Amazingly, the Christmas tree is still standing.
December 5, 2013 12:48 PM Subscribe
Christmas Cats TV is "an eight-hour streaming video of a 'cat lady' and an elf hanging out with cats — some of them in holiday sweaters." (Direct link to site - autoplaying music)
elizardbits, they're in Brooklyn! you should go there.
posted by desjardins at 12:51 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by desjardins at 12:51 PM on December 5, 2013
No because then I might have to interact with humans and I don't like that.
posted by elizardbits at 12:55 PM on December 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by elizardbits at 12:55 PM on December 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
Oh god, the Twin Peaks log lady has switched to mammals.
posted by Atom Eyes at 12:55 PM on December 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by Atom Eyes at 12:55 PM on December 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
Further detail from the article - this is actually being produced by North Shore Animal League, who are also offering all the cats seen in the video feed for adoption.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 12:58 PM on December 5, 2013 [6 favorites]
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 12:58 PM on December 5, 2013 [6 favorites]
I asked for nose booping but no nose booping has happened, this is a terrible injustice.
posted by elizardbits at 1:07 PM on December 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by elizardbits at 1:07 PM on December 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
I am completely freaked out by the porn elements, i.e., "tell us what to do". There must be a quid pro quo here somewhere.
posted by janey47 at 1:08 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by janey47 at 1:08 PM on December 5, 2013
elizardbits, I don't see your nose booping request, it may just take a while for the comments to catch up.
posted by janey47 at 1:08 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by janey47 at 1:08 PM on December 5, 2013
Are any of the cats wearing cat-sized versions of the Christmas sweaters worn by the people?
posted by The Whelk at 1:09 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by The Whelk at 1:09 PM on December 5, 2013
Metafilter: Howdy to Houston Police and Medical
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 1:09 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 1:09 PM on December 5, 2013
Are any of the cats wearing cat-sized versions of the Christmas sweaters worn by the people?
There's a gray kitten with a red sweater on the screen right now.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:20 PM on December 5, 2013
There's a gray kitten with a red sweater on the screen right now.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:20 PM on December 5, 2013
I just genuinely laughed out loud at "Meow Playing"; who have I become?
Also, why is it so fucking cute to watch a cat crawling over Christmas packages under a tree when you know in real life it is a nightmare pain-in-the-ass?
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:22 PM on December 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
Also, why is it so fucking cute to watch a cat crawling over Christmas packages under a tree when you know in real life it is a nightmare pain-in-the-ass?
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:22 PM on December 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
I am watching this now and the music is perfectly synched with the action. How do they do it??
posted by Wordwoman at 1:23 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by Wordwoman at 1:23 PM on December 5, 2013
why is it so fucking cute to watch a cat crawling over Christmas packages under a tree when you know in real life it is a nightmare pain-in-the-ass?
*snerk* I learned early that when you have a cat, what you do is you get a whole package of little jingle bell things and you make ornaments out of them, and hang them on the lower branches.
Presto: Cat Intruder Alarm!
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:23 PM on December 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
*snerk* I learned early that when you have a cat, what you do is you get a whole package of little jingle bell things and you make ornaments out of them, and hang them on the lower branches.
Presto: Cat Intruder Alarm!
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:23 PM on December 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
This will be our first Christmas with a real tree and cats in the same place, so I need to decide that if I'm going to steal that idea or if I have the kind of cats that take jingling bells as an invitation. (I think it might be that latter.)
And it is such a good thing this isn't in Chicago because I want to adopt them all.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:31 PM on December 5, 2013
And it is such a good thing this isn't in Chicago because I want to adopt them all.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:31 PM on December 5, 2013
Make sure to attach the tree to the ceiling as well as the floor. It doesn't solve all the problems, but it can help a lot.
posted by janey47 at 1:33 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by janey47 at 1:33 PM on December 5, 2013
I am leaving work early right now because I want to go see my cats and listen to Christmas music.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:34 PM on December 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:34 PM on December 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
Just shared this to my knitting blog's Facebook page, because the only thing that gets the knitters who follow it more excited than anything cat and knitting related is a picture of a handsome male celebrity knitting. If Colin Firth or George Clooney were to appear on this show to knit and pet the cats I think they'd all expire with joy.
posted by orange swan at 1:34 PM on December 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by orange swan at 1:34 PM on December 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
This will be our first Christmas with a real tree and cats in the same place, so I need to decide that if I'm going to steal that idea or if I have the kind of cats that take jingling bells as an invitation.
