How Kittens Wrestle

[andrew7610]

I do remember it being said on QI that the only reason that your pet cat hasn't tried to kill you for food is that you're just too big - too much hassle.

Oh, he's bloody tried all right.

[Moonlight Shadow]

One excellent reason to choose cats over dogs...

https://goo.gl/images/7LU6UL

[wiblflibl]

You have to handle a cat within the first seven days of its life for it to become domesticated, otherwise after that it will be feral.

Young feral cats, especially kittens, can become domesticated. Two of our cats were born feral and trapped by Croydon Animal Samaritans at an estimated age of seven weeks. After a couple of weeks treatment for malnourishment, cat flu, fleas and ticks they spent about a month at a CAS specialist foster home where they "work hard to socialise young feral cats and kittens using behavioural techniques that help them develop their confidence whilst feeling safe and secure".

[Gangster Octopus]

I wonder what happened to our temporary feral cat...

[Janik]

Young feral cats, especially kittens, can become domesticated. Two of our cats were born feral and trapped by Croydon Animal Samaritans at an estimated age of seven weeks. After a couple of weeks treatment for malnourishment, cat flu, fleas and ticks they spent about a month at a CAS specialist foster home where they "work hard to socialise young feral cats and kittens using behavioural techniques that help them develop their confidence whilst feeling safe and secure".

If you want to domesticate cats, then it's almost the earlier in their life humans (plural) interact with them, the better. However IIRC you have up to about the age of three months where it has a reasonable chance of success.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Also it's what they kill that's the difference in that even the most indifferent mog can catch fledgling blue tits, but taking a rat requires some specialist hunting skills that have to be learnt

true, indeed much of the "use" of having cats is that rats smell their piss and fuck off. The odd thing about cats and rats is that they seem to be considerably more interested in killing rats than eating them. They will eat literally anything else first.

[Kevin S]

This one has some pretty good wrestling skillz:

https://twitter.com/Fd1mpC2glVI9CBV/status/1060797233703006208

[Kevin S]

And a couple of top slams here:

https://twitter.com/80sdystopia/status/838052637186502656

https://twitter.com/NobleNoir/status/1022799998956843008

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Of course the problems with cats wrestling is that they are all Heels.

[Logan Mountstuart]

Domestic cats can't hunt. A hur hur.

WOS is now 8. So far 764 dead mice found in flat. 189 mice found alive and released into the wild.

Yes, I've kept a count. He's a sodding nightmare. Every single orifice in the flat is blocked off. I can't smell. Weirdly, the only things I can smell are drains and rotting mice under a cupboard.

I've tried all available Internet remedies. If I block the cat flap he just howls and eventually smashes the cat flap in. I've got through 3 and they ain't cheap. I only sleep 4 hours a night anyway, so clearing up the daily mouse or 2 is a price I'll happily pay.

He's just a bastard. My other cat is this best cat I've ever had. And he's the only cat (or dog) in the area that Waste Of Space doesn't try to attack.

[Janik]

The claim was most domestic cats don't hunt seriously or skillfully. By implication that means some domestic cats do both of those things. Surely the waste of space is the one content to sit on it's haunches being stroked, though? The other is simply exploring the full potential of being a cat.