Video Catnip: Entertainment for Cats VHS

my dumb feeders bought this for me as a holiday gift. they dragged me in right in front of the tv after a few minutes i pawed once at the tv. seeing that there were no real birds to eat i walked away. i returned later to find my feeders still sitting in fornt of the set. how stupid can these large animals be? don't they realize that it's just tv. it's not real. as for the movie it had no plot, cheesy dialogue and precious little action. don't movie makers realizes that cats' eyes are different than feeders'. we respond to movement. there wasn't much of that. feeders listen up, if your cat is dumb enough to watch this b-grade movie that you were dumb enough to buy you deserve each other. am i being a bit harsh. so what I'm a cat mick the puss

I greatly anticipated the arrival of "Video Catnip." As soon as it came, I played it for my cat. Her reaction was not what I had expected it to be. She looked at it only when I held her in front of the television screen, then she began squirming to get down. She had something to eat, tended to her grooming, sat down on a shoe, and then finally exited the house through her cat door. I tried once more a couple of days later; her interest increased only a slight bit when unexpectedly, I saw her run towards the television and put her paws on the screen. For some reason, just one bird eating seed on a log and then flying off, captured her attention. Subsequently, she left the room. I lent the tape to my dad for his cat to see. His cat had the same reaction as mine did. I'm sorry I spent the (money). Now that tape will be stored in the cabinet, most likely never watched again.

My cats didn't want to watch it.

Cat has not complained. Watches it often.

this product held my cats interest for quite a while. i loved watching their heads follow the bird and squirrel as they went around the tv screen. true entertainment and stimulation for the cats.

Bore me. My cats looked at it once to see what it was and that was the end of that. Waste of money for me, I will sell this at my flea market table for a quarter.

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.

The technical information for this video indicates that the "run time" is 60 minutes. It is not, it is only 25 minutes. This is serious mis-representation and a rip-off! The video itself is OK but overpriced for only 25 minutes.