This is exactly the kind of thing the internet was made to share for. Made me lol. But I can‘t help thinking that the cat will eventually get bored of the fish it can‘t eat, and the you end up with a weird looking aquarium.
Ive always been taught that fish bowls are cruel because they leave the fish feeling really exposed and stressed. Wouldn’t this create the same effect?
I could post many many videos of my cats focused on objects on my latop or tablet screen or perhaps a session where they follow a bug around from a few cm away for fun. But i don’t need to since you can google many such examples. There’s even tablet games for cats since they can see things so clearly
Just because they react to these objects doesn't mean they can see them clearly. It's just physics based on the eye and lens dimensions. With human eyes that threshold is about 10 cm, and if you try seeing objects closer than that you can still very much track and identify them, but they are blurry nonetheless. Maybe cat brains are also better at compensating for it, that part we can't really know, but they are most adapted to be ambush predators that don't really need to see things up close once they lock on and pounce.
It doesn't even pass the smell test. A bit like "dogs can't look up" which is ridiculous to anyone with a dog.
Eg. https://imgur.com/a/GwwzIEh for my cat playing with tiny objects on the screen. Take this behaviour 100x over each day and you'll wonder how anyone can think they can't see things up close.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 48.5 ms ] threadI could post many many videos of my cats focused on objects on my latop or tablet screen or perhaps a session where they follow a bug around from a few cm away for fun. But i don’t need to since you can google many such examples. There’s even tablet games for cats since they can see things so clearly
Eg. https://imgur.com/a/GwwzIEh for my cat playing with tiny objects on the screen. Take this behaviour 100x over each day and you'll wonder how anyone can think they can't see things up close.
If I recall correctly, it was an MIT student prank. This looks to be an early copy:
https://public.websites.umich.edu/~rsc/Humour/www.bonsaikitt...
I wonder how they arrived at that. Do I have to expect my cat to start talking, “Cut the BS and give me the fish already”?
Still, I was pleasantly surprised. I expected a catquarium to be something like https://anycrap.shop/product/cat-aquarium