On T.J. Browne’s Facebook page via Neatorama, there’s this video of him trying to feed his cats while—celebrating National Cat Day—he’s wearing a giant cat head. The moggies don’t like it at all!
h/t: T. Fife
Man tries to feed cats wearing a giant cat head
November 10, 2015 • 1:30 pm
There goes 8 of 9 lives.
I’ll have what he’s been smoking.
I’m thinking his moggies are plotting revenge.
I was just wondering the other day how a cat would react to a scary mask on a human. Thanks for answering that question.
I’m sorry, but I’m just having a flash-back to some silly, silly film I saw decades ago – some slapstick comedy – with a man wandering around in a “fish suit”. I have a feeling I may have seen that suit in several films – a stock costume.
Mr Cat-Head should try feeding the moggies wile wearing a fish head. That should be worth a watch. To take his pulse with after the cats have finished.
Doesn’t he know that’s cultural appropriation, and NOT ACCEPTABLE.
exactly!
I wonder if they would have reacted like that if it was a non-cat kind of mask. Maybe a Big Bird costume or something.
The cats would immediately think their prey had taken revenge upon them!
I’d be interested in how they’d react if confronted with a person wearing a giant human head.
Very interesting. Our current feline overlord, Coco Chanel, freaks out whenever she sees one of her stuff with something out of the ordinary on or about their head. A mask, a shirt, a hat, a helmet, a hair piece, hell, just a new hair-do. We have had fun with this many times.
We have had many cats in our lives, but we never noticed this kind of phobia in any of them.
After much time and coaxing, Coco has now come to accept me in riding gear, including helmet, and will even allow me to pick her up when so outfitted. Luckily for me the gear is pretty good proof against scratches too. The learning process was often very dangerous, as she is a serious badass. The people at her vet call her Tiger.
One of her staff, not stuff. Stupid fingers. Never do what I tell them to.
Ooh I read ‘one of her stuff’ as another cat, which made what follows perplexing. We used to have a very large tabby/Siamese mix called Rimau (from Malay hirimau meaning a tiger) my partner’s father (from Malaysia) warily asked ‘are you sure that’s a cat?’
All it takes is one cat to bolt and the rest shoot off like rockets, too! Funny stuff.
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Why are all the cats in a crib?
And, why is it funny to scare hell out of your cats.
I think of it more as an experiment–to see what cats would do when confronted with their human wearing a giant cat head. I have to say that I’d try this once, but once only.
Fear is a useful response – it keeps things alive!
That reminded me of the time a friend demonstrated his bagpipe playing skills to us in the vicinity of a sleeping cat. The bagpipes are surprisingly loud up close and I have never seen a cat accelerate so fast.
Bagpipes do sound like a cat being tortured.
I’ve seen cats react with both fright and aggression when I was just wearing one of those “sexy cat ears” halloween headbands.
I think it’s the ears alone that scare them. The cats would react only when I was backlit such that the ears would stand out more.
What the cat thinks: “Something’s different! Different is not good! Run and scratch, run and scratch!”
Well, I guess that definitively answers the question of whether cats are primarily vision or sound/smell predators (if we needed an answer, which we probably didn’t). If it smells like a human and talks like a human but looks like big-a** cat, its a big-a** cat.
One Halloween I put on whiteface and a black cloak to go out. I didn’t intend to scare the cat but the moment he saw me, he freaked out and ran. Until that moment I thought cats didn’t recognize human faces.
When I was a kid, we had a dog who would bark at us when we put on Hallowe’en costumes.