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Topic Categories: Animalia • Behavior • Humor • Streaming videos • Your Inner Child
Posted on: March 11, 2008 8:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: Simon's cat: let me in!, animated cartoon, humor, streaming video
A hungry cat resorts to increasingly desperate measures to get indoors. If this doesn't make you laugh, well, you need serious help. [1:52].
this video is the second in a series, this was the first.
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Comments
If it were really true to life, the cat would take one look at the open door and wander off.
Posted by: Kevin W. Parker | March 11, 2008 3:56 PM
Yeah, I expected the cat to come in, look around, and go out again.
Posted by: Tina Rhea | March 11, 2008 5:08 PM
you see, my cat would have done a lot more than that to get my attention. very funny!
Posted by: wendell | March 11, 2008 8:41 PM
Add me to the list of people who thought the cat would decide he didn't really want to come in after all...... at least until his human slave shut the door and walked away.
Posted by: themadlolscientist | March 12, 2008 12:48 AM
We loved it. Thanks.
Posted by: Moses | March 12, 2008 7:56 AM
Cute! At my house we use "cat" as an adjective (thanks to our African Grey who once snarled, "Don't be so cat"), and I have to agree that the ending wasn't quite as "cat" as expected. We don't let our cat outside, but he'll yowl and paw at any closed interior door then decline to go through when we open it for him, just like every cat I've ever been owned by.
Posted by: Sheri Williamson | March 15, 2008 12:22 AM
Cute. Thanks for sharing.
I can just envision real kitties pawing at the door, only to "take their time" once the door is opened.
Posted by: CatSynth | March 23, 2008 7:38 PM