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  1. Amazing and wonderful! Who’da thunk it. And I do love cats too.

    For a few minutes I actually forgot about the dreck that walketh among us, what a relief. I do wish I could send it on to my best friend — she’d have loved it. Thank you, Neo!

  3. HA! My cats are smarter. They just look at me and with that look say “What ever” and go back to sleep.

  4. Saw this on AGT. Unbelievable. What a nice turnabout from the usual “cats train humans” routine.

    On the other hand I have a very well trained old Siamese. Her best trick is to wake me between 4:00AM and 5:00AM for breakfast. Timing is not terribly precise because she runs on “tummy time”, or maybe “Siamese time”, and not clock time. Her other tricks are jumping up on the end of the bed–with the help of a stool–so it is convenient for me to brush her; and lying in the middle of the walkway so I know to tickle her ears. She is also fluent in Siamese, and can’t understand why I am not. So, she keeps repeating herself. She has learned to reward me for good behavior by purring. Cats–gotta love ’em.

  5. We had a cat who took walks around the block with us, responding to “Heel, Tuffy,” by giving up his harassment of the neighborhood dogs and coming to my husband’s side.

  6. I am NOT a cat person, in fact and perhaps not surprisingly, the only cat I ever liked acted more like a dog than a cat. So there’s no preferential bias at play, when I say that was truly amazing.

    I was also struck by the audience’s reaction, when witness to something truly beyond all expectations, all political, cultural and racial differences evaporate.

  7. My cat is trying to train me to be a mouse, since she seems to have eliminated all the ones that used to live in the yard. At night, she comes up and very sweetly licks my finger before she gets her claws out. She is my third cat, and none were trainable. I wonder how old those cats were when the training started. Was food used as an incentive?

  11. How did they do it? The mother/daughter team have Russian sounding names, so they may have colluded with the cats.

  12. Very impressive…for a cat. Not so impressive…for a dog. Which demonstrates, yet again, how vastly superior dogs are compared to cats.

  15. Dog Lover,

    Lived with dogs and cats from knee high to a grasshopper, but I’ve never seen a dog climb a vertical pole or do an upside down walk on a horizontal pole. 🙂 Cats are better at vermin control, dogs better at guarding. It is domesticated animal multicultural diversity. H8ter! 🙂

  16. I love dogs, but we have had many cats over the decades because they are so much more flexible for a “migrant” family.

    Our first was a Siamese kitten who eventually moved from Texas to Fl, to Ca, to Hawaii, back to Ca, back to Florida, back to Ca, and finally to VA–with xc trips by plane and car in between to visit her extended family. Never batted a beautiful blue eye, except during the 90 day quaranteen in Hawaii. After she was gone, a lovable mutt joined the family, and shared us at times with up to three cats. All four rescued. They all just seemed so happy to have a home, that there was no conflict. Or very little.

    There have been a half dozen cats over the years, each loved for it self, but she set the standard. Since the Queen infiltrated our lives, and began our indoctrination, I have never understood people who did not “like” cats, or even hated them. It makes me wonder.

    God put them on earth to help us stay humble., On the other hand, anyone who says that cats cannot demonstrate a convincing semblance of love, doesn’t really know cats.

  17. Oldflyer on February 8, 2019 at 5:52 pm at 5:52 pm said:
    Saw this on AGT. Unbelievable. What a nice turnabout from the usual “cats train humans” routine.
    * * *
    I picked up a fridge magnet — “Dolphins are so smart that within weeks of captivity, the can train people to stand at the edge of the pool and throw fish at them.”

  18. Our landlord has a sign between his paws: “Will rent for food.”

    We’re getting off lightly.

  19. They discovered odd things their cats like to do for play. Every cat has his quirks. If you observe them carefully, you’ll find them.

    A dear friend of the family had a cat who was mad for sauteed mushrooms. He’d stand on his hind legs to get a mushroom. She didn’t train him to do that.

    You cannot train a cat. You can, however, persuade them to trust you. Sometimes that takes years.

  20. how vastly superior dogs are compared to cats.

    Dogs are other-directed and compliant, not superior.

  21. My son has a cat who plays fetch. She’s generally more playful and people-engaged than most cats — but I’ve never seen her jump through a hoop.

