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So, recently a video showing a demonstration of a product known as the Cat Spa has been making it's way around the internet and gathering attention. Someone decides to post the link to Metafilter. And it gets quite the reception.

-That's horrible, cruel, and disturbing, and I laughed all the way through. I really don't like cats.

-Elpapacito, what ? You don't like that ? You obviously are not familiar with the Pedestrian Spa Chambers scattered across the West Coast. Entire families line up down city blocks to be part of the spa chamber experience. "The jets are coming!" scream the children. "I can't get out!" scream the men. "It's like an interactive bidet!" scream the grandfathers. And everybody walks home as wet and happy as acrobatic cats.

-"And crash, I'm just glad you didn't find a version with a pug in it, you anti-pugite."
A pug would just lie there and hope it drowned him.
"Blessed release!" he would think to himself.

-Cats don't like being spayed or neutered either. I don't see any of you people protesting that as cruelty.

-This would be so much better with a semi-hysterical Japanese voiceover.

-i love when people see this and say "omg i'd kill the person who..."
yeah. everytime i see someone do something violent i want to hit them in the face with a brick.
get over yourselves.

-Waterboarding for cats.
Its OK because 'they' aren't human, and is it just as 'hilarious' when they are?

-I have recently read somewhere that, a few centuries ago, they would hang live cats by the tail over a fire and kings and populace alike would laugh their heart out: this kind of show was considered an hilarious delight.
So, it could be said that suffering cats are still used to entertain, but on the suffering cat scale, we are much more civilized.

-Say your toddler needs an injection, in the butt. The kid hates injections. Are you folks going to say that you accompanying the child and coo-cooing it while it gets the shot is the same as sticking the kid into some injection-giving-robot-confinement-box?

-That cat isn't in distress. It's trying to get out by folding the fabric of spacetime itself. It's trying to get out so it can kill.
The kitty is just fine. It just hungers for human flesh.

-Seriously. The cat and waterboarding subject are both terrified because they think they're going to die. A cat DOES NOT freak out like that if he's merely annoyed.

-Actually, "waterboarding your cat" wins the award for the dumbest/most hilarious thing written on MetaFilter this week.
"Why do you keep shitting outside your litterbox?" *blurble burble blurble blurble meoooooww!*

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	angelhunter 2007-01-27 12:13 pm UTC (link)
	Well, yes, unless it is one of those turkish breeds. Then you'll have to board up the door of your bathroom if you want to have the tub for yourself. Oooohhh, beautiful, warm water! splash purrrrrrrrrrr (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2007-01-27 12:16 pm UTC (link)
	My very curious Burmese loves hanging out by the bath, occasionally sticking a paw in. "Ooh, water, lovely!" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ecchaniz0r 2007-01-27 05:12 pm UTC (link)
	Turkish vans! XD My cousin's used to sit in the shower stall and wait for her XD; (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dreamoflife02 2007-01-27 05:19 pm UTC (link)
	My cat does that. I have no idea what breed she is, but I stopped putting glasses of water next to my bed at night because she would always come along, dip her paw in, and then either lick the water off or flick it at my face. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2007-01-27 10:32 pm UTC (link)
	flick it at my face At that point I, too, would have some unsuitable thoughts on water. And cats. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dreamoflife02 2007-01-28 02:06 am UTC (link)
	It wasn't even at a decent time of morning-- say, past dawn-- when I could make a humorous joke about feline alarm clocks. No, my kitty liked playing with water at three AM. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2007-01-28 04:43 am UTC (link)
	Ack! One dead kitty later... (Reply to this)(Parent)

vigilanterodent
2007-01-27 05:45 pm UTC (link)

I'm told that Maine Coons are often also pro-water.

I bet having a cat join you in the shower is hilarious and adorable the first few times, but quickly gets, uh, problematic.

(Thoughts of cats and baths does remind me of an entertaining incident I heard of regarding my grandmother's cat Marilyn. So Grandma was taking a bath and had put in a really strong bubble path, to the point where you couldn't actually see the water. Marilyn was fascinated by the bubbles, and apparently didn't realize there was water in there - so in she hops, then rockets out bubblely and yowling.)

