Our Obsession With Cats and What They Get Up to When They Leave the House (Videos)

This February 2022 video presents five days in the lives of 10 domestic cats which are also allowed to go roaming outdoors whenever they want. The location for the special project is the town of Weimar, Germany. Each cat was fitted with a small, specially designed collar containing a powerful tracking device. The data collected permitted GPS tracking of each cat’s movements over the course of the 5-day project. Some of the cats were also fitted with a small camera so researchers and owners could watch where the cat traveled.

Follow Your Cat – What Felines get up to When They Leave the House

https://youtu.be/QadUonunflw

This 29 November 2022 video from NOVA PBS focuses on the cat, a furry companion found in homes around the world. Worshiped as a goddess, condemned as satanic and spun into a stunning array of breeds, cats have long fascinated humans. But did we ever really domesticate them? And what can science tell us about our most mysterious companions?

Cat Tales – The video originally available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch/8ImtbHTX9gc) has been made private. The footage is available as of 29 December 2022 at the following external website.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/cat-tales/

Chapters

00:00 Introduction
03:16 Why Are People Obsessed with Cats?
09:28 Why Aren’t Cats Expressive? 
12:46 Can Cats Understand Our Emotions?
14:28 Domestic Cat Relative
18:13 Earliest Encounter Between Human and Cat
21:51 Cat Abilities 
25:30 How Do Cats Differ from Their Wild Ancestors
28:30 Importance of Cats in Egypt
34:54 How Domestic Cats Spread Around the World 
42:10 The Difference of Feral Cats
46:18 Can Cats Be Trained Like Dogs?
49:04 Breeding of Hybrid Cats
51:12 Conclusion