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    Adrienne and Springer sit on top of the television while my husband is
    watching hockey, and try to catch the puck with their paws.
    
    Sly likes to watch dog shows -- sits in front of the televison while
    the dogs are on the screen, goes for a snack during commercials.
    
    All five of the cats periodically watch nature shows, especially shows
    about birds of lions/tigers/etc.
    
    Sometimes, when there is a high-pitched noise on a show, all five cats
    will sit up, perk their ears, then run out the room so fast that they
    sometimes bump into each other.
    
    Marleen

    
    The only thing Bailey has ever watched is ice skating.  He sat for
    an hour watching the Nationals.  I thought it was hysterical.  There
    he was plunked, in the middle of the floor looking up at the screen.
    Since then skating has been on, but he'll only watch for a bit.
    I guess that he only goes for those high caliber performances. ;-)
                                                                  
    

    Mine *LOVE* pro-wrestling almost as much I do. I can just see it now,
    Argus the Giant managed by the Lovely Pip, with C.L. Panther as the
    pencil neck announcer.

    Deb

    Kayleigh used to love Wimbledon tennis and Oliver loves snooker.
    Rosie and Jimmy were fascinated by a programme on Lions the other week.
    So much so that I replay the video for them.
    
    We had a programme on about cats a while ago. It came to the bit about 
    reproduction in cats and not only Oliver, but probably every male cat
    in Britain (including our friends' two toms) went absolutely mad,
    trying to get at the female on the TV, who was rolling around and
    yowling seductively! 

	The only cat in our family who cares about tv is Beau.  He'll sit
	up straight in front of the screen and his head will move as he
	follows whatever is happening.

	Jenny, though, loves to sit up on top of the VT240 monitor while
	we're logged in from home.  She hangs down like a vulture and tries
	to bite the cursor as it zips along.  I usually have to clean the
	wet noseprints off after :^}

	Sandy

    My baby Birman Gnocchi and I watch Garfield cartoons every Saturday
    morning.

    King Kong occasionally tries to swat Mario (of Nintendo, Super Mario
    Brothers fame), usually when he's little Mario.  As my offspring and I
    have become more proficient at the game, Kong's interest has waned and
    I'm unsure whether it's boredom or the fact the Mario and Luigi are
    usually large and loaded with fireballs now.
    
    When regular TV is on, I'm not usually around (in fact, as far as
    regular TV goes, Kong's a lot more fun and educational to watch ;)  )
    but I have noticed that animals noises will cause him to perk up his
    ears and gaze intently if only for the moment. 
    
    aq
     

Hannah is the only one who notices TV or terminals.  She loves tiger and lion
programs on PBS.  And since she discovered that she can make patterns change
on the screen of the terminal  when she hits at the keyboard, I can't leave
her alone with the computer terminal at home when I'm logged into the system.
She never would have detected it, but I had the lights in the room out and
I was typing in a message...she was watching me and began to swat at my
hands as I was typing.  When I got up to get more tea, she added a short
line of gibberish to the screen...she was standing on her hind legs in my
chair with her front feet on the desk and keyboard....the one on the keyboard
entered a line of K's.

I wouldn't have minded too much, but when she jumped to the left side
as I returned to take my seat, she hit the CTRL key and the Z
key with her back leg (I think that's how it happened anyway) AND MAILED
THE MESSAGE TO MY FRIEND.  He was impressed to get a very technical explanation
for most of the message and then see me suddenly be reduced to gibberish.
I've still not lived it down.  That's what I get for using mail with the
EDT capability....and for leaving Hannah alone with my terminal.

    Here's a treat for those who have terminals at home...
    
    extract the following as BOUNCE.COM. I wrote it because Bumpy seemed
    interested in watching the cursor go back and forth...
    
