If animals were able to talk... - StumbleUpon. JukinVideoTV's Channel. The Front Fell Off - Comedy Sketch. The Master Asshole. I am Maru 3. Like a BUS! Video. Gamarjobat. MAC HATE. The cockatoo and the laser pointer. One of the "odd jobs" I did to earn essential extra income whilst a postdoc in New York City was to work as a pet care provider. Since most of my clients were cats (along with a few parrots and dogs and other assorted animals), I was usually known as a "cat sitter". Even though I am a scientist, I took this role seriously, and ended up assembling a small Mary Poppins'-like travel bag filled with useful items for "my" cats who lived all around Manhattan. I always carried several laser light pointers with me, and I often left these laser pointers as gifts for my clients.
These small trinkets were often "my" cats' favourite toy. Although a few exceptionally lazy cats were completely uninterested in or oblivious to the laser light, the majority of cats reacted immediately and aggressively, as if they'd spied an invading housefly. My parrots -- both those that I cared for and those that I live with -- reacted very differently to cats.