I had a really cool ad for the Oxygen network on tap this week, showing a cat trying to act like a dog, but it seems to have disappeared. (It was here but now is not available. If any reader can find it, please post the URL.)
UPDATE: Alert reader Michael Fuhr (first comment below) has found the Oxygen video, so I’ll put it up here. (Note that at the beginning, before it transmogrifies into a dog, the cat is dolorous, like Henri. They even play the melancholy “Gymnopédie” behind his words!) Let me add that I see this video as deeply misguided. . .
As a last-minute substitute, I’m posting two videos of athletic cats. The first is supposed to be a “Top 10 Spiderman Cats” but there are only 9 and the last clip appears to be the same as the first. (I’ve posted one or two of these cats before.) Regardless, it shows that human technical free climbers have nothing on the moggies. For what are crampons but artificial claws?
Note: some of my ailurophile friends tell me that it’s not good to use laser pointers with cats because the cats don’t ever get the satisfaction of catching the dot.
And, as a special treat, here’s a link to a video (I can’t embed it) of a spectacular cat long jump fail. Poor kitteh’s ambitious and well-contemplated leap isn’t noticed until he messes up. A screenshot:
h/t: Jeffrey
I found a copy of the O2 ad here:
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/07/05/ad-day-o2-be-more-dog
If that disappears then googling for “Be More Dog O2” might find others.
Brilliant! I suspect our host may disagree though.
That was hilarious. It’s also mildly creepy in a Body Snatchers way when you see the cat running with a dog body.
Definitely a bit of the uncanny valley there…body of a cat, moves like a d*g.
Thing is, they could have gotten a cat to do most of that stuff…but maybe they were intentionally going for the weird factor….
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As expected, and didn’t take long to find, either, somebody painted a c_t in place of a dog. (You should be able to guess what’s coming.)
I’m not sure it’s a fail. Perhaps the cat wanted the thing from the top of the cupboard.
hahaha Paul you’re actually exactly right 😉 that’s my kitty and that’s where i (used to) hide his toys.
Cats wants to be on cupboards just to show “their superiority” to their owners – I mean their employees, us. They like to look at us from above.
I clicked the screen shot, hoping it would play and now I know exactly how cats feels about the laser pointer! 🙂
“it’s not good to use laser pointers with cats because the cats don’t ever get the satisfaction of catching the dot”
Similarly it’s not good to use religion because the believers don’t ever get the satisfaction of catching the god.
Aquacat:
I’m guessing the people making videos of cats climbing interior walls are renters, not homeowners.
This has always been one of my favorites – improved by the soundtrack, I think.
Cat climbing in slow motion.
http://rt.com/usa/texas-troopers-cavity-search-709/
Um…I do believe — or, at least, hope — that you pasted the worng link….
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