{"id":7347,"date":"2013-02-05T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T17:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/?p=7347"},"modified":"2013-02-05T09:44:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T17:44:21","slug":"humane-society-kitty-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/2013\/02\/05\/humane-society-kitty-cam\/","title":{"rendered":"Humane Society Kitty Cam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/files\/2013\/02\/CatPlayroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7348\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/files\/2013\/02\/CatPlayroom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/448\/files\/2013\/02\/CatPlayroom.jpg 210w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/448\/files\/2013\/02\/CatPlayroom-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/448\/files\/2013\/02\/CatPlayroom-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>In the past two years, nearly 100,000 cat lovers from 120 countries have played with the cats in the Oregon Humane Society&#8217;s (OHS)\u00a0 robotic cat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipetcompanion.net\/client\/oregon-humane-society\">playroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Did they hop on a plane for their yearly fix of feline fun? Nope, cat fans from all over the world can sit at home and use their computers to control the whiz-bang fuzzy tails and spinning gew-gaws that engage the cats in a glass-walled room at the OHS shelter in north Portland. Of course, cats being cats, they only play when they are in the mood.<\/p>\n<p>One word of caution: The robotic cat playroom can be addictive. The average interactive time per viewer is 15 minutes and 85% of people who visit the site, return to play again. But the playroom is more than just frivolous fun for humans, it also serves a valuable purpose for the shelter: It helps socialize the cats and reduce boredom. And it has increased cat adoptions at the OHS by 16%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past two years, nearly 100,000 cat lovers from 120 countries have played with the cats in the Oregon Humane Society&#8217;s (OHS)\u00a0 robotic cat playroom. Did they hop on a plane for their yearly fix of feline fun? Nope, cat fans from all over the world can sit at home and use their computers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3054],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-and-staff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DBMX-1Uv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7351,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions\/7351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofveterinarymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}