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Freestyler · Oct 29, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CC_9aFuEkA&feature=player_embedded

A pair of kittens seen falling onto the ground and bumping into furniture in an online video hit suffer from a rare condition known as "fainting goat syndrome" seldom found in cats.

The furry bundles Charlie and Spike are filmed walking around their owner's loungeroom before suddenly lurching forward and collapsing onto their side, where they remain paralysed for several seconds.

The YouTube video posted on Sunday is spreading across the internet like wildfire, attracting more than half a million hits and rating as the fourth-most-shared clip in the past day, according to video-monitoring site Viral Video Chart.

The kittens suffer from the genetic condition myotonia congenita, more commonly found in goats and therefore known as "fainting goat syndrome".

Zophar · Oct 29, 2010

The black and white one died yesterday, fyi.

Atenhaus · Oct 29, 2010

I really wouldn't consider that cute. At all.

Freestyler · Oct 29, 2010

Zophar said:
The black and white one died yesterday, fyi.

Oh gosh!! That's terrible.

Atenhaus said:
I really wouldn't consider that cute. At all.

Oh come on, it's a lighthearted video about cute cats that happen to have a condition.

TacticalFox88 · Oct 29, 2010

I feel terrible for laughing

D4Danger · Oct 29, 2010

markot · Oct 29, 2010

Thats sad >.<

GhaleonEB · Oct 29, 2010

youtube description said:
sad to report that the black and white kitten (spike) died on 27th october from respiratory failure.

Well, startling the the little guy over and over all day to trigger it's rare medical condition in order to make funny youtube videos will do that to a kitten.

Freestyler · Oct 29, 2010

TacticalFox88 said:
I feel terrible for laughing

Don't feel bad. It's not like the owners are treating the kittens badly or filming some kind of animal abuse (a la 'girl throwing puppies in river').

Foob · Oct 29, 2010

i was laughing until i scrolled down and saw one of them died

Freestyler · Oct 29, 2010

Foob said:
i was laughing until i scrolled down and saw one of them died

I know, I didn't realise that bit until after I'd watched it a few times and Zophar brought it to my attention. Still, I don't think the video is evil or wrong in any way.

Trurl · Oct 29, 2010

The thing that worries me about people finding a defect like this cute is that somebody might get the idea to breed for it.

Sorry that we're all being Debby Downers.

LogicStep · Oct 29, 2010

TacticalFox88 said:
I feel terrible for laughing

Pretty much. I was laughing thinking it was cute until I read the description... :S

(._.) · Oct 29, 2010

Never seen anything like this before

victreeb3l · Oct 29, 2010

heartbreaking.

thanks for ruining my night OP

crazy monkey · Oct 29, 2010

they are probably having seizures, not funny sad i think.

Tathanen · Oct 29, 2010

Wow, so

I had no idea these goats had a condition, I thought they were just idiots. The more you know!

Escape Goat · Oct 29, 2010

thread backfire.

I am sad now.

Stat Flow · Oct 29, 2010

Teh Hamburglar said:
thread backfire.

I am sad now.

seriously ._.

Nonoriri · Oct 29, 2010

What the fuck.

Trent Strong · Oct 29, 2010

Smokey · Oct 29, 2010

fail of a thread:lol

ZephyrFate · Oct 29, 2010

wow im sad now

kaskade · Oct 29, 2010

To make depressing cat thread more depressing I saw one get hit by a car a few days ago.

It just looked like some random small animal (lots of them get hit around here) but when I drove by it was moving it's paw on the ground. I wanted to cry.

On the way back it was gone. I can only hope maybe it survived.

daycru · Oct 29, 2010

This made me very sad.

cartoon_soldier · Oct 29, 2010

daycru said:
This made me very sad.

yea

Kuran · Oct 29, 2010

That is not cute. WTF

Kuran · Oct 29, 2010

Tathanen said:
Wow, so

I had no idea these goats had a condition, I thought they were just idiots. The more you know!

