January 26, 2007
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Cats
Quick everyone, grab your cat. We are going to try a xanga experiment.
Throw your cat in the air.
Did it land on its feet?
Quick everyone, grab your cat. We are going to try a xanga experiment.
Throw your cat in the air.
Did it land on its feet?
Comments (160)
she did!
I don’t have a cat… so I just replaced it with a synonym (it didn’t work).
her belly is big so i dont think she enjoyed it.
I threw my nursing parter here at work in the air, he fell on his head
Tula doesn’t, but she recovers quickly.
I didn’t experiment, fyi. She’s just still in her early jumping around stages and I witness it a lot.
i don’t happen to know where my cat is at the moment, but thank you for making me laugh
I didn’t quite drop it. It curled up into an awkward position, kicked me, and let out a gigantic meow.
she was sitting on the desk so all i had to do was slide her off. haha!
my cat is slightly drunk and he STILL landed on his feet ;X
no…darn you! my cat is dead!!!!
Yeah, barely. Fatty. Aw, but i love him anyway. He’s my best friend.
Where ever would you get such an idea? *wink wink*
It might have became paralyzed, Million Dollar Baby style.
Technicolor.
Wow, I didn’t thing you could get any stupider. Shut your Xanga down.
I threw my boyfriend
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he did not
my cats are dead. love the innovated posts that you do, Dan. so unique. Have you noticed that there are a ton of other “cafe” sites now? yours is still the best i’ve seen.
throw to the ceiling and it might stick
um…my cat is 18 years old…i dont think im gonna throw her into the air…
sorry dan
lol
Yes.. wait… nevermind, yes.
I don’t have a cat, so I threw my cellphone in the air…it landed on its back.
Both cats did. Point of experiment?
yep!
i dont have a cat
so i substituted my little sister
now my mom is yelling
hahaha
i can’t participate i don’t have a cat…cats and i cannot live together…allergies
Of course!
My buddy Cyrus has this awful story related to this… As a kid he liked to play the game of “how low to the ground can you drop the cat and it still land on its feet?” He still plays this game occasionally now, as an adult. Basically, he was used to cats ALWAYS landing on their feet when you dropped them. No need to set them down, just drop and they’ll be fine.
Then one day his parents took him to look at puppies at the pound. He was holding a puppy in his arms, and when he decided he was done with it, instead of setting it down, he just let it drop fully expecting it to right itself and land on its feet like a cat.
The puppy THUDS on the ground, on its side, and looks up at Cyrus and kinda whimpers. (he was fine, of course) Ok, not so awful of a story, but I’ve always found it amusing. =)
yes. and now he’s mad at me.
If I had a cat to throw, I would willingly do it in the name of TheTheologiansCafe.
I know you got bad blood with peta but i aint for no animal torture.
Cyaaa.
He did!
no cats here but i imagine that if i did have a cat it would land (super pissed of at me) on it’s feet
hahahaha. i cannot believe that you have the power to actually get people to throw their cats up into the air to see what happens. amazing and so hilarious
I’m not grabbing my cat! I already stepped on her foot tonight, and now my daughter is upset with me!
the real question is, did you find it funny
awww I dont have a cat *sobs*
I don’t have a cat & everyone else took all the smart aleck answers.
I threw my stapler across the room.
It didn’t do anything.
My cat weights 30 lbs. He’d break something if I dropped him.
hahah. fortunately, i’m a dog person. i can’t stand cats.
I hate cats
Um how ’bout I don’t throw my cat in the air. =)
Ok I don’t have a cat anymore *sad* BUT I HAVE TRIED THAT AND SHE DID!!! *happy*
cats dont land on their feet if dropped from 3 stories…. i learned this when i was 7 or 8….not with my cat though…. and the cat was just shaking up
and im not into animal cruelty…
I just threw my cat out the door (right before I read this), and yes, she did land on her feet.
Alright, Dan, I didn’t want to do this, but… I’m going to have to call PETA.
Kidding.
Cats are amusing. Also. Isn’t buttered toast also supposed to always land on its buttered side? So answer me this: If you attach a piece of buttered toast to a cat’s paws, then throw the whole contraption out the window, what happens?
