Listen, I love our cat Wonka, but there’s no denying he is a Screamy Boi.
This is partly because he is deaf so just doesn’t know his own volume, but also partly because he is not, in fact, super duper clever. We are talking about a cat who used to be very angry at his reflection in mirrors before he figured out what they were, and subsequently used to hiss and spit at posters with other cats in them, but never the ginger cats. I wondered if he thought the other ginger cats were his reflection.
But our cat Wonka has Opinions and he doesn’t hesitate to voice them, loudly, at any and all opportunities. He is capable of an impressive amount of noise when vexed.
When I was working full time in emergency, we suddenly needed a cat blood donor. You can’t store cat blood in bags ready for use like you can with dog blood or human blood, so you have to bleed them fresh each time. It’s also kinda of dangerous because you’re taking a fair amount of blood from a relatively small animal, so we routinely put donating cats on intravenous fluids to keep their blood pressure up.
I had worked the night shift so my intention was to drop my screamy cat back at the clinic, then sleep for a few hours.
I pity the vets that had to handle him.
When I returned in the evening to collect him, I had two nurses help restrain him so I could unwrap the catheter from his leg.
He screamed like you wouldn’t believe. He wailed and thrashed and moaned like some sort of devil cat in the midst of a murder.
He screamed so loud and with such emotion that the entire emergency vet clinic stopped what they were doing and rushed into the treatment room to help. The surgical nurses came in, the surgeon paged through to the room, clients in the waiting room with real, sick and urgent cases insisted they could wait until we’d ‘saved’ the creature in the midst of its death wails. His screams brought the entire emergency clinic to a standstill.
good morning everyone have an absolutely furious mongoose
It’s cuter when you recognize that the lion with visible spots is a juvenile. There’s a very high chance the other lion that runs over to investigate is the MOTHER.
The first lion is asking for comfort because she was given a big spook!!! and she needs mommy to tell her it’s safe and ok!!!! (What’s cuter is that mommy clearly reassures her, and goes on to take the parent role of ‘deal with the scream rat in order to protect my large and easily frightened daughter’)
this is all in all an adorable video 10/10
Who Would Win?
Three apex predators
OR
One Screaming Long Boi
also the baby is actually a ~1 yo male (note the size difference, sprouting of hair, and testicles). The mongoose is probably a defensive male who is guarding the den, probably containing multiple lactating females (hence the lack of other mongooses and intensely territorial behavior). Banded mongoose communities are large and highly complex, and they have a system of communication that is much more complex than previously thought (bearing resemblance to their meerkat cousins in that respect). And contrary to popular belief, mongooses are felidiforms, not mustelids (that is, cat-like mammals rather than weasel relatives). So this mongoose is more closely related to those lions than to the convergently-evolved badger or stoat, which bears a lot of adaptational similarities.
I was working upstairs when I hear one of our baby leopard geckos start screaming. Normally they only scream when threatened, but this particular guy screams at almost everything. Turns out there was a small fly in his cage that was bothering him.
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