The Careers Teacher Never Told Me This Was A Possibility...

I feel somewhat cheated. I didn't know that "cat scientist" was actually a career option.

I've just watched yesterday's BBC Horizon programme on the Secret Life of the Cat. Enjoyable, though I think that I'd have preferred to see more footage from the cat-cams and surveillance cameras and less of the humans. Finding out about the way the data was being recorded and analysed was interesting, for about five minutes. Listening to people talking about their cats was interesting for another five minutes. Watching people looking at data about their cats was definitely not interesting...

The programme was entertaining, but didn't really throw up any major surprises. I was interested to hear that the cat "solicitation purr" (the purr designed to attract human attention) hits the same frequency as a human baby's cry.

Unfortunately the programme itself is only available on iPlayer for a short time, though there are a few clips available on the BBC web page... There is also a review (far more favourable than mine) on the Daily Telegraph's website.