Yes indeed.
I threw my laptop (named smooch) and it landed upsidedown but as it bounced back up it did a triple backflip, tilted sideways landed on its side, rolled (for a rectangle) about a yard before my cat saw it. My cat had never seen a rolling laptop named smooch before and freaked out. She jumped three feet in the air trying to get some friction to run away but ended up landing on top of smooch. The cat is now under my bed and smooch is related this story to ya’ll now.
(Alright, alright, I don’t have a laptop named smooch.)
I only dropped her about 6 inchs, and on to the bed because I love her.
But yes, she most certainly did land on her feet.
Yes.
I’m calling the SPCA! >:O Actually, I wish I had a cat to test that on. Well… maybe not to test that.
About the cat with the butter.
This trick has been played on cats many times over the last 200 years and as such they have developed a self defence system for it. In midair they use their back feet to start breaking the toast off. If the cat is able to break off enough of the toast it will be able to counteract the buttered toast. Some cats have been known to completely free themselves of the toast in 2.468 seconds. 5 out of 4 attempts ended with the toast butter side down and the cat right side up. It is also interesting to note that the same stats are true regarding those who have a problem with fractions. (5 out of 4 people have a problem with fractions.)
yes but then the legs collapsed outward in a U-shape like a disfunctional umbrella. luckily my cat is so obese its fat rolls absorbed the shock of the fall.
wait. i don’t have a cat… that was an imaginary event.
*Grabs invisible cat* Oh look, she landed on her tail and now she’s balancing on it!
Sorry, my cat died several years ago, but she always landed on her feet.
I wish I had a cat = /
I strapped a piece of buttered toast to my cat’s back to see which side it would land on. The result?
It just hovered an inch from the ground and rotated. It got up to about 2,000 RPM before the dog ate the toast. I didn’t see the actual landing through the cloud of fur and claws, but the cat is dizzy and the dog is bloody.
Wait, does my dancing Hobbes count for anything?
I just saw your video!
LOL! poor cat….
That was great!
RYC: Maybe it would get boring, but mostly I think I just feel so passionately about people being educated that I wouldn’t be unhappy teaching it.
I have barn cats and would like to keep all my fingers, so no, i am not going to try and throw one.
While I don’t own my own cat, whenever I push a cat off a ledge or drop it or something it lands on its feet. Never have I seen a cat not land on its feet, though I have heard of it happening.
yeah
Nope… my huge cat is too lazy to think about moving in mid-air to land on his feet. He’d rather just fall, make a loud thud then get up and walk away.
Yes…..but first she managed to scratch my face. Thanks Dan.
i dont have a cat, so ill throw my puppy!
oops… uhm… maybe i should’ve used a cat…
That video is awful. I laughed at first but then I just felt bad. The poor cat was panicking.
That’s very traumatizing for a cat to throw it like that…
Ah, my friend’s cat was all over me the other day. And she wouldn’t stop clawing me so I pushed her off, and she didn’t land on her feet.
Soo.. the point of the experiment?
Haha… In practice, I find this appalling, but I confess your post made me giggle.
yes, all 3 throws
I tossed him up over the bed just in case he didn’t. lol.
no, my cat’s neck mysteriously snapped in mid-air. so it died. wierd, huh?
who would’ve known that cat’s necks spontaneously break?
No, Dan. I’m not going to throw my cat in the air.
Looks like you have enough willing participants anyway.
If only I had a cat to toss. Darn.
She’s sleeping… and she’s so cute and cuddly on my bed… I think I’ll leave her there.
Both did!
No. And it’s dead
Just kidding. I have no cat.
Don’t currently have a cat but I know ours always landed on their feet. Of course we didn’t make a habit of tossing them just to see. lol!
all 3 of them did.
hmmm if anybody’s cat died during this incident, could they sue u?
seeing as how many petty crimes that are posted on here work on that same basis.
Every time.
My imaginary cat is super cool, so it does multiple rotations in the air before hitting the ground on his back, and does a shoulder roll back up to standing.
