Cat Tries To Revive Dying Friend

we'llallhavetea_old

well that was hard to watch so sad. i is covered in snot and tears now.

liah

I hate saying this, especially considering I'm normally of the "animals are people too!!11" variety, but..

The live cat is CLEARLY humping the dead one at just under a minute in. You may not want to see it because everyone loves a sob story, but I hate to break it to ya, kids: he ain't a heartbroken friend, he's a necrophiliac gettin' it on.

Still crying now?

My name is URL

liah wrote: »

I hate saying this, especially considering I'm normally of the "animals are people too!!11" variety, but..

The live cat is CLEARLY humping the dead one at just under a minute in. You may not want to see it because everyone loves a sob story, but I hate to break it to ya, kids: he ain't a heartbroken friend, he's a necrophiliac gettin' it on.

Still crying now?

You just don't care for cats =p It obviously wasn't trying to revive it, it probably never even went to meowdical school.. But it was trying to make it react to it's presence. I don't know what level of emotion cats have, if any, but that one did look as if it was feeling something (other than randy)

alwaysadub

My name is URL wrote: »

I don't know what level of emotion cats have, if any, but that one did look as if it was feeling something (other than randy)

Well,my granddad had a cat for a good few years,it was just the 2 of them in the house, and when he died at home, (Granddad, not the cat) Daisy the cat was found curled up beside him crying.

We took Daisy in, and a few days later she disappeared. Got a call few days later from Granddad's neighbour to say Daisy was sitting on the doorstep of Granddad's flat. The cat had managed to find it's way back from my house in Tallaght, to where it lived in Rathmines, which is a fair ould distance for a cat.
She came back to us anyway for a few more years,then she got sick and went missing. We actually think she went back to Rathmines to die.

So,since then,i do now think cats have more emotion that people give them credit for.

Des Carter

OMG its like something from a Disney movie.

So sad.

Des Carter

Hey heres a squirrel protecting its dead friend from crows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sOw3mCz4Oc

Hank_Jones

I was expecting the other cat to get up at the end.

Why can't life be more like the movies?
Stupid, sucky reality.

Nuri Sahin

Being 22 year old guy and a cat owner, had me tears that

silvervixen84

You could see the anguish on its face, so sad.

I'm going to go find my cat to give her a cuddle now

sam34

Wibbs wrote: »

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.

penguins do it too, dont they?

(my vast knowledge is gleaned from that morgan freeman documentary )

ilovebiology

Thats the saddest video I have ever saw. Brought a tear to me eye, the poor cat

--LOS--

aw that is so sad

Cats are very sensitive, when one of our cats died, we couldn't mention its name around the other cat or it would become distressed.
We had one cat who adopted a kitten from up the road whos mother had died, as one of her own kittens, aw nice cat. The kitten did then breastfeed off the cat till a disturbingly old age though :eek:

IvySlayer

That is sad

Different animals try different techniques, cats generally tend to lick. That cat did lick the others face.

Kasabian

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 .

we'llallhavetea_old

lonad wrote: »

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

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

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_old

lonad wrote: »

You think they all know , ok !

well i hope so! :eek:

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

Feeky Magee wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAaH_HlUD68

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

lonad wrote: »

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

Feeky Magee wrote: »

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

Wibbs wrote: »

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

antodeco wrote: »

Wasnt he the dude from Save by the Bell?

I'd screech if I was your english teacher

--LOS--

recylingbin wrote: »

You're either Dr. Doolittle or a mental.

he's the cat whisperer

Wibbs

recylingbin wrote: »

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

Wibbs wrote: »

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--

Wibbs wrote: »

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.

recylingbin

Wibbs wrote: »

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.

Ever seen the office?