Some Users Just Can't Keep Their Paws Off the iPad - WSJ.com

Sign of the times

"Ms. Grossman is part of a nascent but growing group touting the use of apps for pets. They say the apps can entertain pets stranded alone at home, teach valuable motor skills and even promote social behavior by engaging loner animals.
Some smell a rat. They say it isn't fair to make a cat endlessly chase a critter that can't be caught. "Without a successful capture," says Pam Johnson-Bennett, an expert on cat behavior, "I believe the play session keeps the cat too revved up instead of allowing for a satisfying winding down of the action.""

Some Users Just Can't Keep Their Paws Off the iPad - WSJ.com