This is great!
Moscow Cat Theatre
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AHA!
Thats brill!
I think i may need to go and book some tickets to go and see that!
Awwww, similar to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPPocdd4JHk
Popovich is slightly better I’d say
aww!
Thats the best thing Ive ever seen!
Ahh, lovely… and the cats seem to enjoy themselves too…
My God, I absolutely love it! I would *love* to see it!
call me a cynic but there\’s nothing amusing about seeing normal animal behavior twisted into providing \”human entertainment\” , and I would be very surprised if such acts didn’t incorporate levels of cruelty to aid compliance i.e. primarily through fear.
Loved it! If only I’d have known about this when I went with my school, we went to some quite boring theatre where the best event of the night was buying a bottle of vodka in the interval, I think I was about 13 at the time.
Not quite sure what to make of this… yes funny, but on the other hand, perhaps a little cruel?
My daughter is ‘obsessed’ with cats so would love this…
…but some of it, ie the cat walking on the tightrope near the end – it was wagging its tail and had its claws out; not too happy I’m thinking.
xx
No. Don’t think so. They must be something else in cat suits… chihuahuas?…rats?…cockroaches? Not cats.
Thanks very much for this great link!
Now I know I can fall back on something interesting if my plans to be a cognitive neuropsychologist fall through. I’ve already got the maniacal leaping cat, now I just need a long stick and a handful of prawns…
Get them on to ‘Britain’s Got Talents’, I’m sure they’d be very welcomed over here. Wonder if Simon Cowell likes cats though. *Ponders*
The point where the guy is holding the cat’s tail as it walks onto the wire could be coercion, although I would think the cat would then treat the handler as an aversive. I think Derek is incorrect, though. Most of these behaviours look like they would be hard to teach through coercion and punishment. It’s hard to communicate to a cat that if it doesn’t do a tightrope act you’ll punch it in the face. You can coax it onto the wire pretty easily through target training, though, I bet.
Derek: animals can be trained to perform with no form of punishment or forced behaviours. I train my pet birds for environmental enrichment purposes (also safety and ease of handling) and it’s great fun. The birds engage in it voluntarily. It’s actually really hard to train an unwilling animal, because how do you explain that it has to perform a complex behaviour?
I know cats, and I’ve lived in Moscow long enough to know about Kuklachev’s theater to know they seriously love cats there. I’ve been to a couple of shows, and you can tell those are some happy cats. “Sue,” claws out is natural, and tail-flicking can also mean extreme concentration, such as when a cat is watching a bird.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/theater/newsandfeatures/17cats.html
“The b**tard’s gone live!”
Dougal Siepe now lives in Moscow. I wonder if they have a dog cinema?