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What Does Mak Do All Day?

What do cats do when their owners are away? There was one way to find out — "cat cams."

Fifty house cats were given collar cameras that took a photo every 15 minutes. The results put a digital dent in some human theories about catnapping.

Based on the photos, about 22 percent of the cats' time was spent looking out of windows, 12 percent was used to interact with other family pets and 8 percent was spent climbing on chairs or kitty condos. Just 6 percent of their hours were spent sleeping.


I don't know about their methodology, since I suspect my cat(s) sleeps close to 20 hours a day. Perhaps having a large camera mounted on the cat's collar affected behavior?

More details in the full article, "What do cats do all day? Kitty cam has answer."

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