  22. Dogs are other-directed and compliant, not superior.

    yeah? really? if you think so…

    Hachik? was born on November 10, 1923 at a farm near the city of ?date, Akita Prefecture. In 1924, Hidesabur? Ueno, a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University, brought him to live in Shibuya, Tokyo as his pet. Hachik? would meet Ueno at Shibuya Station every day after his commute home. This continued until May 21, 1925, when Ueno died of a cerebral hemorrhage while at work. From then until his death on March 8, 1935, Hachik? would return to Shibuya Station every day to await Ueno’s return. During his lifetime, the dog was held up in Japanese culture as an example of loyalty and fidelity. Well after his death, he continues to be remembered in worldwide popular culture, with statues, movies, books, and appearances in various media. Hachik? is known in Japanese as ch?ken Hachik? (?????) “faithful dog Hachik?”, hachi meaning “eight” and the suffix -k? indicating affection.

    Eight-month-old Vivianna was trapped inside her Baltimore home when a fire suddenly broke out around 10 p.m. on Aug. 14, according to WBAL TV online. The child’s mother, Erika Poremski, claims she had just stepped outside when she noticed her house had caught on fire with both her daughter and six-year-old fur baby, Polo, inside. “I tried to keep getting in,” Poremski told CBS News on Friday. “She was up the stairs, but the fire smoke was so heavy I couldn’t get past it. I kept running back out and back in, trying to get up there. Then, the door curling started falling and I couldn’t get back in.”

    Poremski suffered burns to her face and hands.

    “I tried really hard, everyone in the neighborhood tried. They were kicking the doors in and kicking the windows out. I couldn’t (get her out). Nobody could.”

    despite the dangerous conditions, Vivianna was kept relatively safe by Polo, as he used his body to shield the infant from the flames. In turn, she only suffered from burns on her arm and side. The dog, unfortunately, wasn’t so lucky and died as a result of the blaze.

    The dog laid on the baby and took the fire and didn’t leave burning to death slowly…

    what was that you said about dogs?

    Like the pit bull that smelled gas, escaped, brought police back like lassie, and saved the building (and potentially the owner when they arrived home)…

    or this one in ny.. [if you want the link search the title]

    Pit bull puppy saves family from fire, carries baby by diaper -NY
    Hero Dog Saves 14-Month-Old Toddler From Drowning In Marcellus
    Dog saves baby deer from drowning in waters off Long Island
    Heroic Dog Saves Baby From Drowning In Pool
    A dog saved a baby’s life by dragging her out of her burning house
    Hero Pit Bull Saves Family from Building Fire and Pulls Baby to Safety Using the Child’s Diaper -California
    Tennessee Dog Saves 18-Month-Old Boy from Venomous Snake – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IurT4abt-9A
    Rescue dog saves little girl from dangerous snake – Florida
    Adopted Dog Helps Toddler Get Home After 9 Hours Lost In The Woods
    Deaf dog praised after staying with girl lost in Australian bush
    Pit bull rewarded after saving teen from rape in Brooklyn

    5-Pound Dog Dies Protecting Human Family From Bear
    Bear enters house, dog dies saving family
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/p/bear-enters-house-dog-dies-saving-family/vp-BBQdVWV

  24. Endless debate leading nowhere.
    Artfldgr, so what does your litany have to do with cats? Why do so many “dog lovers” have to proclaim the superiority of their pets? Are there some personal issues at work?

    There is a basic truth. Dogs are pack animals; they are very loyal to the pack, and will go to great lengths to fit into the pack, and will sacrifice to defend the pack. Absent a natural pack, they typically transfer their pack instincts to humans. So, they make excellent pets, and police/military dogs.

    Cats are not pack animals. Their nature is obviously different. But, they also learn to accommodate to circumstances. They are amazingly resilient, as anyone who keeps a barn can testify.

    I am on record. I love dogs. Grew up with dogs, no cats. But, I learned decades ago that cats fit the needs of a military family particularly well, although many have dogs, as did we. But, once you reach a level of maturity that allows you to accept cats in your life, you become a more tolerant person. Chew on that.

  25. Hey cat people…didn’t mean to ruffle your fur. Cats are actually an excellent compromise between a dog and a house plant.

  26. The first time I saw trained housecats it blew me away. That was on an episode of Penn and Teller’s “Sin City Spectacular”, their own unique brand of variety show on the FX cable channel. That was THIRTY years ago! =:O

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