# Need fluffy kittens or something, so I can sleep **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020 "2012-08-01T02:31:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/1 "2012-08-01T02:31:05Z")
I just finished reading one of the darkest, most disturbing murder mysteries I can recall in a great long while. Also, I am going to need to go to bed soon. I need some sort of cute or humorous distraction lest I have screaming nightmares about holes in the wall all night. Please, give me some links fast! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/2 "2012-08-01T02:37:02Z")
[P-u-u-u-u-r-r-r-r.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM5hQ3Qtf-8&feature=player_embedded) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/3 "2012-08-01T02:41:16Z")
[Dog carries cat on its back.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3OHuqt6fgk&feature=player_embedded) [Baby cracking up while playing with a kitten](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVctMXR8f_U&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/4 "2012-08-01T02:46:25Z")
[Scout the Fennec Fox playing with his ball](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UekrxczjScs) [Scout settling down for a nap](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsgEtNeJ-Ps) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/5 "2012-08-01T02:51:34Z")
Murkin the dog and his cats [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8FbU_rhFcOo/maxresdefault.jpg "Thomas O'Malley Flufferpants gives snuggles to Murkin") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FbU_rhFcOo) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xvTbjlmSYmY/maxresdefault.jpg "Murkin the Dog balances a kitten on his head") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvTbjlmSYmY) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nH_0QuueJvU/maxresdefault.jpg "video 39: Murkin the dog falls asleep with his kittens") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH_0QuueJvU) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zHEwZds04X0/maxresdefault.jpg "video 33: Murkin the Dog playing gently with a kitten") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHEwZds04X0) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CApL5jTM6BU/maxresdefault.jpg "Murkin the Dog gets BOPPED on the nose by ADORABLE calico kitten") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CApL5jTM6BU) ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/6 "2012-08-01T02:57:35Z")
Thanks so far, I’m slightly less freaked than I was a few minutes ago. I dunno how long I’ll have to stay up, but hopefully I’ll get to bed before midnight. (Note to self: when the _New York Times_ calls something a “devious, deeply felt psychological chiller”, they’re not kidding around). ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/7 "2012-08-01T03:01:12Z")
What was the book? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/8 "2012-08-01T03:09:56Z")
_Broken Harbour_, by Tana French. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/9 "2012-08-01T03:12:28Z")
[Rabbit trained to do an agility course](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snOjE8XhPlM), intercut with scenes/music from Rocky. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/10 "2012-08-01T03:16:47Z")
\*\*[Mocha in “His First Broccoli!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0E-0ntoNWo) \*\* 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/11 "2012-08-01T03:21:47Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I just finished reading one of the darkest, most disturbing murder mysteries I can recall in a great long while. Also, I am going to need to go to bed soon. I need some sort of cute or humorous distraction lest I have screaming nightmares about holes in the wall all night. Please, give me some links fast! What kind of a-hole posts this, but doesn’t say what book? 😉 Edit - NM, ninja’d and answered. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/12 "2012-08-01T03:28:44Z")
And now it’s time for: Marine Mammals Doing Things You Would Not Expect [Dolphin Pets Cat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rynvewVe21Y) [Beluga Whale Dancess to Mariachi Music](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS_6-IwMPjM) ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/13 "2012-08-01T03:45:23Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > [Rabbit trained to do an agility course](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snOjE8XhPlM), intercut with scenes/music from Rocky. I suppose you’re going to tell us now that a ferret could have done it better and with more appealing theme music as well, right? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/14 "2012-08-01T07:29:42Z")
[ul] [li][Den of Kittens](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM5hQ3Qtf-8)[/li][li][Mother Whale Lifting Her Baby to See Humans on Boat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn9XJwxkUiY)[/li][li][Twin moose calves playing in sprinkler](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNy9jTeolUk)[/li][li][**SCP-701**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqio2G_Ra6g)[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/15 "2012-08-01T11:23:45Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > I suppose you’re going to tell us now that a ferret could have done it better and with more appealing theme music as well, right? Oh hell no. Ferrets have the attention span of a toddler who’s been pounding espresso shots. (I got the nickname from the phrase “herding cats” as used to indicate a fruitless activity - “herding ferrets” is just as difficult but with faster critters.) It’s been a couple years since my last ferret passed away, but we own two adorable Dutch rabbits now. My rabbits do not do agility courses, nor do they [high jump](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptyKSiRyQ4Y) or [herd sheep](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeuL5IGimCQ) (yes, that’s a dog at the start - wait until about the 11 second mark). However, I did buy a clicker and a [book on training your rabbit](http://store.clickertraining.com/gestclwiyora1.html). 😃 Really, I’ll be happy if I can get them to come when called. They do know their names, at least. ---
**Author:** ![LotusPotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LotusPotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LotusPotus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/16 "2012-08-01T11:34:17Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I just finished reading one of the darkest, most disturbing murder mysteries I can recall in a great long while. After reading this I’ve just had it delivered to my Kindle 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/17 "2012-08-01T11:40:46Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > However, I did buy a clicker and a [book on training your rabbit](http://store.clickertraining.com/gestclwiyora1.html). 😃 Missed the edit window - I only just ordered it and am waiting for it to arrive. Little Eddie in the agility video inspired me to give it a shot. My only concern is that with two of them, if I’m training and rewarding only one at a time, the other one will see and get extremely jealous. (If we have one out of the cage/playpen and the other not, the confined rabbit will stare at us and stomp his foot in anger.) A mad bunny is awfully cute, at least. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-fluffy-kittens-or-something-so-i-can-sleep/630020/18 "2012-08-01T12:07:45Z")
[Baby walrus wants cuddles](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=az9z9rBUwig)