It’s Felid Friday (just a one-off), and here, courtesy of Matthew Cobb, is Bobo:
Bobo and his pal Nikita have a Facebook page.
If only all cats were like Bobo. . .
October 3, 2014 • 7:41 am
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He doesn’t even mind it when the vacuum suction pulls his skin!
Different poses, different attachments. Dyson should make Bobo their spokescat.
Great video, but it has an annoying hum.
My (ex)sister-in-law used to vacuum her cat all over and the cat loved it. On the other hand, it was a white long-haired cat. (Somehow, until then, I didn’t know that a lot of white cats are deaf.)
Pardon?
Here is a cat who could give Bobo a run for his money.
A fitting name for this laid-back but stolid cat:
“The word bobo, Brooks’ most famously coined term, is an abbreviated form of the words bourgeois and bohemian, suggesting a fusion of two distinct social classes (the counter-cultural, hedonistic and artistic bohemian, and the white collar, capitalist bourgeois)”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobos_in_Paradise
They’re obviously using a vacuum with “a proper amount of suction”. (say the quoted part with a posh British accent please)
Our family cat was like that, Señorita Cacahuete. Vacuum friendly cats are awesome and I suspect rare.
That’s too funny.
Somehow, I don’t think Baihu would go for that….
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Cool. My labrador retrievers would let me vacuum their fur like that. I think it felt a little like a massage.
My new kitten, Knope, hates even the small hand vac I sometimes use. If the large vacuum cleaner comes out, she is immediately behind the couch.
Love this cat!
I recently cat sat, and I would take a jagged-edge coaster made out of cork and stroke the cat’s belly in a downward motion with the rounded (jagged) edge of the coaster. Same response: front legs up in the air, reacting blissfully.
Certain death would await any who tried this with any of my critters.
My cousin had a cat who loved the dustbuster, but that’s the only cat I personally know of who would tolerate anythnig like this. For every other cat I’ve known, the cat would basically run from the room before you’d ever get near it.
I don’t think its the sensation that most of them dislike, so much as the noise. Come up with a silent one, and I bet lots of cats would like it.
Agreed!
My Shaq would tolerate it but my aunt’s old cat loved to have its tail go up the hose!
Current cat Freddie disappears like a shot as soon as he hears the vacuum brought out of the laundry room.
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Can’t believe how he lets his paws be done, especially the back ones!!
I’ve known two cats that loved to be vacuumed like this. One, my mother’s cat Mr. Tibbs, was an all white deaf cat. The other, my cat Ender, was an ruddy Abyssinian with perfectly good hearing.
I wish I could do that. My cats run away when they see the vacuum!