A video of a fish dragging a kitten into a pond has a happy ending
The video, posted to YouTube on Oct. 28, shows two kittens by the banks of a man-made pond somewhere in a Japanese city. One of the cats is obviously intrigued by the rather large fish swimming just near the edge. The kitten takes a few swipes at a passing giant goldfish and edges ever closer to the water........(Watch video below)
That's when a bigger fish, possibly a Pike, leaps from the pond and appears to snatch the hapless kitten, dragging it into the deep end. The obviously surprised mobile phone user, catching the incredible scene on video, utters a horrified scream as the clip abruptly ends, with no word on whether the bedraggled cat ever made it out of the water or not.
Naturally, most viewers expressed a mixture of horror and fascination. After all, the old saying, "Curiosity killed the cat" has been, sadly, proven true all too many times. So, most were resigned to assume that the fish army was one up that day on the scoreboard of the ageless battle against their ancient nemesis. Then the story was covered by Opposing Views Magazine, with a different, higher quality version of the video, which was slowed down and magnified to reveal much finer detail.
That's when a sharp-eyed subscriber noticed, at about the :20 mark in the video, that the kitten, rather than being dragged into the pond, actually made a lightning-fast bolt out of camera range. Only after watching the blurry frames a few times over does it become clear that cats, even as kittens, well deserve their reputation for escaping certain death. In other words, this curious feline still has nine lives left.
It's not surprising to cat lovers that even a kitten has such fantastic reflexes, so much so that they're literally faster than a blinking eye. But, in the end, it's harder to fool the unblinking eye of even the cheapest digital video camera. And, in this case, just a bit of technical wizardry gives this horror story a happy ending. As it turns out, it wasn't a total loss for the fish either. Just imagine the story that Pike can tell his buddies about the one that got away.
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