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30 May 2007
Pippy the begging cat. Pippy sees something and wants it. It doesn't matter what it is. If Pippy sees it, he just has to have it.
In the link that taz posted there's the most beautiful slow-mo capture of Pippy in mid-air.
At one point, Pippy almost catches on and gives his owner this 'you fucker' look but within a nanosecond he's forgotten it's all a cruel trick designed to expose his stupidity and is off again.
Lovely music too - Chopin's 'Minute Waltz', which I used to be able to play rather well, but I suspect probably chrismear is the only MeChatter able to do it justice.
hey, at least Pippy gets the idea of trajectories - he looks at where the object would be, had it been thrown. My parents' cat (RIP aged 18.5) never grasped that, and would stare at your hand after the object had gone.
This cat is waaaaay smarter than my cat, who resembles mentally and physically one of those things a few years back, the prickly household things you could get at the stores, where you could wipe your shoes on them when you come in the house? Like, a hedgehog stone with bristles on it? Yeah.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
