DVD For Cats: Whereas You Are Gone Stress-free Cat Video, Cat Film for Separation Anxiousness

One of my best purchases for Coco
My 7 year old siamese cat, Coco, LOVES this dvd. She’ll typically play with any toy that is given to her, and so I thought it would be fun to see what she thought of this. Often, I notice that she’ll watch my tv shows with me- not the entire thing of course, but she watches the tv more than any other cat I’ve had. This DVD was like I was turning the tv to her favorite channel. I put this on my computer for her to watch, and aside from her stepping on the keys with excitement, I do think it was a good idea to play it on the computer. It was fun for her to watch it on this because she could get close to the screen and try to touch the animals & birds. She was entranced by the butterflies in the beginning, batting at the screen and putting her face up to it. There is a segment with a string dangling that she actually tried to play with too. She’d change positions on the bed, and so when I turned the computer or moved it for her, she continued to watch & play with it. That is another nice aspect about putting it on the computer. She even watched it when I had to put it on mute for a phone call. The DVD switches between segments often enough that she doesn’t get bored with it. The objects vary between butterflies, birds, ducks, cats, and strings, etc. I was worried before when I would see Coco laying with her eyes open, looking bored. DVDS like this one, I think, are going to be a great fix for that, so she’ll have something else to entertain her in my tiny Chicago apartment. =) I highly recommend this DVD, and Coco does too!! =)

My Cats LEFT The Room!
All I can say is, “Oh my God”. I have two Bengals cats that are one-year old and they love the Discovery Channel, often running around the back of the flat screen to see where the hawks or the birds went. So naturally, I thought they would love this DVD. I put it on and they simply walked out of the room. They literally LEFT the THEATER! This DVD is simply one person with a handheld video camera walking around the woods with birds chirping in the background between scenes. The specific scenes are of bright birds in the branches of trees chirping for ten to fifteen minutes and then another stroll through the woods until the next scene. These include an old lazy cat being tossed a little red string (the cat was bored), ducks floating in a pond, scenes of a fish tank with tropical fish floating around, more lazy cat on the porch scenes – all with simple piano “Charlie Brown” type music in the background or some slightly ethereal music for enhancement. The music was distracting. There was even a scene where a fluffy ball on the end of a stick was bouncing around the screen to attract the cats. It was utter nonsense. The best I can say is that it does loop after one hour to begin all over again.Silence and real animal noises are what cats want. I would like to see a professional DVD with wild animal noises and vivid bird and animal scenes that a cat would go crazy for. My cats would love to see an African lion go after a zebra! This video is amateurish and lacking any attraction – for my cats anyway. I dislike one-star or negative reviews, but if it saves you some money, then it’s worth it. Buy a Discovery Channel DVD!

Surprisingly, it does what it says and more
We have two cats, Mara and Atton. Atton has always had someone around the house before, and when his Daddy is gone for even 10 minutes, he cries a bit. We had to be gone all night, and I picked this up for the kitties and played it a bit early to check it out.It’s now been four weeks, and the cats ask, every day, for this to be on. Now if you get this expecting your cats to be glued to the set 24/7, you’re going to be disappointed. If you want something that just generally makes a more pleasant time for the kitties, and gives them something other then the wall to stare at when bored; this is what you want. The cats actively choose watching this DVD over sleeping, and when it’s not on they tend to.. stare at the TV now and then, wondering why it isn’t.The cats come and go as they please, but they honestly spend more time watching this then in other places, when they’re not being played with. And play? This is where it excels.. since we got this.. Mara, who was a runt and generally hates touching and play… has joined in chase the string games and barely hisses at Atton anymore. Something about this video is incredibly comforting for kitties, even if they aren’t looking directly at it at all times. Leave it on, and let it do it’s work, you’ll swear it’s magic.

The video was very repetitive but all in all not bad.

Rough footage at times but good audio.