Or at least how to make this cat gag. I gotta find a coin and a comb to try this on Cynikitty.
Update:
Same reaction with Cynikitty.
(via Arbroath)
Update 2
Well, now that just about everyone who read this post has been chasing the nearest cat with a comb and a coin it seems that this gag reflex is a common thing. Weird. I tried googling to see why a coin dragged across the teeth of a comb would make my cat want to vomit but so far I haven’t come up with the right search phrase.
That’s very weird — any idea why it works?
Oh, does the recorded sound from the video work on Cynikitty? (thankfully I don’t have to experiment on 😉
I want to know how someone figures that out for the first time. Does that guy just sit around rubbing coins on combs?
Something to do with frequency/pitch? Much like humans reacting to nails on blackboard?
I’ve had my cat react to twittering birds and fast rewinding audio tape like a mother cat to kittens (runs into room with strange mummy kitteh mew).
So my roommate and I went and tried this on our two cats (for the sake of SCIENCE!). And it worked on both of them.
ok, so I tried this on my cat. He gagged. Now I feel like such a jerk.
Quick! More experiments! More cat gagging! We need to find out if it works all the time!
Seriously, though, the science behind this would interest me…
I tried it on one of my cats, Arlo. No gagging. He just gave me an annoyed look.
But then he’s not a normal cat. I have to try it on the other two.
Buster jumped up and fled on the second scritch.
He is now glaring at me from a good 30 feet away.
Time to get out the catnip.
Is this the feline equivalent of the “brown sound?”
I tried it on three cats. One was curious, one was scared, and the bulimic one just looked at me like I’m an idiot. Which I suppose is true. No gagging.
i didn’t have a plastic comb that was large enough. i used a small one and the pitch was too low. all my cat did was rub up against it.
I want a cat REALLLLY bad now!!!!
Isn’t this the last thing you want from your cat?
>> Isn’t this the last thing you want from your cat?
On the surface, sure. But think about the deeper implications. If the effect of this is common enough that it can make the majority of cats yark with predictable regularity, then the coincomb process can be weaponized and used for our benefit in the impending cat uprising.
Don’t act like you didn’t know it was coming. They’ve been scheming our overthrow for centuries.
Didn’t work on my cat.
Do you think it would be as effective with larger felines, i.e.: lions, tigers, etc?
I have three cats. No gag reaction. One looked interested in the noise, then rubbed his cheek against the comb.
Too bad. It would be nice to be able to have them puke when and where I want them to instead of finding it with my bare feet in the middle of the night.
I tried it on my girlfriend… nothing. She is Japanese though. To clarify: THIS DOES NOT WORK ON JAPANESE PEOPLE!
that is freaking hilarious.
No effects whatsoever on my cats. All it did was get them curious and perked up.
I tried it on my two cats and it didn’t work.
Worked on my cat. Very odd.