I stole this from P. Z., who undoubtedly has another take on the victor. Sadly, this cat gets a head smack simply for doing what a cat does. The octopus takes the first round, but the cat triumphs. If anybody deserves a smack, it’s the octopus-keeper who let a moggie stick his face in the tub.
Cat vs. cephalopod: cat wins!
July 29, 2013 • 2:04 pm
Ahhhh release the kraken! The cat owner should be fed to the kraken as justice to the cat and octopus alike.
BAD HUMAN! NEVER HIT A CAT!
First, it doesn’t work as discipline; it (correctly) teaches the cat that you’re a dangerous animal to be avoided.
And a human can easily severely injure a cat by hitting it.
…but, on the up side…it almost has me contemplating going to the local Asian supermarket where they have live seafood, getting an octopus, and seeing what Baihu might make of it. The only problem is I don’t care for octopus, so it’d just go to waste, which isn’t cool….
b&
You would do that to arguably one of the most intelligent animals on the planet (and yes, I’m talking about the octopus)?
I wasn’t aware that the small species of octopi that get served up as sushi were especially intelligent.
Or is this just a precursor to a PETA rant?
b&
First, PETA’s shit.
Second, I thought most or all species of octopi (octopods? Octopuses?) were surprisingly intelligent. Am I wrong?
Octopuses or octopodes if you’re fancy.
Yes, Octopus is believed to be highly intelligent! http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6474/ Search for YouTube videos of Octopus intelligence testing – they are quite remarkable problem solvers!
Is this an allegory?
It’s pretty gory for the octopus. And coulda easily gotten gory for both feline and human…so, yeah. All gory.
b&
Ha ha a fable about the Octopus and the Cat. I don’t know if the moral should be from the cat’s point of view or the octopus’s.
The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a pea green sieve, and they dined on sashimi. The sashimi was not pleased with their menu choices, but it ultimately had no say in the matter.
b&
Ha ha or this:
The Cat and the Octopus
One day a cat was walking along and came upon a big bucket of seafood.”Hmmm”, thought the cat, “look at this free seafood. Its just sitting here for the taking”.
The cat swiftly grabbed the seafood, happy in her anticipation of a tasty fishy meal. But, the seafood had a bunch of legs – eight sticky legs! In no time, it attached to the cat’s face!
“What the deuce! I thought this food was going to be easy to eat with the bucket being right there!”. The cat fought the strange eight legged creature but it wouldn’t come off. Finally with a mighty push, the cat extracted the sticky tentacles.
“What an odd creature”, thought the cat. “I should eat its legs first so it doesn’t attach to me again!”.
Just as the cat was going to enjoy the tasty fishy leg! A mean man slapped the cat on the face and took away her food.
It was only at that point that the cat saw the cameras filming her. It all made sense now! The cat had been set up! Indignant, the cat left, plotting revenge for mean men and tentacled seafood alike!
The moral of the story: there is no such thing as free seafood!
…and then the cat goes on to start a revolution, and, along the way, befriends a childish computer who grows increasingly sophisticated, and they gain independence by tossing rocks at the Earth from the Moon, right?
b&
Sushi is a harsh mistress.
In this case, its embrace is quite suffocating indeed….
b&
Wy Knott?
Careful…I do believe she only permits men to use that pun once, if that. More, and things get ugly….
b&
I bet that cat loves sushi. Fresh sushi.
Hitting the cat made this a sad video 🙁
Yeah, in the version in my mind it ends with the cat biting the man right in the achilles tendon which makes him have to carry around an intravenous bag of antibiotics for a few weeks. 🙂 This actually happened to my dad’s friend. His cat bit him (his cat was nuts) and he got an infection that required him to have an IV. He wasn’t mean to his cat though.
Part of that reminds me of John Hurt with the alien hatchling wrapped around his head:
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At the end, the mean man calls the cat his grandson, and says he (the cat) inherited his taste for sushi from him.
Since many Koreans eat live raw octopus
(it’s very macho to grab a whole live otopus with your chopsticks, squeeze it all into your mouth all at at once, and eat it at a mouthful) I bet when everything is ready Gramps and the kitteh will settle down for a live octopus snack together. Kitteh got smacked for jumping the gun. Bad move on both their parts.
I did a search and found a YouTube video entitled Korean Raw Octopus. I ate raw octopus in Japan, but it wasn’t still moving, like the pieces in the video. Nevertheless, I wasn’t too crazy about it, but most cooked octopus is great. A Greek restaurant run by former neighbors of mine serves a delicious grilled octopus appetizer which is very tender. And moggie in a Korean context would, as I recall, be a fly.
The video I mentioned can be found using the search term: watch?v=KYeqEpDHQLk
There seem to be many similar videos.
I feel bad for the octopus.
Hey! “The uploader has not made this video available in [my] country”! K ➜ J サベツかね〜
How about a return match at 10 fathoms?
None of the eating live Octopus sushi jokes are funny. Animal cruelty is never funny.