Name: Are Cats Mean or Just Misunderstood?
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Are Cats Mean or Just Misunderstood?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-25. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Are Cats Mean or Just Misunderstood?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-25. Transcript available.

yeah so i want to learn all about um acro cats and i want to learn all about
the traveling
cat universe and everything that there is to know about it because it really is
just
fascinating to think about them cats and and everything that they're doing and
um and just
how involved with it you are you know um just to start i guess what are some
like what is a cat i
guess basically how would you even what is like a like i mean i know it's kind
of an easy question
but what do you some people probably don't aren't even that aren't big pets
like connoisseurs or
whatever how do you put that in a um is there a certain size of it or like how
tall is a cat
that's how oh boy that's you're open with a question i don't even know the
answer to
they're very they really vary in size of some the some of the cats are more
petite we do a lot of
bottle babies so they tend to be a little bit on the smaller side uh females a
little bit on the
smaller side uh but the you know cats are really kind of misunderstood
everybody thinks that cats
are aloof and that they they can't be trained that they don't really need you
know socialization or
kind of the same kind of things that the dogs need a lot of people get cats you
know thinking that's not
going to be any work at all i just have to scoop a litter box or get an auto
scooping litter box and
throw out some food and be done with it or you know a dog is so much more work
but in actuality a cat
is uh is just as much work as a dog and people should invest that time because
cats are brilliant
people don't realize just how brilliant cats are yeah oh yeah i've seen some
cats they have all types
of cats um yeah they even had one cat went to space i think even i know a cat
went down niagara falls
really you know a cat that went to niagara falls it went down niagara falls
went down the first person that
that survived uh a barrel trip down the falls she took a cat with her no way
yeah for good luck or just
for just who knows i mean i did wasn't around during that time to ask her
afterwards what made
you bring a cat down the falls with you but she and the cat survived wow yeah
um okay so a cat like
and a cat can be you said almost any size oh yeah i mean there's huge cats
there's main coon cats that are
giant uh our our cats are a little bit on the they're all none of our cats are
pure bed bred cats because
they're all uh rescue cats so they but the main coon cats are giant i mean i've
seen like they're almost
dog size oh wow so and then there's the real small ones that the munchkins and
they have the short legs
and that they i think you know it's not really good to breed for certain things
you know it just seems
uncomfortable for some of the cats to yeah to have like short legs and
difficulty for them to get
around but yeah they come in all different sizes and shapes and larger smaller
some cats are hairless
some cats are completely you know furry just so a cat can basically be almost
any like how tall are the
cats you work with because the cats i've seen are probably a lot of them are
about this tall probably
well i guess that's if they're just sitting up if they're walking yeah yeah
that's i mean it's kind of
there's a typical cat size but the main coons are the ones that are the giant
oh a main main coon
yeah the main coons are the giant ones you know see people like with the record
main coon and they're
holding it and it takes two arms and it's still you know hanging over their
arms yeah yeah it's like
playing the bass kind of i mean are cats trustworthy that's what i wear i mean
are cats trustworthy
oh no my goodness i mean we have these treats and i knew it you know like we
have cups of treats and
and various cats have their favorite treats some cats have allergies so we have
to have turkey for
the cats that have allergies we have to have the primo treats for cats like ostie
who's who's a
seasoned pro and is you know is literally we negotiate when when it comes to
her pole climb and jump to my
back trick like there's a negotiation that happens every time she's like what
do you got oh she's like
the obj of cats we had a guy we had a corner on he said that cats would eat
people if they passed away
have you ever heard that oh i totally believe it i mean they said yeah this guy
said a cat could even
eat your face within like 30 something hours or something if they wanted to oh
yeah i mean i respect
that about cats a dog will die right along beside you a cat's gonna be like is
she taking her last
breath maybe i'll start early you know but i respect that i i respect that cats
are grudge holders too
like they you do something that that they don't like you know like they like
write it in their little
book and like i'm gonna remember this that you just did this and so yeah that's
and i i really do respect
that about cats because they are not as forgiving which is why you know you
have to really you know
make it you know it can never be forced it's got to be fun you know for the cat
and and like you know
really or they mean it yeah yeah because you're not going to get anything for
free out of a cat
yeah exactly and you know but if it's a high you know reward like if it's a
salmon i mean it's like
okay i'm gonna drum a little bit more for the salmon than i will for the
chicken you know with the
youngsters the kittens are like chicken that's great we'll do everything they
don't know yeah they don't
know but the seasoned ones they're like yeah let's see you see what you got
here that chicken that salmon
looks a little dry you got anything better wow just yeah so you see people
dumping off their cats
on a regular basis just leaving them behind you know they're not part of the
family they're just
left behind like garbage well cats act like they want to leave all the time too
some of it is their
fault well i'm not going to say that that should happen but some of the cats
are like well that's
that's because the person has not invested the time in the cat and that's very
well be true and that
is part of what that's where the where where the change happened so i got these
these 12 kittens i've
ended up finding homes for all of them and and i realized that and i went and i
got more i bet nobody
