What would your cat do?

[In_The_Wind]

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	Run like the demons from hell were about to catch him.
	2 (15%)
	Beat the snot outta teh groundhog.
	4 (31%)
	Ignore the whole event. It's too trivial to notice.
	1 (8%)
	taterguy is not a dumbass.
	0 (0%)
	Robb is a dingbat.
	0 (0%)
	Other.
	6 (46%)
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[LiberalEsto]

1. My cats would puff up like furry balloons, hiss and howl like banshees

Then walk away and puke up hairballs

[Ino]

2. Probably hiss their guts out...

then run to a safe distance, then watch and hiss some more.

[47of74]

6. That would be TK.

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Use claws ONLY as a last resort. Growl, hiss, puff up tail. . .

. . .do the sort of things he'd do if it were another cat instead of a groundhog confronting him.

[sakabatou]

19. I think mine would do the same.

[narnian60]

4. Wow.

One laid back cat. One persevering groundhog. And some over-the-top music.

[In_The_Wind]

5. Hahaha

Good answer!

[hlthe2b]

7. Gotta love the dramatic "death match" music

[LiberalElite]

8. Depends on the cat

I have 4. Three of them would probably not even go outside. The other, Meh. Nothing disturbs him except for being medicated. Now if that groundhog had tried to pill him....all bets would be off

[NV Whino]

9. Millie would run

Grayson would be close behind her.
Beau, given that he probably outweighs him by a couple of pounds, would pop him one on the nose and then sit on him.

[In_The_Wind]

12. Beau sounds like a really cool cat.

[BlueJazz]

10. Mine would probably try to trade him in for my dog

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. The groundhog seems to think the cat was the source of the carrots

and was bugging him to produce more; he couldn't seem to understand that after the third carrot there weren't any more and the cat wasn't going to come up with any. The cat didn't seem to become annoyed until the groundhog kept pestering him for carrots he didn't have.

My own cats would have puffed up, hissed and run away.

[herding cats]

13. My cat would think the groundhog was a servant sent to clean up his sleeping area.

Carrots are nasty after all, and it's not dissimilar to the human scooping out the litter box while you wait glaring at them to make sure they're doing it right.

IF there was kibble, or Bastet forbid, wet food being threatened, it would be an entierly different and much uglier outcome.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. Butter would be ready to rumble

He was about 2 1/2 years old and living on the street when we found each other. He sees people as a source of food, so he likes humans. But he sees other animals as competition for food. I wish he were as mellow as this cat, but I've personally witnessed fur flying.

[In_The_Wind]

15. Ya gotta be tough to survive on the streets. Butter is lucky to have found a good home.

[TexasBushwhacker]

18. Yeah, I wasn't sure he would like living indoors

But when I was moving, I went back for one last load. He came and had been in a terrible fight. He had a bad wound on one forearm. I could see the tendons and everything. So that was it. I got him into the weekend clinic at the Humane Society. He had to have surgery to debride the dead and infected tissue. But the HS only charged me $400 for the surgery, neutering, meds, tests and vaccines. He was lucky, but not as lucky as me.

[trueblue2007]

16. my cats are all scaredy cats. they would run faster than superman !!!!

[Lizzie Poppet]

17. You'd never think it to look at her...

...but my petite little long-haired tortie would likely only hold back for as long as it took her to identify the soft spots. Fierce little thing...

[mythology]

20. My last cat was afraid of dust bunnies

and she spent her life running from every potential threat. It took a month to get her to come out from my box spring when I first got her. She was so scared she ripped a hole in the bottom and camped out inside.

To be fair, she was a really scrawny cat living in a house with another much larger cat and 4 dogs where the small dog was 40 or more pounds.

[benld74]

21. Since mine followed a young opposum around the yard last year, miot likely would do the same to this

[Donkees]

22. "To live amid the great vanishing as a cat must live"

"When the cat waits in the path-hedge,
no cell of her body is not waiting.
This is how she is able so completely to disappear.

I would like to enter the silence portion as she does.

To live amid the great vanishing as a cat must live,
One shadow fully at ease inside another."