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Good point, Brinny, many cats are scared to death of cameras, mine included. To corner her and rile her up until she was THAT upset would be a heartless thing to do. But, there are many heartless people out there. Or maybe it's just mean-spirited ignorance, who knows? Still inexcusable.

Melissa1208 said:

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Cats are a force to be reckoned with when they are mad. Having worked at vet clinics, I've seen a lot of mad cats. They would try to attack anyone that walked past their cage. It was slightly humorous because you're just minding your own business and BAM!--Cat legs are reaching out to get you. I remember also being able to hear one particularly angry cat when I was on a different floor of the building. Some of them get mad over little things, like getting a shot. I know they don't understand what's going on, but you know, dogs don't either and yet if you give them a cookie they're just fine That being said, I think it would be very uncool if the person in the video you posted provoked the cat to be that mad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E96YGSaDaLg

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the lady (who works there?) is laughing and continuing to aggravate the cat? there's something SERIOUSLY wrong with her.

Miles said:

YouTube - When Cats Attack

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LOL

radhead said:

I think the main cat here just has an "attitude" problem. Otherwise they would have to keep it locked up. My grandmother had a cat like that. It would be fine most of the day, but then, it would always get in a bad mood during the evenings for some reason. No one provoked it. We were all cat lovers.

Cats also have a need to "play" violently. Have you ever seen two friendly cats fighting? They will even put a fake "death bite" to the neck of the other.

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Big, big difference between cats play-fighting or just being frisky, and a cat that's genuinely terrified or in self-defense mode. Cats aren't little dogs, cats a whole other species with vastly different psychological and emotional tendencies. Cats are extremely sensitive and easily frightened. Anyone who plays on that is cruel and mean. A cat who seems just plain "mean" has either been abused in the past or has something else going on in its life to make it unhappy or insecure.

radhead said:

I found that one more disturbing. It must have been abused.

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It was in what appeared to be a recovery room at a vet clinic so it is more likely that it had some sort of procedure done and is not happy about it.

brinny said:

the lady (who works there?) is laughing and continuing to aggravate the cat? there's something SERIOUSLY wrong with her.

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She's just standing in front of the cage talking to it?

Melissa1208 said:

She's just standing in front of the cage talking to it?

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and laughing. A cat that disturbed (for whatever reason) needs a soothing presence. There is nothing to laugh at if the cat is that disturbed about something. Uh-uh, there's something SERIOUSLY wrong with her. She should not be near any animals that are in need of kindness and healing. Apparently she finds the reactions of the cat amusing. And is laughing as the cat continues to say, in so many growls "keep yer distance"...and she doesn't. She's a jerk.

Honestly, I think you are really overreacting to her laughing. I'm sure she loves animals (obviously because she works at an animal clinic). People that work at animals clinics have an extremely stressful physically and emotionally demanding job. Animals aren't like people and can't understand that the things we do are for their own good. Sometimes the natural reaction is to laugh when they overly freak out over something. I've laughed at mad cats before, too, when I walked by unsuspecting and was surprised by screeching and cat legs reaching out to grab me. I had done nothing to the cat and didn't even know it was in there. There was no way I could avoid it because I had to go through that narrow space to get to the sink. I guess I am cruel and demented since I laughed and I shouldn't have ever worked in a vet clinic to help animals or fostered baby kittens and nursed them to health.

This thread was pointless from the very beginning.

Anyways I'm 100% against abusing any kind of animal... if your wife breaks out crying for the fact that she's in prison because the police found her guilty for something she never did, would you go at her cell and laugh at her?

You'd say "Don't compare animals with your wife". Yes, I agree... but I want to say that they(animals) too have feelings... who knows why the cat was acting like that? You only see a video a couple of minutes long, but maybe that cat is abused every single day...