wanted to talk to you because if you even talk to somebody like this lady's
going to try to give me a
cat oh well no we're very picky about where we adopt yeah oh wow i mean they
have to fill out an
application all you know all the things so okay i mean i this was just really
you know eye-opening for
me and i also realized that that part of the not only with just kittens being
dumped off but people were
leaving their adult cats behind and that's because they felt like their cat
didn't care they didn't
have a relationship with their cat and that's why i thought well i can make a
difference here
i so part of you know by part of my show is like an educational to inspire
people to you know like
hey not only can cats do tricks you can teach your cat look at the relationship
my cats act like dogs
they follow me around the house i mean the little kittens that i just started
training they follow me
around like puppies they're like what are you going to work when we're going to
work let's do something
let's do something and and i realized that i can make a difference here i can
help save lives so
not only have i say you know actual lives but i've fostered and found homes for
340 cats and kittens
since 2000 since that 2009 and i you know through my show i foster foster a
bunch take them on the
road with me teach them tricks put them in the show and then find homes for
them right after the show
people can't even adopt them well because we stay in a place for for a while
they have to fill out they
fill out the application we check the references and if they you know get
approved they get it they
get the training kit all the kittens are are trained to go to a carrier at the
sound of a whistle they're
all they're all comfortable with traveling in a car which is a big thing and
they're all trained to do
a parlor trick so like a high five a sit pretty a spin maybe even playing the
piano and who's going to
leave a cat behind that high fives you when you come in from work that day and
they give you a high
five after your bad day you're not going to leave that cat behind so so my
admission is like no cat
gets left behind when disaster strikes or you move you're that cat's part of
your family and because
i've given the cat a good start by training them to do the basics and they are
they're all clicker
trained they all do they all do something marines almost yeah no cat yes that's
the thing about a cat
people are always like dude do you want a cat and he'll be like just oh just if
you leave your door
open like a cat will come in that's that was always the thing about cats like
you don't
like one of my friends was like dude i think i'm gonna buy this cat i'm like
dude you don't buy a
cat you just just be somewhere and just get a cat yeah they choose you they'll
appear in your life
like they will like just you know they let you know yeah they're like little whispers
from god or
whatever yeah just you know i mean we've had so many instances of you know on
milwaukee avenue in chicago
one day a bus pulls up door opens a cat comes out a little kitten comes out
steps out of the bus
and walks up to our front door it's just like hey i heard this is a place to go
i need to be i need to be here so and i'm like what just happened here this bus
door just opened this
kitten came out and they're sitting at my front door i mean i witnessed it
happen you know it's just a lot
a lot of cats have that fast pass or whatever i know um so there's so many
benefits there's health
benefits because a lot of people just think cats are crazy yeah no they're just
they have all this
energy and if you're keeping them inside because you need to because it's
dangerous out there that you
need to give them something to do with their brain because some people say they're
even from outer
space do you ever feel anything like that no i mean i mean i think that they're
just very independent
intelligent i mean smarter than dogs in a way because you know dogs are just
like i'll do whatever
where cats are grudge holders and very like not you know stubborn and you know
you really have to work
within you know within the cats you have to make it fun for the cat for sure
you have to find out what
the cat likes to do i mean i spent a lot of time just hanging out with the cats
watching them especially
like the group of kittens we have you know they're all running around i'm
seeing who's climbing who's
who's who's you know who's perching who's who's using their paw like what what
what is this cat what
you know what can this cat do what what should i focus on so i you know just by
hanging out with
the cats and watching what they do that's how i'm inspired by to come up with
with a trick to
coordinate what you know what they can do wow but the fact that you love it i
think is what makes it
so important and the fact also that you guys are um helping getting cats in
homes you know i didn't
even believe in cats i remember at first somebody told me about a cat or
something i was like
what the are you talking about when i was a kid you know i was like yeah you
know what are you even
fucking talking about the cats are so amazing i just i mean i just love them so
much and it's so
too i mean i mean because i'll have the worst show i'll feel like i just had
the worst show ever and
people come up and like this is the best show i've ever seen and and the joy
that people have you know
they're like i haven't smiled i bet you know i was going through cancer and i
haven't smiled in three
years and this is the first time i've smiled and you know i get letters from
you know like my you know
divorced couples it's like i i brought my daughter to see your show and the
very week you know we got
your training kit the next week i can't went over to the house and i paid for i
paid my admission
price and my daughter had set up a whole little cat circus in the basement and
it's like i still
hate stanley but i love those cats yeah yeah so yeah yeah it's a joy it's look
i it's fascinating
i think it's fascinating i think it's fascinating to get to sit here with you
samantha martin
i think it's fascinating to see you on the right side of the house and i think
it's a good idea
to see you on the right side of the house and i think it's a good idea to see
you on the right side of the house
and i think it's a good idea to see you on the right side of the house and you
can see you on the right side of the house
and you know i think it's a good idea to see you on the right side of the house
and you know

Are Cats Mean or Just Misunderstood?

