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Wet Cats are Adorable.
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Bitmap Frogs
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Dark Octave
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plasmawave
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"You will not take me to the vet."
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
I wanna see an adventure movie with these dogs. Like Homeward Bound or something. They seem like best buds who would get into hilarious shenanigans.
David Incorporated Esq.
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Hooooly shit this got me good. Uncontrollably giggling now.
Lol, there is so little cat left in some cases
The swimming cat is adorable.
My ex had norwegian forest cat and he enjoyed (well, he still) water like crazy. But he shrink in size for 80% during his swimming adventures
DonMigs85
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terrisus
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Oh my god the part at 4:50 where he slashes and then jumps her. Its so dramatic and the shaky camera makes it perfect. Someone should gif that!
NEOPARADIGM
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Stevetopsy
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This thread had me wanting a cat to get wet and take funny pictures with... up until this post. Urge to buy cat, fading... fading...
Bitmap Frogs
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Fluffy wore the head of her vanquished foes.
This just murdered me. Full belly laughs.
umop_3pisdn
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Lion cuts are hilarious, and even funnier in real life, I'm even sure that my cat knew we were laughing at her 
This is true, but there are other factors at play.
Cats aversion to water comes from the fact that they were desert animals and getting wet at certain times ruins their ability to regulate their body temperature. A cat that got wet when it was cool out or just before dark would likely freeze to death. So if you absolutely must bathe a cat (which is not needed regularly at all, basically the only time they need a bath is if they get sprayed by a skunk or something), you should make sure the room and the water are both warm so the cat remains comfortable. You dump a cat into a lukewarm tub in a 68 degree air conditioned room, it is going to view that as a threat to it's life and go straight to fight or flight. They don't understand towels or blow dryers, they just instinctively know that wet + cold = death, and all the 'bad kitty' this and that is not going to accomplish anything when they are in that state. Then once a cat has one traumatic experience where he thinks you are trying to kill him in the bathtub, he is never going to want any part of it again.
Noisy faucets and such can also freak a cat out, so it's best to prefill the tub and/or use a pitcher instead of the faucet.
Put a space heater in the bathroom and crank it up to 90+, fill the tub with very warm(but not painfully hot) water, and introduce the cat slowly, and you won't get the same reaction, even among breeds that are not traditionally fond of water (because really with the exception of the newer hybrid exotic breeds, cat genetics hasn't changed enough to lock such varied instinctive behaviors into place).
was going to post this word for word.
Winterfang
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At least wet dogs generally retain most of their shape and cuteness. They're not just all fluffly fur.
Ew I can already smell the wet dog, and feel the dirty ass droplets on my face. Wet Dogs are the worst
BlazingDarkness
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My kitten survived a 50 minute spin in the washer (while it was full of water).
She was sleeping in there and my mum filled it up and closed the door without realising - wasn't until the last minutes of the wash I could hear her cries from inside there.
Vet said they've never known a cat to survive a wash
She was sleeping in there and my mum filled it up and closed the door without realising - wasn't until the last minutes of the wash I could hear her cries from inside there.
Vet said they've never known a cat to survive a wash
GoldenEye 007
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oh god water
low poly model.
Geez I'd be so fucking pissed but cats don't understand negative reinforcement from what I gather so I don't think I'd be able to handle this. How the hell do you tell the cat to calm the fuck down. Fucking vicious but cute at the same time. Dumb cats.
umop_3pisdn
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I think they often instinctually think they're drowning, I remember reading that somewhere I think. You can at least tell from their level of aversion that it's not just some small annoyance to them and they're actually fairly afraid or distressed.
UberTag
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This needs to be a thing.
I want a series of pictures of cats with completely dry heads and completely wet bodies that have shrunken down.
People make too big of a deal out of giving a cat a bath. If you have a kitten and get them used to it at a young age, and do it every now and then, they get used to it quickly. Few of them end up loving it, but most end up tolerating it.
Here is our Siberian, Clancy...
(the next time we give him a bath I'll try to take a picture of him with a dry head and totally soaked body)
Here is our Siberian, Clancy...
(the next time we give him a bath I'll try to take a picture of him with a dry head and totally soaked body)
umop_3pisdn
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I think most people only have a problem with it when it's done for amusement.
Wafflecakes
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I want one.
evil solrac v3.0
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won't be so damn funny when that baby ends up all scratched up. it's just dumb to do something like that.
dogs don't fare much better.
Winterfang
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Unrelated but I just saw this GIF and had to share it.
ChubbyHuggs
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My cat is watching me watch these videos. I don't think she's amused.
Eh? Outside of the US, most people let their cats come and go as they please.
lol thought of that the instant I saw the picture.
Best cat ever?
I always liked this video...
http://youtu.be/eFk0kAwLiEk
http://youtu.be/eFk0kAwLiEk
NO they are not. They're fucking terrifying. My first job was at a pet grooming place attached to a veterinary hospital. Most of the cats had to be drugged just to bath them safely(usually before a surgery). They would put a breathing tube in that I had to hold up while I bathed them. So basically, I was holding up a breathing tube while showering a semi aware cat with my other hand... While it slowly woke up soaked and pissed off. The noises that a wet cat that is unable to move is fucking terrifying and the fact that you like this is terrifying.
Pinko Marx
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Unrelated but I just saw this GIF and had to share it.
SMELL YA LATER ROVER
no. hippos, for example, cannot.
NYCmetsfan
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Most primates including humans can't do it by instinct
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