The cat was miserable. But some people will put their pets through a great deal of fear to get attention. "Look at me everyone, I'm torturing this poor cat! Isn't this coooool"?
I got that you were being sarcastic. I think you and I replied at the same time. :) You're right, of course. Piglets jumping off a diving board isn't exactly natural behavior but the state fair perpetuates it.
At a bird show a few years back (birds can catch so much stuff from people - people can catch histoplasmosis and/or psittacosis) the trainers bragged that they only use natural behaviors in their training. I said, "Like putting dollar bills in your pocket?"
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