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Have you ever wondered what your cat does outdoors all day? A guy in Germany did, and developed a cat-mounted spy camera in order to find out. Wonder no more! His site is a whimsical day-by-day photo diary told from the visual POV of his cat, Mr. Lee (or more specifically, Mr. Lee’s neck, around which his Jerry-rigged catcam was affixed), accompanied by his sometimes-baffled captions (”Whose house is that?” and so on). Are there privacy — even feline — rights issues to be debated here? Let’s not get crazy. But for those of you dying to know if your cat is cheating on you (with another family; it happens) or why Meowsers doesn’t drink much of the clean water you put in his water bowl every morning (actually, maybe you don’t want to know), it’s worth a look! An added plus: Mr. Lee has some photographic chops.
“Meeting under car”
After the jump, more of Mr. Lee’s best shots.
“Snake in the grass”
“Staring at a birdhouse”
“Unknown backyard”
“Dusk”
“Abstract”
Comments (10)
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Thanks for the link. I loved seeing the photos from ‘a day in the life of a cat’. Maybe I need to rig a video camera to spy on my cat and dog. I always wondered if they are secretly best friends when no one is looking.
posted by Jessie on 6-8-2007 at 12:07 pm
Yeah, I wish I could rig one of these up on my cat. Just can’t quite grok the interval wiring he did.
The abstract pic cracks me up everytime I see it.
posted by Johnny Cat on 6-8-2007 at 12:31 pm
I seriously love this! The semi-literate captions are the icing on the cake. Love it, love it!
posted by Brandy on 6-8-2007 at 12:40 pm
This is great!!! Great idea. Thanks, I’m sending to all my ‘cat’ friends
posted by JaneM on 6-8-2007 at 1:18 pm
Am I the only one who put together German, Mr. Lee, and Jerry (jerry rig) together and came up with, first, Jerry Lee (as in Lewis) and then Jerry, as in one of the Allies’ nicer nicknames for the Germans in WWII?
I can’t help it.
posted by Bassman on 6-9-2007 at 7:25 am
Ha! Domestic CritterCam! I wonder if the guy ever talked to National Geographic?
posted by Kasee on 6-11-2007 at 7:23 am
Oh no, not you, too! That’s jury rigged not jerry rigged. It’s jerry built that’s the correct use of the “jerry”. Jury rigged, in case you don’t have time to look it up, is nautical and derives from the use of of an emergency sail called a jury sail. As to jerry built, well, it’s still in the argument stage so I won’t assay that one.
posted by Alice on 6-11-2007 at 8:43 am
OMG, you used “added plus” in the same article. What’s up with that?!?! Can you do anything with a plus but add? Really! How about doing a bit on the overuse of conversational fillers? Right now the adverb “actually” is the top of my hate list. My Squeeze and I shout it out loud every time we hear it in conversation, real or televised as it’s the only way to soothe our pain. It’s infecting the World.
posted by Alice on 6-11-2007 at 8:49 am
Well, anyway, regardless of your disdain for filler… what about adding negative numbers?
I had no idea about jerry/jury rigging. I assumed it was a shot at the Germans for shoddy workmanship! (Yeah, rght.) Or is that Schotte?
posted by Bassman on 6-11-2007 at 9:46 am
Chill out, y’all! It’s a blog about cats, not a thesis dissertation.
posted by Ransom on 6-11-2007 at 10:32 am