Comments on: Joy Division's "Atmosphere," accompanied by slapped cats

By: marilove

marilove — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:30:00 +0000

Erm, they could easily just … jump off the ironing board. Cats aren’t gong to stick around if they’d rather be somewhere else. Also, their tails look fine (not fluffy or wapping around like crazy), and their ears are not back. Those are two signs that a cat is not happy. They look content.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:01:00 +0000

Although I agree with your main point, purring can be as much a sign of nerves or fear as pleasure.

So actually, she might hate it.

But the real sign that these cats aren’t being creuly treated is the fact that they seem to go to him to get a little drumming action. I’ve never known a cat that doesn’t get away from, or attack, things it doesn’t like.

And I hate animal-cruelty-as-entertainment videos as much as the next animal lover.

By: Jerril

Jerril — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:25:00 +0000

Another cat owner here with a cat who likes to be spanked, athough she prefers on the sides of the hips more than the… back of the pelvis I guess? I can bongo her butt back and forth between my hands like a masochistic pingpong ball for a minute or two before she usually wants a bit of a time out or something scratched. Time out is declared by lying down so her bum can’t be bounced back and forth, and a demand for scritches somewhere involves turning around and shoving the body part into a hand.

Or she’ll grapple a hand and start grooming it.

There’s a video on youtube somewhere of a cat who will drum the bed/chair/whatever after having his butt bongoed – the owner would drum on him for 15-30 seconds, stop, the cat would drum for a bit, stop, owner would drum on the cat, etc. Cute!

By: John Jones

John Jones — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:14:00 +0000

Oh man…they mixed him soooo behind the beat that it is painful, not cool.

By: technogeekagain

technogeekagain — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:41:00 +0000

People Eating Tasty Animals?

By: technogeekagain

technogeekagain — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:40:00 +0000

It clearly *was* edited to more closely match the beat. That’s the depressing thing.

By: technogeekagain

technogeekagain — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:38:00 +0000

Cat Juggling: The Flying Karamazov Brothers did that at least one, in a show taped for TV. It’s on Youtube.

(For those who don’t want to bother: “Paulo Barechesto” briefly accomplished this by shuffling cats on a counter. It’s a valid cascade even if no cat was ever thrown…)

By: technogeekagain

technogeekagain — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:35:00 +0000

As with kids, a trust game depends on building trust.

By: technogeekagain

technogeekagain — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:34:00 +0000

We agree that we (and my two) disagree on this. I don’t see objections, and I know mine don’t object to a bit of light percussion. I suspect the hits on the ironing board bother them more.

By: technogeekagain

technogeekagain — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:33:00 +0000

Yep. Though I admit deliberately muddying the waters.

There’s a bumper sticker on my van: “If you believe in declawing cats, raise your hand” — with a picture of a human hand missing the first joint of each finger. The parallel is accurate.

By: marilove

marilove — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:18:00 +0000

Oops! Google Chrome could not find i.n.t.e.r.n.et

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UH-OH! I think this video killed the internet.

By: cstatman

cstatman — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:06:00 +0000

HOORAY comments, video, all of it. everything about this? total Boing Boing Wonderfulness!

By: Sparg

Sparg — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:28:00 +0000

I was waiting for Chuck Barris to hit the gong.

By: MandoZink

MandoZink — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:11:00 +0000

Our first cat, a female, used to park herself next to my wife with her kitty rump in the air. My wife would pat her on the butt a few times and then say “Go ZOOM!”. The cat would shoot out like a rocket and run like mad throughout the house. The cat thought this was great fun.

By: BobRH

BobRH — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:33:00 +0000

I knew that one had to be coming here someplace – can’t believe I never caught the “mouse organ” reference before though!

By: Roy Benevidez

Roy Benevidez — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:36:00 +0000

Yeah, I don’t look like that. Wait, yeah, I kinda do.

{slinks away in shame}

By: John Smith

John Smith — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:23:00 +0000

True Faith by New Order might have been more appropriate.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:59:00 +0000

Welcome to Disqusistan, where a period with no space on either side is a web address.

By: francoisroux

francoisroux — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:28:00 +0000

Man, I so clicked on that and Google said it can’t find the i.n.t.e.r.n.e.t.

By: geessebeschleier

geessebeschleier — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:25:00 +0000

I can turn my female cat into a cat homing missile by doing this , i carry her around on one arm head pointing forward , make eye contact with my tomcat (who is about twice her size and weight) slap her on the bum a few times and drop her to the floor, it’s like seeing a torpedo bomber drop the said torpedo , she goes straight for him and here goes the “beating”.
Beating doesn’t last long as after a second or two the tide turns.If no line of sight, she goes into homing mode and looks for him.
My gf (who had never lived with cats) was quite shocked when she saw me giving them a “whooping” , point is , are they restrained in any fashion ? Nope, they could run away any time.
In fact, right now as i’m typing , my tomcat is making this operation a bit more difficult as i slapped him on the rear end a few times and he is now spread on half my keyboard

By: Andrew Pam

Andrew Pam — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:18:00 +0000

Swedish massage! Our late cat Tripitaka once jumped up on the portable massage table when our masseuse made a house call and was setting up, so he started massaging the cat to see what would happen and he loved it. I would occasionally drum along to music on him too. I think oriental cats may be particularly fond of massage.

By: Jason's Robot

Jason's Robot — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:36:00 +0000

It’s odd – Boing Boing’s a tech and indie pop culture blog, yet it consistently loads the slowest and plays video the worst of any site I regularly visit.

woah is me.

By: Jason's Robot

Jason's Robot — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:31:00 +0000

I’m pretty sure it’s something the cat likes and does on a regular basis.

Otherwise it wouldn’t have come jumping up on the ironing board when the guy drummed on that.

My friend had a cat which liked being swung around in a bag. From the outside observer it looks kinda scary – But rustle a bag and the cat came running, then put said bag on the floor and the cat jumped in and would wait for the ride.

No. It didn’t start out with a full swinging the first time. The can liked being in grocery type bags anyway and they were swung gently in the early days.

By: noah django

noah django — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:12:00 +0000

show us on the doll where he said the “sweet strength” is.

By: MandoZink

MandoZink — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:36:00 +0000

One of my female cats will annoy the hell out of me just to get me to bop her on the rear like this. She LOVES it! I have 3 males and 3 females. They all like butt tapping, but the one female is crazy about it! I can tell these cats are into it. They jumped up there on purpose. If they didn’t like it they would run off in an instant. I’m lucky to be typing this right now without a cat bugging me for attention.

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:57:00 +0000

The ears back will be your first tip.

By: irksome

irksome — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:42:00 +0000

One scratch says she’s lost control again?

By: Sirkowski

Sirkowski — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:07:00 +0000

PeTA will hear about this!

By: $19428857

$19428857 — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:52:00 +0000

I have had several cats with masochistic tendencies. The slapping thing, yes, but one loved to have his tail pulled.

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:28:00 +0000

We’re still talking about cats, right?