There are too many cat things to post today, so I’ll save some for the future. (I should add that I have seven hundred draft posts that will probably never see the light of day).
This is an excellent video, for the cat clearly loves being slid along the floor: it keeps coming back for more. Do any readers’ cats do this kind of thing?
Reader pyers sent this video of a dog trying to get its bed back from a cat. He added, “I have to say that the look of complete disdain on the cat’s face is wonderful! (Yes I know it is anthropomorphic but you can’t help it!)
There’s another video in which the dog manages to get its bed back, but I won’t show that one.
Finally, here’s a video from 2009 of a persistent black kitten climbing all over a cop who’s ticketing a car. The YouTube notes give a few more details:
Watch as a patient police officer in Texas puts up with a friendly black cat clinging to him during a recent traffic stop. The ways of the affectionate feline were captured by the patrol car’s dashcam.
I must say that the cop is clearly no lover of cats.
As lagniappe, I urge ailurophiles with an artistic bent to read yesterday’s article in the New York Times about the new art exhibit, “Life of Cats: Selections from the Hiraki Ukiyo-e collection” that just opened at the Japan Society in New York City. The review is positive, so if you’re in the Big Apple you may want to stop by. There’s also a nice slideshow of Japanese cat prints, and I’ll reproduce a few of the prints, and you can see the slideshow for dates, artists, and titles. The first picture, made between 1920 and 1930, is very beautiful:
H/t: Pyers, Taskin
😄 The temptation to ‘roll a strike’ at the other cat must have been tremendous.
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Looks like some car is in danger of getting a ticket – send in the cats!
There could be a whole game of cat curling!
might be more interesting than regular curling;-) (but only if the kittehs were consenting…)
The extra challenge would be the “rocks” would move or even wander off altogether.
most likely the latter – LOL
My mother had a part-ragdoll cat, which sadly went missing before his first birthday. I never used him for curling, but he was very passive, as I think is typical for the breed. You could pick him up and lay him on his back on your palms, fully stretched out, and he’d lay there like that as long as you cared to let him. Most cats, I think, would get pretty pissed off if you tried to that with them! If you like chilled-out but still playful cats, get a ragdoll.
My cat used to love me to swing her like a pendulum. She never got tired of it.
Personally, I thought the cop was trying very hard not to laugh at a couple of points. I love cats and I would have been (heck, I have been)aggravated trying to get something like that done with 20 little claws digging into me.
It looked to me like the cop deliberately turned to the camera a few times in order to show what was going on. I also thought he thought it was funny and imagined his fellow officers laughing at the video. He must have loved kittens enough to let it claw its way over his head.
One of my first attempts at plein air watercolor was seating myself down on the grass at a friend’s farm and painting the fields. About half an hour in I was invaded by an unexpected litter of playful kittens. They danced over the canvas, the paints, and me. I can still see a blot of Prussian Blue in the painting that might be a flower, but is actually a paw print.
Agreed. People who dislike cats would have allowed none of that.
If I was a caop, this would have made my day.
18 little claws, unless the cat was polydactyl.
I used to have a kitten who loved being thrown from my bed into the middle of a bean bag. Can’t remember how it started, but I knew he wanted that game by the particular way he grabbed my hand. I’d throw him into the bag, and he’d make his way back to me as fast as he could to be thrown again, over and over again. Once it was 15 minutes before he got sick of it and I was allowed to go back to reading my book in peace.
That kitten is lucky he didn’t get shot!
That white cat is better than any roomba!
Still my favourite Japanese cat print Turned into a little anime and NSFW)
http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2013/10/02/shunga-sex-and-pleasure-in-japanese-art-at-the-british-museum/
Hope the cat had his claws retracted…
My cat liked to be spun the way the man in the video does preparatory to the curling. She would let me spin her around and around, then get up and stagger around a bit and then come back for more.
Would it be too decadent to go to New York just to see these prints?