Melissa1208 said:

Honestly, I think you are really overreacting to her laughing. I'm sure she loves animals (obviously because she works at an animal clinic). People that work at animals clinics have an extremely stressful physically and emotionally demanding job. Animals aren't like people and can't understand that the things we do are for their own good. Sometimes the natural reaction is to laugh when they overly freak out over something. I've laughed at mad cats before, too, when I walked by unsuspecting and was surprised by screeching and cat legs reaching out to grab me. I had done nothing to the cat and didn't even know it was in there. There was no way I could avoid it because I had to go through that narrow space to get to the sink. I guess I am cruel and demented since I laughed and I shouldn't have ever worked in a vet clinic to help animals or fostered baby kittens and nursed them to health.

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i'd fire her. What kind of recovery clinic or scenario did you mean? At a vets? THe cat is there for treatment or recovering from treatmentr and she laughs at it...knows it by name, and is, you might as well say, pointing and laughing and saying 'look at the crazy cat'??

i'm gonna leave this thread alone now, y'all take care

alexw said:

This thread was pointless from the very beginning.

Anyways I'm 100% against abusing any kind of animal... if your wife breaks out crying for the fact that she's in prison because the police found her guilty for something she never did, would you go at her cell and laugh at her?

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This is not anywhere near that situation. That is an actual situation worth freaking out over. Laughing at a cat that is mad over something like getting a shot is more like laughing when a kid totally freaks out over something little, like his ice cream on his ice cream cone falling off. To the kid, it is a terrible, horrible thing that just happened, but to adults, it is funny because we have a totally different perspective of what's going on. Or it is like laughing at a dog who is not happy about getting a bath. Are people evil if they laugh when their dog hides behind the sofa or something when he hears the word, "bath"?

You'd say "Don't compare animals with your wife". Yes, I agree... but I want to say that they(animals) too have feelings... who knows why the cat was acting like that? You only see a video a couple of minutes long, but maybe that cat is abused every single day...

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Cats act like that ALL THE TIME in animal clinics. They get really mad when people restrain them to give them a shot or due some other procedure and then they stay mad for quite a while. Their owners are not abusive and neither are the people treating them. They just freak out.

People laugh at other people freaking out all the time, too -- especially little kids. Just watch America's funniest home videos.

Example...

YouTube - Single Ladies Devastation

This kid wasn't being hurt or abused. His dad simply informed him that he is not a single lady, and he was devastated to find that out. It is funny.

Melissa1208 said:

This is not anywhere near that situation. That is an actual situation worth freaking out over. Laughing at a cat that is mad over something like getting a shot is more like laughing when a kid totally freaks out over something little, like his ice cream on his ice cream cone falling off. To the kid, it is a terrible, horrible thing that just happened, but to adults, it is funny because we have a totally different perspective of what's going on.

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I understand your point Melissa, first of all I want to get this straight, I'm not arguing/fighting with somebody because of this topic.

You need to realize that if a cat it's becoming so defending, it's because she feels she's threaten... Now, even though she ain't truly threaten, she doesn't know this thing... Just think about what mental pressure it's put on that cat, because she's psihical pressured for something that may happen to her physical, right? So, even though nothing happens to the cat in the end... she'll still remain with this trauma... Now, you won't see such a big influence animals behaviour after traumas because they cannot express them-self properly...

I still don't think that a icecream falling of a boy's icecream cone should be part of a horror movie .

Melissa1208 said:

Or it is like laughing at a dog who is not happy about getting a bath. Are people evil if they laugh when their dog hides behind the sofa or something when he hears the word, "bath"?

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You have to make the difference between "not happy" and "terrified".

If a dog is not happy about going to bath, more exactly the dog is used to bathing but it's not quite in the mood to do this now, it's ok... I mean, I'm not happy about helping my mother in the kitchen either, but I just do it.

If a dog is terrified about taking a bath, more exactly the dog has never bathed before, he's probably like 4 years old without ever doing this... therefore he's terrified about bathing because is something new to him, he fears, and he feels threaten, because although nothing will happen to him in the end, he doesn't know this... he still gets the feeling of drowning. Therefore he fears for his life, and responds with an aggressive behaviour.

