Acrobatic kitten helps out with the dirty laundry in cute clip [video]

Metro [UK] ^ | Thursday 17 Jan 2013

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Doing the laundry is never the most fun task but having a little help does make the mundane a little easier to bear.

Like cleaning the bathroom and mowing the lawn, sorting out dirty washing can be a boring job for unwilling hands.

It doesn’t seem to be a troublesome chore for this cute kitten however who appears more than willing to help out his owner.

Leaping up from inside the laundry basket, the acrobatic feline grabs whatever is thrown its way in this adorable clip.

Smelly socks, t-shirts or even grubby underpants don’t appear to faze the moggy who takes it all in his stride.

The clip has racked up more than 30,000 hits on video-sharing website YouTube in just a matter of days and received thousands of likes.

‘Such an acrobatic beautiful kitty :-)’ wrote one impressed user.

The kitten is not the first feline internet star, last year a video of a cat sitting on a wall like a human became a hit online.

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Video at source.

This is what happens when you cross a cat with a spring piston.

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[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Helpful cat is helpful.

[Daffynition]

Ah ha....now we know where all those missing socks go.:P

[Berlin_Freeper]

I wanted to get a kitten for my daughter on Christmas but my wife put the kibosh on it. Said wait till she is old enough.

err hrr? old enough for a kitten?

Seems it is against the law in Germany to declaw a cat.

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[EinNYC]

I'm glad it's against the law in Germany to declaw a cat. Declawing consists of putting the cat's paw in a tourniquet, then chopping off the first segment of the toes in a mini guillotine. Put your own finger, up to the first joint, in a guillotine to model this. There can be fragments of nail left after the operation which will fester and cause pain. It affects the balance of the cat. And it can lead to arthritis later. It is a CRUEL and UNNECESSARY practice. You can train a cat as to what and what not to scratch. I've owned cats for 40 years and never had one declawed. They were trained what they were allowed to scratch, and supplied with appropriate things to sharpen their claws on, i.e. scratching posts, cardboard scratchers, etc.

I also took the time to learn the feline body language to judge when they wanted to be petted and when they wanted to be left alone. That is a big cause of scratching humans, especially with children. The cat has had enough and tries to give some hints as to that, but the kid won't stop. Or, the child pulls the cat's tail or pokes its eyes, etc. You can't let a child play unsupervised with a cat until you absolutely know that the child is responsible and not cruel. I would not recommend a small kitten for a child. A cat of at least a year who has been raised around kids is a safer bet.

I admit that I am a bit prejudiced toward Maine Coons, which are beautiful and known to be great with kids...LOL.

[JoeProBono]

[Berlin_Freeper]

Thanks for your recommendation.

[BunnySlippers]

[BunnySlippers]

I watched Cesar Millan tonight. He says he understand nothing about cats ... because they do not have a “pack mentality”. They are driven by their individuality.

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Very true! Every one of my cats has a distinct personality.

[BunnySlippers]

:o)

Thank you for overlooking my typos. It should have said:

He says he doesn’t understand anything about cats.

[Daffynition]

Just AWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

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They don’t look very shamed, do they?

[Focault's Pendulum]

Thanks for the ping. One of my two is teaching herself to open doors. She's getting pretty good.

The other one prefers laying by the fireplace.

[BunnySlippers]

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