February 9th, 2009 by Rich

Last week I took delivery of my new toys, a nice A/V Receiver and 5.1 speaker set. I felt I deserved a new toy to fully enjoy the delight of blu-ray with. The system is now all set up, speakers on walls, inputs plugged in and it sounds great (just ask the neighbours!) Over the weekend we watched a few movies but none as good as the first one but this was not down to the content of the film, let me explain…

We loaded up the disc, turned all the bits and pieces on and just as we are about to press play Seefur comes along to sit on my lap and have a sleep, nothing unusual so far. Then the film started and the fun started! Over their lives the cats have learnt all about the tv, it is shiny and they get told off if they try to scratch it, it makes noise and they will mainly ignore it. Now we have a cat in the midst of 5.1 surround and she can’t get over the fact that sound is coming from all around and what is that thing that keep flying past (the answer was Hancock ~ I highly recommend it.) This freaked Seefur out and after 10 minutes she couldn’t hack it anymore and retreated upstairs to the bed.

I’m not a cruel man but I thought this was funny as hell, if you have cats get a surround system, it will no doubt provide hours of fun!