We have another trifecta for your delectation, though collecting good Caturday material is hard on the road.
First, we have a compilation of cat alarm clocks: the best way to wake up. If you have a cat, you’ve experienced this (Teddy would jump on my chest and stare at me.) Be sure to check out the adorable Bengal kitten at 2o seconds in:
The most frequent technique seems to be a gentle paw on the nose.
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This is like a game of Whack-A-Cat, but thankfully without the whacking. Notice what the cat on the left is doing between 1:22 and 2:00; does anybody understand that behavior?
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Here’s another cat video from Japan with what appears to be a Scottish Fold. The Jack-in-the-Bag behavior at 30 seconds cracks me up:
Why do cats love boxes and bags? My theory (which has surely been suggested by others) is that it gives them a feeling of security, and that suggests that the ancestor of the housecat, Felis silvestris lybica may have lived in dens. That is surely known, but I don’t know the answer. Militating against that theory is that big cats who don’t den (like tigers and lions) seem to like boxes, too.
h/t: Taskin, Richard
My only guess on the strange ‘washing paws’ behavior is that possibly some cardboard got caught under claws and this is the attempt to dislodge it.
The cat doing the hand-dance look like pawing at the nipple at feeding time……or is it Falun Gong?
My two just tore back and forth across the bed ( and me) about ten times this morning.
The kitteh on the left in the box is praying to Ceiling Cat.
The kitteh in the bag is the cuttest jack-in-the-box ever; which is better than regular jack-in-the-boxes which are just terrifying.
I think it’s called davening.
Praying.
See, even cats believe in God. He must exist!
Cat alarm clocks are good but I wish you could set the time. Mine usually go off at least an hour early…
Seems that three cats might be optimal for that many boxes. When there were five or six in there things looked pretty tense!
That audio in the first video replaces It’s a Small World as what I assume will be the soundtrack of Hell.
My old bf got stuck in that ride at Dusneyworld for about two hours with his young kids..
That ride feels like 2-hours anyway. His 2-hours must have felt like 8!
The “It’s a Small World” ride at Disney World/Disneyland must get stuck on a semi-regular basis, because iirc both Ben Goren and I have also gotten stuck on that ride (at different times, of course — though now I have an image of the two of us bickering over free will incompatibility or the definition of supernatural while “It’s a Small, Small, Small World After All” loops on endlessly in the background and cute animatronic robots dance and twirl. That would be awesome!)
Ayup. I’ve heard of enough people who’ve gotten stuck on the ride that I think it’s likely the normal mode of operation — perhaps even programmed into it by now.
I would normally suggest that the chances of voluntarily getting me anywhere near there are on a par with Al Baghdadi being “discovered” as the latest incarnation of the Dalai Lama…
…but I’d actually cheerfully perform the experiment with somebody like you. The surreal incongruity of having an insightful discussion on the nature of reality whilst stranded in the heart of Disneyland…well, it’d be something to experience, that’s for sure!
b&
Maybe this is at last the true definition of hell: stuck with It’s a Small World playing ad nauseum PLUS added feature/bug Ben and Sastra arguing/discussing free will in the next car over;-)
Rofl!
[big] Granted a small (box) sampling, but the percentage of religious fanatics in this cat population appears to coincide with the percentage of religious fanatics in the human population. [grin!]
all of our cats do the “praying” thing with their paws. It seems to be a request for attention, at least in our case. One of the cats accompanies the motion with a long drawn out meow.
we also had a tabby that figured out either religion or the idea of trade. He would put his toys in his food bowl when it was empty.
My kitty does the praying thing regularly – in her sleep even.
Cats hide in boxes because they are ambush predators. I have yet to witness a cat jump into a bag that doesn’t strike at every target that comes near enough to be detected.
This is my theory also – small logs, hidey holes, all would provide a good place from which to surprise attack!
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My alarm clock is a pairing of horizontal aluminum blinds and Buddy the cat. When Buddy wants a night-time snack, he comes into our bedroom, jumps onto a low chest of drawers, and paws at the blinds until I get up and feed him. A seemingly obvious solution is to close the bedroom door. If I do that, he just puts a paw under it and rattles it. The result is the same. I get up and do his bidding.
My cat bangs on the bedroom door. She’s been doing that since she was a tiny kitten and I have never been able to figure out how such a little thing can make that much noise.
Taylor Swift has a Cat Alarm Clock, too.
https://instagram.com/p/15yNEMDvF5/?taken-by=taylorswift
taylor Swift has a Cat Alarm Clock, too!
https://instagram.com/p/15yNEMDvF5/?taken-by=taylorswift
It’s a lot funnier when it happens to other people…our Siameezles alarm clock and our Gray Cat alarm clocks both went off at 2:30 and again at 4:30 (the normal time). Gray Cat knows how to sit on the clock radio, turn it on, and turn it up!
It looked and sounded to me like the cat on the left was conducting the soundtrack!
Babies are soothed by being swaddled I think for the same reason. They just came from a place that was very close, dark,and warm.
Cat to king’s bishop 6 – check!
I think the cat on the left is playing with a little tiny yo-yo. 🙂
I’ve found that the best —
— er, no; scratch that.
I’ve found that the least-worst way to set a feline alarm clock is with lots of vigorous play right before bedtime. And the cat’s dinner (or dessert) should be served about the same time, too.
b&
“Why do cats love boxes and bags?”
I suspect that boxes and bags engage many of the somatosensory abilities that cats have, with all the vibrissae they possess. In addition to the usual whiskers on the maxillary pads that other carnivores possess, cats have long vibrissae on their eyebrows (as well as other places on the face that I’m not remembering). Their stereognosis capabilities in tunnels, holes, boxes, bags, etc. must rival those of mice and rats, in which the somatosensory pathways and brain “maps” have been studied extensively. The more vibrissae that are in contact with a surface, object, etc., the more a cat knows about its surroundings, without having to turn its head, move its ears, or sniff to bring in more olfactory information.