Cat curling is sliding your cat (usually a kitten) on a polished wooden floor as if she was a curling stone. Obviously, it is essential that the floor is absolutely smooth and safe from defects. It is not a fad or trend as far as I know. It is just the title to this video…
I can’t see an adult cat liking this but the well-known box loving cat Maru liked to slide into boxes. This looks like fun for a kitten who likes it. This kitten seems to like it. I don’t see anything wrong with it in this specific example as it provides fun for both cat and human. It is always good to see human and cat playing together. There is not really enough of it.
It is important that the person playing with his cat like this does the sliding with skill. The person in the video does have the skill to do it nicely but not everyone will have these skills. There is a potential for injury which is why it could be criticised.
Without wanting to be a grumpy old pain-in-the-bum, the downside is that an irresponsible cat owner might copy this on the wrong floor and in the place and with the wrong cat all of which could lead to injury or an unhappy cat.
What do you think?
For anyone who doesn’t know curling is a winter sport played on ice in which people slide flat stones towards a target. It is part of the Winter Olympics.
This was mentioned in a book in pre-internet days and was known as “back-sliding”. Some cats like to be slid on their back across floor or carpet (Siamese cats were specifically mentioned!). Kitty II loved being pushed backwards on my living room carpet by her back legs. When she wanted a turn, she’d lie down and waggle her back legs and tail ready to be slid!
The trouble with You Tube is that too many idiots try to slavishly copy things rather than building up their own interactive games with their pets.
Well along with everyone else I dont agree with it. We do Curling here in NZ in the winter time. Not with Cats mind u. I would be ashamed to do anything like that.
I wonder if this is actually not “banned” but a technology/commercial problem causing videos to be unplayable in certain countries. It is a bit like the DVD film market when you have to buy a DVD for a specific marketplace (geographical area). It may be linked to that. In other words a commercial issue due to the world being carved up for commercial reasons. I am not sure.
Certain things are banned here that you can see in the Bahama’s. My cousin lives there and she wants me to see certain video’s. When i go to view it is always says, the video is banned in your country. This is something new to me as well. Never knew anything to be banned in the United States.
Agreed DEE, thank you <3 🙂
Yes RUTH agreed <3
When youtube was online here, I saw some foolish videos about cats and those all videos not seem to be any kind of love of the cats or kittens. That was straight away an abuse. I hated and thought that what kind of treatment they want to show but Alley Cat Allies were the best and also from other rescue videos. I loved them all. <3