Is this an indoor camera?

Sitter Questions, Advice & Chat
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Hello,

I came across this item plugged in perched on top of a radiator pointing at the bedroom I’m staying in. To me, it looks suspiciously like some sort of pet monitoring camera? If it is, I thought indoor surveillance equipment was very much against the rules of THS. Please see picture attached.

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Apparently not. Google lens says its a toy.

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Thanks. That’s such a relief. It looked suspiciously like some pet surveillance cameras I’d seen online so was quite concerned.

I’m not sure how the pets would play with this though. :thinking: It’s just sitting perched on top of the radiator and not even accessible to them. Very odd.

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Me reading more and more about indoor cameras in the forum recently has clearly got me a little neurotic and paranoid lately!

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Without checking online, I wouldn’t have known either. It looks like a device that I’ve used in work settings, to do video meetings. Good you asked. The rest of us will know now, too.

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I really appreciate you saying that, Maggie. I was starting to feel like a bit of a muppet. It horrified me when I first laid eyes on it as it looked awfully like a surveillance monitoring device. With it being pointed right at the bedroom I’m staying in, it added a whole other layer of paranoia.

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Totally get it. It’s hard to not be paranoid nowadays, in the age of surveillance.

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I’d cover it anyway.

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Good advice. Thank you. I did unplug it when I first came across it as it freaked me right out! :flushed:

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What exactly does it do as a toy @Chatsetchiens? I’d want to try it out

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It’s a laser toy. If you turn on the red switch on its head it will project a red dot around the room for cats to chase (assuming that it has working batteries).

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Thanks for this. I notice from the video the manufacturer is a company named Bentopal. I could not see this written anywhere on the device and just assumed the worst. It’s a great relief to know that it is in fact just a toy.

There are however a good number of pet camera monitoring devices out there which look remarkably similar to the one I saw which is why I was suspicious. This is just one example.

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I am definitely very relieved so thanks again.

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Ah! I have a much smaller and cheaper version that does the same