…LOL

Cruelty is a continuum. So is stupidity. People are capable of great cruelty, or the lesser kind – mean, spiteful little things that don’t take into acount the comfort of any living being but themselves.

To place an animal in a situation it can’t possibly comprehend will certainly cause it unnecessary distress. To do so from a general attitude of “What if we tried this?” is cruel – and stupid.

“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.” –Mark Twain

“I have to admit the first toss looked a little to hard. But chances are the guy doing it wasn’t all that experienced with zero G either the second one was much softer.”

that makes perfect sense. especially since he does do the second toss much more softly. i seriously doubt that this was all a set up to torment the cat. i think one of my dogs would really enjoy it. i would let her give it a try because she loves new adventures. who knows, maybe they thought the cat might enjoy it.

as many others have said – this is not true abuse. look up ‘animal abuse’ and this will look like a day in the park. fight real fights – there are plenty out there without building one out of a mildly annoyed cat.

As for those of you who claim they will not return to Neatorama after seeing this post– Neatorama features articles which are hard to look at sometimes, not because it promotes things like cats in zero gravity, but because it is a great site with an eclectic range of really really damn interesting pieces of information. It’s not called “daisies, kittens, and smilinglaughter-orama,” it’s called NEATorama, and it exposes you to neat things you would never normally see.

It’s probably good you’re leaving if you’re not going to understand this website.

What a bunch of sissies. Thank God we’ve allowed at least enough animal cruelty to get a few medications. Here in the pinnacle of decadence, feline mental health advocates outnumber the humanitarians. Shazaam.

I’ve seen a lot of angry cats being bathed. Bathing, while ostensibly is done under the auspices of health, is a very stressful activity for a cat. Is it abuse? Is it more abusive than what’s happening in this video?

What I don’t like is the attitude of the humans in the video. It’s difficult to tell but it seems they are having a great time throwing the cat around. I find that disturbing. Though not at the same level, it is the same base emotion of crowds that inexplicably allows them to throw all moral judgment aside and do the awful things that crowds can do. And by viewing, I feel that I am part of that crowd and that is an unsettling feeling.

The context in which this video is viewed is a big deal. Are we watching it to laugh at the cat? Are we watching it to shed some light on human behavior that we’re not very proud of? If the former, I am very ashamed.

You people seriously need to untangle your bunched up panties and get over your self righteous selves.

Anyway… I still say poor cat and I think it was a pointless “experiement”, but I’m not going to get all up in arms by Neatorama posting it.
This isn’t even on the radar compared to the other real cruelties out there.

Some of you people really sicken me that you can think of yourself as a good human being.

But what bugged me was the dude throwing the cat against the wall. That’s just peculiar.

This particular cat probably lived out its days long ago and has since passed away.

I meant Zero G

The only person living in “Zero F” is apparently……me.

You think 45 seconds in Zero F is cruel? Try living on the streets of Provo Utah in the winter like my cat did.

My cute little pug dog would have taken a real ticket to space for the day just not to spend it in the trailer she lived in until she was 5 months along with 35-45 other dogs owned by a lady with a hoarding problem.

Monkey Torture.

It seems like people tend to hate your posts Adam but you sure get people talking

For what it’s worth, it does seem like a pretty mean thing to do to a cat. It’s obviously absolutely terrified (check out the hair on its tail), and he starts by throwing it at the wall of the plane.

I’m going to tell 10 friends about Neatorama to counteract all the over-reactors out there.

Also, there is REAL animal cruelty out there that you should go get angry about.

That’s very sweet of you.

“I mean, honestly, calling this animal cruelty is taking away all value the phrase has when describing real animal cruelty.”

this is not true animal cruelty. look up puppy mills and lab animals and you’ll see what REAL animal cruelty is. lifelong cruelty.

i’d like to challenge all those who are outraged at this – and those who aren’t – to do something besides posting here to actually help a real live animal. i’m not a crusader – but i got a rescue dog who was used as a breeder at a puppy mill and after months and months of love, attention, full bellies, long walks and kisses, she still runs from us. fear is all she knows. it’s doubtful she’ll ever be a trusting dog. so lets keep things in perspective and consider actually doing something besides posting your outrage. to all those that have helped an animal…i salute you. they need us.

thank you for reading this far.