You kind of saved the thread.

Giard · Oct 29, 2010

Awwwww

Here's another sad cat video, yet cute with a happy ending. It might even cheer you up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJQG6V1MOVY

The_Reckoning · Oct 29, 2010

Corran Horn · Oct 29, 2010

It was cute the first few times, then I became sad

Slayer-33 · Oct 29, 2010

Damn am I the only one :lol , I feel bad for them :lol

Nocebo · Oct 29, 2010

Cute? More like creepy and sad how they spasm and go paralysed instantly

RustyO · Oct 29, 2010

Teh Hamburglar said:
thread backfire.

I am sad now.

x2

HomerSimpson-Man · Oct 29, 2010

Thread title is full of lies.

What is this depressing crap?!

Talon · Oct 29, 2010

This is more scary and depressing than cute.

Risette · Oct 29, 2010

I admit I laughed (or chuckled, didn't laugh out loud) when they both fell down at the same time... other than that,

Crumpet Trumpet · Oct 29, 2010

That was just CREEPY as hell

Thagomizer · Oct 29, 2010

Why do people find this funny in goats, but with cats it's heartbreaking? It's the exact same thing.

And not just that one of them died, which is genuinely sad, but the condition itself.

oneHeero · Oct 29, 2010

this sucked

Rocket Punch · Oct 29, 2010

was sad, now sadder.

BertramCooper · Oct 29, 2010

The black and white one looks a lot like my cat. Tuxedo cats are so cute.

Nonoriri · Oct 29, 2010

Thagomizer said:
Why do people find this funny in goats, but with cats it's heartbreaking? It's the exact same thing.

And not just that one of them died, which is genuinely sad, but the condition itself.

Cats are cuter.

MrPing1000 · Oct 29, 2010

That wasn't funny at all. Just sad, poor cats. Thanks OP, you fuck.

The_Reckoning · Oct 29, 2010

Thagomizer said:
Why do people find this funny in goats, but with cats it's heartbreaking? It's the exact same thing.

And not just that one of them died, which is genuinely sad, but the condition itself.

I thought it was just how those goats were, so it seemed like no big deal. I am not used to cats doing that, so it became sad. To those goats, and their friends, they are used to that shit.

also, kittens are usually more of a domestic pet than a Myotonic Goat I suppose.

BuddhaRockstar · Oct 29, 2010

Thagomizer said:
Why do people find this funny in goats, but with cats it's heartbreaking? It's the exact same thing.

And not just that one of them died, which is genuinely sad, but the condition itself.

1. These are fragile young kittens, hitting their head on hardwood floors, the goats look older, rolling on the soft grass.

2. The kittens are twitching even before they fall over, the goats look fine until they faint.

3. Most people's experience with kittens involves a personal pet, most people's experience with goats involves them being attacked by a thousand goats at a petting zoo when they were five.

4. Kittens are cute, goats have creepy devil eyes.

5. Kittens use a litter box, goats poop weird pellets.

6. Kittens make adorable purring and meowing sounds, goats sound like this.

Pinko Marx · Oct 29, 2010

BuddhaRockstar said:
1. These are fragile young kittens, hitting their head on hardwood floors, the goats look older, rolling on the soft grass.

They're kittens, not fucking glass roses. They bump their heads, and fall off shit all the fucking time.

Beezy · Oct 29, 2010

Thagomizer said:
Why do people find this funny in goats, but with cats it's heartbreaking? It's the exact same thing.

And not just that one of them died, which is genuinely sad, but the condition itself.

I thought both were funny. *kanyeshrug*

Nocebo · Oct 29, 2010

Thagomizer said:
Why do people find this funny in goats, but with cats it's heartbreaking? It's the exact same thing.

And not just that one of them died, which is genuinely sad, but the condition itself.

I don't find it funny in goats either.

Akainu · Oct 29, 2010

Cats with diseases does warm my heart.

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