Do you think animals adopt an aggressive behaviour just to laugh at us and say "HAHA, look at his face, he's scared ,I love this stuff!!! GRRRR !!"?

Alex, if a dog is terrified and becomes aggressive, he's still going to need a bath. A responsible person is going to give him a bath, one way or another. He may have to be muzzled or sedated or whatever else. He's going to be scared and not know what's going on, but it is for the best. To not bathe him is what would be cruel. To not treat a cat that needs medical attention would be cruel. People who don't take care of their animals by not getting them veterinary attention or not grooming them are the people who you see on Animal Cops shows who get taken to court for cruelty.

Laughing because the cat is freaking out about medical treatment or a dog is freaking out because of a bath is a reaction some people have to that situation -- if you were to take such a person to court for cruelty to animals, they wouldn't be convicted. Laughing at an animal who is freaking out is not going to harm it.

Provoking a cat to be in a terrified state for fun is cruel, but in the video where the cat is in a veterinary hospital, that is not what happened. That cat would be ticked off whether the woman recording laughed or talked or didn't do anything. It would be ticked off if she was all the way across the room. Like I said before, cats react like that in animal hospitals all the time. Sometimes people find it funny. If you don't find it funny, fine, more power to you.

Melissa1208 said:

Alex, if a dog is terrified and becomes aggressive, he's still going to need a bath. A responsible person is going to give him a bath, one way or another. He may have to be muzzled or sedated or whatever else. He's going to be scared and not know what's going on, but it is for the best. To not bathe him is what would be cruel. To not treat a cat that needs medical attention would be cruel. People who don't take care of their animals by not getting them veterinary attention or not grooming them are the people who you see on Animal Cops shows who get taken to court for cruelty.

Laughing because the cat is freaking out about medical treatment or a dog is freaking out because of a bath is a reaction some people have to that situation -- if you were to take such a person to court for cruelty to animals, they wouldn't be convicted. Laughing at an animal who is freaking out is not going to harm it.

Provoking a cat to be in a terrified state for fun is cruel, but in the video where the cat is in a veterinary hospital, that is not what happened. That cat would be ticked off whether the woman recording laughed or talked or didn't do anything. It would be ticked off if she was all the way across the room. Like I said before, cats react like that in animal hospitals all the time. Sometimes people find it funny. If you don't find it funny, fine, more power to you.

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Glad someone called it for what it is. I just didn't have the patience to sit and think out a logical response. Yay you.

Melissa1208 said:

Alex, if a dog is terrified and becomes aggressive, he's still going to need a bath. A responsible person is going to give him a bath, one way or another. He may have to be muzzled or sedated or whatever else. He's going to be scared and not know what's going on, but it is for the best. To not bathe him is what would be cruel. To not treat a cat that needs medical attention would be cruel. People who don't take care of their animals by not getting them veterinary attention or not grooming them are the people who you see on Animal Cops shows who get taken to court for cruelty.

Laughing because the cat is freaking out about medical treatment or a dog is freaking out because of a bath is a reaction some people have to that situation -- if you were to take such a person to court for cruelty to animals, they wouldn't be convicted. Laughing at an animal who is freaking out is not going to harm it.

Provoking a cat to be in a terrified state for fun is cruel, but in the video where the cat is in a veterinary hospital, that is not what happened. That cat would be ticked off whether the woman recording laughed or talked or didn't do anything. It would be ticked off if she was all the way across the room. Like I said before, cats react like that in animal hospitals all the time. Sometimes people find it funny. If you don't find it funny, fine, more power to you.

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yup. Its why I cannot watch the first video in this thread without getting angry, because it is obvious someone is provoking that cat into that state. That is cruel.

In the Burger and Fries video the cat is not being provoked, he's just angry most likely because he's in an unfamiliar environment with unfamiliar people and he's trying to look tough in order to protect himself. IIRC that was actually an animal shelter so its quite possible he came from the streets or an abusive past where he learned that behaviour as a defense mechanism for situations where he was unsure or afraid in order to protect himself.

Miles said:

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