Offensive Squid

sheila said:

for anyone who could use some cheering up

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way. – Mark Twain

(links to pictures of authors and their cats. I'm linking to metafilter since the title makes me laugh. dopey)

metafilter had a nice caterday. cat and dolphin youtube video

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Ah yes, all the world exists to rub my head.  :)

 

You know,  I kept thinking watching the cat near that dolphin's mouth: do these cat owners recognize that dolphins are carnivores?  Because if I were a dolphin, after I had felt the fur and played with for a few minutes, I would begin to wonder what a cat tasted like.

sheila said:

It didn't occur to me that a dolphin might want to eat a cat.

I wonder if dolphins see "cute". I wonder if they react to neotonized faces like we do. they are thinky mammals, so maybe they do.

Anyway, you got me curious so I went to wikipedia to see what dolphins eat. There's a page on bottle nose dolphins, and they have got this really kick-ass fishing method where they make a whirlpool and then kick the fish on to a sandbar to eat. When I was a kid, I used to chase minnows around at the beach and splash them up on a sandbar so that I could catch them. then I'd have a minnow swimming around in my hands for a little bit. never swallowed the things though.

…I guess if there are dolphins that eat penguins or little seals then maybe a cat could sort of look like food. my research (googling for dolphins and seals) shows that big ones like orcas might eat some other mammals like seals.

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I probably went right to that from watching too many fail videos on I Am Bored.  I finally had to tell the better half that I wasn't interested in those, because now when I watch amateur videos, unless they have some kind of horrible sappy music overtop, I am waiting for the Bad Thing to Happen.  Ie, dolphin samples cat.    I'd think the amount of hair on a cat would make it less appealing, but all he'd have to do is sample him to kill the poor little thing.    Isn't it nice I wasn't even close to guessing correctly?

 

Makes you wonder what dolphins think, doesn't it?  What their consciousness is like.