My human found a castoff Fitbit fitness tracker in her desk drawer and decided to have me wear it for 24 hours. She thought you’d like to see how active I am in a day. She also wanted to see how much I really slept! So she charged it up.
There was only one problem — the part that attached to the strap was broken off. Which is why it is a castoff.
She wound up putting it in a little plastic bag attached to a collar. So unfortunately, we couldn’t get my heart rate, but we could still get steps and sleep.
She also set up an account for me so that she could log onto the app and take screen shots of my progress for you!
My human put the Fitbit on me right before bedtime. So the first thing she recorded was how much I slept during the night.
My human and I went to bed and woke up at almost the same time… but I got a half hour more sleep than her! That’s because I am a lot less restless.
I only really woke up once during the night. That’s what that pink bar is. And I remember it exactly — it was when my human got up to use the bathroom. I was sleeping next to her at the time, so of course it woke me up.
After we got up, we went upstairs to my human’s home office. She worked, and I took a nap by the floor heater. She doesn’t like me sleeping near the floor heater — she says it’s bad for my coat. But she cant’ stop me either.
As you can see, I got in another hour of sleep.
When I got up, I went over to my scratcher lounge in the living room and checked out the back patio for a while.
And then I settled down for another nap.
And I got another hour of sleep!
My human decided I needed to get some exercise in (since I was wearing a fitness tracker, after all). So we played for a while in the turret.
As you can see, my exercise got recorded on the Fitbit.
I did take off the Fitbit once, for a photo session for yesterday’s blog post. But I wore it the rest of the day, for a full 24 hours.
Here are my results. Yes, I did another thousand steps after my play session! And I went up the stairs a total of three times. The calorie count isn’t accurate — my human put in human measurements in my account. (According to her, if I were human I’d be 5’4″ and 120 pounds.) What surprised my human the most was that I did not sleep as much as she expected — way fewer than the 16 hours everyone always says cats sleep every day. In case you are wondering, my human did over 13 thousand steps and went up the stairs 27 times.
I’m glad I don’t need to wear that tracker every day! And from now on, I am going to try to get more sleep.
Did my results surprise you? Let me know in the comments.
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What a clever idea, having you wear a fir bit tracker for 24 hours. And yes I am surprised that you did not sleep more during the day, especially. You do seem to be a pretty busy kitty with all your modeling and visiting, but still just nearly 9 hours of sleep a day is not a lot of beauty sleep for such a princess kitty.
You ladies may be on to a great invention of fitbits for animals! “PetBit” “KitBit” !!
Well, that was a cool post, beautiful Summer=very informative and fun!…We think you need more sleep though, sweetie!!…XO…Halle, Sukki
That was a fun idea and the results were quite interesting! I thought cats slept about 16 hours a day? You are way more active than that! Petcretary sure wishes she could sleep as long as you did, Summer!
I”m suprised you didn’t put in a mile cos your house is big or so it seems. Since I’m older and sick I sleep about 23 hours a day.
Hey, that was cool, Summer! We are a little surprised you did not sleep more. 🙂
MOL! You got WAY more steps than our mom probably did! She got a Fitbit out of the blue from her healthcare provider in December, and she only opened the box yesterday!!
Yeah, we think we’ll get more use out of it.
I”m surprised you only got 8 hours! You’re a busy girl!
You are pretty darn active sweet Summer, good for you!
I can’t believe you didn’t sleep more than that! This is really cool.
Does the fact that you have four feet make the step count larger ? If your human did a bit on all fours (just across the room for instance )would she have twice as many steps ?
Summer, today is the first warm day, and all of our windows and doors are open…and Da Boyz haven’t slept all day!
Too much fun stuff going on outside, so they are going to be tired kitties tonight.
And Sweetie just slept all day, despite the open windows.
Very interesting! We would not wearing thar thing.. I am 15 so I sleep a lot, Razzle-Dazzle would probably blow the thing up. He is always in trouble and up to no good.
Purrs and kitty kisses,
Bodacious and Razzle-Dazzle
Well, that was really interesting, Summer. #1 says that Benny probably does three or four times as much as he is constantly moving!
Purrs,
Tama and Benny
That is so cool. They need to make these for cats. I think you walk more steps than I do daily. 🙂
That is so cool!!! We’re surprised at the amount of steps. Now we wonder how many steps we get, especially since we don’t have steps.
For sure our senior kitties sleep more than that, but the others are probably close to your results. That was really interesting. What about The Zoomies? Do you have them sometimes? We’d love to see what happens with steps – or would flying through the air even count as steps?
That’s really interesting, Summmer! I wonder how long my cats sleep.
Well that’s a hoot. I’m amazed that you wore that thing all day…wasn’t it annoying?
You were really patient to wear that tag for a couple of days – I would have been clawing at it to get it out of my way! My Mom knows ZIP about FitBit other than a lot of people keep track of how active they are with them. Cats are a great combination of ACTIVE and PASSED OUT if you ask me!
Hugs, Teddy
That’s really cool!!!
The Florida Furkids
I’m impressed that you wore that for two days–you’re such a good kitty.
THAT was fun and very very interesting. I hope you and your Human do that again.
The amount of sleep it registered surprised me, Summer. Mine would have said 16 hours of sleep because that’s all I do! ~Ernie
That was interesting. I would have thought you slept more though so that was a surprise.
I’m surprised it was able to record your activity. Was
it at all heavy on your neck????? You didn’t seem to
act as if it was. Interesting info.
Well, that was interesting! Bet you’re glad you don’t have to wear that thing all the time though.
Purrs, Julie