No Mouse Required: Tablet Games For Cats On The Rise

iPad Cat Games Susie

In some ways, it makes a lot of sense: cats appear in approximately 138 percent of popular Internet videos, but face an appalling shortage of content tailored to their needs. Friskies has accepted this challenge, and entertaining your cats has now gotten a whole lot more expensive.

Gone are the days of the $3 Cat Dancer: today’s modern cat needs an iPad. How else would they play the three new “games” created by Friskies, a division of Nestle Purina, that allow cats to interact with a tablet? The three games (Cat Fishing! Tasty Treasure Hunt! Party Mix-up!) let cats (or curious people) follow graphics moving around the screen that disappear or explode in fun colors when they are touched. Don’t worry: “the colors, movement, and game-play have been researched and tested for maximum feline fun,” Friskies assures us.

The games are actually Web-based so they’ll work in any browser, thus ending the mobile apps versus mobile Web debate by tapping into the 82 million-strong U.S. cat population, according to the Pet Food Institute. For the record, Susie, the official cat of mocoNews (she prefers Office Manager, Bay Area Operations, but she says a lot of things), was intrigued by “Cat Fishing!” but somewhat indifferent to “Tasty Treasure Hunt!”

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