KCTV 5New iPad app entertains cats

If anyone has trouble keeping their pet cat indoors, a new iPad app has been developed for furry pals.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Australia has designed the new interactive iPad cat app.

It is the ideal play mate for lonely cats.

"Basically the aim of this game is for the cats to protect the cheese," said designer Saxon Cameron. "And if we let a mouse go for too long they will start circling the cheese and take a nibble out of it."

There are three games in all designed to stimulate, entertain, and they can show off.

"They have a system here and you can see their high score at the bottom so this is for their human parents to be able to tell how smart they are," said Cameron.

Unlike any other cat apps, it also has an automatic boredom shuffling system.

A world first feature says student designer Saxon Cameron.

"This is a game I have designed you can put down so if you go out to work or to the shops; it'll repeatedly shuffle through games so the cat will remain interested," said Cameron.

"Little Simmy here is just 8 weeks old, but she is obviously the cleverest it only took her less than a minute to work out if she double taps the app it will go to the main menu," said Lexy Hamilton-Smith, of Brisbane, Australia.

"I was not expecting a cat to go around trying to figure out what the interface would work like. It might have been an accident I don't know," said Cameron.

Never mind it automatically defaults back to the game, another ploy to keep felines indoors and not on the hunt.

"For us it is all about keeping indoor cats stimulated and excited because they have not got that natural environment to go hunting," said Amanda Appel with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Called the affection collection it was part of a university charity project, the download is for free.

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