[we'llallhavetea]

Originally Posted by lonad

Alternative view. Stray cat comes across body of other stray and thinks hmmm a meal . The dead cat is stiff from rigamortise and the other cat is trying to knead the meat to tenderise it.

Cats can not carry out heart massage or mouth to mouth, and as Liah has said he is also trying to hump it.

Cat people always amaze me .

i think we all know that the cat is not carrying out heart massages. its the desperate, upset look on his face thats so upsetting.

why you gotta be a hater?

[Kasabian]

Originally Posted by we'llallhavetea

i think we all know that the cat is not carrying out heart massages. its the desperate, upset look on his face thats so upsetting.

why you gotta be a hater?

You think they all know , ok !

I don't hate

[we'llallhavetea]

Originally Posted by lonad

You think they all know , ok !

well i hope so!

[Liam Byrne]

Maybe the white one hadn't realised that the black one had used up the other 8 lives and wanted to be a hero ?

P.S. I also wondered about the humping action at one stage of the video....

[ancapailldorcha]

Originally Posted by Feeky Magee

Apologies if this is already posted, but I can't see anything. I beseech you to watch this video and not die a little inside.

Speaking as a man who's recently lost his cat, this is a truly heartbreaking video. Worth putting up OP, cheers!

[Flamed Diving]

Was he trying to hump it at one stage?

[LadyMayBelle]

That's so sad, I really couldn't get much further than a minute or two into it, I wanted to reach out and hug the poor kitty whose friend was dead..too sad

[Wibbs]

Originally Posted by lonad

Alternative view. Stray cat comes across body of other stray and thinks hmmm a meal .

Unlikely as cats aren't generally cannibalistic.

The dead cat is stiff from rigamortise and the other cat is trying to knead the meat to tenderise it.

Again unlikely, cats knead each other as a social thing. Usually siblings, mates and parents. They'll do same to humans. Tenderising meat that way would be an even stranger behaviour. If cats want to tendorise meat they ill leave it go a bit rotten, like human will do with pheasant or venison. Tigers do this quite a bit. Stuff the prey in a meat safe and wait a few days for decay to do the tenderising.

Cats can not carry out heart massage or mouth to mouth, and as Liah has said he is also trying to hump it.

Agreed on the first too. The latter isnt that unusual. It's clearly trying to get a response, face licking, kneading probably purring, mating attempts wouldnt be beyond instinct especially if it was its mate.

Cat people always amaze me .

I'm not a cat person. Not by a long shot. Indeed I've been slated on this very website recently for not being.

[antodeco]

Originally Posted by Feeky Magee

Apologies if this is already posted, but I can't see anything. I beseech you to watch this video and not die a little inside.

Wasnt he the dude from Save by the Bell?

[recylingbin]

Originally Posted by Wibbs

Because he was sad and confused. Our human intellect may cover the emotion in symbolism and culture, but the emotion underneath is very real and visceral. Our hubris can often cloud that.

That magpie I mentioned. All the while I was stroking its dead mate/sibling it was looking at me and the dead one. Literally feet away. I must have looked like the statue of liberty in size to it but somewhere in its mind it understood I wasnt a threat and I do believe in some way it also understood I was respecting the dead one. I dont believe in an intellectual cause and effect way, but in an instinctive way. While an "animal" may not comprehend its own extinction, it does comprehend when the familiar is not longer familiar. That is something we all share.

That said it has been observed that elephants, wolves and the great apes show definite signs of grief. The latter in particular, but it doesnt mean other animals dont.

You're either Dr. Doolittle or a mental.

[partyatmygaff]

Originally Posted by antodeco

Wasnt he the dude from Save by the Bell?

I'd screech if I was your english teacher

[--LOS--]

Originally Posted by recylingbin

You're either Dr. Doolittle or a mental.

he's the cat whisperer

[Wibbs]

Originally Posted by recylingbin

You're either Dr. Doolittle or a mental.

A "mental case" would work far better grammatically than a "mental". You're a mental, suggests something to follow. A .......as it where. Like saying you're a "special"..... See what I mean? But otherwise, yep gotta agree with you, more likely the latter than the former.

[partyatmygaff]

Originally Posted by Wibbs

A "mental case" would work far better grammatically than a "mental". You're a mental, suggests something to follow. A .......as it where. Like saying you're a "special"..... See what I mean? But otherwise, yep gotta agree with you, more likely the latter than the former.

Or better yet in the colloquial....

"Jaysus, he's a mentaller"

[--LOS--]

Originally Posted by Wibbs

A "mental case" would work far better grammatically than a "mental". You're a mental, suggests something to follow. A .......as it where. Like saying you're a "special"..... See what I mean? But otherwise, yep gotta agree with you, more likely the latter than the former.

Or just mental without the "a", Wibbs you're eloquently mental.