The Bionic Cat
From BBC:
A cat that had its back feet severed by a combine harvester has been given two prosthetic limbs in a pioneering operation by a UK vet.
Bouncing Kitty
Incredible Pet Trick
Who says you can’t teach a rat, a cat and a dog new tricks? We’re not talking about teaching them 3 tricks either, some determined soul managed them to get along and get on top, literally. Video after the break.
Via CNN
Kitty Cat Style
Want to sprinkle your favorite feline with a little Paris Hilton style? Now you can, courtesy of Kitty Wigs.
Via Gizmodo
You Can Has LOL Cats?
All photos: icanhascheezburger.com
If you can make any sense of the title you can skip this post, if not, read on. Welcome to the quirky, cute and often hilarious world of lolcats. The idea behind lolcats (“lol”=”laugh out loud” + “cats”) is simple enough, take a photo of a cat, slap a caption with poor spelling and grammar on it and voilà, you get anthropomorphic humor for the Internet generation. Pictured above, the ultra popular lolcat that sparked the creation of the official I Can Has Cheezburger? site and spawned a bevy of sites featuring not only felines but all sorts of animals.
An excerpt from an article in Time:
It’s easier to show lolcats than to explain it. The oldest known example—which probably dates to 2006—is an image of a chubby gray kitty looking at the camera and asking plaintively, I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? Later came a shot of a kitten in a state of feline outrage, standing over a plate of what look like clementines and meowing DO NOT WANT. A ginger cat caught in midleap, hind legs pedaling furiously, appears over the words INVISIBLE BIKE. A fierce-looking tabby crouches in a well-stocked refrigerator: IM IN UR FRIDGE EATIN UR FOODZ. You get the idea. These home-made cartoons seem to lift the veil on a truth that we all quietly suspected anyway: cats are small, childish, sentient beings, mischievous and innocent at the same time.
Lolcats has a mindless, goofy quality that’s deceptively simple. Every one of the examples cited above is part of a dense web of reference and
self-reference that only people who spend way too much time online can
fully appreciate. The IM IN UR FRIDGE lolcat, for example, is a nod to
a screen shot from a video game, much circulated on the Web for its
brainless quirkiness, in which one player says to another, I’M IN UR
BASE, KILLING UR DOODS. Part of the lolcats’ appeal lies in the way it
domesticates the wild linguistic frontier of the Internet, rife with
chat abbreviations, hacker acronyms, typos and trans-hemispherical
East-West garblings.
Update (June 5, 2008):
It seems like the obsession with pets as miniature entertainers on the Web just keeps growing, proof of which is the collection of videos related to animals too exhausted to prop themselves up and the inevitable ensuing “oh, that’s so adorable” comments.
You Can Has LOL Cats?
All photos: icanhascheezburger.com
If you can make any sense of the title you can skip this post, if not, read on. Welcome to the quirky, cute and often hilarious world of lolcats. The idea behind lolcats (“lol”=”laugh out loud” + “cats”) is simple enough, take a photo of a cat, slap a caption with poor spelling and grammar on it and voilà, you get anthropomorphic humor for the Internet generation. Pictured above, the ultra popular lolcat that sparked the creation of the official I Can Has Cheezburger? site and spawned a bevy of sites featuring not only felines but all sorts of animals.
An excerpt from an article in Time:
It’s easier to show lolcats than to explain it. The oldest known example—which probably dates to 2006—is an image of a chubby gray kitty looking at the camera and asking plaintively, I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? Later came a shot of a kitten in a state of feline outrage, standing over a plate of what look like clementines and meowing DO NOT WANT. A ginger cat caught in midleap, hind legs pedaling furiously, appears over the words INVISIBLE BIKE. A fierce-looking tabby crouches in a well-stocked refrigerator: IM IN UR FRIDGE EATIN UR FOODZ. You get the idea. These home-made cartoons seem to lift the veil on a truth that we all quietly suspected anyway: cats are small, childish, sentient beings, mischievous and innocent at the same time.
Lolcats has a mindless, goofy quality that’s deceptively simple. Every one of the examples cited above is part of a dense web of reference and self-reference that only people who spend way too much time online can fully appreciate. The IM IN UR FRIDGE lolcat, for example, is a nod to a screen shot from a video game, much circulated on the Web for its brainless quirkiness, in which one player says to another, I’M IN UR BASE, KILLING UR DOODS. Part of the lolcats’ appeal lies in the way it domesticates the wild linguistic frontier of the Internet, rife with chat abbreviations, hacker acronyms, typos and trans-hemispherical East-West garblings.
Update (June 5, 2008):
It seems like the obsession with pets as miniature entertainers on the Web just keeps growing, proof of which is the collection of videos related to animals too exhausted to prop themselves up and the inevitable ensuing “oh, that’s so adorable” comments.
Cat + Tiger = Toyger
Enterprising cat breeder Judy Sudgen has made it her life’s mission to bring you a totally safe, pint size wild tiger that won’t feel like you have an SUV sitting on your lap and won’t rip half your face off when you try to feed it generic cat food. Although apparently still a few years off from version 1.0, Toyger 0.9bf3 Beta is still freakishly unique, with a more muscular build and dark stripes.
What with pet cloning, pet stuffing and pet freezing, all we need now is a whole new breed of household animals crossed with large, exotic mammals. Can’t wait to get my own Elepherret, Zebraweiler and Parrocheetah. Damn, the future is eeeee-xciting!
From an article on Life.com:
In an oak-shaded backyard 30 miles outside of L.A., Judy Sugden is conducting a tour of her secret genetics lab. The well-kept facility consists of several cabins built of plywood and fencing in which dozens of domestic cats nap, wrestle, prance, and preen. The cats flock toward visitors as they pass by, poking paws through their cages.
They’re striking creatures, more muscular than the average tabby, with reddish-amber fur set off by bold dark stripes. But to Sugden, they’re pieces of a puzzle—a collection of traits and tendencies from which she’s constructing a cat such as the world has never seen.
