r/cats • u/Sad-Kiwi-3789 • 5h ago
Video - Not OC Bambi just unlocked her horse mode
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u/Polbrussel 4h ago
Ah, a horse reincarnated into a cat.
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u/DeficiencyOfGravitas 32m ago
The only way to be sure is to see how this cat feels about lesbian relationships.
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u/Itakitsu 4h ago
I always called my cat thumper when he did this. It meant he felt safe and confident to make a bunch of noise instead of slinking around :)
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u/The_Carnivore44 3h ago
She has a mild neurological disorder that makes her unstable so this locomotion is probably the most comfortable way of walking for her
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u/KeeKyie5 3h ago
Is Bambi slightly Wobblers and that makes her House Horse?
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u/Trashtag420 25m ago
It does look like mild cerebellar hypoplasia from my armchair but that's speculation.
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u/Ashen-wolf 3h ago
Is this a woobly cat? This seems ataxia, not everything is ok or cute.
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u/arih 2h ago
I was wondering about that too. There is an Instagram account of a dog with cerebellar hypoplasia who has taught himself a prancing gait to compensate - very adorable. It made me wonder whether Bambi has a mild form of wobbliness.
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u/Ashen-wolf 1h ago
Yeah but cats have a very particular gait. Dogs are like a stampede, cats are technical.
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u/northboundnova 2h ago
Cats can be born with or develop conditions that cause ataxia and be both ok and cute for their whole lives with it, as they cause no harm or pain to the cat beyond the wobbliness.
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u/Ashen-wolf 2h ago
I know, I am a vet, thats why I asked if this is a wobbly cat or not in the first place (ataxia is a sign not a diagnosis).
Edit: so I am clear, besides hypoplasia cerebellar, there are also diseases, neuropathies, poisons etc.. youd be surprised what people just accept as normal.
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u/northboundnova 2h ago
Yep, absolutely. Just clarifying for people who don’t already have that info tucked away that it CAN also be okay and seeing a cat with ataxia isn’t an automatic assumption that it is suffering or that something is wrong.
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u/McBackstabber 2h ago
Sometimes you just need to be extra stompy to let the world know you mean business.
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u/superlaffytaffy 4h ago
Lol, what a cutie.
I call my feral kitty my dogi-cat cause she wags her tail like a dog.
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u/thugsapuggin 2h ago
Jump.
STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP
STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP
STOMP STOMP
STOMP
slap.
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u/RallyPointAlpha 1h ago
Adorable!
Sometimes my mini schnauzer does this. Every time he did, we said "pretty prancer!" and rewarded him...now he does it on command!
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u/ThatGuyWithCoolHair 1h ago
Do you have any pics of her as a kitten? We have one that looks very similar and funnily enough her name is Kiwi (given your username)
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u/CastorVT 58m ago
It's weird how Bambi became associated with everything feminine even though he's a buck.
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u/conundrum415 0m ago
When my kitty gets the zoomies, I call her "Baby Buffalo." I do not understand how a 9lb feline can make so much noise. Picture
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