I like your posts.

A friend of mine IM’d me the video this afternoon. As far as I know, nobody was killed delivering it to my friend.

I’m not sure why there is no audio. I don’t think the reason there’s no audio has anything to do with keeping anybody safe, however.

I was frankly very surprised at the negative reactions to the video here. While I’m not really a cat or a pet person, I do love all living things to some extent and would never tolerate any cruelty to any animal.

I looked at the video again and again and I just don’t think there is anything cruel about it at all. I can guarantee that nobody who posts on Neatorama would ever post a video in which an animal is deliberately being harmed for laughs. This simply does not compute.

I had a few free minutes when I wrote the comment above about the NASA cat cruelty program. It was a complete fabrication and was meant to be marginally humorous. The idea in comments that inspired it was somebody saying that nobody would hurt a cat that they knew – which made me think that if you DIDN’T know the cat, maybe you could be cruel to it. What if NASA took away your cat and replaced it with a cat that you didn’t know – and demanded that you tie little paper bags to its feet. Would you do it? Would you derive some small amount of sadistic pleasure in doing so?

These are important questions without easy answers.

In the meantime, I’m genuinely sorry if anyone was genuinely upset by the cat video. I’m not sorry enough to take it down, however, as I think it is interesting, and yes – even “neat.” It isn’t the most interesting thing on this site by a longshot, nor will this post go down in the annals of Neatorama history as one of the “neater” ones, but I think it is “neat,” nevertheless.

I reach into my magic bag and try to find something worthy of a post here on Neatorama. More often than not, I think I’m successful. Some posters have higher success rates than me, however, IMO. Are they able to tap in to some cosmic “neat” energy that mysteriously guides them? Are they eating diets higher in Omega-3 Fatty Acids? Are they simply cooler, funnier and “neater” than I am? I’m afraid that I can’t answer these questions. I just don’t know.

User feedback – particularly through comments and the occasional hate mail/death threat – is something that I personally take into account on an ongoing basis as I continue to post here. While the demands of conflicting definitions of “neat” can sometimes be paralyzing, I believe in my heart that whether or not I agree with a given feedback tidbit, I learn from them all. The lesson I will carry forth from today is that there are people who read this blog who seem to have a remarkable amount of concern about whether or not a cat that is unknown to them that appears in a video is happy or unhappy. Seeing what they perceive to be an unhappy cat makes these people unhappy. I do not wish to be an agent of unhappiness here on Neatorama or anywhere else for that matter. In the future, when choosing a video that features a cat whose happiness can be discerned, I will stick exclusively to videos where the cats depicted are either apparently happy or indifferent. There is a third category I might consider – that of cats that are pretending to be unhappy, but who are actually happy deep down. The truth be told, however, I will probably mostly stay away from that type of video as I could see how making a determination like that – and sticking with it – could be stressful.

If anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to post them here in this thread or to contact me directly via email. Thanks!

I want to see a space shuttle experiment with pigeons; will their homing instinct get them back from space?

Sure what was done to poor kitty wasn’t terribly nice, but cruel? Nope. And besides, you have to excuse the people in the video on grounds of ignorance. Judging by the women’s hairstyles, this was filmed before the world was blessed by PETA and their mission to make us aware of what horrible beasts we humans are. We now know that animals deserve better treatment than people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomit_Comet

In my opinion, the cat didn’t act much differently from any other human taking that ride for the first time. I’m sure that, given enough experience, the cat would learn to navigate in zero-g as easily as anyone else would.

So relax, no cat went into outer space.

I think it is on one of those airplanes that one can buy rides on now that have all of the seats removed and that make huge dives, creating the illusion of weightlessness inside the cabin.

Anyone?

That’s truly horrible.