Spoiler: The cat said 'fuck you' at the end

February 27, 2014 12:52 PM

You will probably never see a more hardcore cat rescue.
posted by mudpuppie (30 comments total)

If you wanted to see a cat expressing proper thanks and gratitude, keep looking.
posted by Think_Long at 12:56 PM on February 27, 2014 [14 favorites]

Any idea how that cat got into that scanner, erm boat?
posted by Purposeful Grimace at 12:58 PM on February 27, 2014 [11 favorites]

I like how carefully he kept her dry, even at the end.

But I wonder if she'll ever find her people again? Assuming she had people to begin with.
posted by crush-onastick at 1:00 PM on February 27, 2014 [3 favorites]

But I wonder if she'll ever find her people again? Assuming she had people to begin with.

According to the man who posted the video:
The cats name is Sigge and is now back with his family in Visby,Gotland.
posted by enkd at 1:06 PM on February 27, 2014 [10 favorites]

According to comments on the video, the cat's name is Sigge and is back with his/her owners in Gotland.
posted by troika at 1:06 PM on February 27, 2014 [4 favorites]

ha, I like the way he struts off, and then caresses the yellow thing with his tail up in a discreet "KTXBAI"
posted by dabitch at 1:08 PM on February 27, 2014 [6 favorites]

GøPrø
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:09 PM on February 27, 2014

I like the way he struts off, and then caresses the yellow thing with his tail up in a discreet "KTXBAI"

That's what I noticed too. That was in no way a 'fuck you,' that was catspeak for 'yeah I'm still not feeling safe even though you just saved my life back there, but you're probably not totally all bad so let me just linger here a little...'
posted by St. Peepsburg at 1:19 PM on February 27, 2014 [24 favorites]

You'd think there would be a skiff around a boatyard.

I notice how careful he was to not let go of the paws until there was a place for the kitty to go other than his exposed face.
posted by sammyo at 1:26 PM on February 27, 2014 [8 favorites]

So ends a valiant effort to become a ship's cat.

Also, I am clear that what the kitty was saying was, "Jag inte uppskattar att."
posted by bearwife at 1:30 PM on February 27, 2014 [2 favorites]

The order would be "jag uppskattar det inte" and since it's past tense "jag uppskattade" and specific "inte det där"...
posted by dabitch at 1:41 PM on February 27, 2014 [1 favorite]

My cat had quite a dramatic rescue of her own about six years ago. The meowing of the kitty in this video made her trot over to me with her SuperConcerned face on - just checkin' out what the cat sounds were all about!

I'm glad the kitty was rescued and kept pretty darn dry too.
posted by k8lin at 1:47 PM on February 27, 2014 [1 favorite]

I kept waiting for "a Møøse once bit my sister..." to appear in those opening credits.
posted by entropicamericana at 1:52 PM on February 27, 2014 [8 favorites]

Driver was trying to eat a submarine and lost control, rolled us onto our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the PetSmart... just delivered the catnip. The catnip buds. Three men went into the ditch. Truck rolled in twelve seconds. Didn't see the first cat for about a half-an-hour. F3 Savannah. Thirty pounder. You know how you know that when your truck is crumpled in the ditch, chief? You tell by listening to the thud when it leaps up onto the metal cab. Well, we didn't know. 'Cause our deal had been off-book, so we were now offically disavowed, huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The cats come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into a tight group. You know it's... kinda like 'ol triangles in battle like uh, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the cat goes to the nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the cat would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that cat, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a cat, he's got... luminescent eyes, green eyes, like a god's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those green eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ground turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces. Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost two men! I don't know how many cats, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many bites, they averaged sixteen an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, truck driver. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Toppled over in the grass, just like a kinda top all done spinning. Up ended. Well... he'd been chewed in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a State Trooper saw us, he stopped to piss on the shoulder and he saw what was left of us down in the ditch. He's a young trooper, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and run in fast. And three minutes later he's down in the ditch and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' to be dragged off. I'll never wear yarn again. So, three men went in the ditch, one man comes out, the cats took the rest, June the 9th, 2005. Anyway, we delivered the catnip.
posted by The Riker Who Mounts the World at 2:04 PM on February 27, 2014 [18 favorites]

Scandinavians and their cats...
posted by The Power Nap at 2:22 PM on February 27, 2014 [3 favorites]

Kitty is the image of my dear departed Evgeny. He had a habit of going wherever he liked, whenever he liked, and damn the consequences, too.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 3:28 PM on February 27, 2014

I'm surprised the cat wasn't all, "Thanks for the ride and all, but I really wanted to be there," and jumped back into the water to get back on the boat. My Gracie would do that.
posted by xingcat at 4:41 PM on February 27, 2014

Heh. I liked the cat sauntering away all "I meant to do that." My Molly would do that... after clawing the guy who rescued her, of course.
posted by sarcasticah at 5:02 PM on February 27, 2014

Hardcore cat rescue?

"HI I AM A FIREMAN WHO HAS FORGOTTEN HIS PANTS AND SHIRT. I AM HERE TO RESCUE YOUR CAT."
"OOOOOOH, I AM A HOUSEWIFE WHO HAS ALSO FORGOTTEN TO WEAR PANTS AND A SHIRT! YOU ARE JUST IN TIME TO RESCUE MY POOR, POOR..."

(cue "wokka-wokka" guitar soundtrack)
posted by Slap*Happy at 5:22 PM on February 27, 2014 [4 favorites]

cue "wokka-wokka" guitar soundtrack

Fozzie? Is that you?
posted by The Riker Who Mounts the World at 5:29 PM on February 27, 2014 [3 favorites]

I was just saying this morning it's time for some more cats around here!
posted by Anitanola at 6:51 PM on February 27, 2014

I love the insouciant cat tail at the end.
posted by BlueHorse at 7:28 PM on February 27, 2014

came for the video, stayed for the wikipedia article bearwife posted. cats on ships! eee!
posted by ghostbikes at 8:16 PM on February 27, 2014 [1 favorite]

Poor kitty, that water must have been freezing.

I like how carefully he kept her dry, even at the end.

I've had to swim in a cold water survival suit for North Sea underwater helicopter evacuation training, and those suits are bloody hard to swim in - backstroke's pretty much the only way to be able to move, so while he was trying to keep the cat dry, he also didn't have much choice. (Also his life vest was a nice resting spot.)
posted by barchan at 8:53 PM on February 27, 2014 [1 favorite]

Insouciant Cattail is my new folk band name
posted by maggieb at 9:31 PM on February 27, 2014 [1 favorite]

So how did that cat get there in the first place?
posted by happyroach at 10:04 PM on February 27, 2014 [1 favorite]

We don't know why or how these people got their cat in the ship.
posted by MartinWisse at 10:13 PM on February 27, 2014 [1 favorite]

So how did that cat get there in the first place?


It heard there was a position open as a furry captain.
posted by MuffinMan at 10:55 PM on February 27, 2014 [2 favorites]

Or a petting officer.
posted by MuffinMan at 1:31 AM on February 28, 2014 [1 favorite]

I love how the cat is all WOOOOOAAAAH you're gonna kill me WOOOOOOOAH and on dry land its all, hey, never lost my cool, now look at my butt.
posted by angrycat at 5:17 AM on February 28, 2014 [3 favorites]