This was erroneously posted as a threadspotting when AFAICT it should be a weird earl. But now I’ll muddy the waters and start a thread. Because… unicorn horn for cats.
Okay, look at that ad. Wow.
First, the box has a pic of a beautiful, wide eye cat kinda interested with a horn attached.
Then you look next to the box, for another pic of the cat wearing the horn. This appears to be the exact same cat, but this cat is NOT happy about the stupid horn. The look of death in that cat’s eyes… you can tell he’s thinking, “Hey, buddy, I know where you sleep. You just wait.”
Then the ad text.
Yes, blow up and attach that inflatable horn with the “four-point elastic strap system” and I’m sure you will get an instant attitude adjustment from your cat. Definitely.
Yes, not a bit humiliating. Just look at that happy cat, wearing his unicorn horn for everyone to see.
Yes, it’s definitely the cat that became a jerk.
Oh, and just because, don’t look too closely at that “unicorn horn”. I’m just saying, I think it could be used in alternate ways, though I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an inflatable one.
That’s gotta be a gag gift, with the ad copy, and picture, being intentionally sarcastic. All but the most comatose cats would disinflate (deinflate? it’s too early for me…) such a thing instantly.
I’ve seen these, and don’t see the point, aside from extreme weirdness. If you tried to put one on our cats, they’d bop you, or run away. If you succeeded in putting it on, they’d spend all their time trying to back out of it.
I did, however, give Pepper Mill a birthday card with a Unicorn Cat on it this year. Because it was Extremely Weird. And I didn’t get all clawed up the way I would have if I’d tried to put an inflatable horn on one of our cats.
I assume that the “alternate” usage is the point of whoever buys one of these. And of course it would be inflatable, to make it easier to stash away when not used.
Would never buy. I’d put a (kitty-sized) elf hat on my cat once. He went from “oh, hey!” to “Whaaaa?” to “You suck, and I"m going to poop in your shoe” in about two seconds.
But I did get a photo of “Santa’s Grumpiest Elf.” His expression would give Grumpy Cat a run for her money.
Did they shave or are they hairy?
Will they fornicate or marry?
Are they fertile - perhaps, just maybe
But which of them will incubaby?
[sub]Apologies to Dr Suess, and pretty much everyone else who sees this[/sub]
Yeah. The look on that cat’s face says, “I don’t care if I die of dehydration, I WILL piss on everything you own tonight”.
The closest I’ve ever gotten to doing something that dumb was the day we decided to cure the dog of her sock stealing fetish. If my sister or I were walking around the house in socks she would run up and nip at our heels and toes until she pulled one of the socks off our feet. This would be met with all kinds of jumping and screaming from us. Then she would run away with it, fling it down, and roll all over it. One day we got sick of it. We each put on a pair of oven mitts to make sure we kept all of our fingers. Then we took a stinky old tube sock and put it over her head. She was stuck in there for about an hour. After she got out we thought she might be even worse but she never stole our socks again.
I can’t help but think of that in terms of IIRC a Robin Williams joke badly quoted from memory:
“Some people say they take drugs to enhance their personality… but what if you’re an asshole.”
Unleash your cats inner personality! But them a unicorn hat. You too can unleash their inner aloof, solitary, cruel, and predatory instinct on your unicorn hat buying ass.
Something inflatable attached to a cat is not likely to last 5 minutes. I’m not sure that $1 a minute is worth the entertainment and potential retaliation from the cat while you are sleeping.
