Cat Tries To Revive Dying Friend

Feeky Magee · 02-05-2010 10:56pm #1

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.

FearDark · 02-05-2010 10:57pm

Been done already.

TheInquisitor · 02-05-2010 10:58pm

If im ever hurt i dont want one of ye feckers standing on my chest and licking my face!!

starbelgrade · 02-05-2010 10:59pm

Ahw.. the poor thing.. that'd bring a tear to a glass eye.

Jumpy · 02-05-2010 11:00pm

Looks like he was trying to make it comfy to lie on.

starbelgrade · 02-05-2010 11:02pm

TheInquisitor wrote: »

If im ever hurt i dont want one of ye feckers standing on my chest and licking my face!!

Don't be such a pussy.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 02-05-2010 11:03pm

Proof that cats are evil... he was checking him for his wallet and phone. The little scumbag.

He whispered in his ear "Try stop me now, ha!"...

Evil I tell ya, evil.

amcalester · 02-05-2010 11:03pm

If they were locked in a room he wouldn't be long eating her. Friend or not.

My name is URL · 02-05-2010 11:03pm

Play him off Keyboard Cat

02-05-2010 11:03pm

Jumpy wrote: »

Looks like he was trying to make it comfy to lie on.

Or tenderised to make digestible.

take everything · 02-05-2010 11:07pm

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.

Its technique is all wrong.
It's 30 compressions, 2 breaths X5.
It didn't even call for help.
FFS...

Michael B · 02-05-2010 11:07pm

bonerm · 02-05-2010 11:07pm

Meh, I already saw it in a Star Wars movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3v1F60iD7U

bronte · 02-05-2010 11:08pm

Thanks a lot Feeky. Now I'm crying.

Feeky Magee · 02-05-2010 11:09pm

This is how I feel after watching it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee925OTFBCA

monkeyfudge · 02-05-2010 11:09pm

i can haz defibrillator?

Feeky Magee · 02-05-2010 11:14pm

bronte wrote: »

Thanks a lot Feeky. Now I'm crying.

My logic was - if I'm miserable about a Turkish cat on a bank holiday weekend, everybody else should be too.

Sowwy.

Zombienosh · 02-05-2010 11:16pm

hes jus sweeping....right?:(

Jumpy · 02-05-2010 11:18pm

Feeky Magee wrote: »

This is how I feel after watching it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee925OTFBCA

Let him have it, its not wise to upset a wookiee.

bronte · 02-05-2010 11:24pm

Feeky Magee wrote: »

My logic was - if I'm miserable about a Turkish cat on a bank holiday weekend, everybody else should be too.

Sowwy.

'S ok, I've just put it on my facebook. Spread the

:(:(

Feeky Magee · 02-05-2010 11:28pm

I'm getting a cat. I've just decided. My Labrador won't be too happy but fúck her when she sees the video she'll understand.

bronte · 02-05-2010 11:30pm

I miss my Fluffy!

:(:(

Wibbs · 02-05-2010 11:32pm

That is sad. The cat was doing what it would do to get affection from its parent when it was a kitten. Thats why cats will knead their owners laps with their paws. They see them as their parent or sibling. It would have been very stressed when it wasnt responding, so it would paw harder as it does in the vid. So yea that is sad to watch.

I spotted a magpie in my garden gently pecking another dead magpie. Its mate? I have no idea. It was doing this for a while, but clearly not in an aggressive way. I went outside and against form it didnt try to fly away. It actually became aggressive with me as I came closer. Slowly I got closer and closer and it calmed down. I stroked the dead one and it sat less than two feet from me watching. I went off and came back with a trowel and buried the dead one. All the while this wild magpie watched me from feet away, chirping all the time. And then it left.

I'm defo not one for anthropomorphising animals, but I do acknowledge that emotion and suffering dont have a cut off point with humans.

bonerm · 02-05-2010 11:33pm

Feeky Magee wrote: »

This is how I feel after watching it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee925OTFBCA

I give them both a 9.6 on the Dawson scale.

glanman · 02-05-2010 11:43pm

Wibbs wrote: »

That is sad. The cat was doing what it would do to get affection from its parent when it was a kitten. Thats why cats will knead their owners laps with their paws. They see them as their parent or sibling. It would have been very stressed when it wasnt responding, so it would paw harder as it does in the vid. So yea that is sad to watch.

I spotted a magpie in my garden gently pecking another dead magpie. Its mate? I have no idea. It was doing this for a while, but clearly not in an aggressive way. I went outside and against form it didnt try to fly away. It actually became aggressive with me as I came closer. Slowly I got closer and closer and it calmed down. I stroked the dead one and it sat less than two feet from me watching. I went off and came back with a trowel and buried the dead one. All the while this wild magpie watched me from feet away, chirping all the time. And then it left.

I'm defo not one for anthropomorphising animals, but I do acknowledge that emotion and suffering dont have a cut off point with humans.

top story about the magpie... I'm normally pretty cold hearted but cats just get me everytime... this is probably the saddest thing i have seen on video and i was expecting a funny vid... I miss my cat who died 6 months ago:(:(:(:(:(:(

anniehoo · 02-05-2010 11:49pm

I tried not to cry...it didnt work

alwaysadub · 03-05-2010 12:20am

awwww,he was trying to lift him up by the end:(

He looked so sad:(

Zombienosh · 03-05-2010 12:22am

Minstrel27 · 03-05-2010 12:28am

Feeky Magee wrote: »

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

I beseech you to watch this video and not die a little inside.

I didn't die a little inside.

Wibbs · 03-05-2010 12:39am

alwaysadub wrote: »

awwww,he was trying to lift him up by the end:(
He looked so sad:(

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.

Odaise Gaelach · 03-05-2010 12:56am

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.

I haven't witnessed it first-hand, but I've heard of rabbits and guinea pigs grieving over the death of a fellow pet that it's friends with. I heard a story - I forget where - about a guinea pig and a rabbit who were bonded. Whenever the guinea pig would call out, the rabbit would go over to it and they would start playing.

When the rabbit died the guinea pig didn't realise and would keep calling for it. When the rabbit didn't come it would get distressed and sad.

So apparently you're supposed to leave the deceased pet alone for a day or two, so any of its friends can come to terms that it's dead. Which makes sense to me.

we'llallhavetea_old · 03-05-2010 4:51am

well that was hard to watch

so sad. i is covered in snot and tears now.

liah · 03-05-2010 6:59am

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 · 03-05-2010 9:56am

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 · 03-05-2010 11:09am

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 · 03-05-2010 11:09am

OMG its like something from a Disney movie.

So sad.

Des Carter · 03-05-2010 11:16am

Hey heres a squirrel protecting its dead friend from crows.

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

Hank_Jones · 03-05-2010 11:29am

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 · 03-05-2010 11:34am

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

silvervixen84 · 03-05-2010 1:41pm

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 · 03-05-2010 4:41pm

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 · 03-05-2010 6:14pm

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

--LOS-- · 03-05-2010 7:25pm

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 · 03-05-2010 7:46pm

That is sad

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

Kasabian · 03-05-2010 7:46pm

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 · 03-05-2010 7:49pm

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 · 03-05-2010 7:52pm

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 · 03-05-2010 7:53pm

lonad wrote: »

You think they all know , ok !

well i hope so! :eek:

Liam Byrne · 03-05-2010 7:54pm

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 · 03-05-2010 9:32pm

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 · 03-05-2010 10:31pm

Was he trying to hump it at one stage?

Cat Tries To Revive Dying Friend

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