Maybe the cat is being fed by someone?
Jack, the cat that lives with us, shares our home with 6 rodents and he is more scared of them than they are of him. He isn’t being starved so he doesn’t feel the need to kill any animals.
We all have survival instincts, but when we are being satisfied we don’t need to use them. I surely haven’t felt like eating any of them.
Even if cats are being fed, most still go off to hunt, because it’s INSTINT. And the picture isn’t talking about survial instinct, it’s talking about the predatory instinct.
Cat: I’m gonna getcha, mousey!
Mouse: Please don’t, at least let me have my last meal!
(After 5 seconds)
Mouse: Whatcha starin’ at?
Cat: (fearfully, gulp) That hungry dog.
The cat probably already wounded the mouse (which is why it hasn’t run away) and happened to be distracted while studying it. I’ve seen cats do this before – from a distance it looks cute “Aww, kittie is playing nice with the mouse!” but up close you see kittie is actually performing a science experiment, watching its movement and seeing how much damage is required to kill it.
My cat on the other hand is literally afraid of birds. She WILL NOT go outside when there’s birds flying around.
One of our cats is afraid of EVERYTHING… strangers, geese flying overhead, the wind, NOTHING AT ALL… the only thing she’ll ever hunt and eat are insects. She would run away from this mouse, especially if it moved towards her.
This is Tom and Jerry! Tom’s sitting Still because he Knows If he steps to Jerry He’s Gonna get a Bowling Ball In the Face(or some such cartoonish Deviltry)!
It’s amusing that people are willing to cry “Photoshop!” rather than simply believe things can really happen. There’s plenty of examples of predators and prey “living” together. There’s hundreds of pictures of cats cuddled up with mice, ducklings, and birds. Or dog mothers fostering kittens, etc.
Keelhaul, we’re like that as well. If we had to survive in the wild, we would fail. we rely too much on our TVs and ovens/microwaves and our toasters and our other random electrical things.
Actually the cat isn’t attacking because the mouse isn’t moving. If the mouse sits still until the cat leaves – nothing will happen.
Cats don’t see objects that don’t move. They have no interest in them.
Oh and about the “live and let live” comment : cats will attack and kill – even when they don’t actually intend to eat their prey. Everyone who’s ever had a cat bring a dead mouse to their bed in the morning knows this.
Animals aren’t “programmed” to kill to eat. Just to kill, then eat if necessary from the prey. Eating, and staying alive is just a side-effect of the way they handle themselves. Cats, for example are programmed to examine, scratch and bite anything that moves, if they don’t think it can hurt them. Whether it’s little birds, a mouse, a child, or a car (I said think, and I didn’t imply they’re always right).
Obviously they do see objects that don’t move or else they’d walk right into them. If we get something new and place it in the house, Jack will creep very cautiously towards it, and will jump or take off if startled. Obviously he spots the new object and is very nervous about it.
They are not “programmed to kill” period. Jack has never shown interest in killing our degus and chinchillas.
When a cat brings in a dead animal to you without eating it it’s because cats do this as what is intended to be a kind gesture. The cat is giving you a gift.
Just because cats, and other animals, including humans, have instincts it doesn’t mean we always blindly follow them.
Cats may TEND to behave a certain way because of certain instincts, just like we will. But they do have free will and individual personalities.
Even lions have chosen to befriend others of a species they normally consume.
Yeah but the mouse is also a very similar color to the pavement. And from the cat’s angle, the eyes might not be too visible. So it’s very possible that the cat simply hasn’t noticed the mouse yet.
Cat: Cut!
Mouse: WTF!!! We just did that nine times.
Cat: Exactly. I’m tired.
Mouse: Nine lives, not times.
Cat: Oh. Right.
Mouse: Well, than let’s get on with it.
Cat: Are you sure? In the next scene I eat you.
Mouse: Oh, than call cut!
Cats don’t usually eat mice, they just play with them until they don’t work anymore. At least that’s what mine do. Maybe it’s because mine are pretty well fed.
Maybe that mouse is like the cousin of the white explosive mouse on Tom and Jerry. That cat heard the news on the radio saying that the mouse would explode, and he knew if he attacked, he was gonna blow up.
Homer, absolutely! Most mice nowadays are Islamic suicide bombers. No kidding!1 Some even eat rat poison to take the cat with them once eaten. It’s a war out there guys…
ratten!
its a cute cat
, but very stupid!!!
Maybe the cat is being fed by someone?
Jack, the cat that lives with us, shares our home with 6 rodents and he is more scared of them than they are of him. He isn’t being starved so he doesn’t feel the need to kill any animals.
We all have survival instincts, but when we are being satisfied we don’t need to use them. I surely haven’t felt like eating any of them.
Aaaaawwwwwwwwwwww……
Even if cats are being fed, most still go off to hunt, because it’s INSTINT. And the picture isn’t talking about survial instinct, it’s talking about the predatory instinct.
“because it’s INSTINT”
You dropped your ‘C’.
Some poeple need to check what they say…
Yeah, but if the cat doesn’t happen to be hungry or in a mood to chase a mouse, it’s likely to ignore it.
But look how sweet the mice seems! I would not hunt her either…
get your own rattenberg now!
ask your lokal rattenseller!
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Maybe the cat’s just being nonchalant? The mouse is kinda stupid for hanging out so close to the cat….Self-Preservation Fail?
Low standard failblog fail.
Haha the cat needs to learn to sence the mouse…be the mouse.
also a survival instinct fail
9/11 conspiracy!
the cat is a veggie
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Possibly a toxoplasmosis infected mouse (causing him to not fear the cat) and a well-fed cat (causing him to not care about the mouse).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
Cat: I’m gonna getcha, mousey!
