Cats are great, but too often they just sit there. It’d be great if you could trick them into being more entertaining, affectionate, interesting beings. Well now you can! Here are five ways to exploit your cat for your own amusement:

Your cat is just going to lay around all day anyway, why not entice it into laying somewhere “useful.” With this cat cot coffee table your cat will hopefully spend most of it’s time laying somewhere highly visible to you and your guests. It sounds great, doesn’t it? Until you realize that your cat will always prefer to lay on your clean laundry instead. (via TheSlyestFox)
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Of course when you discover the magic of cat drugs you can get your cat to go anywhere. We all know about catnip from cartoons and possibly real life, but do you have an idea how that stuff works? It’s basically cat sex in a box. It’s a plant that naturally releases a smell that’s like a super condensed version of the smell male cats give off to attract mates. It drives cats insane–both male and female. You may have to consult a theologist as to why it works on both genders.
Catnip comes in many forms, but my favorite is the catnip ball. You can buy these rock hard jawbreaker-like balls at any pet store. They also sometimes come in a knitted sheath, but they’re more rolly without it. The cat will be attracted to the ball, attempt to interact with it, and cause it to roll away. You get a lot of cat entertainment out of it with minimal effort–you still have to go looking for the ball, because it will inevitably get lost somewhere in your house.

Of course, if you want to exert NO effort, there’s this. Cat shelves! You can turn your living room wall into a live action video game that requires almost no interaction, not unlike Final Fantasy XII. Supposing your cats are the adventurous type, you can sit around and watch them, and live through them as a proxy. What a happy life that would be! (via Home-Design.com)

Or, you could make your cat’s life more like a first person video game with a collar camera. Though it might only be fun if you have multiple cats. If you only have one cat, you have about a 0% chance of ever catching a cat on camera. And what other point is there to owning a camera? It’s like putting a knife on the handle of a fork–how are you going to cut steak? Cats are the only subject worth photographing. There, I said it. (via CrunchGear)
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So it’s come to this. Your insatiable love for cats and your distain for the fact that they only move for a few minutes a day has finally come to fruition. You start a cat rescue facility and fill your house with tons of cats, scurrying to and fro. Then you set up a live 23/7 webcam, because sometimes you need an hour a day to just cry.
I’m not judging this lady, I’m judging myself. This live cam show is the bleak vision of my own future, I can see it as clear as day. Except for when a fluffy tail dangles down in front of the lens, obstructing my premonition. As a cute animal blogger and professional cat exploiter, I can see no other possible future than being one of the many crazy people who install live streams of their cats.
Quick! Hide the Catnip! Mom’s home!

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