RE: The powers of cats

2010-11-12 Thread Jeroen van Baardwijk
et al) Discussion Onderwerp: The powers of cats On a completely different note, but I felt like sharing it: One of my cats performed a successful internet search. I'd left the browser open, with iGoogle up. The cat's contribution was apparently typing 0222, a bit of mouse movement, and a click

The powers of cats

2010-11-11 Thread David Hobby
On a completely different note, but I felt like sharing it: One of my cats performed a successful internet search. I'd left the browser open, with iGoogle up. The cat's contribution was apparently typing 0222, a bit of mouse movement, and a click or an enter. What I woke up to was GoogleMaps,

Re: The powers of cats

2010-11-11 Thread Alberto Monteiro
David Hobby wrote: On a completely different note, but I felt like sharing it: One of my cats performed a successful internet search. I'd left the browser open, with iGoogle up. The cat's contribution was apparently typing 0222, a bit of mouse movement, and a click or an enter. What

Re: The powers of cats

2010-11-11 Thread David Hobby
Alberto Monteiro wrote: ... Is is beyond the intelligence level of cats to understand that it's possible to use the mouse and see interesting things in the screen? On a different note, do cats see computer screens the same way we do? I've seen videos of cats treating TVs as boxes with stuff

Re: The powers of cats

2010-11-11 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Nov 11, 2010, at 7:05 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Is is beyond the intelligence level of cats to understand that it's possible to use the mouse and see interesting things in the screen? Given the things I've seen cats learn to do, and in some cases, figure out on their own, especially