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Mon Mar-09-09 11:19 PM
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This has got to be the BEST cat video EVER!!! |
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Mon Mar-09-09 11:21 PM
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1. poor scary kitty. This is the best cat video ever. |
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Tue Mar-10-09 07:17 PM
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26. zOMG, it's the Al Bundy of the cat world. |
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Tue Mar-10-09 07:20 PM
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27. it is my favorite cat vid of all time. |
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i still crack up every time i see it.
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Mon Mar-09-09 11:21 PM
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:(
I wonder what he/she's gone through to get her that traumatized. :cry:
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Mon Mar-09-09 11:32 PM
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How abused that cat must have been.
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Tue Mar-10-09 11:27 AM
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We had a few kitties react that way to us in one of the shelters I worked at. When they do that, its a pretty good sign that your gonna have to sedate, fix the bits that need fixing, and pass them on to someone with a farm or some such where they can stay far away from the people and live on their own terms.
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Mon Mar-09-09 11:32 PM
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I hope that no one deliberately scared him so badly.
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Mon Mar-09-09 11:33 PM
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5. someone thought that was FUNNY??? |
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Tue Mar-10-09 07:06 AM
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Edited on Tue Mar-10-09 07:09 AM by Maeryanne
I knew I would not like it before viewing it, yet I had to be certain! D'oh!
Any animal that is clearly distressed, hurting, unwell {some pictures of "shaved pussies" from this site quickly come back hauntingly to mind :( } just does not make for humour. Yes, we may laugh at the antics of postanaesthesia {I was a child :) } but to then go and submit those images for some kind of online kudos is just plain evile! Tell me, those felines were NOT happy were they? I can still see their sad faces ... :(
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Tue Mar-10-09 12:20 PM
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22. Thanks for the warning |
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I suspected as much...I won't watch it
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Tue Mar-10-09 12:27 PM
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23. You shouldn't. It was heartbreakingly sad. And it certainly was not funny. |
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Tue Mar-10-09 07:20 PM
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28. You are absolutely right, Maeryanne. |
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No matter what the cause of it, an animal in distress in not funny in the least.
Welcome to DU. :hi:
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Mon Mar-09-09 11:33 PM
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6. No, that one has made the rounds before, and that cat is clearly hurting. I think it's sad. |
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Tue Mar-10-09 06:41 AM
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7. SOMEBODY got their but tutched! |
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Tue Mar-10-09 07:04 AM
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8. That has been posted here before. |
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I don't mean to be rude about it, but it's not funny.
That poor cat has been abused. No normal kitten would get that hostile over human interaction. Trying to be fed, watered, or whatever.
It makes me sad. Not laughing here. :-(
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Tue Mar-10-09 07:18 AM
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10. Who put soiled litter in your Cheerios? That cat could also |
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just be feral, which would also explain its wild behavior.
So let's not jump to conclusions and rain on the kitteh parade... :-)
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Tue Mar-10-09 07:22 AM
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11. I agree some feral cats are incredibly hostile to people---- |
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My cats WERE feral and when found there was a third cat that I did NOT adopt because he WAS hostile towards people....Also some cats are just grumpy like people. My sister had a cat that well...even though had a nice life was scary mean to outsiders, even people like me who came over on a regular basis...Cats don't have to be abused to have bad tempers, just like people..
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Tue Mar-10-09 07:32 AM
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13. I have a "snarly butt". He's always been afraid of every little change and new person. |
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He was feral. After all these years, he's never felt that hostile or afraid.
He just goes and hides in the basement, LOL!
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Tue Mar-10-09 07:40 AM
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14. I have to tell you... |
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That cat reminded me of my sisters mean cat at the vet...The vet had blood on her chart from this cat..who was not feral, just ummm tempermental.....
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Tue Mar-10-09 07:24 AM
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12. Someone pissed in my Wheaties. |
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Glad you found it amusing. I'll bow out.
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Tue Mar-10-09 08:41 AM
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15. Don't get me wrong-- I find NOTHING funny about animal abuse. |
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In fact, IIRC, abusing animals is a red flag of sociopathy.
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Tue Mar-10-09 08:57 AM
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18. Yup, it sure is. And laughing about an animal that is clearly in distress does not amuse me. |
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Tue Mar-10-09 12:46 PM
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24. Please take a deep breath |
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It's clear that the cat is in a good place even it it's not happy. I've seen Evita hiss like that, probably because she's a feral cat who doesn't want to ever leave my house again but doesn't like to be touched either.
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Tue Mar-10-09 08:54 AM
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17. I have to agree with you - I've worked with TNR groups for cats here in Delaware |
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and the ferals can act just as nasty. Unfortunately all we can do is just neuter them and return them to where we found them.
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Tue Mar-10-09 09:20 AM
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19. It's still not funny, even if that is true. (Which is questionable) And that is how you posed this. |
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Tue Mar-10-09 07:11 PM
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that there are folks with functioning Hearts at DU! O8) Seems there a few more at YouTube as well :)
Then, I got to thinking, that perhaps WE were being played, and as much a part of that cat's pain in a way. Like how the firestarter may be amongst the stunned crowd, admiring their handiwork, and all the while they are privately gloating at the scale of their very public destruction.
Some of the comments here seem to support my musings, that this video has been circulated previously ...
Still, I agree that cruelty to animals, and exploitation of any kind is not cool, funny, remotely clever or even vaguely socially acceptable.
:popcorn:
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Tue Mar-10-09 07:57 PM
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30. Welcome to DU, Maeryanne! |
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Thank you for you very kind comments!
I understand and appreciate your point of view. But I don't think the original poster (OP) was trying to play us like that. She's a long term member with good credentials, and I happen to know she is a kitty lover too.
She and others thought it was funny. I did not think it was funny. I've seen that video before, and the longer version. To me, it stinks to high hell of an abused animal. That does not amuse me or make me laugh. I may seem too high strung or anal about it to some, but that is how I feel and I won't apologize for it.
Per usual on DU, sometimes reasonable people can disagree. This is a good example; some thought it was funny, and others were offended. That's the way it is here. We just have to accept that.
I hope you stick around, and enjoy your stay here.
:hi:
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Tue Mar-10-09 09:35 PM
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for the heads up! No sense "putting out fires with gasoline! ... " {Hmmm, seems I have a theme! ;) } AND, as a newbie, I do not intend to offend {rhyming crimes, now as well! ;) } :silly: :+ :toast:
Perhaps my circumspection was not ;) and my target is really the individual/s who put together such media.
Thanks for your Welcome, also! :hi:
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Tue Mar-10-09 07:40 PM
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29. We had a cat for 3 yrs and one day she began to behave that way. |
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She was a sweet loving cat until she fell from a window sill after another cat came up outside and looked at her. The sill was but 18" off the floor. That began a 3 month horror from hell with her screaming and shrieking like that cat in the video.
She had hip spurs and the fall caused her extreme pain. Even after surgery, her pain didn't cease and each time she'd use the litter box she'd scream like that, or sometimes if she had to go, she'd crawl under my daughter's bed and look exactly like that cat shrieking and screaming.
RIP Sammy
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Tue Mar-10-09 08:47 AM
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16. that kitty needs some good strong Nip |
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Tue Mar-10-09 09:59 AM
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20. Feliway at the very least |
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and getting the camera out of his face would only be courteous.
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