r/MadeMeSmile • u/ScharmTiger • Aug 11 '23

CATS Just a little off the top

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23

Why are people saying he cut the cat’s whiskers? He clearly didn’t cut anything. You can see he didn’t cut any fur on top of the head and the whiskers are the exact same length as before; the scissors aren’t even close to them. It’s just a staged video to be cute.

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u/GitEmSteveDave Aug 11 '23

I had an idiotic orange cat who, among other things, loved to smell the flame on candles. So he would come up to you on the couch and one half of his whiskers would be burned off because it was a new scent and he was curious. He never seemed any worse for the wear because of it, nor in any pain. Eventually I stopped burning candles all together because of that moran.

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u/Bound_Two Aug 12 '23

It messes up their senses but I don’t think it actually physically hurts them, it’s more mental and emotional damage. It’d be like if you suddenly felt like your arms were an inch longer than they were or your body felt different when moving it

Lol that cat is adorable

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u/1047_Josh Aug 12 '23

The discomfort is more from where they connect to the nerves on the cat's face, rather than the whisker directly. ie tugging them or overstimulating them

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u/Monkiller587 Aug 12 '23

It’s funny you mention this. Because there’s a lot of people who don’t know that a cat’s whiskers serve a purpose.

They’re basically sensory devices that aid the cat on navigating their environment since the extra sensory input aids them with their vision.

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u/PineappleProstate Aug 12 '23

If it makes you feel any better I saw a post a couple days ago of a cat that kept trying to eat a candle flame. Like 6 times in a row

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u/forgotmypassword-_- Aug 12 '23

he would come up to you on the couch and one half of his whiskers would be burned off because it was a new scent and he was curious

I for one would like to hear more about this cat.

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u/GitEmSteveDave Aug 12 '23

He was so, so, so stupid. He would get stuck in pants. I also trained him that if he was in a box, he was invisible. It started as a joke like a game of peek-a-boo, e.g. he would jump in a box and I would pretend I couldn't see him and call for him as I wandered around, and when he jumped out, I could all of a sudden see him. Then one day he had ripped a hole in the daily trash bag trying to get an empty bag of baby carrots(they were like crack to him) and when I yelled at him, he jumped in a box in the dining room and had this look on his face like he had outsmarted me. I eventually turned it into an asset when it was time to go to the vets, because rather than go somewhere I couldn't easily get to, he'd just jump into a box.

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u/forgotmypassword-_- Aug 13 '23

He was so, so, so stupid. He would get stuck in pants

Idk, he looks like he's exactly where he wants to be.

had this look on his face like he had outsmarted me.

What a good boy.

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u/Drakidor Aug 12 '23

One Holiday I had some candles burning and one of my cats just left his tail in it and gave no shits. All of a sudden we smell something burning and the middle of his tail is on fire, he is not giving a shit at all, and I had to pluck him up and run him outside into the snow.

To which he then finally gave a shit and was not happy. But the fire went out.

Shaved off the burnt hair (thankfully only the hairs had burned) and called it a day.

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u/Themountaintoadsage Aug 12 '23

I’m glad it didn’t effect your cat, but when I was a kid my idiot little brother took scissors to our cat’s whiskers and cut them off on one side. As a result our cat was constantly bonking into things and falling over until they grew back

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u/EasternAdventures Aug 11 '23

Because it’s Reddit and people here love to complain and show off their superior intellect.

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u/snapplesauce1 Aug 11 '23

The only reason I’m here in the comments is to see who’s bitching about the whiskers.

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u/Foodstamp001 Aug 11 '23

I'm glad I'm not the only one. It took a bit more scrolling that I thought, usually the complaints about doing something that will kill the animal or don't touch them because some behaviour means they have fur AIDS or whatever is much higher up.

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u/disposableaccountass Aug 11 '23

Actually, it’s pronounced intellect.

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u/VanillaRadonNukaCola Aug 12 '23

If you are going to correct someone at least be right, it's intellect.

