Take a seat, Rebecca Black. "Friday" simply popped too early to be the summer jam of 2011. It's not even Memorial Day yet and we're already sick of you. We have a new web star about to take over the YouTube music scene.
Outta nowhere comes Mylo the Cat, dropping this track on the Internet like an atomic bomb, then standing back to watch his beats spread like a tidal wave leaving a nation of butts wigglin' in its wake. "I'm Just a Cat and I'm Doing Cat Stuff" will be the club banger of the summer, mark our words. Listen to this once and you'll be singing it every time you change your cat's box for the next thousand years. Only a matter of time before Weezy puts Mylo on Young Money. We can't wait for the Mylo/Nicki Minaj collabo.
I like to think I'm not overly susceptible to advertising. Sure, if an ad informs me about a product that I'll find genuinely useful, I might purchase it. But I imagine myself as someone who wouldn't buy an unnecessary item simply due to the content of a clever commercial.
Yet sometimes a commercial is so dead-on, hits that sweet spot so perfectly, it's like the ad execs created it with me in mind. That appears to be the case here. I'm pretty sure Sprint is trying to to hawk this device specifically to me and you, faithful Paw Nation readers. I have to admit, it kind of works. I just re-upped with a different service provider a couple of months ago and purchased a new smartphone, but there's a part of me that wants to pay to break my contract and switch to Sprint. It definitely (probably?) won't happen, but there is that part of me...
Allow us to get a little preachy for a minute here. There's a lesson to be learned from this video, in case your mother never taught you: being selfish doesn't pay. The two cats on either end of this haunch must have been absent on "sharing is caring" day at school, and their stubborn refusal to split their meat treat means that neither gets any. Instead, they're just making it really, really easy for that third cat to swoop in and help himself to a feast. In fact, they're making it so easy that you'd think they were holding it for him on purpose. (Only their frustrated growling suggests otherwise.) So not only will selfishness lead you nowhere, kids, it also leaves you prone to smarter people who will take advantage of your avarice. All the proof you need is right here on the screen.
Cat videos teaching us life lessons. Is there anything they can't do?
The thing about overcoming obstacles is that some obstacles seem so insurmountable, if you fail to negotiate them, no one would blame you, and if you do conquer them, you've accomplished something amazing. People cheer. You're a hero. A tiny chinchilla climbs onto imposing, human-sized furniture, everyone applauds. A pair of wee ducklings manage to flap themselves over a large stone obstruction, and the crowd goes wild.
On the other hand, if you're a house cat, you are among the most agile of all domesticated creatures. You should have no difficulty reaching any place inside an average house, much less negotiating a simple jump that barely counts as more than a step. If you struggle, no one will be proud of you when you finally make it; we'll just feel shame and embarrassment that it took you so long. But oh, how funny it was watching you try.
Uh oh. Someone made a mess. Who could it be, hmm? The culprit must around here somewhere, having knocked over plants and gotten dirt all over the place. That's just terrible! Who would do such a thing? Certainly not this guy.
Nope, there are no dogs around these parts. But there are two cats, and one of them is in deep trouble. Will his face give it away? (Yes.)
They say it's rude to play with your food. But this adorable kitten just can't decide if he wants to eat, wants to play or just wants that annoying food-filled syringe out of his face. Whatever the case, he certainly is precious.
For some reason, photographer Anne Geddes gets many of us riled up. Geddes is notorious for dressing babies up like cabbages, carrots, and tomatoes, and then sticking them inside pumpkins and flower pots against their own will. (OK, so they don't necessarily have "will" yet, but still.) It can all be a bit too much.
Cute kittens, on the other hand? In jugs? Kittens in jugs? Yeah, we're down with that. The paws alone make it.
One can never predict when adopting more than one cat if they'll get along. I grew up with two cats in the house, and while they were polite to each other, they weren't necessarily BFF. On the other hand, some adopted feline siblings can become inseparable. They play together, eat together, and catnap together.
But these two kittens -- who we found via our friends at "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" -- are taking housecat affection to a whole new level. (Maybe the Brookstone massage chair in the living room was busted?) Check out the clip from Ellen's show below to watch the kitties and hear her take on the fun.
Move over Rally Monkey, there's a new king of unofficial mascots in Major League Baseball. DJ Kitty is in the house!
