My cat's had the same string since she was a kitten.

She drags it around the house like a security blanket when no one's home and she's lonely.

Yup, definitely torture.

>> ^Jinx:
Yup, definitely torture.

That is not torture. To prove it, I'm willing to go on national television in front of a live studio audience, and have my string taken away from me repeatedly. I think it'll prove my point that this is merely an "enhanced interrogation technique", and that the term "torture" to describe this method is a misnomer.

*seconds later, Simple_man was tortured in front of a live audience as they point and laugh at his futile attempts to keep his pitiful piece of string*

"You look pale, Simple_man. Tell us what happened."

"You know, I didn't know how bad it was going to be. Look, all that's been done to this country, and I heard that string was being dangled in front of people's faces, only to have them take it away afterwards, I never even considered torture. I thought I could hold out, but it was hideous and horrific. If I knew it was going to be this bad, I wouldn't have done it. How long did I hold out? 5 seconds? And what was the average? 10? Damn, now I feel like a complete pussy. I want to thank Videosift, I want to thank my family for praying for me, and I'm going to go to the EMT to check me out, because I'm feeling kinda nauseous. My hands, Christ, look at my hands! They're SHAKING."

It's not a panic attack unless his heart rate and breathing rate is at least equivalent to running a 5 minute mile.

Hey, it's a cat video, you all know what that means.. UPVOTE!

It's just withdrawal.

>> ^jwray:
It's not a panic attack unless his heart rate and breathing rate is at least equivalent to running a 5 minute mile.

that is very dear

Is it odd that my cats came running to check out what I was doing when I was playing this video?

^ Nope, my did too.

But then, this cat isn't panicking. It's just going "stop screwing around and give it back. it's mine!"

No, they're just reinforcing the whining behavior. Its been taught to do that.

It's certainly reinforcing. But some animals can be like that. It's like their security blanket. My mom's dog, when the dog was younger she was a fanatic about her toy balls, with one her absolute favorite. If you put it away she would go crazy. One night I was sleeping on the couch and she was squeaking the thing like crazy so I took it and put it up on a shelf by the TV. She sat down in front of it and looked up to where she knew it was. I went to sleep and 8 odd hours later when I got up she was still sitting there, staring up at that spot. She had not only not slept, but barely blinked as she stared up there. She didn't want to miss if it got moved.

"Oh joy fun fun fun Leonard, even though youre a string, I love you SO much"

"Leonard? Leonard where are you? Leonard? LLEEEEEEOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

"Oh joy fun fun fun..."

>> ^sadicious:
Is it odd that my cats came running to check out what I was doing when I was playing this video?


+1

I watch the dog whisperer but I don't own a dog. Is that weird?

RS, every damn thing about you is weird.