A single link to Ceiling Cat video, because I know how busy you are
March 29, 2008 10:42 AM   Subscribe

FREE CEILIING CAT!!! And when I say, "Free ceiling cat," I don't mean this. Warning: CNN video, and previously.
posted by Kibbutz (26 comments total)
 
Seems like all they had to do was cut a single hole and the cat would've eventually figured it out. And if not, a dead cat also would require only a single hole to remove.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 10:48 AM on March 29, 2008


Well, but with a dead cat, you have to place the hole much more precisely.
posted by Naberius at 10:50 AM on March 29, 2008 [3 favorites]


I agree, they should have tried one hole, furnished a way for the cat to get down and put a cage trap with some food in it. It might have taken a little waiting, but that cat had to be pretty hungry.
posted by demiurge at 10:57 AM on March 29, 2008


A scared, tired, and hungry cat that seemed happy just to still be alive.

It didn't seem that happy.
posted by not_on_display at 11:00 AM on March 29, 2008


And here I thought you were giving away free ceiling cats.
posted by Afroblanco at 11:01 AM on March 29, 2008 [2 favorites]


Did anyone consider maybe the cat liked being in the ceiling?
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 11:02 AM on March 29, 2008


Poor thing didn't even get a chance to watch someone masturbate.
posted by brain_drain at 11:06 AM on March 29, 2008 [5 favorites]


FREE MUMIA CEILING CAT!
posted by puke & cry at 11:10 AM on March 29, 2008


We had a wall cat once. In fact, a small square hole was all that was needed to entice the kitty to remove itself from the realm of in between.
posted by Atreides at 11:12 AM on March 29, 2008


I guess I know what to yell when I play that rock concert in Dogsville, now.
posted by cortex at 11:17 AM on March 29, 2008 [2 favorites]


I would have run away from the large swearing man with the hacksaw, too. Nobody thought to offer it some tuna or something?
posted by joannemerriam at 11:19 AM on March 29, 2008


Once again, life imitating web memes. And yesterday I saw a girl in the market twirling leeks. When will it all end?
posted by madamjujujive at 11:26 AM on March 29, 2008


The video timed out attempting to play.

Please ensure that you do not have any Flash Blocking plugins active.


How about just freeing the damn flash video? I had to allow javascript for 3 different domains, cnn.com, cnn.net and turner.com and I still can't view the video because their site is incompatible with flashblock because they are doing some funky detection thing to tell me to disable my browser security setup.

Fuckem. I'll watch it when they learn to be less clever.
posted by srboisvert at 11:35 AM on March 29, 2008 [2 favorites]


Ooh the poor kitty! I agree that the way they went about it was pretty heartless...
posted by saxamo at 11:45 AM on March 29, 2008


Here's an earlier story on this kitty, from before it was caught. All in all, it seems like a pretty insane way to catch the critter: "crews took down all the drywall from the first floor of the home in search of the animal." As noted, one hole and some kibble would have done the trick, one would think. Cats that "get stuck" high up in trees eventually come down, too. (We know this, because we never find cat skeletons in trees.) A bit more about the aftermath here; apparently the cat belonged to a neighbor, and the builder is taking responsibility and will fix all the damage.
posted by beagle at 11:52 AM on March 29, 2008 [1 favorite]



I saw the cnn story/vid this morning and knew it was coming. When, immediately checking mefi at 9am, STILL no "REAL-LIFE CEILING CAT!!!" fpp, i was shocked, and took the grave responsibility upon myself to gather relevent links and innanity.

but i couldn't do it.

i kept coming back, again and again, hoping that someone else would do "the deed".



Thank you kibbutz, you are a bigger man than myself.



Or, atleast, less aware of lolcat stigma...
posted by [son] QUAALUDE at 12:05 PM on March 29, 2008


We know this, because we never find cat skeletons in trees.
I actually have a vague childhood memory of this on the Terwilliger trail, but it might be invented. Nevertheless, the body would fall from the tree most of the time. We don't see many raccoon, squirrel or bird skeletons in trees either and they live and hibernate there.

Cats are the one animal in particular who is unappetized by food after several days of starvation. It's called feline anorexia. Cats in this state need to be hand fed back to health.

Seems to me that the workers did the most humane thing and did whatever they could to save the animal right away to get it food and water at the cost of a tore up house.
posted by Skwirl at 12:36 PM on March 29, 2008 [1 favorite]


LOLZ
posted by fuq at 1:14 PM on March 29, 2008


Seems to me that the workers did the most humane thing and did whatever they could to save the animal right away to get it food and water at the cost of a tore up house.

Yes, I'm sure the builder is plenty happy to dish out 100,000 extra dollars for their strategy of destroying an entire house to save a housecat. I mean who wouldn't be?:

"Wayne Berkowitz says the builder is going to fix all of the damage in the home free of charge and while the work is being done the homebuilder is putting them up in a hotel and making the first mortgage payment."
posted by dgaicun at 1:48 PM on March 29, 2008


Dgaicun, they didn't "destroy the entire house." Replacing and repainting the drywall and redoing the trim carpentry probably won't cost more than $10K or so.

Having said that, it's still insane and it's not like there's, y'know, a shortage of cats in the world.

OTOH if the cat died in the wall it would make the whole building stink horrifically for years unless you tore out enough sheetrock to find it. That happened when some rats ate the poison and went into the walls in a building where I used to work. There were two offices that were just closed off for three years until the stink went down.
posted by localroger at 2:17 PM on March 29, 2008


Ehn, that's what cans of tuna are for.

That said, the "destruction" of the house was maybe two weeks' time to repair, for a decent drywaller.
posted by notsnot at 3:05 PM on March 29, 2008




Fuckem. I'll watch it when they learn to be less clever.

No, you will watch it when you learn that it's pretty fucking stupid to think you can watch flash video when you're using something called flashblock.
posted by dhammond at 5:27 PM on March 29, 2008


Thanks for the CNN Video warning, but they still block their player (unnecessarily) from working when you're using flashblock.
posted by yath at 7:32 PM on March 29, 2008


Did they even TRY to open a can of tuna?

Hell, pulling the can opener out of the drawer gets my cats running over.
posted by triolus at 9:32 PM on March 29, 2008


Они сделали это ради лулзов.
posted by taursir at 1:40 AM on March 30, 2008


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