Posted on 01/17/2005 8:25:36 AM PST by Ellesu
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Here is proof that cats really have nine lives.
One cold morning while in the backyard of a Nebraska homeowner Ruth Bogenreif, a cat was taking a drink out of a heated bird bath. Something apparently startled the cat and she jumped, wet paws and all, onto a chain link fence.
In freezing temperatures, the cats small feet froze instantly to the metal.
"He was hanging with his paws froze to the fence. His head, the back of his neck, was in the water," said Bogenreif.
Using warm water, Bogenreif and her grandchildren freed the cat from the metal and then turned it over to the local shelter.
"She's not walking well on her right leg, we're assuming muscle paralysis at this point. Hopefully she'll be getting better as the swelling goes down," said Pam Wiese with the Humane Society.
ROTFLOL! I love how you think!!! Not a description I hear every day!
My parents had one that looked like this one when I was very small. Cool-looking cat... just gotta wonder what's going through its mind now.
Now THERE'S a cat.
a) Laughing at something depicted in a movie isn't the same as laughing at a real occurrence. If you think it is, then I humbly suggest you need to re-examine your view of movies and the concept of fictional events.
b) I don't recall physical injury to the kid in the movie--just some injured pride.
Criminy. If THAT cat ever exploded, the owner would have to move TO THE NEXT STATE.
Zacs Mom,
Where is the hide the mole rat picture?
Dang
That looks like a cat in a cat costume, with other cats hiding underneath.
ahahahaha!! the only thing dumber than that video was my sitting here watching it.
OK now, that's IT. I think I tinked. I have to go now.
HA! I've seen that video here and there for a couple years now and every time I do, I cringe and (I admit) laugh at the same time. The primal man-scream is priceless, but no doubt his leg HURTS BAD.
No matter how often I've seen it, I always say to myself, "Stop petting him so aggressively...don't be so wimpy with that box...don't straddle the sidewalk...keep your eye on the cat, man!!!"
I have to ask though - what on earth kind of witty one liners do you and your dad exchange about Pinky? What, stuff like "Boy, that hurt worse than Pinky's handler's leg" or "That makes me want to scream like the Pinky man"? LOL
I want that cat! I will pay anything for that big ole gorgeous orange thing!! Who does he beloong to?
:-) oops.
Sorry! Found the pic on the web! Rescue a big tom from the shelter and pamper it. Presto! Big cat.
eeyow Pinkey...sheesh
I'm sorry, but I still can't find anything funny about a creature who might yet be paralyzed from the experience. Let me explain: We live in the country, and people dump their unwanted animals out here quite often. All too frequently, they've also been abused--they show up with broken jaws from being kicked, sometimes the cats have broken tails--in two places, showing they have been swung by their tails, and sometimes their fur will have burn marks. This in addition to the things that can happen to domesticated animals when they're suddenly dumped in the wild.
We've taken in three such cats; our neighbors take some of the dogs. We try to find homes for those we can't take, and we've put some to sleep who can't be saved (out of our own pocket).
So, no, it's not funny. I've seen enough of it, thank you.
Well, first of all, we find his name "Pinky," absolutely hysterical--like some kinda mob captain/whacker--just the type that Pinky turns into. RELENTLESS and ON A MISSION. Our jokes ALWAYS revolve around PINKY and not Pinky's poor bloke "victim" in the video.
The ongoing one-liners that my dad and I exchange are simpleton stuff like "So and so is on the brink of going *Pinky Postal*," or "I hope that disgusting wife-and-baby killer, Peterson, gets a cell in Gen Pop with Pinky," or, me to my dad: "I'd wear a cup for protection to ski these days if I were you, Pops...you're NOT getting any younger, and because of that, you fall like a GIRL, and besides...you JUST DON'T KNOW if PINKY'S on the slopes today. He COULD be here, Pops. Pinky's EVERYWHERE."
Pinky's taken on a life bigger than his own, like Stephen King's "Christine" the car. We make Pinky scarier than we can handle. LOL.
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