Cat goes crazy for iPhone

June 10, 2009 • 6:16 pm • POSTED BY jkane

With the new iPhone 3GS coming out in a couple of weeks I thought it would be a good time to warn everyone about the dangers hidden within the iPhone. Let me start at the beginning…

Some weeks back we all became enamored of keyboard cat. You could hear his tune through out the office. This quickly led to the discovery of an iPhone application called Cat Piano. It is a cute program with a piano keyboard that plays cat meows in corresponding notes. I was hooked and I had to have a Cat Piano of my own. What could be more fun?

Later that night at home I played my dog Theo a sweet serenade of meows and growls. He was unimpressed. I laid on the keys some more – pouring my heart and soul into this meow-medley. Still, no reaction. Then without any kind of warning my cat attacked me. She savaged my arm and hand with eight swift bites. The pain was tremendous and I could tell she was out for blood. In the back of my mind I could hear the keyboard cat’s song “Doo de do do, doo de do doo” mocking my pain. Why didn’t this application come with some kind of warning or disclaimer?

As I cleaned my wounds I reflected on what had just transpired. I was overcome by an immense feeling of stupidity for having not considered how a cat would feel about strange meows coming from the phone in my hands. Did she feel scared or threatened? Not being able to translate meows I wonder if I insulted her or said something terrible about her mother. I guess I will never know. Concern was my next emotion after reading on the interwebs that 80 percent of all cat bites get infected. Possible infections include: Pasteurella, Actinomyces, Propionibacterium, Bacteroides,  Fusobacterium, Clostridium, Wolinella,  Peptostreptococcus, Staphylococcus & Streptococcus. Shockingly, people have been hospitalized for leaving a common house cat bite untreated. Scary stuff!

A trip to the doctor the next day left me left me with a sore arm from a tetanus shot and a 5-day course of broad-spectrum antibiotics.  So with that said I encourage you to have fun with your new iPhone 3GS, just be careful.