ahh the rescue kittehs! Also: eponysterical. posted by sweetkid at 8:43 PM on April 16, 2012 [3 favorites]
So cute!
And yet...I envisage a pack of rescue kittehs nomming on the exposed leg of a half-buried skier. posted by darkstar at 8:52 PM on April 16, 2012 [6 favorites]
Specially trained cats? The CIA tried this once. The cost to train the animal was emmense. Despite the whole 9-lives thing it was a short lived project... posted by Nanukthedog at 8:54 PM on April 16, 2012
the immediate imagery this post inspired is that of a cat, softly mewing on a cold, mountain night as I lay, entombed in snow mere meters below. meanwhile, half a mile away my friend is being pulled to safety while a dog happily leaps around barking at the miracle it has induced. posted by IvoShandor at 8:57 PM on April 16, 2012 [11 favorites]
Despite the whole 9-lives thing it was a short lived project...
Huh, as a crazy cat lady I can unequivocally state the only way one of my cats would bother looking for me in an avalanche is if I were somehow operating an electric can opener while buried. posted by jamaro at 9:41 PM on April 16, 2012 [49 favorites]
"What's that Garfield? Timmy fell down a well? Oh, you shoved Timmy down a well...?" posted by oneswellfoop at 9:43 PM on April 16, 2012 [6 favorites]
Perhaps next, cats can be trained to guide the visually impaired. posted by aeschenkarnos at 9:48 PM on April 16, 2012
I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged in avalanches or why. posted by Violet Hour at 2:01 AM on April 17, 2012 [2 favorites]
The cats didn't get themselves wedged, their victims rescued people did. posted by arcticseal at 3:26 AM on April 17, 2012
Ah. This explains the Q1 uptick in catnip essential oil sales. posted by likeso at 4:07 AM on April 17, 2012
Saw the short a year ago at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. It was unquestionably the (comedic) hit of the night. Wish that were available online somewhere. Really silly and fun. posted by msbrauer at 5:19 AM on April 17, 2012
To be honest my interest in this evaporated once I found out the whole CARCA site was a gimmick to sell a mockumentary. I kind of hoped for a minute it might actually be real, because wouldn't that be cool... but no. It's to sell DVDs.
Oh yeah, and the CBC compared CARCA "founder" Steve Ruskay to Sascha Baron Cohen.
I kind of hoped for a minute it might actually be real, because wouldn't that be cool... but no. It's to sell DVDs.
Hence the trailer... posted by desjardins at 7:03 AM on April 17, 2012
The fact that it is not real is very much with the sad-making for me this morning... posted by Kitteh at 7:07 AM on April 17, 2012 [1 favorite]
I am simply crushed that this is not real--i forwarded the link to many friends who are cat lovers. What will I tell them now. And I am a dog person. Not the way I want to start a day--hope, amazement, soaring expectations. gob smacked and then he seeds of doubt followed by spiraling disappointment. posted by rmhsinc at 8:10 AM on April 17, 2012
Mrs A totally bought this. She already thinks our cat is brighter than many small children, so why not rescue cats?
Intelligence and ability don't correlate to willingness. posted by desjardins at 11:19 AM on April 17, 2012
I was hoping that at the end of the training videos link, there would be a guy in the snowbank right next to where Quenta was playing who would stand up suddenly and go "Hurray, Quenta, you found me!" in a magnanimous voice.
The cat, of course, would be completely oblivious. posted by chrominance at 6:27 PM on April 17, 2012
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