yeah so i want to learn all about um acro cats and i want to learn all about
the traveling
cat universe and everything that there is to know about it because it really is
just
fascinating to think about them cats and and everything that they're doing and
um and just
how involved with it you are you know um just to start i guess what are some
like what is a cat i
guess basically how would you even what is like a like i mean i know it's kind
of an easy question
but what do you some people probably don't aren't even that aren't big pets
like connoisseurs or
whatever how do you put that in a um is there a certain size of it or like how
tall is a cat
that's how oh boy that's you're open with a question i don't even know the
answer to
they're very they really vary in size of some the some of the cats are more
petite we do a lot of
bottle babies so they tend to be a little bit on the smaller side uh females a
little bit on the
smaller side uh but the you know cats are really kind of misunderstood
everybody thinks that cats
are aloof and that they they can't be trained that they don't really need you
know socialization or
kind of the same kind of things that the dogs need a lot of people get cats you
know thinking that's not
going to be any work at all i just have to scoop a litter box or get an auto
scooping litter box and
throw out some food and be done with it or you know a dog is so much more work
but in actuality a cat
is uh is just as much work as a dog and people should invest that time because
cats are brilliant
people don't realize just how brilliant cats are yeah oh yeah i've seen some
cats they have all types
of cats um yeah they even had one cat went to space i think even i know a cat
went down niagara falls
really you know a cat that went to niagara falls it went down niagara falls
went down the first person that
that survived uh a barrel trip down the falls she took a cat with her no way
yeah for good luck or just
for just who knows i mean i did wasn't around during that time to ask her
afterwards what made
you bring a cat down the falls with you but she and the cat survived wow yeah
um okay so a cat like
and a cat can be you said almost any size oh yeah i mean there's huge cats
there's main coon cats that are
giant uh our our cats are a little bit on the they're all none of our cats are
pure bed bred cats because
they're all uh rescue cats so they but the main coon cats are giant i mean i've
seen like they're almost
dog size oh wow so and then there's the real small ones that the munchkins and
they have the short legs
and that they i think you know it's not really good to breed for certain things
you know it just seems
uncomfortable for some of the cats to yeah to have like short legs and
difficulty for them to get
around but yeah they come in all different sizes and shapes and larger smaller
some cats are hairless
some cats are completely you know furry just so a cat can basically be almost
any like how tall are the
cats you work with because the cats i've seen are probably a lot of them are
about this tall probably
well i guess that's if they're just sitting up if they're walking yeah yeah
that's i mean it's kind of
there's a typical cat size but the main coons are the ones that are the giant
oh a main main coon
yeah the main coons are the giant ones you know see people like with the record
main coon and they're
holding it and it takes two arms and it's still you know hanging over their
arms yeah yeah it's like
playing the bass kind of i mean are cats trustworthy that's what i wear i mean
are cats trustworthy
oh no my goodness i mean we have these treats and i knew it you know like we
have cups of treats and
and various cats have their favorite treats some cats have allergies so we have
to have turkey for
the cats that have allergies we have to have the primo treats for cats like ostie
who's who's a
seasoned pro and is you know is literally we negotiate when when it comes to
her pole climb and jump to my
back trick like there's a negotiation that happens every time she's like what
do you got oh she's like
the obj of cats we had a guy we had a corner on he said that cats would eat
people if they passed away
have you ever heard that oh i totally believe it i mean they said yeah this guy
said a cat could even
eat your face within like 30 something hours or something if they wanted to oh
yeah i mean i respect
that about cats a dog will die right along beside you a cat's gonna be like is
she taking her last
breath maybe i'll start early you know but i respect that i i respect that cats
are grudge holders too
like they you do something that that they don't like you know like they like
write it in their little
book and like i'm gonna remember this that you just did this and so yeah that's
and i i really do respect
that about cats because they are not as forgiving which is why you know you
have to really you know
make it you know it can never be forced it's got to be fun you know for the cat
and and like you know
really or they mean it yeah yeah because you're not going to get anything for
free out of a cat
yeah exactly and you know but if it's a high you know reward like if it's a
salmon i mean it's like
okay i'm gonna drum a little bit more for the salmon than i will for the
chicken you know with the
youngsters the kittens are like chicken that's great we'll do everything they
don't know yeah they don't
know but the seasoned ones they're like yeah let's see you see what you got
here that chicken that salmon
looks a little dry you got anything better wow just yeah so you see people
dumping off their cats
on a regular basis just leaving them behind you know they're not part of the
family they're just
left behind like garbage well cats act like they want to leave all the time too
some of it is their
fault well i'm not going to say that that should happen but some of the cats
are like well that's
