2/10/2006: Rescued cat is pissed
 

http://cellar.org/2006/catrescue.jpg

This one is making the rounds. Like yesterday's image it came from an IotDer I didn't connect to a username - if y'all want credit when you send things along, do let me know, eh? But thanks anyway!

Cat reactions don't generally make the most interesting IotDs, but this one is a great reaction, in the middle of a great photograph. Soggy with freezing water, gray with smoke, and grabbed by a fireman whose protective gear doesn't let the cat do anything but complain... I think I might have the same reaction.

I love how the photo catches two different reactions, looking in two different directions. I love how it picks up the gray fur and the gray smoke above. I love how the white all over tells you about the condition and the cold. I love how the only real color is the fireman's red. I love the different textures - fur, fabric, icicles, ice-covered tree, geometric brick and stairs.

And I love how the cat is totally enraged... but ironically, now has no reason for rage, because now it will live to see another day.

Yep, cat is **insert_emotion here**.... has no reason to be **insert_emotion_here**.... sounds like a cat to me.

Cats..... nature's cruel joke to rational people. Glad to see one get all bent out of shape. Hate the bastards.

Funny how the pic goes inline with the recent spat of ice-house ice-boat.......

OR......the guy is familiar with cats and their habit of not appreciating being saved, so he’s hanging on a little too tightly. :mg:

the cat is all like wtf! I was in this nice warm house... and now this dude is dragging me into the cold outside! I bet those are cathide gloves he has on, too.

I would back off very slowly.... :bolt:

Oh, I'm sure he's holding on very tight. Anyone who has ever held a cat against its will knows you have to hold on tighter than you would normally want to.

When surrounded by video and still cameras, a fireman understands that it just doesn't do to lose his grip on the rescued feline who is going to be the end-of-the-news feelgood story tonight. Having the cat run back into the burning building and having to endanger yourself and your crew over an animal too stupid to get out on it's own is not the way you want to be remembered.

There's other reasons they leave the gloves on. Getting caught on camera throwing a cat to the ground screaming "You fookin' bastid, don't you fooking bite me" does not endear you to the public, even in the post 9/11 we love firemen world.

You ever notice? Save one cat, you head off the news. Get three adults out of a burning building, there might be something on an inside lefthand page.

That's because people don't look like demonically possessed mops.

The cat doesn't care about the smoke, the water, the cold or how it is being held.

The cat is pissed because he's looked around and does not see a food bowl anywhere.

...and I say again: I love cats. They taste like chicken.

This side of the pond "pissed" means drunk, and "pissed OFF" means "in a bad mood". This little misunderstanding gets me every time - I was looking for a drunken moggie ...

moggie....

One of my computer science professors was English, and he used Yank-to-Brit as an example for translation software. The example sentence was:

Lawks a lawdy, lord love a duck! My moggie has popped its clogs!

so translate it already !!!!

"Oh, my goodness, good gracious! My cat has died!"

all that hair;it's lucky it didn't light up like a Q-tip