caturday fluff

December 15, 2007 8:20 AM

Two talking cats l cat talking translation l assorted cats.
posted by nickyskye (36 comments total)

We can haz konversayshun?
posted by ssmug at 8:32 AM on December 15, 2007

My cat freaked out. It was funny.
posted by Medieval Maven at 8:41 AM on December 15, 2007

Is this in response to this thread?

Also Kitten vs Puppy
posted by mrzarquon at 8:43 AM on December 15, 2007

Kittens playing with box.
posted by parallax7d at 8:44 AM on December 15, 2007 [4 favorites]

Glow in the dark kitties
posted by LordSludge at 8:47 AM on December 15, 2007

Too many cats.
posted by birdherder at 8:59 AM on December 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

Injured kitty won't give up.
posted by jchgf at 9:10 AM on December 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

i have to admit, i am a sucker for cats, but smashmouth?
posted by laminarial at 9:23 AM on December 15, 2007

The cats are on strike.
posted by homunculus at 9:33 AM on December 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

The translation was awesome.
posted by desjardins at 9:34 AM on December 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

Injured kitty won't give up.

That's not a kitty. That's a hybrid of a kitty and a box of Kleenex.
posted by randomination at 9:38 AM on December 15, 2007

When my cat saw the video, she ran into the other room, donned a jet pack (?!) and then flew out the window, meowing something about activating "Operation Omega"..

I fear we are truly fucked.
posted by kbanas at 9:42 AM on December 15, 2007 [5 favorites]

My, those are some incredibly talkative cats. Two of my boys like to chatter as they groom each other, but it always devolves into a wrestling match.

Not just the "Best of the Web" - this is what electricity was invented for.
posted by porn in the woods at 9:50 AM on December 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

Also contains glow-in-the-dark kitty poop (k').
posted by nowonmai at 9:53 AM on December 15, 2007

MetaFilter: Too many cats.
posted by cmgonzalez at 9:57 AM on December 15, 2007

That translation -- absolutely brilliant!
posted by ericb at 9:59 AM on December 15, 2007

Talking cats yes sure, we have 2 of them the only thing they say is Food
posted by emilio at 10:21 AM on December 15, 2007

ZOMG! Best of the Web, except for nowonmai, who needs a good tasering.
posted by RussHy at 10:28 AM on December 15, 2007

I like how the soundtrack to homunculus's link is Chocolate Rain.
posted by jozxyqk at 10:51 AM on December 15, 2007

The true nature of cats.
posted by cmgonzalez at 10:52 AM on December 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

My dogs go crazy everytime I play the first clip, but my cats have no reaction whatsoever. Or maybe they just want me to think they have no reaction.
posted by amyms at 11:26 AM on December 15, 2007

Are you a shill for coca-cola? Look at that prominent displa- awwwwww.......
posted by tehloki at 11:44 AM on December 15, 2007

I started the first one. My cat Fry came running in from the next room. He tentatively looked at me, approached slowly, and when he got up on the desk stared intently at the left speaker. When he noticed the screen for the first time, with the video fullscreened, he suddenly fluffed his back as if there were a threat, then relaxed as he considered maybe it was like that cat he always sees in the mirror. Then he poked in really closely at the right speaker.
posted by dhartung at 11:44 AM on December 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

(Dons allergen-resistant bubble, ambles slowly through cat thread like an overgrown, nervously itching hamster; feels reminiscent of Tippi Hedren in Hitchcock's The Birds.)
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 12:09 PM on December 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

My I add my (not particularly interesting) story to the accumulating evidence that the first "conversing cats" video is saying something really urgent to cats. The moment it started, my cat simon came trotting into my office from all the way across the house, head, ears and tail erect, with a "what? what? what?" look on his face. He stopped stock still, and listening to the end of the conversation. Then he stared thoughfully down at the ground for a moment, gave me a sage look, and left the room. Someone should do a controlled experiment with that clip.
posted by Faze at 1:16 PM on December 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

Cats are immoral creatures (mildly NSFW) Now I know what the cats I live with do when my housemates and I are away.....
posted by dibblda at 2:53 PM on December 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

the accumulating evidence that the first "conversing cats" video is saying something really urgent to cats.

I guess my two cats speak a different dialect, because they weren't interested in the least, and they have no compunction about jumping on my desk and batting at my monitor whenever the mood strikes.
posted by desjardins at 3:58 PM on December 15, 2007

For those of you with better taste in music, the third link is actually a viral for a Japanese cat food company called Aixia. The original can be seen here and the great thing about it is it doesn't have that fucking horrible song in it.
posted by dhammond at 4:00 PM on December 15, 2007

We discovered the translation a few weeks ago, and ever since have been bursting out with "quick! act like a cat."

I also discovered that if I make the kthwp! noise that the translations guys make to accompany licking, out little cat freaks out, bushed out tail and everything.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 4:20 PM on December 15, 2007

I still crack up when I see those cats translated into english.
posted by miss lynnster at 5:06 PM on December 15, 2007

Something tells me that if more "cats" spoke to each other, this would be a much better world.
posted by LiveLurker at 5:55 PM on December 15, 2007 [1 favorite]

My cat will have conversations like that with me, if I make the appropriate meowling noises. Only problem is that I have no idea what I'm saying in cat. I imagine they go something like this:

Cat: I hear the market went down three percent today.
Me: WAFFLES WAFFLES WAFFLES.
Cat: Don't you care about the economy?
Me: WAFFLES WAFFLES WAFFLES
Cat: Look, this is important! You're the human! Stop being such a freaking moron and listen to me about expanding your stock portfolio!
Me: I like meatloaf!
posted by grapefruitmoon at 6:23 PM on December 15, 2007 [9 favorites]

Me too, moon! Go figure! Just a buncha cats hangin' out eatin' meatloaf. Cool!
posted by LiveLurker at 6:33 PM on December 15, 2007

I saw these talking cats on BBC news the other week. No , seriously. It made me wonder when BBC stopped being about the news.
posted by dabitch at 5:39 AM on December 16, 2007

oh no! what happened to injured kitty? my heart is breaking!
posted by unknowncommand at 3:04 PM on December 16, 2007

2007: The Year in Cats
posted by homunculus at 1:30 PM on December 31, 2007 [2 favorites]