funny cats.

Of what do cats dream? A stranger to the free-roaming fauna of the alien outdoors, my indoor cat, Martha, probably dreams of her favorite activity: playing fetch with her toy rattle-mice, blissfully unaware of the livelier, meatier, and more delicious variety found teeming out in fields, or at least in more squalid dwellings than ours. Even those felines that spend their lives in whole or in part prowling the grasses, barns, and streets of the world must spend their catnaps replaying past mousehunt glories. Take this house cat, for example, so rapt with its visions of the thrill of the chase that it fails to notice itself hanging off its precarious perch, fails to notice when its dream ...

All over the country there are people who practice yoga with their pets. There are books and classes that promise that doing these spiritual and physical exercises with your dog or or cat will bring you both more closely together. But, first you need your pet to agree. And, whaddya know? There's a cat who prefers to perform the "downward-facing dog" pose without its owner! Indeed, this cat's got his poses under control, and the last thing he needs is someone meddling in this moment of solace, concentration, and peace. More Funny Cats ...

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. More Funny Cats ...

In one corner, we have several cats, more or less unfussy felines just trying to go about their business of eating. In the other corner, we've got Yoshi, a tortoise with one agenda in mind: getting the best of those darn cats! Nothing stops this reptile from getting in the face of one of his rather large (from his POV, at least) opponents. You wouldn't necessarily think the little guy has it in him to take charge of the ring, but if "the Yoshinator" knows anything, it's how to get on a cat's last nerve. More Funny Cats ...

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, ...

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