Posted on 06/22/2015 2:53:54 PM PDT by Swordmaker
I couldn’t believe it when I found it. Fit purrrfectly here, didn’t it, since it combined the Twilight Zone thing with the cat on a wing thing. “wing thing”? As a kid I used to love those with a glass of milk!
It looks like a Tuxedo kitteh. I’ve got one that can open doors so we had to change all the doorknobs; they seem to be very smart and bratty.
FaceBook related shows that counting all the related websites showing this YouTube video of the stowaway cat on the ultralight it has garnered over 50,000,000 hits! National Geographic alone has had 36 million!
WOW!
Funny!! “I just saw all nine lives flash before my eyes!”
My girlfriend and I have an adopted Flame Point Mitted Ragdoll cat. We adopted her from a no-kill cat shelter than has six cat rooms. Every night they would do a cat census in each room. . . but the next morning there would inevitably be one room missing a cat and another room with a surplus cat. Each room was closed off from a common hallway with a glass storm door. Every day, this happened., no matter how carefully they counted the night before, the next morning the count in each of the rooms would be down one cat and plus one cat. They could not figure it out.
After several months of this, a shelter board member donated a video security system and had cameras placed in all six cat rooms of the shelter. . . and they got the answer. One cat could climb up, wedging her self against the door jamb, and open the door, escape through the door, then the cat would then go to another room, climb up to the door handle and open that room and go in. Throughout the night the cat roamed as it pleased through the shelter until about a half-hour before the arrival of the first staff member and then it'd stay in whatever room she was in. The cat was a female Flame Point Mitted Rag Doll which they then nicknamed "Houdini!"
They had to buy new locks for the cat room doors that had locks on them. . . LOL!
When we had to put down my girlfriend's previous cat due to FIV, we went to the shelter to adopt a new cat and we selected that cat. . . and they were over joyed that we picked Houdini.
When we got her home, she was quite satisfied, but suddenly my girlfriend started accusing me of leaving the toilet seat up. . . something I am very careful about NOT doing. I would swear I had not left it up. . . and she'd say it was up. Then it was up when I had not used the bathroom. She put it down. Later, while she was doing her hair, the cat came in, opened the toilet, got on the rim, and got a drink! She put her paw under the seat, pushed it up until she could get her head under it, then she'd push it all the way up.
Turns out she wants reasonably fresh or flowing water for her drinking. . . so we got her a cat fountain. No more toilet seat shenanigans.
Turns out she is also an alarm cat. If you don't wake up on her schedule, she WILL wake you up. . . usually by the CATastrophe method of knocking something very noisy off of the dresser, counter, or the wall, or if we had cat-proofed the room, merely loudly wailing until she got the attention she wanted! It took us a while to teach her that 5:00 AM was NOT an appropriate cat time to wake us up.
After several months of this, a shelter board member donated a video security system and had cameras placed in all six cat rooms of the shelter. . . and they got the answer. One cat could climb up, wedging her self against the door jamb, and open the door, escape through the door, then the cat would then go to another room, climb up to the door handle and open that room and go in. Throughout the night the cat roamed as it pleased through the shelter until about a half-hour before the arrival of the first staff member and then it'd stay in whatever room she was in. The cat was a female Flame Point Mitted Rag Doll which they then nicknamed "Houdini!"
They had to buy new locks for the cat room doors that had locks on them. . . LOL!
That is too funny and not rare at all among kittehs. I've had a lot of models but I've never had a rag-doll. Do they really go limp in your hand?
When we had to put down my girlfriend's previous cat due to FIV, we went to the shelter to adopt a new cat and we selected that cat. . . and they were over joyed that we picked Houdini.
FIV is a horrible thing and I am lucky that I've never had to deal with it. It reminds me of how bad Parvo is.
When we got her home, she was quite satisfied, but suddenly my girlfriend started accusing me of leaving the toilet seat up. . . something I am very careful about NOT doing. I would swear I had not left it up. . . and she'd say it was up. Then it was up when I had not used the bathroom. She put it down. Later, while she was doing her hair, the cat came in, opened the toilet, got on the rim, and got a drink! She put her paw under the seat, pushed it up until she could get her head under it, then she'd push it all the way up.
Turns out she wants reasonably fresh or flowing water for her drinking. . . so we got her a cat fountain. No more toilet seat shenanigans.
A clever and resourceful kitteh. That is why I love them. But, she isn't finished, there are more weaknesses to exploit!
Turns out she is also an alarm cat. If you don't wake up on her schedule, she WILL wake you up. . . usually by the CATastrophe method of knocking something very noisy off of the dresser, counter, or the wall, or if we had cat-proofed the room, merely loudly wailing until she got the attention she wanted! It took us a while to teach her that 5:00 AM was NOT an appropriate cat time to wake us up.
I've got a kitteh that does this and it's also a Tuxedo. He starts whining if he sees me up but at 5:00, he gets serious and I have to feed him. At least I haven't seen him in the wing of any plane I flown in. That video has hit the news and it cracks me up every time I see it. The girl doesn't make any effort to stop the kitteh from going anywhere but it's probably for the best as I'd hate to see her try to grab him and have him fall out.
Yes, they do. Years ago I had two cats, different as night and day. I liked to describe them this way: one, you could place on your hand and he would stick out straight, stiff as a two-by-four, tail included; the other you could drape over a straight razor and shave through her. The first was a gray ghost of a cat who was all muscle and strong, the other was the rag-doll. She didn't seem to have a muscle or bone in her body when she relaxed. . . but when she played or chased something, she out-ran the ghost.
FIV is a horrible thing and I am lucky that I've never had to deal with it. It reminds me of how bad Parvo is.
My girlfriend adopts at risk cats from the shelter. That's where she got the FIV cat. . . he was very lovable. When I met her, he took to me like I was his long lost best friend. If he hadn't, I probably wouldn't have gotten her approval. . . but it proved I was cat people. He developed a routine he demanded of me. I couldn't leave without spending some quality cat time with him. . . and I had to spend quality cat time with him when I arrived. Too funny.
We had to watch him go from a 20 pound cat to under 8 pounds before it became time to put him down. . . but he was still enjoying life. FIV is not pleasant.
The girl doesn't make any effort to stop the kitteh from going anywhere but it's probably for the best as I'd hate to see her try to grab him and have him fall out.
I noticed at the end she reaches up to the stowaway cat but can't seem to reach that high while strapped in. I don't think the cat was within her reach. It was better to leave the cat where she was safe until they were on the ground. Reaching for the cat might have made her try to jump in a 60MPH wind. Not a good idea.
We had to watch him go from a 20 pound cat to under 8 pounds before it became time to put him down. . . but he was still enjoying life. FIV is not pleasant.
I am an idiot. I was thinking of FLV (which is highly contagious as well as deadly), not FIV. I have a Maine Coone who has FIV and we've had him for many years. The vet said that FIV is spread through breaks in the skin so he wasn't concerned with the other kittehs getting it.
Grandson, 8 years old, loves that Twilight Zone episode. Moochelle would have been scarier than the monkey. Good one
We won't adopt a FLV infected animal. If we had one, we couldn't adopt another cat without infecting it. I think the infection period is two years after an FLV cat has lived in your house. Nope, not going there.
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