Cinnamon update

Cinnamon has settled right it. While she's still a bit skittish, she
spends most of her time outside of the various hiding places she used to
lurk in.

She's the first cat I've had who notices movement on a screen. She
spotted the cursor moving on the monitor, followed it carefully, reached
out as thought to dab at it, but then got bored.

She's what I call 'semi-longhaired' and a friend calls 'Got some Persian
in there somewhere' - that is, she's not longhaired, and she doesn't
look Persian, but she's got slightly longer and silkier fur than
average. She's definitely got noticeably longer fur than Sammy, and I
think more than Mandy (RB) who was a less long-haired version. She's the
first cat I noticed having little tufts of fur between her toes - and of
course, she's got a very long fluffy tail, but many cats have long
fluffy tails.
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Cheryl

Do you have an LCD monitor? I have no proof, but I kind of suspect
that cats react to those more positively, because they don't rely as
much on the quirks of human eye physiology as CRTs do, such as by
using RGB dots calibrated to human rods and cones, or doing scan
refresh at just below a human-detectable threshold. I'll bet old TVs
and monitors look to cats like a flickery mess, and that modern
monitors seem much more realistic to them.

Cinnamon sounds awfully adorable.

Takayuki wrote:
Do you have an LCD monitor? I have no proof, but I kind of suspect
that cats react to those more positively, because they don't rely as
much on the quirks of human eye physiology as CRTs do, such as by
using RGB dots calibrated to human rods and cones, or doing scan
refresh at just below a human-detectable threshold. I'll bet old TVs
and monitors look to cats like a flickery mess, and that modern
monitors seem much more realistic to them.

Cinnamon sounds awfully adorable.

Yes, it's an LCD. I've never seen on of the other cats take the least
notice of anything on the screen.

Cinnamon is lovely. She's not a really cuddly cat and still gets nervous
sometimes, but she's making a lot of progress. She spent weeks being the
Invisible Cat, under various pieces of furniture. The only signs of her
presence was the rapidly decreasing food level and the occasional
yowling fit when Sam came a bit too close to her.

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Cheryl