Play With Your Food

May 21, 2013 8:08 PM

Like father, like cubs: After watching Papa Wei Shand play with his food, Pallas Cat kittens try and do the same.

Bonus: a sort of making-of video for the kittens. SFW, NSFWS (not safe for Wei Shand - Mama Tula apparently sent him quickly packing.).

posted by maryr (30 comments total)

PALLAS CATS ARE EXCELLENT
posted by Sticherbeast at 8:11 PM on May 21, 2013 [9 favorites]

That second video now shows up as "unavailable".

Sorry.
posted by twoleftfeet at 8:18 PM on May 21, 2013

I wonder how you get the job of "Pallas Kitten's Dead Animal Dangler."

The videos are all working for me.
posted by ChuraChura at 8:21 PM on May 21, 2013 [1 favorite]

Those cats are terrifying. Did you see the paws on that thing? Yikes!
posted by ishrinkmajeans at 8:24 PM on May 21, 2013

Where did they get all those dead birds?
posted by cman at 8:30 PM on May 21, 2013

Their offices probably have big glass windows.
posted by maryr at 8:31 PM on May 21, 2013 [3 favorites]

Do we have a stretcher ready for elizardbits?
posted by bleep at 8:36 PM on May 21, 2013 [1 favorite]

Pallas cats are nature's most majestic dorks.
posted by boo_radley at 8:48 PM on May 21, 2013 [9 favorites]

Oh Pallas Cats, big and smoosh faced and bad at reproducing. They are my spirit animal.
posted by The Whelk at 8:48 PM on May 21, 2013 [20 favorites]

You and cleolinda. I've always loved her description of them as cats with permanent bitchface.
posted by maryr at 8:50 PM on May 21, 2013 [4 favorites]

(The Wei Shand video came from her Tumblr as linked above originally, of course.)
posted by maryr at 8:52 PM on May 21, 2013

Here is my favorite illustration of a grumpy wildcat.
posted by ChuraChura at 8:55 PM on May 21, 2013 [3 favorites]

boo_radley, I think that they get some competition from pretty much any vulture/condor - glorious in flight, totally ungainly on the ground. But yes.
posted by gingerest at 8:57 PM on May 21, 2013 [1 favorite]

Token meme. Have you seen this cat?
posted by Going To Maine at 9:03 PM on May 21, 2013

I wonder how you get the job of "Pallas Kitten's Dead Animal Dangler."

So do I. Also, I would like to apply.
posted by NoraReed at 10:17 PM on May 21, 2013

It's striking how different the kittens' personalities are. At least one is clearly very timid, at least one is clearly super-bold, etc.
posted by LobsterMitten at 11:07 PM on May 21, 2013

I'm sorry, but those cats look like some unholy hybrid out of Oryx and Crake.

I just caught the mama tula part. Lovely. Even the kittens look like murderers. Spree killers.
posted by tula at 11:10 PM on May 21, 2013

Who knew I would enjoy videos of wild cats eating dead birds from ropes so much? THE INTERNT KNEW.
posted by grapesaresour at 12:06 AM on May 22, 2013 [1 favorite]

MAMMALS EATING DINOSAURS OH YES WE RULE

ALSO, STARE AT THIS CAT: HERE
posted by D.C. at 12:35 AM on May 22, 2013 [3 favorites]

If you pause the first video at about :25 you can tell it's not actually George Lazenby.
posted by KChasm at 1:32 AM on May 22, 2013 [4 favorites]

There's a pretty excellent comment on the YouTube video of the younger kittens (referencing the music video for the song that forms the soundtrack of that clip), courtesy GoldenGal42:

*imagines Pallas kittens pouncing on a dancing Christopher Walken*
posted by Pfardentrott at 3:17 AM on May 22, 2013 [3 favorites]

*squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

I am going to quit being a librarian and become a dead animal on string dangler! Yes!
posted by halcyonday at 3:33 AM on May 22, 2013

Pallas cats remind me of middle-evolution Pokémon. If domestic cats are Squirtle, Pallas cats are Wartortle.
posted by Metroid Baby at 4:28 AM on May 22, 2013

They think they're Badass Cats.
posted by colie at 4:42 AM on May 22, 2013

On the one hand, Pallas Cats are fabulous. On the other hand, I have a pet bird. So I definitely watched this with mixed feelings.

Okay, Pallas Cats win. They're like all the best parts of my favorite cat pals rolled into one furry, feral package.
posted by kinnakeet at 5:51 AM on May 22, 2013

Erm, what is a pallas cat? Looks like an overweight and longhaired cat to me.
posted by wilful at 6:09 AM on May 22, 2013

Their pupils are rooooound.
posted by oflinkey at 9:44 AM on May 22, 2013

I want to throw a party and do that with coke.
posted by Blue Meanie at 9:50 AM on May 22, 2013

This explains a lot of my cat's play behavior -- why she tugs and tugs on a string until she's able to drag it away from me and into a cardboard box.
posted by mudpuppie at 11:02 AM on May 22, 2013

wilful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallas%27s_cat
posted by IAmBroom at 11:20 AM on May 22, 2013