    jack
    
$ read/prompt="Bounce what word or sentence? " sys$command string
$ foobie:
$ INQUIRE LOOPTYPE/NOPUN "Erase between moves? (Y or N) "
$ if ''looptype' .eqs. "" then loopname:= "ERASELOOP" 
$ if ''looptype' .eqs. "Y" then loopname:= "ERASELOOP" 
$ if ''looptype' .eqs. "Y" then write sys$output ""!bold
$ if ''looptype' .eqs. "N" then loopname:= "NOERASELOOP"
$ h=1
$ set control=y
$ on control_y then goto pass
$ set proc/prio=1
$ v=1
$ dir=1
$ hcut=80-f$length(''string')
$ write sys$output "[?25l"
$ ERASELOOP:
$ write sys$output "[''v';''h'H''string'"
$! wait 00:00:00.05
$ if dir .eq. 1 then goto se
$ if dir .eq. 2 then goto ne
$ if dir .eq. 3 then goto nw
$ if dir .eq. 4 then goto sw
$ NOERASELOOP:
$ write sys$output "[''v';''h'H''string'"
$ wait 00:00:00.05                      
$ if dir .eq. 1 then goto se
$ if dir .eq. 2 then goto ne
$ if dir .eq. 3 then goto nw
$ if dir .eq. 4 then goto sw
$ se:
$ if h .eq. hcut then goto sw
$ h=h+1
$ if v .eq. 23 then goto ne
$ v=v+1  
$ dir = 1
$ goto "''loopname'"
$ ne:
$ if h .eq. hcut then goto nw
$ h=h+1  
$ if v .eq. 1 then goto se
$ v=v-1
$ dir = 2
$ goto "''loopname'"
$ nw:
$ if h .eq. 1 then goto ne
$ h=h-1  
$ if v .eq. 1 then goto sw
$ v=v-1
$ dir = 3
$ goto "''loopname'"
$ sw:
$ if h .eq. 1 then goto se
$ h=h-1  
$ if v .eq. 23 then goto nw
$ v=v+1
$ dir = 4
$ goto "''loopname'"
$ pass: 
$ write sys$output "[?25h"
$ set proc/prio=4
$ exit                                           

    Well, ALL the kittens will watch TV at one point or another. They
    also like KLAX the new Tengen game for the Nintendo.
      :-)  
    
    They usually sit up "prairie dog style" to watch.

    Michaela isn't exactly a TV watcher, but she loves video games!  She'll
    watch me play "Zelda" as long as I play!  She especially likes it when
    I got get "life" and there's hearts going around in a big circle.  She
    tries to chase the hearts!!  When "link" goes down to the bottom of the
    screen, she tries to catch him as well.
    
    
    Holly
    

    Pepper watches TV.  He goes for the ball in football or
    baseball, or attacks the runners when they go by.  His
    favorite TV shows are westerns, because he will bat at
    the horses as they go running by on the screen.  He even
    looks for them around the side.  The more movement, the
    more he likes to swipe at the screen.
    
    L-

    
    it's hockey, everytime!  my stella, even as a little one, would be
    fascinated at the puck going back and forth and back and...  she loved
    to swipe at it with her tiny paw.
    
    now that we are without cable (neighbourhood is not up to 80% occupancy
    yet)  :-(  i don't get the hockey on ESPN anymore.  and we don't have a
    local team.  <snif!>
    
    diane, stella and stanley
    

Hi!

I know that this topic hasn't been active for a while, but I have a funny
TV cat story & I do believe I have found the PURRRRFECT topic to enter it into!

Yesterday, I went home at lunch to see the girls. They know what my car sounds 
like & can hear me open the entryway door before I even get up to my apartment.
Knowing when I'm home, they're always right at the door when I open it. Well, 
yesterday, I opened the door, and there were no kitties there to greet me!

Of course my first reaction was, "Uh oh, what's wrong!?" Then I hear the TV
ON IN THE BEDROOM! "OH MY GOSH!", I thought! "Someone's in the house! WHAT
DID THEY DO W/ MY CATS?!?!" Normally, if I thought someone was in my house,
I'd just leave & call the cops from a neighbors house, but I was ready to
KILL at the thought that someone had done something to my cats!

I poke my head into the bedroom, and there's Tabitha sitting on top of the 
cable box, watching the tv, and Callie is sitting on the bed perked right
up watching just as intently! I laughed, and they both looked over at me 
for a second & turned back to their show as if to say, "Shhhhhh!".

Tabitha must've hit the button when she jumped up onto the cable box. She 
seems to be spending more time sitting there than usual, maybe the warmth
of the box is what she likes, but maybe she's trying to turn the TV on again!

Today when I got home at lunch, they were not at the door again, but they
were sitting in the bedroom, this time Callie on the cable box & Tab on the
bed, but the TV was off! Maybe she heard me coming & shut it off???!!! ;*)

Bonnie

    I just bought Disney's Fantasia and, her Lovelyness was absolutly
    mesmerized by it (especially the cartoons with the bubbles).
    
    Deb