet is fun. Try it and find out. 

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"Cats and dogs are the latest family members to play tablet games. Computer games for pets is the latest in the continuing trend of dogs and cats being elevated from family pet to "furry babies". After all, why should humans have all the fun playing Candy Crush.

Anything that encourages people to interact with their cats, so they're not living such a sedentary lifestyle, is good"-Dr Bowen Slack - The Age Australia 
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