I need you to knead me

October 29, 2017 10:42 AM

To help you wind down after a long week, here’s a soothing video of Maru The Cat kneading bread. (recent previouslies) [SLYT]
posted by Room 641-A (26 comments total)

If you're ever doubting that there is any good left in the world, Maru makes it all better.

(Also she has the same serious face + airplane ears as my baby does when he's super intense and making biscuits. N'aww.)
posted by elsietheeel at 10:59 AM on October 29, 2017 [2 favorites]

What is Maru holding in his mouth?
posted by cynical pinnacle at 11:19 AM on October 29, 2017 [1 favorite]

I love Maru. Here’s Maru in a pumpkin, it’s seasonally appropriate.

I think that might have been a plastic collar? Maybe Maru made a visit to the vet?
posted by bilabial at 11:21 AM on October 29, 2017 [3 favorites]

my kitty Bellatrix also gets a very intense serious look on her face when she makes muffin on my lap. its one of the cutest things in the world.
posted by supermedusa at 11:33 AM on October 29, 2017 [2 favorites]

I think I've been carving pumpkins wrong all this time.

How do I unlock the secret cat level?
posted by cynical pinnacle at 11:37 AM on October 29, 2017

That title is a such cheap trick.
posted by Cold Lurkey at 11:40 AM on October 29, 2017 [10 favorites]

Oh my god, Maru's person got him a fish tank.
posted by Mavri at 11:54 AM on October 29, 2017 [1 favorite]

He, not she. Hana is she (I think?). My apologies, kittenface.

I believe that Maru has a straw in his mouth. There are other videos that show him playing with straws.

My cats like them as well, although not as much as that strip of plastic that you tear off when you open a resealable bag.
posted by elsietheeel at 11:57 AM on October 29, 2017 [1 favorite]

The thing that amazes me about Maru is that his person always shows a devastatingly minimal living space that apparently has hiding spaces for hundreds of Maru baits, containers, toys, treats, hats, and other bits and bobs.
posted by xyzzy at 12:21 PM on October 29, 2017 [13 favorites]

Yeah, my dear departed Melanie used to get that I AM DEEPLY ENGAGED IN SERIOUS BUSINESS face at biscuit-making time. She also used it in the litter box, especially when digging and covering. afterward. I'd always ask her if she was trying to dig her way to China.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 12:28 PM on October 29, 2017 [2 favorites]

What is Maru holding in his mouth?

Looks like a juice-box straw that has been chewed up.

I do this all the time. Also to the left draw string of every single hoodie I own or have ever owned.
posted by Fizz at 12:44 PM on October 29, 2017 [3 favorites]

xyzzy: right? I want a tour of Maru's person's house. I get the same "ooh everything has a spot and you can't see it!" feeling from seeing the videos that I do when I read the Ikea catalog
posted by dismas at 1:03 PM on October 29, 2017 [2 favorites]

The thing in his mouth is the bait for the fishing pole lying nearby. You can see the line at the beginning of the video, and at 1:00 the pole twitches.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 1:05 PM on October 29, 2017 [4 favorites]

In metafilter threads related to disasters in Japan there is almost always a "Maru is OK" comment. Sometimes I inadvertently hold my breath...
posted by srboisvert at 1:07 PM on October 29, 2017 [9 favorites]

The thing that amazes me about Maru is that his person always shows a devastatingly minimal living space that apparently has hiding spaces for hundreds of Maru baits, containers, toys, treats, hats, and other bits and bobs.

His humans are obviously practitioners of Maru Kondo.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 1:52 PM on October 29, 2017 [15 favorites]

That thing in his mouth makes him look kind of Gallic and world-weary: “I know, I know, it is foolish, all this bread kneading, but what can one do?”
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:56 PM on October 29, 2017 [10 favorites]

Maru's person must have incredible control over their emotions - I slid off my chair laughing at the fishtank video and the hysterical sequel.
posted by prismatic7 at 3:13 PM on October 29, 2017 [4 favorites]

Maru's tail is so good
posted by dismas at 3:44 PM on October 29, 2017 [3 favorites]

KITTY STOP SMOKING CIGARETTE IS BAD FOR YOU!
posted by vrakatar at 4:34 PM on October 29, 2017 [5 favorites]

Maru's gone Clint Eastwood, squinty eyed with skinny cigar.
posted by a humble nudibranch at 6:47 PM on October 29, 2017 [2 favorites]

Maru always makes me think of Ron Swanson.
posted by tzikeh at 7:58 PM on October 29, 2017 [6 favorites]

That thing in his mouth makes him look kind of Gallic and world-weary

Yeah exactly -- I thought it might be a toothpick but actually looks more like a short pipe-cleaner.

However, Maru, that's not bread -- merely a clever pan-cushion.
posted by Rash at 9:16 PM on October 29, 2017 [1 favorite]

Every time I see a new Maru video I have to mentally shut down the part of my brain that automatically does the math on the number of years that has elapsed since the first Maru video I saw.
posted by um at 11:37 PM on October 29, 2017 [12 favorites]

I mentioned recently in an AskMe thread that Maru's channel is one of my own cat's favourite things to watch. Needless to say, the cat and I have both already watched Maru knead bread. :)
posted by easternblot at 7:08 AM on October 30, 2017

easternblot, the fact that your cat likes to watch Maru is incredible and wonderful and, i think the teens would say, wholesome af
posted by dismas at 10:35 AM on October 30, 2017 [1 favorite]

> The thing that amazes me about Maru is that his person always shows a devastatingly minimal living space that apparently has hiding spaces for hundreds of Maru baits, containers, toys, treats, hats, and other bits and bobs

I presume that the half of the room we can't see is FILLED with crap that got shoved out of the camera's view. That doesn't account for the lack of dust kittens, though.
posted by The corpse in the library at 3:21 PM on November 3, 2017 [1 favorite]