Why Cats Suck at Jenga

by Not That Mike The Other Mike on February 16, 2009

…and lo, it came to pass that the people erected a mighty tower into the Heavens. This displeased Kitteh, and so he dispatched his angel, Mr. Fluffikins, to smite them in their wickedness…

{ 75 comments }

1 Dan Dannerman 02.16.09 at 8:05 pm

Someone needs to put this kitteh in charge of nuclear arms control. I can see the toppling of the missiles now…

2 chanpon 02.16.09 at 8:10 pm

Kitty: I saw Gojira do this on tv…ROAR!!!

3 juniperjune 02.16.09 at 8:16 pm

is the moral of the story that cats suck at jenga because the lack thumbs, or because they lack impulse control?

4 bugmom 02.16.09 at 8:20 pm

LOL! Kitty does not want the unused leftover minutes! They’re *old*!

5 Von Zeppelin 02.16.09 at 8:23 pm

Cat: “Remove this! It offends me.”

Primate: Repeating the same action, hoping for different results. Hey! That’s the definition of insanity!

6 superboymom 02.16.09 at 8:23 pm

Kitteh paws!

7 Poohbear 02.16.09 at 8:24 pm

Oh, good game! My kittehs get bored with their expensive cat toys, they prefer milk bottle rings and such, so this looks like something they’d enjoy. Thanks NomTom!

8 Not That Mike The Other Mike 02.16.09 at 8:26 pm

Mr. Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THESE BOTTLE CAPS!

9 Lilyleo 02.16.09 at 8:28 pm

I think this kitteh was someones obnoxious little brother in another life. xD

10 StormCat 02.16.09 at 8:29 pm

Kitteh’s all like “Why, oh stupid hooman, do you keep putting those there, when you know they offend me?”

11 lurkingsmirk 02.16.09 at 8:30 pm

He looks like he could be related to Maru the sliding box cat!

12 Green Eggs And Sam 02.16.09 at 8:41 pm

Those are some top-notch gravity experiments.

13 Edward 02.16.09 at 8:41 pm

In the cat world, there are things that can be eaten, things that are good for sleeping on and things that are to be batted at. Nothing else.

14 Marjorie 02.16.09 at 8:43 pm

This is one smart kitteh: “MOM, I WANT TO PLAY TOO!”

15 Manny 02.16.09 at 8:47 pm

ohhh man, my cat is going to love this game! He’s getting bored with “remove all pens from flat surfaces” :)

16 kibblenibble 02.16.09 at 8:57 pm

Kitteh wins! Yay! =)

17 Carolyn J. 02.16.09 at 9:21 pm

“I do not build, Pink Monkey. I only destroy.”

18 Natalie 02.16.09 at 9:22 pm

Mr. Fluffikins grows weary of your continued insistence upon stacking the bottle caps.
Nice save at 1:21 there, Mr. Hand. (or Ms.?)

19 Berg 02.16.09 at 9:26 pm

Poor kitty–it’s so hard to train a human…

Great video!

20 foxy 02.16.09 at 9:27 pm

My cat wouldn’t sit and watch the tower go up. He’d be making off with each lid and batting it around my apartment.

21 LtlRay 02.16.09 at 9:28 pm

I love that! I’m gonna start saving my soda tops immediately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

22 Shannon 02.16.09 at 9:38 pm

Kitteh seems to have a thing against stacks…..

23 Jennie Mello 02.16.09 at 9:38 pm

WHAT are they THINKING????!!!!

24 scooterpants 02.16.09 at 9:44 pm

if this is not the purrfect example of kitteh training hooman, i dont know what is.
excellent re-use recycle though, kittehs luff the bottle caps!

25 Amelia 02.16.09 at 9:46 pm

I love cats, they are so funny!

26 nismo 02.16.09 at 9:53 pm

Haha, this cat’s such a jerk.

27 David (the first one) 02.16.09 at 10:07 pm

Angel huh? Is “Mr. Fluffikins” another name for, oh, I don’t know – basement cat? [in Church Lady voice]

28 pitu 02.16.09 at 10:24 pm

*stacks caps*

SWAT

*stacks caps*

SWAT

*stacks caps*

SWAT

:-D

29 FuzzBob Chubbypants 02.16.09 at 10:25 pm

Luff the pause-to-eat-lint-off-the-floor move toward the end there. Then he continues with his world dominayshe plans.

30 fish eye no miko 02.16.09 at 10:31 pm

bugmom said: “LOL! Kitty does not want the unused leftover minutes! They’re *old*!”

Oh, good, I’m not the only one who thought of that… ^_^

31 berthaservant 02.16.09 at 10:37 pm

Curiously, the cat’s name is Nimrod.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_(king)

32 Theresa 02.16.09 at 10:42 pm

That is Sir Isaac Newton kitty, not Avenging Angel Kitty.

33 Annie 02.16.09 at 10:46 pm

HEheheh Nimrod is a Nimrod! Snerk… and this is a game played often .. I love how kitty gets up and prepares to do battle with the bottle caps.

34 Beth 02.16.09 at 10:47 pm

Ugh, somebody beat me to the rollover minutes joke!
The kitties and I will play this game until all of the caps disappear into the cat toy black hole in my house.

35 pfish 02.16.09 at 10:51 pm

That was very zen, I enjoyed it muchly.

36 Rach 02.16.09 at 10:56 pm

He looks away, looks back “HEY! Who put this here?!?!” *smack*

37 AmyJ 02.16.09 at 11:01 pm

Mr. Fluffikins is pretty patient compared to our cats. Those bottle caps would be all over the house by the end of the video!

Von Zeppelin – exactly what I was thinking!