In order to give the Tampa Bay Rays a boost in their playoff bid, the team unveiled its secret weapon: A gimmicky series of funny cat videos featuring DJ Kitty. With his Rays hat on backwards, this jersey-wearing housecat is sure to go viral, but will he help the Rays clench the pennant? We'll see.
Tampa Bay's marketing gurus presumably are hoping that DJ Kitty will help boost the not-so-great attendance figures at Tropicana Stadium. We think it's pretty safe to say that the miraculous DJ Kitty will most certainly inspire Rays fans to get out of their seats during the seventh-inning stretch, if nothing else. We love it when he puts his paws in the air!
DJ Kitty is now the star of two online videos in which he represents for the Tampa Bay Rays while showing off his formidable skills with the crossfader. On the first, he spins the 1992 dance club classic "Jump" by The Movement. The second is DJ Kitty's sultry interpretation of Gucci Mane's "Wasted" which is, in all honestly, exactly the same as the original (only with a super awesome cat pretending to be a disc jockey).
Having seen both performances, we can't help but notice that DJ Kitty has a very limited set of moves. But after all, he's a cat; what do you expect? It's impressive enough that the cat wrangler was able to get Kitty to sit behind the turntables during filming. How they got him to hold put his paws in the air like he just don't care, we'll never know.
Ikea. All over the world, bachelors and bachelorettes just out on their own flock to its stores to furnish their nascent apartment dwellings with fashionable particleboard décor. But just because they might not all be able to afford real furniture doesn't mean they don't deserve pets to love and look after. I know I buy my tables and chairs at Ikea because I want to save the money to keep a cat hanging around my bachelor pad.
The cats were allowed to make themselves at home in the store after hours while the crew shot as much footage as they could get. Then, just before opening, the cats were rounded up and whisked away. The day's shoppers never knew what delightful whimsy had filled the store mere hours before.
What do you think Paw Nation? Was this just a fun night out for the cats, or a truly bad advertising idea? Tell us in the comments below.
This funny cat video isn't just entertaining, it's informative. Witness the art of Parkour. According to Wikipedia, Parkour began in France and is "the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one's path by adapting one's movements to the environment. It is a non-competitive, physical discipline... in which participants run along a route, attempting to negotiate obstacles in the most efficient way possible."
In other words, it's a fancy-sounding opportunity for grown human beings to act as closely as possible as they can to Spider-Man while hopefully avoiding bruises or death. And ain't nothing wrong with that. Live your life, man.
But don't count out cats. Sure, they may be best known for landing on all fours, but who knew they could scale walls with the best of them?
Ask any child of the '80s and they'll tell you that "Duck Hunt" was undoubtedly one of the most iconic games of its generation. To be fair, that has a lot to do with "Duck Hunt" having been automatically included as a pack-in game with the sale of every Nintendo console, but still, it was one of the first home video games most of us '80s kids ever played.
So it's comforting that even in an age of "The Sims" and "World of Warcraft," an appreciation for the classics is not lost on the younger generation, even if its only the younger generation of pets. In fact, Nintendo might want to update the game, swapping out the laughing bird dog for a much more attentive cat instead.
Musical greeting cards: cute or annoying? Everyone's got an opinion. If you're a cat fancier, a novelty card with a bunch of kitties singing happy birthday, might seem perfectly adorable. If you're a cat, though, it might not be your thing. In fact, if you're this feline, you want to teach those singing cats a little lesson. Happy birthday my paw!
A cat's favorite place (as almost any cat owner can attest) is inside a box. Ninjutsu's most important skills are the ability to go unseen, and the ability to strike fast and hard. Well, this fluffy-white wannabe ninja is more than capable of using some finely honed shinobi skills to protect her favorite hiding spot. You'd better be careful around cardboard in this house; if you put your fingers too close to the wrong box, you might experience the wrath of the ninja first hand. Hai-ya!
Sometimes, good friends like to give each other baths. But get your mind out of the gutter -- we're just talking about interspecies animal pals, like Hoppy the deer, who likes to make sure his feline friend, Tiptree, is clean as a whistle.
Hoppy himself is an especially worshipped creature. He was found abandoned as a fawn on the doorstep of loving couple, Tony and Amanda. There's even a documentary about him! So let's celebrate Hoppy, not only for his being in the care of a caring couple, but also for his kinship with that sweet tabby!
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