What does your cat do when you're traveling or even just away for the day? Many people think that cats most of the time -- some would say the better to be lively at night. Jill Villarreal, an animal behavior scientist, was tasked with finding out for Nestle Purina PetCare's Friskies cat food. (As an aside, I still thought that Ralston-Purina made pet food and that Friskies was a separate brand -- and that Nestle wasn't necessarily involved at all. But I was wrong. Turns out that Nestle has owned Purina for quite some time and bought Friskies in 2001.) Anyway, this company, which has its own research center in Lausanne, Switzerland, to study human nutrition and other food-related issues, hired Villarreal to discover the corollary to, "When the cat's away, the mice will play."Villarreal outfitted 50 housecats with cameras on their collars that took pictures every 15 minutes and then studied a total ot 777 photos. According to a widely published report, based on these pictures that Villarreal analyzed, here's how cats spent their time:
- 22 percent looking out of windows
- 12 percent interacting with other pets in the household
- 8 percent climbing on chairs or "kitty condos"
- 6 per cent sleeping
- 6 percent watching a television, computer or other screen
- 6 percent hiding under tables
- 5 percent playing with toys
- 4 percent eating or looking at food
Now I'm no math whiz, but those percentages don't add up to 100 percent. I want to know what they did the rest of the time. I think it might be trying to get cat cam off their necks.
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