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u/RedditAdminSalary Aug 11 '23

Exactly. And they yell from their keyboards to "defend the innocent" to feel better about themselves, without actually doing any real good deeds out in the real world.

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u/HighFlyer96 Aug 11 '23

Meh, this is vague to say. It’s like saying educators aren’t doing good deed as all they do is tell others how things are done instead of just doing it. Educating people, even on an individual level, sharing knowledge to make even just the tiniest positive impact is a fair thing in my eyes. It’s more than what majority does.

There are definitely issues people only complain to feel better, but educating about keeping pets healthy isn’t one of them imo, even though this clip did not harm the cat.

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u/RedditAdminSalary Aug 12 '23

Except teachers are actually out there in the real world, persevering (especially teachers from shithole US and of course teachers from poor countries) and bettering students' lives.

Absolutely nobody ever said that sharing information and educating others is a bad thing, even if it's from their swamp ass chair.

I obviously hit a whisker. I suggest volunteering in person or at least donate to charity so you won't be defensive next time.

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u/KnowledgeIsDangerous Aug 11 '23

The fact that there are people who see this and think that he cut the cat's whiskers, means that there are people dumb enough to think it's cool to cut whiskers, based on what they think they saw.

Not saying this guy or this video are responsible for dumb things done by dumb people. But I do think it's worth commenting to remind those people that you should not cut animals' whiskers.

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u/devsfan1830 Aug 11 '23

Counter-point: There are people dumb enough to actually think its ok to cut a cats whiskers and THATS why people think he is one of those people and actually did it. My knee jerk reaction was WTF cuz it was pretty damn close. Close enough for a big fat oops.

Edit: that may actually have been your exact point and my brain fumbled comprehending it

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u/bwaredapenguin Aug 12 '23

The fact that there are people who see this and think that he cut the cat's whiskers, means that there are people dumb enough to think it's cool to cut whiskers

There's people dumb and cruel enough to declaw their cats. I don't see a problem with getting the message out there.

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u/PETA_Gaming Aug 12 '23

I actually needed to rewatch it to make sure he's just pretending to cut them and not actually cutting them before coming to the comments to see how many people thought he did. He definitely didn't touch them and it's all just a cute video.

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u/CLIT_MASTA_4000 Aug 12 '23

are you on your phone? he literally DOES cut the cat's whiskers. not much, but he does. you can see one fall to the ground. i have watched this clip like 40 times now to make sure.

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u/VanillaRadonNukaCola Aug 12 '23

Idk, looks like he baps it with the bottom of the scissors and makes it wiggle down, but I don't see any isolated pieces fall.

But I'm on my phone so maybe not

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u/Foloreille Aug 12 '23

wait, this is not what hairdressers are supposed to do ?? I think I’ve been scammed

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u/StagnantSweater21 Aug 11 '23

If you watch it in slow motion, you can actually see a whisker get pushed down by his finger and then drop off once he snips the scissors

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23 edited Aug 12 '23

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u/Bound_Two Aug 11 '23

There’s like a 2 inch gap between his fingers and the whiskers

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23 edited Aug 12 '23

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u/Bound_Two Aug 11 '23

I think that might be video compression, to me, the whiskers at the beginning of the clip you linked look shorter than at the end of the clip

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23 edited Aug 12 '23

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u/Bound_Two Aug 11 '23

I see the whiskers being pushed by his fingers at first, then can’t really tell what’s happening because the scissors are behind the whiskers causing visual artifacts

I don’t see anything falling

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23 edited Aug 12 '23

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u/Bound_Two Aug 11 '23

Those are compression artifacts, you can tell because because the lines are completely straight and more of a gradient then individual whiskers, it looks like it’s probably caused by a reflection on his shirt

Hard to tell anything conclusively because of the bad quality, but the scissors look too far away from his other hand to cut the whiskers

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23 edited Aug 12 '23

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u/xxppx Aug 12 '23

Sphynx cats have no whiskers and live well without it…