Friskies Launches Free iPad Games-- For Cats

As if your cats don't have enough toys, cat food maker Friskies has used the latest in cat behavioral research to create iPad games tailored to your pets. Now cats everywhere can scratch up your iPad cover and leave paw prints on your new Apple tablet in a quest to hunt virtual fish.

Three games in all have been released in web-app form at the site Games for Cats, which are all essentially variations on a theme. Brightly colored object floats around the iPad screen until the cat touches the object, it then disappears or breaks up into several other objects. The games actually keep score and add points every time an object is successfully batted by your feline friend.

Cat Fishing, Tasty Treasures Hunt, and Party Mix-Up are the titles of the games, which will be released at a future date on the App Store as iPad applications. For now, they are best played on a web browser that has full-screen viewing such as Atomic Web. The games were coded entirely in HTML5/CSS3 and are compatible with other tablets such as the Motorola Xoom or Samsung Galaxy Tab running Android.

Friskies has launched iOS games in the past to tie in with advertising campaigns. According to a press release, they will make it easier for cat owners to mess with their best friends with an iPhone app in the works called Here Kitty Kitty. This app will simulate the sound of cat food cans opening and the like to trick your cat into running into the room. Won't he be surprised when there's nothing there but the latest Apple smartphone.