Personal stories from cat owners about their cats interacting with pet technology
The box across from the kitchen I was making dinner when my cat Cali started digging in the automatic litter box across from my kitchen with the concentration of a tiny contractor who had just discovered a sinkhole. I had…
If your cat is addicted to your phone, begin with a calm assessment. Does the cat own a phone? Have a password? Pay for data? Has your cat ever said, “I’ll come to bed in a minute,” then watched 43…
Nina told me the AirTag idea started in the apartment, which is exactly where an AirTag can make a person feel like she has finally outsmarted a cat. This is always a risky emotional position. Her cat Miso had always…
Cali had moved maybe two inches in ten minutes, which for her was apparently a rich and challenging travel day. She was in a sunny patch of grass near my building with her paws tucked under her calico body, studying…
The baby started crying twelve minutes into my meeting. I do not have a baby. I have Luna. When Luna really commits to a complaint, she produces a sound that lands somewhere between a tiny human in distress and a…
Your cat has a talent for placing one small paw on your arm and making your entire heart go soft. That same paw may be inside the food dispenser chute forty minutes later, conducting an unauthorized inspection. This is one…
The bowl was spotless, which made me more complacent than I should have been. I was standing in my neighbor’s kitchen on the first evening of a weekend cat-sitting assignment. Her cat, Princess Boo Boo, had appeared from the hallway,…
Luna started crying halfway through my meeting. Not meowing. Crying. The full baby-left-near-a-sliding-glass-door sound that makes people on a video call stop speaking and reconsider what kind of home office you are operating. “That’s my cat,” I explained. Luna looked…
The first time I saw Cali riding the robot vacuum, I did not think, “This will finally teach me something useful about robot vacuum expectations in cat homes.” I thought, “My cat has joined the space program.” This is how…
The enemy had breached the couch. That was the moment I stopped pretending this was a normal housekeeping issue. A normal housekeeping issue is a sock on the floor or a little cat hair on a chair. This was cat…