Mouse: Please don’t, at least let me have my last meal!
(After 5 seconds)
Mouse: Whatcha starin’ at?
Cat: (fearfully, gulp) That hungry dog.
#13 Love it. Very clever.
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The cat probably already wounded the mouse (which is why it hasn’t run away) and happened to be distracted while studying it. I’ve seen cats do this before – from a distance it looks cute “Aww, kittie is playing nice with the mouse!” but up close you see kittie is actually performing a science experiment, watching its movement and seeing how much damage is required to kill it.
My cat on the other hand is literally afraid of birds. She WILL NOT go outside when there’s birds flying around.
One of our cats is afraid of EVERYTHING… strangers, geese flying overhead, the wind, NOTHING AT ALL… the only thing she’ll ever hunt and eat are insects. She would run away from this mouse, especially if it moved towards her.
This is Tom and Jerry! Tom’s sitting Still because he Knows If he steps to Jerry He’s Gonna get a Bowling Ball In the Face(or some such cartoonish Deviltry)!
Either that Or The Mouse Just Farted!
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Is that the Former First Cat, “Socks,” from the Clinton Administration?
Thanks, #14!
Somebody please kill that guy. Seriously.
And back to the pic, that just looks so daft it’s unreal.
Lucky mouse, he just so happened to walk right by the only blind cat in the world….lucky.
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^^love it.
It’s amusing that people are willing to cry “Photoshop!” rather than simply believe things can really happen. There’s plenty of examples of predators and prey “living” together. There’s hundreds of pictures of cats cuddled up with mice, ducklings, and birds. Or dog mothers fostering kittens, etc.
Are you kidding me???? We’re supposed to eat those things????That did not come out of a can!
(The plight of the suburban feline)
What you’re not seeing is that just off-camera, a huge log of katnip is rolling down the hill at him.
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Keelhaul, we’re like that as well. If we had to survive in the wild, we would fail. we rely too much on our TVs and ovens/microwaves and our toasters and our other random electrical things.
I think he’s found another mouse.
Live and let live!
Actually the cat isn’t attacking because the mouse isn’t moving. If the mouse sits still until the cat leaves – nothing will happen.
Cats don’t see objects that don’t move. They have no interest in them.
Oh and about the “live and let live” comment : cats will attack and kill – even when they don’t actually intend to eat their prey. Everyone who’s ever had a cat bring a dead mouse to their bed in the morning knows this.
Animals aren’t “programmed” to kill to eat. Just to kill, then eat if necessary from the prey. Eating, and staying alive is just a side-effect of the way they handle themselves. Cats, for example are programmed to examine, scratch and bite anything that moves, if they don’t think it can hurt them. Whether it’s little birds, a mouse, a child, or a car (I said think, and I didn’t imply they’re always right).
Obviously they do see objects that don’t move or else they’d walk right into them. If we get something new and place it in the house, Jack will creep very cautiously towards it, and will jump or take off if startled. Obviously he spots the new object and is very nervous about it.
They are not “programmed to kill” period. Jack has never shown interest in killing our degus and chinchillas.
When a cat brings in a dead animal to you without eating it it’s because cats do this as what is intended to be a kind gesture. The cat is giving you a gift.
Just because cats, and other animals, including humans, have instincts it doesn’t mean we always blindly follow them.
Cats may TEND to behave a certain way because of certain instincts, just like we will. But they do have free will and individual personalities.
Even lions have chosen to befriend others of a species they normally consume.
Yeah but the mouse is also a very similar color to the pavement. And from the cat’s angle, the eyes might not be too visible. So it’s very possible that the cat simply hasn’t noticed the mouse yet.
Yeah you’re spot on Tom. My cat ripped the back tire right off a moving car yesterday. Don’t drive through my neighberhood.
I am so cracking up, your cat wins on an epic level.
Yikes! That cat’s as useless as mine.
Yes, yes, I need to hate more. I’m not enough of a hateful bastard yet.That much is blatant to anyone who can read.
Actually, it looks like the mouse is sniffing at another mouse tail. A severed one. Like the cat has just finished eating.
Maybe the cat is like the sphynx. It only eats those who fail to answer the riddle.
Whoever thinks this is a fail, has never witnessed a cat killing a mouse. Cats really like their foreplay.
Cat: Cut!
Mouse: WTF!!! We just did that nine times.
Cat: Exactly. I’m tired.
Mouse: Nine lives, not times.
Cat: Oh. Right.
Mouse: Well, than let’s get on with it.
Cat: Are you sure? In the next scene I eat you.
Mouse: Oh, than call cut!
Joke Fail
That cat is Socks. Just as Clinton smoked, but did not inhale, Socks hunts but does not attack.
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Cats don’t usually eat mice, they just play with them until they don’t work anymore. At least that’s what mine do. Maybe it’s because mine are pretty well fed.
Maybe that mouse is like the cousin of the white explosive mouse on Tom and Jerry. That cat heard the news on the radio saying that the mouse would explode, and he knew if he attacked, he was gonna blow up.
Homer, absolutely! Most mice nowadays are Islamic suicide bombers. No kidding!1 Some even eat rat poison to take the cat with them once eaten. It’s a war out there guys…
Damn, it’s not long until Dubya strolls along this site and decides to declare war on all mice!
And Homer, thanks for that, that episode is one I haven’t seen for ages…
Or the fact that some cats just don’t have the hunt in them. I have to say that I’ve always for some reason had mousers.
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