Most popular video in the UK shows agile kitten Mia, who has 2.6 million fans. She is famed for navigating plastic cup obstacle courses in owner's viral clips. We have to give the humans a lot of credit too for dreaming up the idea for these unique videos and for showing the world how clever and nimble domestic cats are at navigating tricky obstacles with great precision. Their TikTok videos gather an awesome number of views. Even the less popular ones have over 100k views.
Note: This is a video from another website. Sometimes they are deleted at source which stops them working on this site. If that has happened, I apologise but I have no control over it.
The title to this post is the title given to the video on YouTube but it is inaccurate. This is not a bizarre posture but a very clever and natural posture which allows the cat to stretch over to this large receptacle of water and drink from it.
Skinny tabby cat uses his athleticism to drink from a large receptacle. Screenshot.
I love the athleticism that this skinny little tabby stray cat demonstrates. It is another example on video of the extraordinary athleticism of the domestic and feral cat.
You probably know that domestic cats prefer to drink from what appears to us to be dirty puddles and polluted water but which in fact is pure from the cat's perspective than tap water. Tap water contains chemicals to keep it pure and to protect the health of people but domestic cats can smell this, they can smell the chlorine and fluoride that is in it and prefer rainwater although it might have collected some pollutants in the air as it falls to the ground.
They don't mind these perhaps because they can't smell them. I believe that cats pick up the unnatural smells of tap water which puts them off. They overcome it because they often drink tap water but sometimes they shun it for muddy puddles.
Note: This is a video from another website. Sometimes they are deleted at source which stops them working on this site. If that has happened, I apologise but I have no control over it. I actually expect this video to disappear within quite a short space of time because I do not think that the person uploading it is genuine. I have a suspicion that he or she is downloading the videos of other people and then uploading them to his YouTube channel. I could be wrong and if I am I apologise.
Here's a nice way to recycle an old chair. It is a perfect device for a domestic cat to demonstrate their gymnastic skills. It has all the elements of a piece of gymnastic equipment designed for cats. It is padded and has a nice flat portion above which is another padded area which the cat can grab hold of and swing under and over. I don't think a person could have designed a better piece of domestic cat gymnastic equipment. It just has to be an old piece of furniture because as you can see it quickly becomes destroyed.
Please remember, though, that these videos are embedded from another website, in this case Twitter, and I have no control over the original video. Somebody might delete that video in which case it will be non-functional on this webpage. If that has happened I apologise.
