To think cats can't "stand"?!

[CatsCantStand]

NC as I will show this to DH to vindicate my rightness

I just asked DH where the cat was - "she's standing at the front gate" apparently

Is it just me, or can cats not actually stand? Only people with two legs can stand, surely. Cats can't stand. DH is clearly BU.

What would we say instead of standing, though?

Don't let me down MNers. Cats can't stand. Or can they?

If we humans turn ourselves up the other way we are "doing a handstand."

This would suggest that standing is something you only do on your feet, otherwise it is worthy of notation that you are standing on something else, viz - handstand.

So it could be argued that cats are performing a stand and a handstand simultaneously.

ask him what it is called if they are stationary with all 4 paws on the ground

Waiting?
Plotting?
Eating?
Staring?

canter (ok memory getting hazy now) I think this is a 3 beat one? so left leg canter = front left follwed by front right and back left together, follwed by front right. Then right legged canter does the opposite

Yes, that's it. Riding a cantering horse feels like being on a rocking horse, or doing a waltz!

Well we can also hop and skip, but those are silly, so don't count really made me giggle.

OP, in the nicest way, you're a 'nana!

I'm firmly in the of course it's standing camp. Asked DH by way of helpful Riverscat "what's that cat doing" worryingly his first response was "is it male or female?" (second however was "it's just standing there")

If the cat is not standing on her 4 legs, what th actual fuck is she doing! Hovering, floating, flying, swimming or is she just a glitch in the matrix! Of course she is standing on her 4 legs. What a daft question.

This post is utterly brilliant and should be moved to classics IMO. Made me giggle so much!
Cheers OP (I agree with your DH though - saarrreeeee)

You're a nutcase.

Totally with you on this one OP

My personal favourite

I think that the OP - and her sister on this thread - have been great. These slightly bizarre, but amusing threads used to be what MN was about.

Well done Cats and Hoof

I'd also like to add that cats have elbows and knees. They have patellas in their back legs but not on their front so technically you could say it's on all fours. But it is, yes, standing.
And thanks for the smiles.

Love this thread. Totally nutso

I used to have a cat who would leap onto the screen door when she wanted in. She would leap exactly the height necessary for her wee face to be seen over the back of the sofa so that she could glower at us. She had her arms and legs spread wide (picture a flying bat picture) clinging on for dear life. How I wish I had a picture of that.

ps - cats do indeed stand on four feet; I'd say they are 'balancing' when on two, ala meerkat

Well I still think you're all wrong and I'm right.

In time honoured MN fashion, now that everyone thinks I am a twat wrong, I shall insert a massive drip feed here, in that my cat is actually incredibly dim, so dim that she finds standing being upright a little confusing. She doesn't give the impression of standing so much as trying to balance on a moving surface. So I don't actually think she does stand. Cunt will vouch for my cat's stupidity (she still doesn't fully understand the concept of doors or stairs) so I feel the drip feed totally vindicates me.

So there.

Just to be clear, my cat doesn't understand the concept of doors and stairs. My sister the cunt understands them. She also has ace detective skills, I shall call her Columbo from now on.

Oh, and my cat has one eye much bigger than the other.

oh dear OP. Please show a little respect your DSis; you could at the very lleast capitalize her name when referring to her. She may be as you say, but she is family after all.

It's true, however daft you think the Op is, her cat is beyond help. Last time I visited the cat got stuck on a normal height window ledge. I think my DSis had to mount a rescue operation.
Thank you 2017 and fru. As long term posters, both of us, I was really touched by your post.

2017 i did get that your post was tongue in cheek by the way.

Mine can stand on two legs.

So if you can only stand on two legs, how is it that one can perform what is referred to as a "handstand"?!

Sorry OP but this has genuinely made me die!! Probably the funniest thing I've read on here ever!!

I'm sticking up for OP here. When do you ever see cats just standing. NEVER! They're either sitting, lying down, curled up etc. They never just stand there still on all 4s! Even when waiting to be let out for a wee they will sit and look out of the door, whereas a dog will stand on 4 legs and look out of the door. So my theory is, cats don't stand.

Actually, they stand still with their backs arched when they're angry. But that's not standing, that's doing a specific action which makes them freeze.

Love this thread!
If your cat was "stood" a la Beatrix Potter, it would be stood on its hind legs.

This thread is bipedialist if such a word exists.
A good sheep stands with a leg at each corner.
HTH