Video Catnip: Entertainment for Cats
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Could be much better
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| The whole first 10 minutes of this tape has silly slapstick music and old fashioned captions like from a silent movie. It shows birds and animals, but the sound is completely unrelated to the action. Two cats passed through the room on their way elsewhere and did not stop to watch. They didn't even notice it. I was watching it thinking, "Duh, did they not think to put some nature sounds on here? On a video for cats?! How dumb is that?" About 10 minutes in, the soundtrack changes to bird calls and nature sounds, and the cats started watching. "Oh," I said. But what that whole first sequence had been for was never explained. Once the soundtrack changed to one that fit the picture, it got their attention and the cats were totally into it. They stood rapt and mesmerized, sometimes batting at the tv, sometimes trying to go behind it to find the critters they figured were behind the glass. It's got squirrels, birds of all types, and one chipmunk, I think, cavorting to the peaceful sounds of birds and nature. I thought the sound now was very restful and enjoyable. I could meditate to that while the cats have a good time. But a second disappointment quickly follows when you discover the tape is over in about 25 minutes. Then the screen goes blue, and it's worse than if you just left on CNN for them. Dudes, I bought this tape to entertain very bored, attention deficit cats who are often alone all day. 25 minutes of video, 10 of which are accompanied by Benny Hill music, doesn't come anywhere near to doing the job. If it had an endless loop capability, you might get away with it (although I suspect they're smart enough to figure out it's the same thing over and over). But it doesn't even have that. Which makes that first 10 minutes an especially dumb waste of space. It's as if the makers thought the video needed something to occupy bored cat owners too, and birds hopping to the sound of silly slapstick music was it. I still can't figure out what that can possibly be for. A good video for cats would have a copyright warning of 3 seconds and then right into the bird action with exclusively nature sounds throughout. It would be a minimum two hours long, or have a loop capability so that it can go all day. Because they did enjoy the part of it that's clearly for cats, and the picture and sound are good, where they make sense, I have to give this some credit. But because it would have been so easy to make this so much better but they didn't, all around, a 2 is about as good as I can give this. |
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