I feel kinda bad for the cat in the video… imagine you are stuck in a container and it’s quickly filling up with your worst nightmare (spiders, snakes, clowns, etc.). Then you realized that you can’t get out. You can SEE out, but you can’t get there.
Poor dear.
Yepp.
my cat doesn’t have legs.
Thanks, my cat is now dead.
This is cruel. I’m calling PETA. Then they can come and throw paint all over you.
My cats do land on their feet though.
adding to the horror stories……
My Grandmother told me that when my mother and uncle were wee toddlers. my uncle tossed my mothers cat down the stairs. Out of revenge my mother threw his pet dog down the same stairs……….it didn’t land on its feet
If cats always land on their feet, and buttered toast always lands butter side down, if you taped a piece of buttered toast on a cat’s back and tossed him out the window, did you just create anti-gravity?
I’m not with my cat right now, but I know whenever I give her a little toss to the floor she lands on her feet.
nope
now she’s whining at me for tossing her in the air >_>
All 5 of them did!
I kiddingly read this post to my husband and he really threw Meow on the couch. Surprisingly she did land on her feet. I’ve seen her fall several times and not land on her feet though. She’s gotta be the clumsiest cat in the world.
hahahaha!
no pets are can live at my apartment, so i cannot participate in this research.
delete the word ‘are’
Haha, I just saw the video. You get the same result if you try to keep a cat in a bathtub. I did that ONCE.
I don’t have a cat, they’re not allowed in the dorms.
hahah your funny.
I used to play that game when i had a cat… except change throw up in the air to drop off a 30 ft. up railling… susan always landed on her feet. so did mary. (my past cats).
lol this was the most random post I’ve ever read so far. Thanks for making me laugh :]
she wouldve… unfortunately, she’s still in the states, and i moved to australia.. havent got another cat yet…
If I threw any of mine in the air, two things would happen…
1. They would hit the ceiling
B. I would hit the floor as my wife would hit me!
My brother tossed my cat gently into the air to see if she’d land on her feet. At the time, my brother was about 6.
She sprained her poor little paw.
While I do not promote Cat Tossing I have witnessed both of my cats in a fall. Thalion generally lands on her feet unless she slips off the window sill where she has been sleeping. Bobbi has no sense of balance and generally lands on her head.
my cat scratched me!!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CWej4ZbrbbM
Hilarious.
Possibly… More hilarious?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SUNmLuNdiL8
If I tried that with my cat she’d scratch my face off.
ooooooops! I was in the car and forgot the moon roof was open!
you made me want a cat!
I don’t have a cat, but I do have a little brother.
Will that work too?
Mine flailed in the air, landed on its back and died.
I have two cats. One is the typical graceful, aloof cat, who always lands on her feet. The other cat, however, thinks he’s a dog, and is always tripping over his big feet, slipping off the back of the chairs, and in general, rarely landing on his feet.
The poor cat. That must have been traumatizing.
my cat jumps over refrigderiators … im not worried about her balance and landing on her feet … shes like the jet li of cats….. she climbs walls and does backflips.
why are we throwing cats?
yeah she did…usually does
AH! thats cat torture!!!
Don’town a cat.
LET’S TRY THE DOG.
. . .. didn’t work out.
I don’t have a cat on hand.
I would never throw my cats… even if I was at home.. but I know that they’d land on their feet.
I used to have a loft apartment. My cat once fell from about 12′ from the loft to the ground floor. He landed on his feet, was a little dazed for a few seconds. He shook it off and he was fine.
…Um, can I borrow a cat?
Cat’s always land on their feet – we tried this from a barn once:)
Dan, if it landed on its head and somebody sued you, would you pay?
my cat is huge and fat and tries to bite me when i pick her up.
You’re a nut, by the way. And you clearly haven’t met my cat…..
I have three cats and that is something I would not do to them. True, cats do have quick reflexes and try to twist around and land on their feet, however, they can still break their legs if dropped from a high place. Not a cool thing to do Dan.
My cat wasn’t on hand so I used a hamster. He would have landed on his feet but he was spread-eagle so he did a majestic sort of belly-flop on the shag carpeting.
