Get him kitty! He deserves everything the cat can dish out ... asshat

That Kitty was PO'd.... Oh look the top window is open, "I'm comin for you motha f'r"

Fucker deserved that. Pets can be entertaining, but they are not entertainment. Asshole.

I wanted to see the camera man run out so we could watch the end of it! Round 2 had to be good.

Cats are a-holes in general (but I still love them and live with one) but this one was in the right! Strangely satisfying to see the kid run and the cat dominate him!

It's true that cats can be dicks for no reason, but the guy put the oven glove on as fuckin' armour so he could piss the cat off deliberately? He deserves everything he gets from that cat.

This one appears to be dead now, and for a copyright claim... WTF.

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I like that cat.

That cat is Alpha as fuck.

Yeah, at first I was wondering what everyone was getting worked up over, but it's pretty clear by the end of the video that the cat was very distressed.

So I hope the cat scratched the shit of him and it's a big ol' tetanus needle in the arse for you, boy.

For what it's worth, I'm fairly certain it wasn't an oven-mitt the guy was using, but one of those textured mittens that are specifically made for grooming cats.

http://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Coat-Cat-Grooming-Mitt/dp/B0041OSWEM

In Soviet Russia, cat makes you pussy.

Woo! He got purrforated!

I've never had a cat, i don't want to be a jerk and i don't want to encourage people to mistreat pets (obviously). So with that said, why is everyone being so harsh to the guy? They played a bit, the cat goes for him and the guy is gentle with it despite the cat trying to hurt him (as he should be).

Are the noises it makes towards the end indicative of long term exposure to stress? I've seen videos with that same noise and no hatred to the owner. I know a lot of people with a lot of pets and many of them have little behaviours together that an outsider could easily think bad of, perhaps they play fight all the time but the cat for some reason hates the glove he bought it to play with. He doesn't look like a regular cat baiter and he isn't dressed like someone who expects slashing attacks to be coming limb-wards. The label is crisp and white and visible, i'm not sherlock holmes but i'd say they bought a new toy, the cat for some reason didn't like it, and they filmed the reaction which they didn't expect to go so badly. Otherwise they filmed and released one particular day in a string of abuse-filled days - and the cat won?

I don't see anything worse than someone using a little fluffy thing on a stick/string to tease a cat into chasing it and attacking it. That's all he did, but with the glove.. a little play fight, and the cat had an unusual reaction to the glove. People seem to think he's a bad guy and deserves savaging though, so could someone explain why? I'm just a bit shocked at the vitriol for him.

@artician - not just for grooming but for clawing at too which is why it looks a bit velcro-ish, so a cat person tells me. I was under the impression he was using it within the limits of its intended use.

"They played a bit,"

From HIS perspective maybe.

The cat clearly did not want to "play" from the very beginning, and that's a clear signal for you to leave it alone. It was showing very hostile and defensive body language throughout, and the guy wouldn't stop touching it, eventually bringing it into his lap and trapping it. We have no idea how long this was going on before this video started, but it's hard not to think the guy'd been interacting with it for a while.

"i'm not sherlock holmes but i'd say they bought a new toy, the cat for some reason didn't like it, and they filmed the reaction which they didn't expect to go so badly."

I didn't backtrack to that at all.

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As for "just desserts" and "vitriol", it's not like he got snuffed here. He took a couple probably really good claw scratches and puncture wounds and will remember to stay the hell away from that kitty for a good long time.

You could have stopped your comment there

Everything about this video was wrong wrong wrong. If you want to own an animal and are not willing to invest the time to understand the behaviour of that animal. Firstly, you shouldn't own it but secondly, you deserve what's coming to you.

You never ever "play" with a cat with your own limbs. Not with protection on, not under the bed sheets, not as a kitten with their cute harmless teeth, never. Cats are built to kill things and they're very good at it.

This wasn't play though, this was deliberate intimidation and the cat was extremely distressed. Cats are very protective of the top of their heads, as you would rightly imagine and it tells you a lot the cat is immediately angry he goes near it.

This means they have no bond, none, so the history of this person and the cat is not good. If a cat trusts you, it would not react in this manner, it may shy away or gently tell you "I'm not in the mood for a head scratch", even to a stranger a cat is unlikely to do more than give a soft warning bite at first (they hurt but generally won't penetrate skin).

So you really shouldn't have any sympathy for this person, nothing in this video remotely suggests he has ever been kind to this cat and if it is feral, well then he's just a damn idiot.