Protected Feeder Puts Your Fat Tabby on Portion Control
If you've got multiple cats at home, the Gatefeeder makes dinner time easier if one of your felines is on a special diet. Because only a cat wearing a unique RFID tag can squeeze through its door and...
View ArticleHow Do Cats Survive Massive Falls?
Everyone knows that cats can somehow survive falling out of a tree, but last week a cat survived a 19-storey fall in Boston. So just how the hell did it manage it?
View ArticleRozzers Race to Save a Choking Dog After It Amazingly Calls 999 On Its Own
Who said dogs aren’t as intelligent as cats? Can a cat call 999 when it’s choking to death? I didn’t think so. But then again a cat probably wouldn’t have wound up strangling itself half to death with...
View ArticleWhy Apple’s OS X Naming System Is Doomed
There is one big problem with themed naming schemes, and that’s running out of good words. While OS X has had a good run, evolving from Cheetah, through Jaguar, Tiger, Leopards and—most recently—Lions,...
View ArticleThis Adorable Nanotech Shark Will Swallow Your Puppy Whole
It’s tough being a dog the size of a cat. Not only do you have “toy” in your title, people try to carry you around like a purse—which is just demeaning. On the other hand, as a small dog, only you can...
View ArticleCrazy Dutchman Turns a Stuffed Cat Into a Quadrocopter
Out of all the things you could strap four rotors to and make fly, a dead cat isn’t the first thing that springs to mind, unless you’re Bart Jansen that is. He’s stretched his stuffed kitty over the...
View ArticleThis Dog-Shaped Scratching Post Is Sure To Fuel the Dogs vs. Cats Debate
If there’s one thing that can divide the nation greater than the Coke vs. Pepsi debate, it’s the question of what makes the better housepet. Dog and cat supporters are fervent in their belief that...
View ArticleWhy Cat Bites Are Pretty Much the Worst Thing Ever
All of you who are under the impression that cats are absolutely the best thing for the Internet — producing GIFs and memes galore — are bloody delusional. My 4kg house cat Franny almost destroyed a...
View ArticleA Pair of Robotic Cat Ears Is Your “Meeeooooow!” Deal of the Day
Do you feel as uncomfortable in your current form? Do you feel as though nature has played a vile trick on you by making you one of the two-legged, whiskerless humans? Do you want to be a cat instead?...
View ArticleHang Out With These Cats and Watch a Little iPad Magic
Simon Pierro is relatively well known for his tech-friendly iPad magic. Now he’s back with a new set; some cats, and a soundtrack that sort of sounds like it should be coming from a Nintendo Wii....
View ArticleSo That’s Why Cats Always Land Paws Down
Ever wondered how every cat manages to land feet down, no matter how they start falling? It’s pretty baffling from a physics point of view, what with conserved momentum and all, but actually, when you...
View ArticleMinnesota Holds World’s First Cat Film Festival, Goes Down Purr-Fectly Well
Getting tired of the usual Cannes, Toronto and Sundance film festivals? Looking for something a bit more, err, class? One of America’s finest contemporary art centres hosted the inaugural ‘Cat Video...
View ArticleThe Rich Cats of Instagram: They’re Real, and They’re Spectacular
First there were the Rich Kids of Instagram, who were perfectly annoying in their own louche, lazy way. Poppin’ bottles on the beach. Private jets. Prepubescence. The Worst People Ever to Use...
View ArticleYouTube Video Provides Evidence That Cats Can’t Help Sneezing to Dubstep
Due to high levels of sub-bass frequencies, Dubstep is one of those musical genres that produces strong physical and behavioural reactions in humans. People often feel a vibrating sensation in their...
View ArticleIn Russia, Arcade Claw Machines Come With Real Live Cats
Stuffed animals? Please. In Russia, claw machines are stuffed with real animals. Finally, something worth winning! But do everyone a favor and hold off until it’s finished grooming, would ya? [Reddit...
View ArticleFrisky Gifts for Cat Nuts
Everyone knows at least one cat owner who is a little bit crazy, a little bit intense, and a little bit covered in cat fur. Hanging out at this friend’s house might be a disgusting chore. But that...
View ArticleFelix Baumgartner’s Got Nothing on This Free-Falling Kitty
We’ll never know whether this Siamese cat was attempting to set free fall records for its species or engaging in a dramatic feline suicide attempt when it jumped from the top of this Colombian...
View ArticleA Japanese-Style Cat Cafe Could Be Meowing Into, Yup, East London
A regular pub conversation I have with anyone who’ll listen is how London really needs a cat cafe. I went to one in Tokyo four years ago, and had to be physically pulled out over there after my...
View ArticleHacker Taunts Police With Message Taped to a Cat
A hacker wanted in Japan for various crimes against computers has been amusing himself playing games with the local police, culminating in a bizarre stunt where he attached a memory card to a cat’s...
View ArticleMonopoly’s Iron Token Is Dead, Long Live the Cat
Hasbro took a vote, and the internet has spoken. The ballots have been counted, and the people have said F the iron — the new Monopoly token will be a cat. In a poll on the classic game’s Facebook...
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