MmmYep, she did.
Yes. He is usually very clumsy, though. A while ago he was walking on the fence and just fell over.
Yes. He is usually very clumsy, though. A while ago he was walking on the fence and just fell over.
My cat wouldn’t. He can barely walk without falling over (he’s old and going to die soon). So something tells me I shouldn’t try, heh.
I doubt any cat landed on its feet in this experiment. I can ensure you almost all landed on the floor. [you can't land on something that's attached to you]
Yeah! it did :]
I always just drop my cats to the ground when i’m holding them. they always land on their feet. i’ve tried dropping them upside down (i’m cruel, yes) before and they always manage to get back on their feet.
Yup. =)
My kitty is smarttt. =)
reading the other comments i was reminded of when my cat bubbles fell off the roof. i didnt see it but my dad said he landed on his feet and then didnt move at all for a minute or two.
Cats are actually more likely to survive falling from 5 stories than they are falling from 1 or 2, because they need a little bit of time in order to prepare themselves for landing…
when you throw them towards the ground at high speeds they don’t always land on their feet
Yeah, he did. I hated to throw him (lol), so I did it kinda softly.
…
First, I need a cat.
But 98% of the time, the cats I’ve dropped to the ground have landed on their feet. The other 2% of the time is because they decided they didn’t want to be dropped and tried to hang on but it didn’t quite work. Cats are silly.
I’m not going to throw my cat because she gets enough abuse from other people in my house, but….
She always lands on her feet now, but when she was a kitten she would just kinda plop on her side. It was quite amusing, actually.
yes.
That cat is freaking huge.
Please don’t make me do that again.
There is nothing in this world sweeter than your left ear. I could dance like a fool for seven years just to watch Santa Claus chase the easter bunny around in Czechoslovakia for a dime and some chicken feed. Also I like to milk cows and bay at the moon. Sometimes I even drink toilet water or pee in my dad’s coffeepot at his place of work. I also am quite fond of foot fungus and Tom Cruise. That is a joke. Tom Cruise is a raving lunatic from Saturn. My mama married Tom Cruise so technically he is my dad. But my real dad is a famous war hero from Japanese folklore. They say he isn’t real but my big toe knows better. He is real and he is my father. I know he is. I was named after the little engine that couldn’t. Just kidding. I was named after a rare poop disease called lafudikuleeatonnafogusbipjatin. Just kidding again. I was named after Napolean Dynamite. That’s not true either. The only truth I know is that I am secretly in love with your brother. That is a known fact. Goodbye for now. Feel free to consult my orthodontist for information about my psychiatrist’s crazy pet bird.
-Junie B Jones
he sure did, lol
I don’t have a cat now but I used to and it used to fall on its feet. Then she died of a blood disease.
Not such a happy story now isn’t it!
yes,haha,I ran into the room,picked Sushi up,and tossed him.he had fun,I think(he’s about 4 months old)..
gina
Dang! I wish I had seen this on Friday. For now, the cat is purring sweetly while laying across the back of my chair. If I slam back to make her fall…
nah! I will be nice to her…today.
MROWR
I had all my friends shoot at the one I tossed in the air, so no.
Dr. Carasco
I’m not sure, in the end I had a face full of hairballs.
yes.
no. the fucker landed on my lap – claws out!
no. the fucker landed on my lap – claws out!
*gonk*
…………….*out of curiosity, picks cat up*
Simba: *glares at DK*
DK: O.O”’ *puts Simba down*
I do not currently nor have I ever had a cat. There was a neighborhood cat though when I was growing up. My father kicked it on a number of occasions and I always remember it landing on its feet when it got air from those kicks. I still cannot figure out why it kept coming by our house.
I’ve tossed many a cat in my relatively short life, and I’ll tell you what, only once have I seen a cat land on its back. I even dropped one from a couple of inches off of the floor(maybe 3 or 4) and it STILL landed on its feet. Its freakin wierd
haha my cat’s really fat so he kind of plopped.
but he landed on his feet!!
-hillari
yes, I love my kitty ^_^.