First, a very, very bad kitty! (But sometimes he’s a good kitty..) Perhaps he hates the vact that he’s named “Boobies.”
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Here’s a story that made the rounds a few weeks ago.
Click on the screenshot below to see Polish mountaineers scaling the country’s highest peak, only to find a cat near the top:
A tweet taken by Wojciech Jabezynski and the “ginger legend”:
that ginger legend 😍🐈🐱🐈 told you so @lesliebialler @Rubicon1313 @lauraboerman @ButtersKatz one day they will rule the world 🌎 hopefully 🐱🐈 pic.twitter.com/CPPO7gkRyg
— Sara✌️💙🍉🍉🍉🍉 (@SARA2001NOOR) April 5, 2024
But what happened to the moggy? No worries: all went well. The Daily Mail has an article; click on it to read:
From the article:
A Polish mountaineer who scaled his country’s highest peak was astonished to find a tabby cat had beaten him to it.
Wojciech Jabczynski could not believe his eyes when he saw the ginger tabby cat nonchalantly licking its paws on the summit of Rysy.
He filmed the animal with his smartphone at the mountain’s north-western peak which is 2,499 metres (8,199 feet) high.
Here’s Mount Rysy from Wikipedia; it actually has three summits and lies on the border between Poland and Slovakia
Here, from Unofficial Networks, is where the cat was found:
The footage shows the cat looking relaxed at the high altitude but unimpressed with the view as it sits on a rock overlooking a valley.
Mr Jabczynski said the cat did not appear to be afraid and readily approached him when he got out his lunch.
Here’s a selfie taken by Jabczynski:
It is not clear how the cat came to be at the top of the mountain although Mr Jabczynski has his own theory.
‘In my opinion, he came from a small hut for tourists under the Rysy peak on the Slovakian side of the mountain but this is just a hypothesis,’ he said.
The climber later shared his video and several photographs of the cat on social media.
One online commentator said it must have been a ‘snow leopard’, while another said it had the ‘soul of a chamois (mountain goat)’
But one more sober internet user added: ‘Death in these mountains awaits him, unfortunately. It would be nice if someone showed some empathy and common sense and tried to take the cat to shelter.’
I remember reading that the cat was taken down in a climber’s backpack and adopted by someone in a nearby village, but now I can find no indication of that on the Internet. If a reader finds any indication of the cat’s fate, please put it below.
Rysy is a mountain with three summits in the High Tatra Mountains on the border between Poland and Slovakia.
The north-western summit is Poland’s highest peak while the other two lie on the Slovak side of the border.
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From Bored Panda, a goofy looking Russian cat named Fedja, which everyone loves. Click below to read, and I’ve illustrated the story with photos from Fedja’s Instagram page:
A few years back, we shared Fedya’s story on Bored Panda, and today, we would like to update you on his growing popularity.
Four-year-old Fedya, a gray cat, was rescued by Natalya. Since he was a very sick kitten, Natalya took him in to nurse him into the healthy and happy cat he is today. However, one thing did stand out from other cats – it’s Fedya’s face. You might say his facial expression gives him a permanently surprised look due to his unusual eye placement. Fortunately, that doesn’t negatively affect Fedya’s life; in fact, on the contrary, his unusual looks have gained him an astounding amount of 369K followers on Instagram.
So, without further ado, we invite you to read the story below and get to know Fedya – the cutest scaredy-cat on the internet – better.
Bored Panda once again reached out to Natalya, who told more about the challenges Fedya faced in the early days.
“In the first days, Fedya was very weak. He couldn’t find his mother on his own to suckle and eat. We fed him goat’s milk from a pipette. When he was one month old, he immediately understood the purpose of the litter box and went to the toilet not by the shortest route, but along the perimeter of the room, along the walls, turning at the corners. Perhaps the walls helped him orient himself in space. As Fedya grew up, he started trying to jump onto the windowsill to get out onto the street. But he couldn’t do it. He trained for almost a year before he could. He doesn’t know how to climb trees. For a long time, about a year, he couldn’t jump onto the bed – he climbed, digging his claws into the blanket.”
Fedya as a kitten:
Luckily, his current owner, Natalya, took Fedya in and nursed him back to health:
She also, via social media, made Fedja go viral:
We asked Natalya to share the moment when she realized that Fedya was getting famous.
“I realized that Fedya became an internet sensation when we gained thousands of subscribers in a few days and journalists from different countries started writing to us. And then our local journalists found out about us and started calling. It was amazing to me. I didn’t consider Fedya an exclusive cat; to me, he was just an ordinary cat, a bit strange and funny. As an introvert, I found popularity difficult to handle, but I was very pleased that my cat brought so much joy to people around the world.
Natalya also shared what it’s like to manage Fedya’s social media accounts.
“Managing a cat account is both easy and difficult at the same time. You can simply show Fedya’s life and his friends, and its endless content. But it can become boring for subscribers, so I try to make humorous videos. That’s how our activity started. If there’s any idea and I need to shoot a fictional story about cats, it’s difficult because cats see the situation very differently from me. However, they can transform any of my ideas even better than I imagined. So it often turns out to be fun because Fyodor’s facial expression always saves the situation.”
Two more photos/videos:
. . . and a funny one:
If you speak Russian, you can try ordering Fedja merchandise here.
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Lagniappe: A cat with a GoPro-like camera on its collar chases another one! A scuffle ensues and the miscreant appears to escape. What impresses me about this is how well the cat with the camera tracks the other one.
This cat chase POV is better than watching COPS pic.twitter.com/mC3pQknwvO
— vids that go hard (@vidsthatgohard) April 26, 2024
h/t: Brooke
That cat chase video is amazing! It’s interesting how long the chaser’s attention span is. I think of most cat altercations as lasting a few seconds at most. This cat is a monster!
And, Fedya is one weird-looking cat!
Finally, regarding Boobies. It looks to me as though his caretaker got this all started by the way she handles him. She seems to be oblivious to the signs of irritation the cat makes. Do that enough, and the cat becomes a preemptive biter.
Fedya looks like a Kliban cat.
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Sometimes the behaviour of cats and dogs like Boobie results from having been raised without a mother to teach them proper manners.
That, and having no siblings to rough house with to learn that being on the receiving end of those claws and teeth can hurt.
“Boobies'” (hate the name) mom apparently does not know how to deal with cats, starting by playing with him with her hands when he was a kitten. Perhaps she does not play with him enough–using wand toys, for example? or other interactive toys. At least she doesn’t seem to swat him. My motto is that hands are for stroking and loving, and wand toys (or others) are for playing because cats naturally want to chase, catch, and chew on things.
Welcome back Caturday! I’ve missed it while you were away and/or ill.
That cat chase was very long (and fast.) Kitteh was breathing hard near the end.
Hope no serious injuries ensued.