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[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 112 points 1 month ago

Poor fat thing :(

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 72 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is this photoshopped?!? The little guy has turned spherical! is this even possible?

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 87 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's what happens when physics teachers get a cat.

frictionless sphere, the perfect pet

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aa long as nobody starts vacuuming around him. Like nature, cats abhor a vacuum (even if they ARE perfectly spherical)

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

roll away with great rotational velocity

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 1 month ago

I once saw a cat like that at a B&B in Scotland. A tabby who looked like a furry beachball.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 month ago

That's not a cat, that's a throw pillow.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Thank you for sharing. That is crazy!

Unfortunately, the shared link is now just after the donut. The demonstration starts at about 4:41.

That was such a great show. Wild that the cat knew donuts as food.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

My cat will ignore wet food and meat if there are carrots around. Carrots are obviously not as unhealthy as donuts (to humans at least, I gotta assume that’s true for cats too), but they’re still not something I would expect cats to go for.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

We don't feed our cats donuts, but I have no doubt in my mind they would recognize it as food and go for it, if they really wanted to. (With our current cats, we've never had an issue, but we had one before that would go after any food you left out. And he was super thin, just very food-driven.)

But yeah they're feeding that cat junk food.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ive known multiple cats that would eat waffles. One of them even stole one off the kitchen counter

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

So a cat could, in theory, really like lasagna...

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah I just couldn't get it to load quite right. Glad you found it anyway!

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love how the owners were like "the cat is unfixable." As if it's the cat that's the problem. Just stop feeding your cat junk food!

Wow, I got way to invested into that video. Thanks for posting it.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

All of his vids are like that. A really common one is people that don't realize you have to show the cat what a scratching post is and that that's ok to scratch vs the couch. Just because animals don't talk doesn't exclude them from the communicative requirements of any other relationship. I've also communicated to my cat that she may receive single finger strokes to the cheeks in exchange for a nice wet nose to nose snoot boop. It's all about communication folks.

As a side note I use it as a metaphor to explain the importance of creative expression to my psych patients. Dogs gotta chew, cats gotta scratch, humans have to express creativity. If any of us aren't given healthy outlets to meet those natural drives we start doing them in the wrong places in ways that harm ourselves and others.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month ago

OH LAWD HE COMIN

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago
[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 14 points 1 month ago

Absolute unit.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

So she takes in cushioned footstools and stands their constant begging for more food? Good on her, I certainly couldn't do it.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago
[–] ScruffyDucky@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Nice kitty orb