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You are here: Home / Diary / Fitbit Kitty! I Tracked My Activity – See the Results

Fitbit Kitty! I Tracked My Activity – See the Results

April 27, 2021 By: Summer Samba27 Comments

Summer tracks her activity for one day using a castoff Fitbit of her human's. The results were a little bit surprising.

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.

somali cat feet with Fitbit fitness tracker

There was only one problem — the part that attached to the strap was broken off. Which is why it is a castoff.

Somali cat wearing Fitbit in bag around her neck

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.

Summer's Fitbit account on app

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!

Somali cat in bed, awake and ready to start the day

My human put the Fitbit on me right before bedtime. So the first thing she recorded was how much I slept during the night.

Morning cat Fitbit reading

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.

graph of somali cat sleep pattern

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.

somali cat ready to nap by the floor heater

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.

somali cat fitness tracker, showing more sleep

As you can see, I got in another hour of sleep.

somali cat wearing fitbit and looking out window

When I got up, I went over to my scratcher lounge in the living room and checked out the back patio for a while.

somali cat getting ready to nap on scratch lounger

And then I settled down for another nap.

somali cat fitbit tracker with more sleep

And I got another hour of sleep!

somali cat with fitbit on, playing in turret

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.

somali cat fitness tracker showing exercise activity

As you can see, my exercise got recorded on the Fitbit.

somali cat with fitbit off for photo session

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.

somali cat fitness activity for the day

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.

somali cat, ready for bedtime

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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Comments

  1. Sue Janson says

    May 3, 2021 at 5:10 am

    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.

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  2. Emmit & Mimi says

    April 29, 2021 at 4:54 pm

    You ladies may be on to a great invention of fitbits for animals! “PetBit” “KitBit” !!

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  3. Jacqueline says

    April 29, 2021 at 10:36 am

    Well, that was a cool post, beautiful Summer=very informative and fun!…We think you need more sleep though, sweetie!!…XO…Halle, Sukki

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  4. Meezer'sMews&TerrieristicalWoofs says

    April 28, 2021 at 11:22 pm

    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!

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  5. Cathy Keisha says

    April 28, 2021 at 7:51 pm

    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.

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  6. meowmeowmans says

    April 27, 2021 at 7:38 pm

    Hey, that was cool, Summer! We are a little surprised you did not sleep more. 🙂

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  7. Ivan and Izzy from WMD says

    April 27, 2021 at 4:52 pm

    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.

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  8. Andrea and the Celestial Kitties says

    April 27, 2021 at 3:49 pm

    I”m surprised you only got 8 hours! You’re a busy girl!

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  9. Brian Frum says

    April 27, 2021 at 3:26 pm

    You are pretty darn active sweet Summer, good for you!

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  10. Melissa & Mudpie says

    April 27, 2021 at 3:19 pm

    I can’t believe you didn’t sleep more than that! This is really cool.

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  11. Mary McNeil says

    April 27, 2021 at 2:45 pm

    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 ?

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  12. Eastside Cats says

    April 27, 2021 at 12:51 pm

    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.

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  13. Sandi Stefani says

    April 27, 2021 at 12:42 pm

    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

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  14. The Poupounette Gang says

    April 27, 2021 at 11:27 am

    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

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  15. Ellen Pilch says

    April 27, 2021 at 11:18 am

    That is so cool. They need to make these for cats. I think you walk more steps than I do daily. 🙂

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  16. lola the rescued cat says

    April 27, 2021 at 10:06 am

    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.

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  17. Grr, Midnight & Cocoa's Family says

    April 27, 2021 at 7:51 am

    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?

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  18. Catatopia says

    April 27, 2021 at 7:49 am

    That’s really interesting, Summmer! I wonder how long my cats sleep.

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  19. Grace says

    April 27, 2021 at 7:36 am

    Well that’s a hoot. I’m amazed that you wore that thing all day…wasn’t it annoying?

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  20. Teddy says

    April 27, 2021 at 7:31 am

    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

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  21. The Florida Furkids says

    April 27, 2021 at 5:47 am

    That’s really cool!!!

    The Florida Furkids

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  22. rene s says

    April 27, 2021 at 5:41 am

    I’m impressed that you wore that for two days–you’re such a good kitty.

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  23. Katie Isabella says

    April 27, 2021 at 5:13 am

    THAT was fun and very very interesting. I hope you and your Human do that again.

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  24. Ernie the Island Cat says

    April 27, 2021 at 5:11 am

    The amount of sleep it registered surprised me, Summer. Mine would have said 16 hours of sleep because that’s all I do! ~Ernie

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  25. Memories of Eric and Flynn says

    April 27, 2021 at 3:48 am

    That was interesting. I would have thought you slept more though so that was a surprise.

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  26. Pat K says

    April 27, 2021 at 1:23 am

    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.

    Reply
  27. mickeys Musings says

    April 27, 2021 at 12:52 am

    Well, that was interesting! Bet you’re glad you don’t have to wear that thing all the time though.
    Purrs, Julie

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