Pet intelligence wank
The Guardian: Cats outsmarted in psychologist's test.

You can imagine how well this goes with the readers. Besides the predictable flood of pet owner butthurt and anecdotes of clever / stupid cats / dogs / mice / owls, there are plenty of genuinely funny comments as well as a side wank on the validity of test methods and statistics, obligatory calls to talk about world hunger instead or discuss the intelligence of various nationalities, and, naturally, Hitler and his pets make a bonus appearance. I think one could play classical wank bingo in here, but some of the stories make it all worthwhile.

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$FairestCat: Dreadful\o/$

fairestcat
2009-06-19 09:14 pm UTC (link)

When Dreadful (see icon) was a kitten he totally taught himself and me to play fetch with those little glitterball cat toys which are still his favorites (as is playing fetch across the house.)

At the time I lived in a small efficiency apartment with hardwood floors. I would throw the glitter ball, Dreadful would race after it, grab it and, unable to stop his momentum, slam headfirst into the nearest hard surface, usually the stove. Occasionally he'd hit hard enough to do a somersault on the floor. He would then jump right up, glitterball still in mouth and run back so I could throw it again.

My now-roommate and I still laugh about the sound he would make racing across the wood floors "skitter skitter skitter THUMP"

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