It’s Friday, peeps, and I’m wearing a flowered shirt. Let’s move on. MFBT to commence shortly.

Hey Ariel, I’d like to raise awareness that bunnehs are in fact not stupid.

Bunny power!!

This commentroversy lacks energy, people! Where is the heated debate? Where are the personal attacks that get out of control? Many potential explosive subjects have been raised (pro/con Steve Irwin, obese cats and their irresponsible owners, PETA, how to define animal cruelty, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsiepop), but no one has risen to the challenge! No one has raised their fist in anger and thrown down the gauntlet. Is it because everyone (in the US anyway) is looking forward to the 3 day weekend?

I shouldna do eet… Commenting on these nuffy statements is like addin’ lighter fluid to the fire.

But…

Do any of you actually own pets? Like real pets? Not cyberpets or Aibos or anthing like that: actual living breathing pets? Or even more specifically, cats?

Because if you did, it would be ABUNDANTLY clear that this cat is A) lovin’ the bunnehs, B) utterly dismissive of his owner’s attempt at discipline (whacking? brutality? sheesh…Guess no ones ever had to pill a cat before) and C) having a lurvely time.

It’s about the body language, Nuffingtons. Angry kitteh = ears back, tailio twitchin’. Not here. Scaredy cat = ears flat, eyes wide, hunched in a ball. Not the case either. Confuse cat = “Dude, I’m outtie.” Again, not the case.

I foster abandoned cats so they can be adopted. My organization is part of a loose association of foster homes that take in cats so they don’t have to go to shelters that will likely euthanize. I live with 3 permanent residents and have anywhere from 1-7 “guests” at a time. You could say I know cat behavior pretty well…

Scooby is lickin’ the buns like any momma would do to to her litter. It involves a lot of yoinking and arranging on mom’s part to get them clean. Also, in defense of buns, who are not stupid and helpless as it seems some would have us believe, they often skeedaddle when they are in trouble; that’s why they are superfast. And I highly doubt these buns are infants; they look like Dwarf rabbits to me [translation: adult but tiny and not helpless!].

And lastly, preventing animal cruelty is a truly important cause and dear to my heart. This is not cruelty. Anyone who has ever seen a cat or dog near starvation because the owner just couldn’t bother to feed it, or seen an abused cat with a broken tail and broken ribs because it’s been repeatedly kicked and beaten, or seen a one-year old female suffering through her third litter and contracting a uterine infection because her former “owners” just didn’t want to pay the $50 fee to have her spayed…well, then you know how re-damned-diculous it is to call this cruelty.

Claire Said”And to all you commentroversy idjits. How else are you going to train a cat to be in a house with bunnies, and not eat the bunnies? It’s like me squirting my cat with a water bottle when he jumps on the gerbil cage.”
there is no need to call people with an opinion Idjits, let’s please rise above the name calling. Also just posting a reaction is adding to the commentroversy(as i am right now)so you are in a sense calling yourself an idiot
I agree that to train a cat to not do inappropriate things you need to reprimand it. but I never put my cat on the counter on purpose and them squirt him. That sends mixed meassages

Did anyone notice at the very beginning when the lady says to the cat “did you have puppies?”….lol…..hellooooo crazy lady…it’s a cat! Too funny.

I didn’t see her smack the cat, I saw a tap on the nose. And if any of you have multi-species households, you know that 99% of the time you have to train the animals to not let ‘nature’ take over and to make sure everyone plays nice-nice. I think she was de-sensitizing her mellow cat to the bunnies.

Oy…

*eyes stale popcorn and ruffled feathers all over the floor*

“Who’s gonna clean up this mess?”

But I’m bummed I missed the ticker going over 300.
Kind of like when you see your odometer is going to click over from 99,999 to 100,000 and then you get distracted by traffic and miss it.

In the harsh struggle for snorgle, it’s cuddle or be cuddled, survival of the cutest. This video is a window into the harsh surreality of captive animals performing in a fabricated and sentimentalized ecosystem. As Tennyson mused over his cat Mumbles slapping around a doormouse, “Nature cute in tooth and paw.”

Still a pile of vicious words in this thread.

Makes me sad for the human race that people spill vile all over the internet.

In the harsh struggle for snorgle, it’s cuddle or be cuddled, survival of the cutest. This video is merely a window into the harsh surreality of captive animals performing in a fabricated and sentimentalized ecosystem. As Tennyson wrote upon watching his cat Mumbles slap around a doormouse, “Nature cute in tooth and paw.”