38 Nicole 02.16.09 at 11:05 pm

We all know what’s going to happen…. yet we watch anyway. 8-)

39 katiedid 02.16.09 at 11:15 pm

I SHALL SMITE THEE… and then take a nap..

40 Miyu 02.16.09 at 11:23 pm

Are these Kirin bottle caps? I wonder what was the owner drinking… Afternoon Milk Tea?

Do you guys see the smile on the cat’s face? : D I now must keep all my caps for my cat. I’m sure she’ll find this very entertaining! : 3

41 Katrina 02.16.09 at 11:24 pm

That was very nice of those people to drink all that soda for their puddy-tat. Their hands hardly shake!

Just imagine how many places those caps could be by now- they will find them all when they redecorate or move!

Aces gamesmanship!

42 A thinker 02.16.09 at 11:32 pm

When I was but a kitten, we had a cat who would consistently knock our kitchen egg timer off any surface you put it on. Somehow the buzzing sound attracted/annoyed him. He’d also pick random things sitting on high surfaces to bat off, no matter how many times you put them back.

43 Emmi 02.17.09 at 12:44 am

That human is patient…

44 Kwistee 02.17.09 at 12:47 am

I could never get away with building the tower two bottlecaps tall in my house. My own Catzilla wouldn’t stand for it.

I can’t even keep a pen on the table, for gosh sakes.

45 Patito Gigante 02.17.09 at 1:43 am

That patient is human…

46 T.U.M. 02.17.09 at 1:43 am

Oooooo, I loves me a Mr. Stripely McStripelypants!

47 Gail (the first one) 02.17.09 at 2:08 am

That is a therapy kitteh obviously trying to work through the hooman’s obsessive/compulsive stacking issues.

“No, hooman. It does not matter how many you stack, or how neatly you stack them. In life, there will always be a paw who will create disorder.”

48 Mari 02.17.09 at 2:14 am

Mr. Fluffikins: I could do this all day.

49 angela 02.17.09 at 2:19 am

you know that cat thinks its hilarious. it looks around after every swat to see if anyone’s laughing.

50 morgat 02.17.09 at 2:19 am

I loved the last time, when he let the silly human build and build and build… and then, finally, *swat*. “Ha!” he said. “Lull them into a false sense of complacency, and then strike! Works every time!”

51 claudia 02.17.09 at 3:48 am

Great fun! I esp. liked it when I could hear someone snickering in the background LOL

52 Serai 02.17.09 at 5:03 am

That cat is a dick.

53 Serai 02.17.09 at 5:04 am

That cat is a dick.

54 Shaz 02.17.09 at 6:00 am

That cat’s got the human trained nicely!

55 Hon Glad 02.17.09 at 7:28 am

After reading Berthaservant’s comment, I started whistling Elgars Nimrod from the Enigma variations, with out consciously bringing it to mind.

56 Jennifer 02.17.09 at 8:50 am

OH I love kitties. :)

57 eternalcanadian 02.17.09 at 9:16 am

lolz, i would enjoy having a cat like that to play with!

58 eternalcanadian 02.17.09 at 9:17 am

lolz. i would enjoy having a cat like that to play with!

59 Barbarella von Fluffenstein 02.17.09 at 10:11 am

Love it. :D

60 Katrina 02.17.09 at 12:04 pm

That’s some classy earworm ya got there, Hon Glad!

61 Paul 02.17.09 at 12:10 pm

STACK

“No.”

STACK

“No.”

STACK

“Um…no.”

etc, etc, etc.

62 chanpon 02.17.09 at 2:14 pm

That’s definitely a MR. Hand…

63 Theresa 02.17.09 at 2:22 pm

I have the piano arrangement of the “Enigma Variations” around here somewhere. I must dig it out and play it If Dante will let me. He attacks my hands when I play the piano.

64 Vanessa 02.17.09 at 2:29 pm

I love how he makes the last one look like an accident.

65 DreamspinnerCheryl 02.17.09 at 2:37 pm

Pink Monkey needs to spend less time stacking bottle caps, and more shopping for a new sofa. That one is well beyone “comfortably broken in”.

Wonder if Gorgeous Kitty had anything to do with that?

66 fleabit 02.17.09 at 3:06 pm

To the Tune of “My Favorite Things” sorta:

Plastic bags, and
Bottle caps, and
Paper baaaags, too!

Milk juuuug cap tabs and carboooard boxes

These are a few of cats’ favorite things!

67 tenner 02.17.09 at 3:10 pm

I’m tellin’ y’all it’s a sabotage!

68 Noelegy 02.17.09 at 4:53 pm

What I loved was the fact that the person had a collection of bottle caps at the ready, implying that this is a familiar and well-loved game, played many times for the kitteh’s amusement.

69 David (the first one) 02.17.09 at 5:20 pm

They’ve obviously played this before. The title reads something like “Me vs Nimrod (battle of stacking bottle caps) – Round 2″.

70 Fo 02.17.09 at 8:15 pm

Don’t buzz da tower!

71 Joools 02.17.09 at 11:42 pm

I think Mr. Fluffykins works at the Zoning Department, and sees this as a flagrant violation of existing height restrictions on that building.

72 Sara K 02.18.09 at 2:21 am

I’m not a cat person, but this just made my day.

73 Jeff 02.18.09 at 3:51 am

I’ve been CO reader forever, and this might be my favorite.

74 KittyMarthaPoo 02.23.09 at 5:48 am

LMAO!!! Reminds me of our cat – whenever we play a board game, he uses his paws to move our gamepieces around :)

75 Susannie 03.28.09 at 12:19 pm

HEhe, adorable. Reminds me of my own cat. After knocking down an empty coffee cup or two, he gives me this look: “well, if you didn’t want me to knock them down, why did you put them on the table?”

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