Neko

Neko is a small freeware application that will put a nice "cartoon" kitten on your desktop. The kitten's name is Neko, just like the program, and he'll be chasing the mouse cursor and walking on the computer screen. Kittens' behaviour is configurable - users can determine how often and when they will make sounds, how fast they will move around the screen and whether they will leave footprints. It's also possible to set up the interaction between Neko and the mouse cursor - a kitten can hunt for the cursor, run away from it, or just wander around the desktop on its own. The program allows you to customize the kitten's size and use libraries of icons in ICL format to change the appearance of this funny creature. With the help of this application you can have not just one but a whole brood of computer kittens living on your desktop. All settings are made in the separate NekoCFG program, and each cat can be set to stay on top of other windows. Neko for Windows was written by David Harvey as a port of Masayuki Koba's original X-Windows program; it was made for Windows 95 and 98 and is no longer developed.

Neko software adds a customizable, interactive, and amusing kitten animation to your desktop environment.