Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NEW YORK, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Several U.S. Internet entrepreneurs are exploring the burgeoning market of paws-to-screen, developing iPad apps meant specifically for pets to use. New York dog trainer Anna Jane Grossman has begun teaching a class for dog owners and their best friends to teach the four-legged how to use their noses to tap the tablet's screen and launch an app. Advertisement "People always say, 'Oh, can you have my dog do my online banking?'" Grossman said. She said about 25 people have signed up for a 90-minute class next month. In reality, dogs don't "necessarily do very useful things on the iPad," she said. "But I don't necessarily do very useful things on the iPad either." While dog people may just be catching on to the new form of play, cat people have been turning over their tablets to the tabbies for a while now, The Wall Street Journal said. T.J. Fuller and Nate Murray, developer of the iPad app "Game for Cats," said various versions of their feline-specific game -- which encourages cats to swat at a laser pointer, mouse or moth on the screen -- have been downloaded more than 1 million times. Advertisement The basic version of "Game for Cats" is free. A souped-up version is $1.99. Cat food maker Friskies has developed its own cat app, allowing felines to spend hours on end chasing a virtual critter, as well as "You vs. Cat," an interspecies game that allows people to flick objects toward a goal the cats must defend. Cats are proving more nimble than their owners. Friskies has a running score for the game on its website: 28.2 million points for cats to 19.7 million points for people, the app's creator Eric Sutherland said. "Humans are just getting pummeled," he said.
