We think cats are strange for not wanting to get into the shower, but here’s one cat who can give you a really good reason to be scared, after watching Alfred Hitchcock’sĀ Psycho. (Yeah, this is probably staged, but who cares?)
A boy’s best friend is his submitter, Elizabeth G. (via BoingBoing)
That’s how I look watching my weight go up!
I love cat eyes. Zero to dilated killer pupils in one nano second. My own cat scares me sometimes.
We all go a little mad sometimes, don’t you think?
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That scene won’t scare anyone out of the shower–but you sure as hell won’t go into the “fruit cellar” ever again!
That is fabulous!
I love this video just for the cat loafing.
Me too! It’s not every day you see a high-speed cat loaf like that.
How wonderfully orchestrated this is- it’s perfect. Adorable pusswam, too.
The whiskers! The whiskers at full attention!
Oh that’s my favorite kitty feature.
Don’t really care what’s going on in this video – just enjoyed it. š Great way to start my evening….
Totally High-larious!
Sumo, I had a dear friend who always said “high-larious” and it made me think of her and miss her. Nice. Thanks.
ps hope it was ok to use the familiar form of your name!?
Call me anything – except late for dinner (breakfast, lunch, snacks, et al).
My dear, sweet Nana said High-Larious. Still miss her and it’s been fifteen years.
I’d love to see this kitty’s reaction while watching Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds”?
Exactly.
This was a wonderful video–beautiful McKittersons, eye dilation, and whisker action. What’s not to love.
I’m glad you mentioned birds because I had a bird encounter today and I can’t wait for the weekend open thread to share! (I was gonna post it anyway but at least you gave me a semi-legitimate place to put it. š )
So I went to the park after work and walked two laps around the animal enclosure (in which there is still at least one little spotted baby Bambi — most of them have lost their spots by now — which made me happy enough, but the birdies!). As I walked around the back side I was gaining on a man and his son (maybe around 10) ahead of me, and I noticed the boy had a white bird riding on his hand. But then I heard some whistling that sounded like it was coming from the dad. As I caught up to them I saw he was holding a stick with two other birds riding on it. So I slowed down and we chatted for a few minutes.
There was a green Amazon parrot, who kept whistling at me when the guy tried to get him to say “hello”; finally after 4 or 5 tries he said it. But, hey, I’ll take a wolf whistle from a parrot, too. š The other one on the stick was a Sun Conure who was such a pretty shade of golden yellow. And the white one with the boy was a Cockatoo (or a Cockatiel? He wasn’t very big) named Frankie. And the guy said Frankie was friendly and told the kid to let him say hi…and he climbed on my hand, stayed there for a few seconds, then walked up my arm to my shoulder. The dad said he’d go for my earbuds, so I pulled them out, and he pulled the bird off my shoulder and put him back on my hand…and he promptly climbed right back up my arm and walked across the back of my neck. Such a cool, weird feeling, little bird feet.
I never held a bird before. I smiled all the way home. š
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On topic: that is one whackadoodle kitty!
What a great experience. My sister in law has a love bird parrot and when I go visit he will perch on my shoulder or my head and walks around. I’m always a little afraid because he sometimes bites, not hard but still.
Guess I’d more more afraid of poop-on-the-head syndrome.
I’ll admit that crossed my mind when he was on my shoulder.
I have a tale to tell about that but maybe on the week-end thread.?
Oh my. Two guys out with three birds. What a wonderful experience.
Very sweet, Allein. Interspecies snorgeling at its best.
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Big white bird, Cockatoo. Tiels are smaller gray birds. They both have that head feather thing that goes up and looks mohawkish.
My googling seems to say ‘tiels can be white, too. He seemed too small to be a ‘too (unless he was just young?). He was white with some pale yellow. Trying to find a link but my Internet is being cranky and it’s past my bedtime. ‘Night, all.
I envy you your experience.!
I’ve just watched this now for the third time because it is so darn cute and now I wish it was on a big screen in 3D. Especially the part near the beginning where Kitty plonks down closer to the camera and the whiskers are totally ready for action. I could be dodging the whiskers!
In my head I like to say Psycho in French: Puh-see-ko.
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I’m not smart enough to get this but if I did, I bet it is funny.
Hahhahhahaaahaahhahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, lolloolollll’s oh my goodness, you are smooth Ms. Richardson. š (And thank you all, for cluing me in.)
PASICKIE!
Thank you! I was looking for that and couldn’t find it!
Omg, so darned cute!!!
Imagine how old that kid is now. Bet he doesn’t know the commentroversy he caused at the old ranch.
Curiosity is getting the better of me as I ponder how this cute video could be the source of controversy?
I believe it had to do with some people’s contention that baby humans did not belong on CO.
You can relive the entire commentroversy, all 763 comments of it, here: http://cuteoverload.com/2008/04/11/pa-sickie/
Frankly, I’d sooner take a shower at Bates Motel than reread that, but there it is for the curious.
I don’t think I’ll go there. However, I have to say that humans are animals, too. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity, Mike.?
People .. It wasn’t Mike .. it was that Other one !!
This one ends up taking the blame .. hehe
That was Meg!
Do you all remember the kitten in the blender commentroversy? That was a lollapalooza! Meg ended up apologizing people were so relentless.
That one was my fault. :/
Oh no! I’m sorry I brought it up. I was astonished at the time at people’s reactions. It was some sort of mass hysteria. This kind of reaction seems to have become quite common on the interwebs
I’m already giggling and I don’t even know the blender commentroversy… and since it was Mike’s fault NOW I need to know! š Please share! š Mind you, if that is preferred water under the bridge, I can try and source it out myself.
I can’t find the photo that I used (but I can find similar photos; apparently, this has been done more than once), but it was a kitten standing in a blender with the blades removed. If my memory is correct, it was in the pool of submitted and found photos that Meg created for the writers to use.
And so I took a shot at it, and I must have sensed that it would be trouble, because my caption was simply “You didn’t see this, it was never here. Move along.”
Needless to say, readers did NOT move along. In spite of the plain lack of danger to the kitten due to the missing blades, readers went nuts and flamed us so strongly that Meg took down the post.
Kitten smoothie?! š I would chug that down unlike FAKE chocolate mint ice cream!
This one?
Not exactly blending into its surroundings. Shhhhh, might whip up controversy.
Now I want a smoothie…no cat hair, though.
Tasty!
OMG the pasickie commentroversy! That was a LONG time ago.
I have never seen a cat go from crouching to loafing that fast. Is that normal?
Normal? What is normal for a cat? Cat normal is something that our poor human brain can not comprehend. ?
It’s normal for most kitties I know. Kitties can seem so lazy you wouldn’t think they could get up and go that fast but yeah. From crouching to loafing to ZOOM! in the blink of an eye. I think cats have got to be the most agile animal on planet earth.
Monkeys in trees are pretty darned agile! Wish I could move around in trees like they do, but it’s been more than 2 million years since I’ve been able to do that.
Ha!
I would be more than happy to hold this kitty safe if they’re scared.