No, see, the jingling bells come paired with you running into the room with a squirt gun drawn and ready to fire or some other deterrent. That teaches them that jingling bell = water death from above and they stay clear or run out of the room themselves first.
Or, they get clever enough to aim for the higher branches, in which case if your cat is that clever you should just admit defeat and spring for ornaments made of paper and felt.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:36 PM on December 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
No, see, the jingling bells come paired with you running into the room with a squirt gun drawn and ready to fire or some other deterrent. That teaches them that jingling bell = water death from above and they stay clear or run out of the room themselves first.
Or, they get clever enough to aim for the higher branches, in which case if your cat is that clever you should just admit defeat and spring for ornaments made of paper and felt.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 1:36 PM on December 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
This will be our first Christmas with a real tree and cats in the same place
I'm only going to say this once, plastic ornaments.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 1:43 PM on December 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
I'm only going to say this once, plastic ornaments.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 1:43 PM on December 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
that grumpy grey and white dude with the bow tie is my new bff.
posted by misskaz at 1:47 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by misskaz at 1:47 PM on December 5, 2013
the grandma just took a swig out of a flask with a cat on it.
posted by misskaz at 1:53 PM on December 5, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by misskaz at 1:53 PM on December 5, 2013 [3 favorites]
Where did the cats go?
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 1:57 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 1:57 PM on December 5, 2013
I saw people singing, but zero cats.
posted by trip and a half at 1:59 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by trip and a half at 1:59 PM on December 5, 2013
Poor cats probably needed a little break from overstimulation
posted by janey47 at 2:01 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by janey47 at 2:01 PM on December 5, 2013
I prefer to think they already found homes for all of them.
posted by trip and a half at 2:03 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by trip and a half at 2:03 PM on December 5, 2013
I had a friend whose Christmas was marked by the annual gentle tugging of tinsel from the end of the cat that had consumed it the day before.
posted by angrycat at 2:55 PM on December 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by angrycat at 2:55 PM on December 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
The shelter I adopted latest Kitty from posted a FB pic of another adoptee seemingly IN a Xmas tree, with shiny old-fashioned tinsel strings hanging right in front of it. Waaaat? That’s not good.
My latest tactic to combat such behavior is aversion therapy, whereby when Kitty starts humping the tree or whatever it is she’s trying to do, I play a YouTube recording of a tornado siren.
posted by NorthernLite at 3:11 PM on December 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
My latest tactic to combat such behavior is aversion therapy, whereby when Kitty starts humping the tree or whatever it is she’s trying to do, I play a YouTube recording of a tornado siren.
posted by NorthernLite at 3:11 PM on December 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
The old lady killed the tall elf with a cardboard sword.
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 4:18 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 4:18 PM on December 5, 2013
The cats in sweaters do a funny walk, like the cat in the Kittens Mittens ad.
posted by carsonb at 4:30 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by carsonb at 4:30 PM on December 5, 2013
There's a gray kitten with a red sweater on the screen right now.
no, whelk is MAKING FUN of my awesome clever glorious christmas cat sweater askme because he is JEALOUS that no one is buying him a christmas sweater with a matching one for his cat.
posted by elizardbits at 8:16 PM on December 5, 2013
no, whelk is MAKING FUN of my awesome clever glorious christmas cat sweater askme because he is JEALOUS that no one is buying him a christmas sweater with a matching one for his cat.
posted by elizardbits at 8:16 PM on December 5, 2013
SO JEALOUS
posted by elizardbits at 8:16 PM on December 5, 2013
posted by elizardbits at 8:16 PM on December 5, 2013
i'd thought, 'damn, bet those cats wish the christmas music was off and they could play in blessed silence' and then realized I was projecting
posted by angrycat at 6:13 AM on December 6, 2013
posted by angrycat at 6:13 AM on December 6, 2013
FUCK i got so busted today as myself and the employees i supervise all had this open on our screens AT THE MOMENT THE ELF HELD UP A SHOUTOUT TO US and then one of my other colleagues walked in as we were all christmascats :(
posted by avocet at 12:12 PM on December 6, 2013
posted by avocet at 12:12 PM on December 6, 2013
Amazingly, the Christmas tree is still standing.
It wasn't me
posted by homunculus at 12:47 PM on December 6, 2013 [1 favorite]
It wasn't me
posted by homunculus at 12:47 PM on December 6, 2013 [1 favorite]
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is this heaven
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