Customer Reviews

Video Catnip: Entertainment for Cats [VHS]

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

VIDEO CATNIP is every indoor cat's DREAM COME TRUE! What is VIDEO CATNIP? It's a bit of the great outdoors you can bring into your livingroom and slip right into your VCR! It features close-ups of skittering squirrels and twittering birds that really get my 5 year old cat, Calvin's, wild instincts revved up! He even knows what the box looks like by now, and when I take it out, he claims his spot right in front of the TV! It's hysterical! Then, he'll get all excited; "stalking" the critters on the screen in front of him. I must admit; I have as much fun watching him watch the video, as he has watching it! My opinion is that VIDEO CATNIP is the perfect antidote to every indoor cat's case of cabin fever! If you don't own VIDEO CATNIP, YOUR cat is definitely missing out!

The technical information for this video indicates that the "run time" is 60 minutes. It is not, it is only 25 minutes. This is serious mis-representation and a rip-off! The video itself is OK but overpriced for only 25 minutes.

There's not much new I can say about this sort a video, it's your basic "home video" style recordings of birds and squirrels. My cat loves this video and I find it amusing watching her watch tv. The sound quality is pretty good too, It's great for a little background noise... My only complaint is this, it's too short. There's a positively boring "bird bloopers" section meant for human entertainment, but I feel it would've been time better spent -minus the cheesy circus music- formatted for the cats. It also would've been nice to have it on DVD with a loop feature. Anyway, all things considered, this video is definitly wourth buying.

In reference to the review by "Sweetviolet79", this IS available in DVD format, as a continuous loop!!!!!

I bought it directly from the producer/directer/cameraman, Steve. His website is www.cattv.com. Great guy!

The DVD sound and picture are terrific (for the gentleman who complained about this on the VHS tape). Two of our three feline boys were absolutely mesmerized! (The third is 16 and a little deaf. Apparently sound DOES play an important part of the movie's attraction.)

I think "Video Catnip" is to cats, what "Sesame Street" is to toddlers! It's a great cat sitting device!

I could not believe the response my two cats gave this video. They were so engrossed I couldn't get them to respond to my petting, pulling on their tails, calling them. They just got out of my way & went back to staring at the screen. I died laughing at their hypnotized stares at birds, squirrels & other animals & attempts to catch them. I only gave it 4 stars though, the first 10 minutes or so is a produced thing that has loud annoying music that seemed to irritate & distract my kits. Fortunately it moved on to nature sounds and natural scenes. Create a couch-potato, tv-junkie cat. Buy this video.

We have four cats, so we figured at least one of them would be interested. For the first half of the tape, they ignored it. Then something caught the attention of one of them, and soon there were four cats crowded around the screen watching. The TV is up against a wall shared with a bathroom, and one cat kept running into the bathroom to see if the birds were there. Another kept jumping up to try to get into the TV. The other two just patted the screen. A good time was had by all of them, and if we don't play it too often, they can still be captivated by it.

The bad news is that I find the sound to be unbelievably annoying, so I have to wear headphones and listen to something else while the video is playing.

When I purchased this video, our kittens were about 5 months old and we had noticed that one of them showed an interest now and then in watching TV with us. So, we purchased this video and we were amazed at their attention span. The first time they watched half of it; the next time more and so it went until they had watched it all. Now we play it at least once a week--it just seems to make them feel good and personally, I find it rather relaxing myself, not to mention the entertainment we get from watching our kits enjoy themselves watching a video!
This may not be for every cat but if your kitten or cat has shown any interest in TV or or anything visual on a screen, I strongly suggest you purchase this great little video. Who would have guessed it--but they really do watch it with great interest and curiosity. Felines never cease to amaze me!

I was lucky with the first cat entertainment video that I bought. My indoor cats loved most of it and what they didn't like - let me know what to buy next. The first part of the video has music as background sound for the birds and squirrels. Interestingly, my cats were not interested in the video until the "cats only" section started (about 5-10 minutes into the video). This is when the music background stopped and the bird songs and other sounds of nature became clear. The sounds of nature also made the video a relaxing background for us! It's only 25 minutes long, so I hope my next cat entertainment video will have a natural sound background AND be longer. I recommend this video if you'd like to discover if music or bird songs suit you and your cat(s) best. Or if you've bought all the longer cat videos and don't mind a shorter one in your library.

2/3 of my cats LOVE this video. The one that doesn't... doesn't watch television at all. I have 2 cats that I've caught watching TV from time to time. But, this video IS Video Catnip to them. They react so much differently to this than anything else. I have pictures of them attacking the screen! It's hilarious to watch them get so consumed with the television. However, if your cat doesn't watch TV anyway, than buying this tape is a waste of money. Some cats do, some don't. I'm waiting for it to come out on DVD!

After reading the reviews, I thought it'd be a good way to entertain my cat, who enjoys watching animal shows on TV. The quality of the video is not good, however, and more importantly, my cat did not want to watch it at all, even though I held her pointing at it several times. Bottom line is that I think it's a great concept and apparently some cats may like it, but mine did not.