When a Chinese farmer’s cat came across thirty chicks that escaped from their enclosure, the farmer feared the worst — but instead, the cat became their mother hen, licking and playing with the Chicken McNuggets.
Found by Barbarella, aka The Mad Cat Lady (via this Dutch site, where you can see more pics)
Cute or sad?
DEFINITELY CUTE!!
How would you see this as sad?
Good question, skippymom. It COULD well have been sad, but luckily no harm came to the chicks, so it’s definitely only cute.
STINKIN’ cute, I say.
I think if it were a chick-mauling they really wouldn’t put it on this site….
Kooky = fun!!!!
“Chicken McNuggest” & “tastes like chikken” = HAW!!!!
*facepalm*
mcnuggeTS
– *sigh*
Actually, I think McNuggest tastes much better.
Indeed. I enjoy a little extra nugg. Makes all the difference.
@ skippymom:
wow… I wonder if the kitten knows what those things are.
What a pretty kitty! I am glad that this story has a happy ending. I love the “cat as perch” in photo one.
Well fed predator animals — like most of us — don’t feel the need to kill all food type animals they meet but can enjoy the cute just as we do.
My well-fed predatory feline would jump at any chance he got to nibble on a tasty critter.
Mine too, the evil little *** regularly catches birds. It’s OK when you catch him on time, since he carries them like kittens, but when he’s been “playing” with them for a while … oy.
Carmen Miranda kitty’s been singing boom chicky boom all day long!
I’m such a chick magnet…
(applauds)
Very cute, you just want to go AWWWWW!
And as a bonus, I now know Dutch words for previous and next!
I just love C.O.!!!!
Notice how the number of chicks left goes down from photo 1 to 3. And there’s just a peek of a feather in the cat’s mouth in the final shot…
“oops” !!!
“Well I told ya mom. I became an ornithologist, and look how many chicks I met.”
“Okay my kitten.”
Oh man, this is fantastic! Sooo many fun cuddly cat posts lately!
Kitten in picture 2 is all: “No, I swear I wasn’t going to eat him! I’m just grooming him!!” *lick, lick, lick*
Such a good kitty.
I’m having a cuteverdose!
I want to know what the Chinese words on the quilt/tablecloth thingie mean.
It’s literally translated as “Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon”, the actual meaning isn’t so literal but I have no idea how to put the idea across in English. Maybe someone who’s better in Chinese like Wuyizidi can give you a better explanation.
It’s hard to explain because after a while, the once interesting combination of “Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon” has become so formulaic and cliched in literature, it has come to stand for something that is “lofty in language, high in style, but light in substance”. So it’s not a phrase we use according to its original meaning (beauty of nature) very often. Except here, In China it’s still pretty common to see home decorations printed/sewn with passages from classical literature.
So a bit like purple prose?
The words are Feng Hua Xue Yue (风花雪月) – wind, flower, snow, moon, elements usually found together in classical poetry to depict scenes such as this:
http://blog.readnovel.com/attachment/Day_071213/0_320565_8f36a1bc56612d6.jpg
In modern usage, it has another meaning, similar to the phrase Hua Qian Yue Xia (花前月下) – in front of flowers, underneath the moon, used to describe romances. As in “we were just reminiscing about our youth, our Feng Hua Xue Yue days.”
By the way, the cat’s name is Niu Niu (pronounced “new new”), an affectionate term for “little girl” commonly used in the countryside.
Thanks for explaining!
WOWIE
This in a nutshell shows why it’s so hard to ‘splain to people that Chinese/ Japanese languages are complex to learn.
*is floored by this insightful analysis*
*bows deeply toward wuyizki*
Allow me to quote the great Joel McHale, “Chicks, man”.
That cat is a cheep date.
Or a good cheeperone.
This reminds me of a YouTube video of a hen who thinks a kitten is her baby and nearly went out of her feathered mind when that kitten went missing. The kitten was found and returned and mommy hen was happy again.
anyone else notice how there’s less and less birds in the pictures…? lol!
Let’s hope our farmer keeps the cat well-fed … it has hostages now. >.>
In the third picture, kitty has her butt up in the air like she’s trying to teach the chicky to lurkenschproing.
“OK, step one, put on your thousand yard stare. Step two, get your back legs ready. Butt up, wiggle back and forth a few times. Ah-ah, no blinking!….”
LOL – “Lurkenschproing”
I loff eeeet!!!
Alas, I cannot take credit. Lurkenschproing has been around CO for a while. Can’t remember whether it was a commenter or a front pager who came up with it though.
I’ve known a sweet little kitty and she was as mellow as this one until one day she walked away and couldn’t find the way back again. She was lost for three days. After that the change was appararent. All of the sudden she could kill mice and eat them. Another cat who lived next door was a clever hunter but he only played with the mice he found. The two of them killed an amazing lot of mice.
Apparently the killing instinct of cat is only unveiled after they’ve been really hungry.
My cat was really well fed yet loooooooved to kill. And hid her loot behind the fridge until we figured out where the random mini maggots were coming from. That was fun.
The hovertext just about killed me!
Kitty is patiently waiting for the chicks to grow up in order to maximize her lunch investment.
Woot! Since Janelle´s Boxhab video (on youtube here: http://youtu.be/xXU9PaaluEQ) I finally got another submeeshon of mine published on CO!!!
Thanks to “matahari” who found the link in the first place.
‘Chicken McNuggets’ ….*Dies in the middle of a Sqeee*
Ya know, I think Mama cat is spit-bathin’ them there chicks and lettin’ em wander off as she finishes them. That way, she’s not washin’ em twicet. Also, it’s good to let ‘em out of apron-string range, to let ‘em sorta establish their in-dee-pen-dence.
*waiting for Theresa, daughter of the Spit-Bath King, to find this*
Momma cat is going to be so upset when the Farmer comes looking for his chicken dumplings in 6 months.
Am I the only one who thought Gulliver’s Travels with that first picture?
In the second pic, it definitely looks to me like the cat is gnawing on that chickie.
uh Chicken Mc Nuggets? ..don’t encourage eating them..think cuteness think cuteness
Dear Cute Overload,
As a confirmed dog lover who has always been suspicous of cats, you are keeling me with all of these sweet, huggy kittehs! I think I might dig cats after all.
Both my Cockatiels and rats trained my kitty to leave them alone. She will play with feathers but if you put them on a toy, she stays far away from it. They trained her well.
Noelegy should see this (recalling the awesome vid he?she? posted the other day about the crow and the kitten…)
Um…there were 9 chicks in the first pic. I’m just sayin….
Shame there’s no video for this, its the kind of one pictures don’t do justice!
Live peeps! Even tastier.
What adorable pics! My sister just brought home a few heirloom chicks to keep as pets–but her two full-grown cats sniffed the nesting box, decided they were scared of the chicks, and ran away in a hurry!