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	catslash 2007-01-27 09:32 pm UTC (link)
	That is one of the best cat stories I have ever heard. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vigilanterodent 2007-01-27 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	Marilyn is a very sweet cat, and absolutely gorgeous, but she's one of the stupidest animals I've ever encountered. My grandmother never leaves the door open when she has a bubble bath anymore, because she just knows Marilyn would do it again if she had the opportunity. (Reply to this)(Parent)

hristaesir
2007-01-27 10:20 pm UTC (link)

My maine coon mix ex-stray likes playing in the sink. He'll sit on the bathroom counter and meow until you turn the faucet on for him to play with.

Now, grant you, he is so goddamn furry I don't think he actually gets wet so that he can feel it. The wet does not reach kitty skin at any point. He gets fucking pissy when you actually bathe him and he FEELS the wet. (He's also hell to detangle, which is why after the first time we started paying someone else to wash him a couple times a year.)

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	chikane 2007-01-27 10:51 pm UTC (link)
	Happened to our cat as well, for exactly the same reason. The result was a really, really wet living room after the little dervish had been caught and dried o.O He never went close to the tub again. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	napalmnacey 2007-01-27 11:22 pm UTC (link)
	At least she didn't leap head-first into a toilet bowl. ... Filled with pee. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	monsley 2007-01-28 01:44 am UTC (link)
	Why can't I stop laughing? ... Your poor cat... :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

napalmnacey
2007-01-28 01:57 am UTC (link)

Oh, it wasn't *my* cat. It was my sister's cat. The cat had the bad habit of leaping onto Tina's lap every time she went wee-wee. Obviously she never realised that under Tina's bottom was a hole filled with water. One day she ran into the bathroom and saw the fiance standing in front of the toilet. She piss-bolted head-on for the thing, took a leap and landed in the bowl. And the fiance had just had his whiz.

Tom (the fiance) was distraught, was all, "Wah, the cat is covered in my *pee*". My sister laughed her tits off (and they're big tits so she laughed a lot!).

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	darkrose 2007-01-28 12:50 am UTC (link)
	Joxur is pro-playing-in-water. He likes to stick his paw in his water dish and splash the water out onto the floor. Not so much with the bathing, though. He always sits outside the shower in the morning to make sure I come out of the Big Water Box. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	littlest_lurker 2007-01-28 03:31 am UTC (link)
	I think that is one of my favorite cat stories of all time now. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	azawakh 2007-01-27 07:15 pm UTC (link)
	My deaf white kitty loves water, too. He's not too hot on being sprayed or swimming, but he's quite happy to push the shower curtain aside without warning to pounce droplets. It's like CuteOverload meets Psycho. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2007-01-27 11:23 pm UTC (link)
	It's like CuteOverload meets Psycho That is such a mental image! rofl (Reply to this)(Parent)

	napalmnacey 2007-01-27 11:20 pm UTC (link)
	Awww. I'd love to share a bath with my cat. She just sits on the edge and stares at me, all "Are you okay? What are you doing? Are you nuts? Ohhh, water... schlurp snorgle sip" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	melandry 2007-01-28 03:09 am UTC (link)
	I'm not a big bath person, but I took my first bath since getting the cat alst night and this was exactly her reaction. Except for the drinking, because there was bubble bath. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2007-01-28 03:47 am UTC (link)
	People that say cats are self-centred have never had a cat worried about them before. :P (Reply to this)(Parent)

	littlest_lurker 2007-01-28 03:28 am UTC (link)
	I had a pair of cats once who would do just that. And they would drink by delicately dipping their paws into the water and then licking them. It was pretty amusing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2007-01-28 03:48 am UTC (link)
	Wanna know something funny? My cat was sitting on the edge of the bath, and I made her tail hang down and dip in the water. She didn't bat an eyelid. Of course, put a paw in the water and it's freak-out ahoy! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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