If I tried this with Tunch, I would be bleeding for a week:
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Cat Vacuuming
CAT VACUUMING….Every two weeks a pair of housecleaners comes to clean our house. They ring the doorbell first and then a few minutes later they start vacuuming. Our cats are so spooked by this that actual vacuuming is no longer…
Nikki
I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it. All of our pets were terrified of the vacuum cleaner.
Mr Furious
My dog HATES the vacuum. Attacks it as soon as I turn it on.
If I had tried that with my cat (19-pound Maine Coon) I’d be lucky to walk away.
James Gary
I believe this cat is of the breed known as the Ecuadorian Immobile, which declines to walk and must be carried from place to place. EIs are very fond of being vacuumed.
Davebo
Only slightly less disgusting (and less fun) than cat juggling.
Jake
What a convincing and life-like cat puppet.
Zifnab
I call bullshit.
Rusty Shackleford
I recently bought a new upright vacuum cleaner and my cat swats and hisses at it the entire time it’s on. He has no problem with the old tank vacuum and didn’t seem to mind the old upright much, but the new unright? Fuhgetaboutit.
I’m not sure what was going on at my neighbors yesterday but from the sound of it I’m guessing Kitty Exorcism.
whatsleft
My cats have two words for Jabba the Katt – “personal boundaries”.
grumpy realist
That’s GOT to be the most laid-back cat I’ve ever run into.
Ex-show cat? I can’t think of any other cat that might put up with getting vacuumed.
Bruce Moomaw
Usually cats are afraid of the vacuum, but not always. Back in the 1960s we had an otherwise quite timid black cat (no hearing problems at all) who was utterly unconcerned about it, to the point that he would calmly let you suck his tail up the hose (I hasten to add that this was a tank-type cleaner). At the same time, we had a Siamese who had convinced herself that the same tank-type’s hose was actually a giant snake, and would attack its “head” with grim, unswerving determination even when it was turned off if you waved it around.
Of course, after 44 years of living with them, absolutely nothing a Siamese could do at this point would surprise me.
RandyH
The cat is probably deaf. If my cats were deaf, they would love the vaccuum. But the noise scares them to another room every time.
Nick
The description on the video does say that this cat has been deaf since birth. Indeed, on a non-deaf cat that doesn’t get scared by the noise, it would probably be a good idea to avoid the ears.
Nice find!
Redhand
At least the human didn’t try to vacuum under the cat’s tail.
The Other Steve
You might be able to get them with a whole house system, or a 40′ long hose, such that the vacuum was in the other room.
I’ve been meaning to try it with the long hose, to see what they do. :-)
rachel
Your cat probably figures the new unright vacuum cleaner is doubleplus ungood–as many unright things are.
ding7777
Was it the Pet Vac?
IanY77
Here’s another from the same vein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi-DmNRNafM
(no html-fu, sorry)
Incidentally, I had a deaf grey tabby, and the thing just shat bricks as soon as I brought either the upright or the handheld out of the closet. Not saying that proves anything, but just pitching in my two cents.
Barry
There’s a joke that scientists are reconstructing the puzzle of an ancient creature, now extinct, which preyed on cats. It was the greatest enemy of cats, and loved feasting on them, to the exclusion of any other prey.
At this point scientists don’t know what it looked like, but they believe that it’s attack cry sounded exactly like a modern vacuum cleaner :)
Jimmmmm
Flowbee for cats?
Hey, that feline isn’t gonna stay white without a little help…