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24 Oct 09 - 11:18 PM (#2752134) Subject: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: Genie She really tells him off! |
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24 Oct 09 - 11:50 PM (#2752142) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: Janie That was e-mailed to me yesterday, and my son and I just howled. (Bat Goddess posted a great Cat cartoon on facebook today also.) |
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25 Oct 09 - 04:18 AM (#2752177) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: gnomad Someone e-mailed me too, I had a good laugh but have a question: Is the sound track real? I just never heard a cat make that sort of noise, though I have known quite a few. The one night I heard something a bit like that it turned out to be a fox. |
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25 Oct 09 - 04:28 AM (#2752179) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: Georgiansilver Since the ginger cat is actually the Tom.. I guess he is probably making his plea to her for some close liaison!! |
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25 Oct 09 - 05:23 AM (#2752199) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Are all Ginger Toms big old bullies? One of my little sissy lads got well bashed up last night by the local big Ginger Tom too, he came in looking most put out! I thought the little black & white one in the Tubey did well stay stay his/her ground without running the hell away.. :) |
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25 Oct 09 - 07:14 AM (#2752253) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: MAG that soundtrack sounded good enough to set my cat off. |
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25 Oct 09 - 08:37 AM (#2752293) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: My guru always said LOL!! But our cat Rusty didn't understand a word of it, different dialect I guess.... |
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25 Oct 09 - 11:37 AM (#2752370) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: Alice What cats are REALLY thinking! |
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25 Oct 09 - 11:44 AM (#2752376) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: JohnInKansas Apparently it's the age-old problem of guys not understanding what gals are saying. At about the first "WHY?" our lone semi-female Bela jumped in the middle of my desk, knocked my keyboard and a pile of papers mostly on the floor, and started "answering" the rant. She didn't seem to pick up on the image, but she heard a fight and was obviously ready to join in. Vincent, our young philosopher wandered slowly over and peeked around the computer, but it's impossible to know whether he was curious about the video sound or just curious about what Bela was upset about. Bela either decided that it was Vincent's fault ... or just that "you guys are all alike" .. and lashed a barage of claws at Vinnie, who retreated to the other end of the desk behind the computer. I killed the sound, but Bela continued her rant at "anybody and everybody in general" for a while; and I had to "physically remove" her from the desktop when she threatened to tip the monitor over. Five minutes later, Vincent was still sitting behind the computer with a "what the f***k! was she talking about?" expression on his face. (Uncertain whether he was referring to the cat in the video or to sister Bela.) Meanwhile, Boris Bat, the elderly male, just sat on the floor the whole time screaming "Doesn't anybody here realize it's time for my breakfast?". (But he does that every morning.) Ten minutes later, Bela is sitting on the table in the dining room, glaring at the world from her "assault posture" looking like "gimme a male - any male- and I'll claw the s**t out of 'em." John |
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25 Oct 09 - 11:47 AM (#2752381) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: Alice What the beaver is saying. welcome to Canada |
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25 Oct 09 - 04:32 PM (#2752552) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: McGrath of Harlow They've got the sub-titles wrong. As has been pointed out already, the cat doing the talking is a male. (It's very rare to have a ginger female, I understand.) |
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25 Oct 09 - 07:50 PM (#2752657) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: Genie Do cats really sound like that? Ohhhh, yeah! Not only have I heard comparable caterwauling outside my windows many a time over the past 30 years, but almost no sooner had I posted the link to that video than I saw my neighbors (female) kitty perched atop my big recycling cart SCREAMING in the direction of my house, which was just 3 or 4 feet away. I kind of figured out what she was screaming at, and when I went inside my suspicions were confirmed. I heard such ear-shattering yowling and thrashing about that I thought somehow the neighbor's cat or some other critter had managed to get through the window into the bedroom. Turns out it was just my own normally mild mannered female kitty giving back as good as she was getting! Sounded pretty much just like the moggies in that video. (Good thing there was a pane of glass separating them!) |
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25 Oct 09 - 07:59 PM (#2752667) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: ranger1 I've owned several ginger cats who were female, so I'm not sure how rare they are. |
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25 Oct 09 - 08:18 PM (#2752682) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: McGrath of Harlow Are you in the States ranger? It may not be true over there. The same might apply to the link between a cat being tortoiseshell and being female which seems to be the case in the UK. ....................... I imagine most people will have seen this one. |
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25 Oct 09 - 08:30 PM (#2752691) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: Alice There are orange female cats, but they are rare, as the orange female must have an orange father and an orange or calico mother to inherit the x chromosomes from each to be orange. (Where I live, we say orange, not ginger, and calico, not tortoiseshell). |
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25 Oct 09 - 08:32 PM (#2752692) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: Alice Technically, a calico is tortoiseshell with white, I've read, but we lump it all together and call them calico. |
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25 Oct 09 - 08:52 PM (#2752698) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: Bill D *I* just wondered why cat fights are such a popular topic to post on YouTube....there's a whole list of them. |
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25 Oct 09 - 09:59 PM (#2752730) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: Genie Maybe because so many of us can identify with the parties involved? |
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26 Oct 09 - 01:52 AM (#2752759) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: Genie John in Kansas, your story of how Bela, Vincent, and Boris Bat reacted to the video is hilarious! Genie |
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26 Oct 09 - 04:07 AM (#2752777) Subject: RE: BS: What fighting cats are really saying From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies) Bill D: "*I* just wondered why cat fights are such a popular topic to post on YouTube....there's a whole list of them." Quite honestly? I think it's something of an instinctive throwback to blood sports. Albeit a milder and more 'socially acceptable' one. People enjoy watching animals attacking each other in the same way kids will crowd around a schoolyard scrap. I watched it because it was thrown up here and assumed it to be harmless, which it was of course - though I must say I wouldn't go looking for it. And despite thinking the B&W cat stood her ground pretty admirably, I must confess it didn't amuse me much either. But then I am rather more sensitive than most about animals used as entertainment unless *they* are actually having fun themselves - in which case it's all good! Cat fights are usually about intimidation more than anything, but I tend to break them up, as males will try to rip off testes or go for the throat, and they can inflict pretty serious injury to each other. Neutered females especially can come in for aggression and attack from un-neutered males too, because they smell wrong. Which considering the big ginger tom, and disparity in size of the lesser B&W cat, might well in fact be what the scene in the YouTube is depicting - despite the 'feminist' anthropomorphism of subtitles. |