Japanese Standing Cats
Cats have always been very popular in Japan.
Products like Hello Kitty and famous anime movies like Kiki’s Delivery Service are great examples of how much the Japanese adore their feline friends.
Cats are cool and all, but nothing weirds me out more than when a cat does something that is very human-like, such as standing upright on its hind legs.
We came across three great videos showing weird cats that can stand for quite some time.
Cute and adorable… sure.
Completely creepy and unnerving… absolutely.
By Sun Tzu on 17-06-2008
Comment by Allen
June 17th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
that’s…..cool….
SEE, that’s darwin’s theory of evolution in effect…
tho why cats evolve into standing up…….
i haven’t the slightest clue…..
Comment by Takuan
June 17th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Thank God they don’t have thumbs!!! ^(O.o)^
Comment by Allen
June 17th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
lol, yeaa..
best physical feature: thumbs, For sure..(^.^)
Comment by Tom
June 18th, 2008 at 12:36 am
It’s pretty obvious why the little kitten in the last video doesn’t walk on all fours. Wonder if some appropriate veterinary care could have prevented that.
Comment by Chris
June 18th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Once it was fashioable to tie women’s feet in Japan, in order to keep them little. (The feet that is.)
Is this a new fashion… to deform cats’ paws, to make them walk on two feet?
Only one step better than eating them, I suppose!
Comment by Hello Doggy
June 18th, 2008 at 6:33 am
It was in China not in Japan
Comment by DARKWING DUCK
June 18th, 2008 at 7:27 am
GET YOU PAWS OFF ME YOU DAM DIRTY CAT.
Well, the female cats in my world are like the ones here, stuck-up and short-tempered, for a pet I’d take a dog any day.
Comment by spigok
June 18th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Well this sure is creepy, but I remember seeing on the news about a Japanese man stuffing kittens into bottles and feeding them chemical stuff them so they could take the shape of the bottle. That was not only creepy but cruel.
Comment by MRCY Award Committee
June 18th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I would like to nominate Chris for the Most Retarded Comment of the Year Award.
Comment by wads
June 18th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
that was a hoax.
Comment by sultan_azteca
June 19th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Chris is receiving heated competition from Spigok for such an acclaimed Award…
Comment by yourewack
June 20th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
my rats stand on their legs too, they should get a prize.
Comment by Dani
June 20th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I once had a cat who did that although not for such long periods of time. It’s funny to me that you find it so creepy. If you’ve had a lot of cats, you’ll find the behavior is not so unusual.
Comment by Wizardg
June 24th, 2008 at 2:17 am
I get a kick out of just reading the comments….I wonder if cat taste like chicken?
Comment by brian
June 25th, 2008 at 1:09 am
yea, like Hello Doggy said, binding your feet was a tradition in China, and it is not popular there… it’s kind of like breaking your ribs to fit inside whale bone corsets in Victorian ages… not done anymore.
And Chris also seems to be implying that the Japanese will “soon” eat cats.
ummm…. no.
Comment by Gaby
June 25th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
These are Scottish Fold Cats…. notice the ears? (Even if the ears aren’t bent, they still have the Scottish Fold gene… The whole “scottish fold” thing is an abnormality, and to get one you need to breed a Scottish Fold with another breed of animal. Two Folds bred together creates a crippled cat; hence some having the weird ears, some not.)
Theyre well known for standing on both their legs, and sitting down like humans do.
Comment by Roadkill
June 27th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
That’s not strange behavior at all. Have you ever owned a cat? I had a three legged cat that spent lots of time standing on his hind legs. The reason people love cats so much is because of their human-like behavior. People can relate to cats because they act just like people.
Comment by 4ndr3
July 5th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
hahaha it is very cute
Comment by Chelly
July 16th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
that last cat looks like it’s front paws didn’t come with too many bones. No wonder why he walks on his hind legs.
Comment by Nichi
August 23rd, 2008 at 7:39 pm
First off: Cats can actually walk w/ their back legs, it’s just that they can’t sustain it for a long time (just like dogs or big wild cats). So that’s no weird at all. The kitten in the first video is playing w/ something that is high up, so of course, to reach it he uses his hind legs. In regards to the comments made about the third kitten it was probably born w/ a deformity in his legs, NOT because the owner disfigured him for a fad. I’ve seen this twice, and in both cats it was the hind legs that were deformed. It usually happens because there wasn’t enough space in the mother’s womb, and this causes the legs to be deformed. It could also be something genetic. As for the short eared cats. They are a BREED called Scottish Fold. Scottish Folds come in two types: folded ear and straight (normal) ear. The folded ear is produced by an incomplete dominant gene and is the result of a spontaneous mutation. Since this dominant gene is incomplete, Scottish Fold cats can come w/ regular ears or folded ones. You can usually tells which type the kittens will be when they are around 4 weeks old. I find them incredibly cute and I hope one day to have one.
Comment by mike
September 26th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
But what of the thumbed Polydactyl cats- sometimes referred to as Hemingway cats?
Comment by gateau
November 24th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
When you see a cat walking, they are not walking on their feet. They are actually walking on their toes. I suppose it’s result of evolution and survivial since walking on toes helps them walk without anyone noticing them..good for hunting and etc..I t’s not totally unnatural for them to stand..don’t you see in the vids that they all end up resting on their actual feet? I wonder if cats and rabbits are related hehehe…if cats start using their entire feet and have longer ears, they do resemble much like rabbits. My sis’ cat stands on his feet when he’s offered food (that boy sure does like raw spinach).
Comment by Selendrile
December 4th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
that last cat is handicat… er handicap… as you can see it’s walking not as normal cats do
Comment by Kristine
July 25th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
The cat in the video with deformed paws was a stray that was rescued. The cat, Shonko, was born with that defect and rejected by its mother who I believe was also a stray. It wasn't bred on purpose.