Conference misery::feline_v1

    When we had the type of cable box with the buttons on the top, I
    would frequently find the "girls" (this was BD - before Dundee)
    watching M-TV or some silly game show or worse, 20 minute workout!
    (Oh Gawd - my cats aren't even feminists)
      I also have a picture of Bumpy hanging over the top of a TV
    watching "Lady Bug", a pac-man type ColecoVision game.  She
    used to love to watch that little bug with the wiggling antennas
    run around the maze! 
      Dundee occasionally sits and watches TV with us, but not that
    often.
      Nancy DC
    

    Schnitzel always jumps in my lap whenever I'm on my system at home. 
    Occasionally she even tries to write something....but after awhile she
    curls up and goes to sleep.  She also watches TV with me at night if
    it's a show she likes, otherwise she curls up and goes into dreamland.
    
    P.
    

        
        Re .1 - Nancy,
        
        We have  a Nintendo system, and it sometimes gets difficult to
        play when you  have  two helpful little cats trying to get the
        critters on the screen - it's really funny, though :^}
        
        I think that cats  get  attracted primarily by movement.  Andy
        used to have a Siamese  that  would try to chase the cursor on
        the terminal screen.
        
        Sandy
        

    I have a DECmate III plus at home and when I get on the system
    and Mocha hears it booting up he comes running, and it's like
    "Oh boy,, Moms going to play and me too.!!"
    
    He tries to lay on the keyboard and usually at least once is 
    successful. He will lay on the table after all his other attemps
    to lay on the keyboard are unseccessful and watches my fingers on
    the keys and the cursor go back and forth like he is watching a
    tennis match. Ming lays on one of the twin beds just content to
    be comfortable and watch.
    
    Now when I log out, it's as if I had taken his food dish away.
    Mocha will continue to lay on the table for at least an hour
    after everything is shut down and the lights turned off. I try
    to love him and play with him but he wants nothing to do with
    that.
    
    Aren't these fur faces funny? We spend all kinds of money on
    toys and they pick their own entertainment.
    
    Barbara

    When Barney was a young cat, he liked to watch baseball on TV.  Forget
    about other sports like football or basketball, baseball was his game. 
    He would sit on top of the TV and stretch his paws down trying to catch
    the players running around the field.  Or he would sit in front and
    stare at the tube.
    
    Recently, Ben has also started watching TV.  I forget what show he
    likes, but it's on weekend mornings and the people's voice on the show
    are soothing.  Change the channel, and he stops paying attention.
    
    Mary

Re. 4:

>Aren't these fur faces funny?  We spend all kinds of money on
>toys and they pick their own entertainment.


You are right Barbara!!   We got all kinds of fancy toys (which can get to
be expensive) and now we found out that my old, stretched out pony tail is
more fun than anything else.   Tati will grab the pony tail in her mouth,
carry it everywhere in the house, and then wrestle with it for a long time.
She also likes pen and pencils.  Cats can be "cheap" to be have after all.


   ---Cida

    These replies reminded me of an incident many years ago that still
    makes me laugh when I think about it. -:)  We used to have a brother/
    sister pair of Siamese, Boopa and Sister(she was named Fa Ying,
    but the name never stuck) Sister never really cared about TV, but
    Boopa occasionally would watch.  One day during a long past
    presidential campaign, Hubert Humphery was giving one of his patented
    long-winded speeches and Boopa sat right in front of the tube and
    watched very intently for several minutes and then reached up with
    his paw and stuck it right in HHH's mounth!  Wife and happened to
    see it and nearly fell on the floor laughing.  Boopa looked at us
    then sauntered away as if to say: "Well, that took care of him."
    
    Chuck
    

    Cloudy is a TV cat too! He'll stare at the set even when it isn't on,
    which I think is adorable. He's also a fraidy cat though, and when he's
    in hiding, a sure fire way to get him to come out is to turn on the
    Nintendo and lie down on the bed and play. It usually takes about 10
    seconds and Cloudy is on the end of the bed purring and watching the
    game!
    
    Michelle

    When Niniane was a kitten, she had a great fondness
    for Olympic hockey.  She would watch the puck and
    the people go back and forth for nearly the whole 
    game, sometimes jumping up on top of the TV and
    peering over the back to see where they all came
    from!
    
    I never enjoyed hockey so much in my life!
    
    Mary-Michael

    My baby exotic Lil loves to sit on the edge, and I mean edge, of
    the desk and watch TV - she will sit there for 20 or 30 minutes
    and not move!  She isn't fussy about what's on - but, then who
    said Exotics come with brains (as long as they are CUTE !)
    
    E.T.