Posted on 03/09/2015 1:44:39 PM PDT by C19fan
If you like the idea of having a conversation with your pet cat then you better look away now. Flam, a cat in Nashville, Tennessee, may well be the first of its kind to have had a conversation with a human being. But sadly, as documented on video, the little chat didn't go down that well with the feline.
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Poor kitty!
If any of my kids (or now grand-kids) ever smacked at a cat like the brat in that video, I’d knock him off the bed, myself, a second time!
As for the “translator” - yeah that sounded like a cat in distress and/or challenging to a fight ... that was not a happy cat sound at all!
I listened...
Was the women trying to tell her kitty she’s in heat?
Or did she program it to sing some Yoko Ono?
I found a bobcat squall on the computer and when I played it my cat really came alive, like “What in the heck was that!”
The woman had some poor cat held in thin box in her hand. I could hear the cat!!!
I like birdwatching, and I frequently use a site sponsored by Cornell University. The site is great because, in addition to text descriptions and photos for each bird, there are recordings of each bird’s song/voice. Sometimes, there is more than one recording per bird.
One day I looked up a particular bird, and found, among its voice recordings, a recording of an injured, captive individual of that species. As I played that recording, both my dog and my cat quickly strode into the room and began looking around with hunger in their eyes.
Time to kill that cat. No way, no how, under any set of circumstances is a “domesticated” animal to treat a child like that. Time to kill that cat.
I was thinking the same thing when I first looked at the video, but it looks like the child was crying before he belted the cat, so I am thinking that the cat started it and the kid was retaliating.
Our dog does not seem to respond to dog barks on TV, but he was lying on the floor in front of one of the speakers while we were watching a wildlife show one evening. When a bobcat’s growls came out of the speaker, the dog got up very quickly and came over to lie down close to where my husband and I were sitting.
...I am thinking that the cat started it and the kid was retaliating.
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The person I’m really annoyed with in that video is the idiot holding the camera. Why isn’t the adult breaking up that nonsense between the kid and cat, before the kid learns it’s okay to belt pets, and the cat learns it’s okay to attack humans? Sheesh!!
You can see the cat whipping his tail before he nails the kid...ignore the warnings; pay the piper. Maybe the kid will learn not to hit cats or other pets.
It doesn’t even look like the kid connects. The cat just dodges the swipe and counter-attacks. Welcome to the real world, kid.
Agreed! Stop taking video and break it up, I guess they thought it was “funny”.
Even if the kid was crying because of something the cat did first, it should not have been allowed to escalate. We currently have 2 cats and a toddler in our home and as soon as he starts “loving” on them too roughly or getting in their faces, we separate them if the kitties do not remove themselves (which they almost always do) — and the cats are very, very tolerant towards him — much more so then they would be with an older child or adult. Said toddler has never been scratched or even hissed at ... because we keep an eye out instead of taking a video!
Agreed.
YouTube posting have really underscored the fact that there are a lot of idiot parents out there.
FURIOUS.CAT.
No animal would go after my child like that.
Yup. Mine came running into the room while that audio is playing and started looking around for the other cat.
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