This video was posted three days ago and already has garnered nearly two million views. Such is the power of cat videos, which someone should find a way to harness for good. Anyway, this cat, named Luna and described as a “7-lb. nutball,” is about the most hyperactive kitty I’ve ever seen.
h/t: Su
That is one crazy cat!
Spiffing! Thank you. That cat is clearly auditioning for “monkey”. But think about how we would act if we could so easily get on top of bookcases. You know, the drone perspective. 😸
Re cat videos harnessed for good? Like the Ark of Truth in Stargate? That would be fantastic. 😼 🐈
It’s telling that there are no clips of it outside. It’s behaviour looks stressed in certain parts, which may be the result of it being kept indoors. Cats like to roam and should be given the freedom to do so, especially if it’s a male.
Most cats adjust well to indoors, where it’s appreciably safer and recommended by many experts. There seemed to be plenty of roaming room — and attention — for her purposes and needs.
One of our cats was like this and he was free range. He went on long walks with us and he often went to school to find my sister. She was the last one to leave the house in the morning, and he didn’t want to be alone. She’d look out the window and he’d be playing in the grass while he waited for her to go home for lunch. He had a fantastic personality – we have hours of tales of things he did.
I agree some cats shouldn’t be kept inside, but other cats are just like that, and this may be one of them. I hope he gets outside time, because he seems like a cat who’d love it.
I think it’s possible that he’s feeling a little house-bound. He looks a bit frustrated. Cat wants to go outside and climb trees and chase things. Cat might need walkies.
Cute, but not cute enough to merit millions of views.
I disagree.
OF COURSE it’s cute enough to garner the views! People who freely watched this disagree with you!
Wow! Even crazier than my 4.5 lb Carmen!
Last night I found an earpiece from a cheap pair of reading glasses of mine that broke maybe a year ago right in the middle of my bed. She must have found it under a couch somewhere and carried it up. Nutso Kittycatso.
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Kitty used to attack the door frames like that and meow at them…so weird.
That’s what some people call “a case of the ‘zoomies'”…
Now imagine ‘teh zoomies’ with a domestic/savanna cat hybrid…
Beautiful and amazing cat!.
Just for the heck of it, I priced an F! (first generation hybrid) Savanna: $15,000-$22,000.
I’ll stick with adopting strays, I think, though if I could ever afford such a cat, I would NOT get it spayed. Can you imagine what a neighborhood of F2 strays would look like?
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And sell them of course, but if a young male managed to “sow his seed” in the wild it would still be pretty remarkable to watch how the neighborhood changed.
There goes the native fauna…
Yeah.
The thing about Savanna Cats is that they are chromosome-count compatible with domestic (none of the other “wild” cats of any species are from what I have read) and apparently they will continue to interbreed naturally with domestics starting at F1 (not sure about direct breeding…). I know Wildcats will eat domestics so you need to raise them together to start a breeding program and the traits fall away with later generations because they don’t have the right number of chromosomes.
Savanna Cat hybrids are really a true domestic cat breed that COULD run wild in alleys and probably take over a city in a few generations… bye bye birdies, as you say).
That settles the “cat vs tiger jumping” argument from a few weeks back. 🙂
I used to have a Siamese like this. I’m way too old for such unmitigated dynamism.
I second that emotion. We are very content with our lazy, lazy cats. I fear a 7 lb nut all would be nothing but bored with us.
Not that they aren’t entertaining! Our new rescue is very refined and elegant looking, with sleek, white fur and that jaguar-like prowl; our old 14-pounder moves like he overdid the NyQuil. New kitty looks like a proper lady in her pink collar with matching bell and heart-shaped tag – and then yesterday I found her lapping up the water on the shower floor! The old cat will drink from the toilets if we don’t keep the lids down, but I have to say a shower floor is much grosser than a toilet. Oh well, even princesses and debutantes feel the urge to slum it once in a while.
Must say this cat is not so much different than our Emma was about a year ago. However, you have to get some cat toys and entertainment in there. I saw nothing. The young cat has lots of energy and it’s up to the owner to provide as much as possible. Cat trees, balls cardboard boxes, you name it. In a year or two this will all go away based on every cat we have had.
Get some cat nip – sometimes this helps.
Oh our fancy new cat has a serious ‘nip habit as well.
I watched some episodes of “Cat From Hell” and saw major behavior problems. The usual solution was “more playtime” with strings and feathers.
I lost a lot of respect for the rather cool-looking Cat Whisperer host when I found out he was shilling and selling various bogus Bach Flower Remedies for cats on his website. Bach’s Flower Remedies are a sillier version of homeopathy, which is mind-boggling.
I was thinking the exact same thing when I watched the video. Jackson Galaxy would tell him to play with that kitty with a feathered cat toy until it started to pant lightly and then feed it. It will eat, clean and then go to sleep. Get it into that habit and you will have a much happier cat!
I am bummed out to hear about the woo peddling. I thought he was one of the good guys.
I have a 6 month old siamese who acts like this sometimes.She wants to be near me all the time.Love it most of the time except when she follows me into the bathroom.Cats like to be high up she climbs to the roof almost from book cases. The only reason i can type all this is because she is afraid of the vacuum and is hiding,yes.
Some cats are “tree cats” and some cats are “bush cats”. Tree cats need to be up high, not because they are afraid of anything, but because it makes them comfortable to be able to see their home and what is going on.
Bush cats like to stay low and get under things. They are more comfortable in places people can’t reach, like under the bed.
Sounds like you have a tree cat. Give her easily accessible high spots that are just for her and watch how happy it will make her.
Is it a bird?
Is it a plane?
. . . . . . . NO it’s SuperKitteh 😀
Our cat, Boots, also exhibits the kneading behavior seen at the end of the video. I’d never seen that before. It reminds me of what kittens do when they are nursing. Boots started out doing it to his staff (kitty massage), then also doing it to blankets, etc. He does it less now, and even settled down enough to take a nap on my chest yesterday, about which I have mixed feelings as he weighs about 14 pounds.
Let me just say from experience: A dilute tortie with dilated pupils = recipe for fun.
My brother had a super-energetic cat years ago named Ricochet. Reminded me of Clouseau’s manservant Cato.
Great name Ricochet:-). I’d forgotten about Cato. Time to rewatch some old Clouseaus.
Who put the caffeine in the Whiskas?
That was fun!
Cat Parkour!
Was anyone else actually expecting a picture of a ball made up of seven pounds of nuts that had been adhered together, or just me?