that's because the person has not invested the time in the cat and that's very
well be true and that
is part of what that's where the where where the change happened so i got these
these 12 kittens i've
ended up finding homes for all of them and and i realized that and i went and i
got more i bet nobody
wanted to talk to you because if you even talk to somebody like this lady's
going to try to give me a
cat oh well no we're very picky about where we adopt yeah oh wow i mean they
have to fill out an
application all you know all the things so okay i mean i this was just really
you know eye-opening for
me and i also realized that that part of the not only with just kittens being
dumped off but people were
leaving their adult cats behind and that's because they felt like their cat
didn't care they didn't
have a relationship with their cat and that's why i thought well i can make a
difference here
i so part of you know by part of my show is like an educational to inspire
people to you know like
hey not only can cats do tricks you can teach your cat look at the relationship
my cats act like dogs
they follow me around the house i mean the little kittens that i just started
training they follow me
around like puppies they're like what are you going to work when we're going to
work let's do something
let's do something and and i realized that i can make a difference here i can
help save lives so
not only have i say you know actual lives but i've fostered and found homes for
340 cats and kittens
since 2000 since that 2009 and i you know through my show i foster foster a
bunch take them on the
road with me teach them tricks put them in the show and then find homes for
them right after the show
people can't even adopt them well because we stay in a place for for a while
they have to fill out they
fill out the application we check the references and if they you know get
approved they get it they
get the training kit all the kittens are are trained to go to a carrier at the
sound of a whistle they're
all they're all comfortable with traveling in a car which is a big thing and
they're all trained to do
a parlor trick so like a high five a sit pretty a spin maybe even playing the
piano and who's going to
leave a cat behind that high fives you when you come in from work that day and
they give you a high
five after your bad day you're not going to leave that cat behind so so my
admission is like no cat
gets left behind when disaster strikes or you move you're that cat's part of
your family and because
i've given the cat a good start by training them to do the basics and they are
they're all clicker
trained they all do they all do something marines almost yeah no cat yes that's
the thing about a cat
people are always like dude do you want a cat and he'll be like just oh just if
you leave your door
open like a cat will come in that's that was always the thing about cats like
you don't
like one of my friends was like dude i think i'm gonna buy this cat i'm like
dude you don't buy a
cat you just just be somewhere and just get a cat yeah they choose you they'll
appear in your life
like they will like just you know they let you know yeah they're like little whispers
from god or
whatever yeah just you know i mean we've had so many instances of you know on
milwaukee avenue in chicago
one day a bus pulls up door opens a cat comes out a little kitten comes out
steps out of the bus
and walks up to our front door it's just like hey i heard this is a place to go
i need to be i need to be here so and i'm like what just happened here this bus
door just opened this
kitten came out and they're sitting at my front door i mean i witnessed it
happen you know it's just a lot
a lot of cats have that fast pass or whatever i know um so there's so many
benefits there's health
benefits because a lot of people just think cats are crazy yeah no they're just
they have all this
energy and if you're keeping them inside because you need to because it's
dangerous out there that you
need to give them something to do with their brain because some people say they're
even from outer
space do you ever feel anything like that no i mean i mean i think that they're
just very independent
intelligent i mean smarter than dogs in a way because you know dogs are just
like i'll do whatever
where cats are grudge holders and very like not you know stubborn and you know
you really have to work
within you know within the cats you have to make it fun for the cat for sure
you have to find out what
the cat likes to do i mean i spent a lot of time just hanging out with the cats
watching them especially
like the group of kittens we have you know they're all running around i'm
seeing who's climbing who's
who's who's you know who's perching who's who's using their paw like what what
what is this cat what
you know what can this cat do what what should i focus on so i you know just by
hanging out with
the cats and watching what they do that's how i'm inspired by to come up with
with a trick to
coordinate what you know what they can do wow but the fact that you love it i
think is what makes it
so important and the fact also that you guys are um helping getting cats in
homes you know i didn't
even believe in cats i remember at first somebody told me about a cat or
something i was like
what the are you talking about when i was a kid you know i was like yeah you
know what are you even
fucking talking about the cats are so amazing i just i mean i just love them so
much and it's so
too i mean i mean because i'll have the worst show i'll feel like i just had
the worst show ever and
people come up and like this is the best show i've ever seen and and the joy
that people have you know
they're like i haven't smiled i bet you know i was going through cancer and i
haven't smiled in three
years and this is the first time i've smiled and you know i get letters from
you know like my you know
divorced couples it's like i i brought my daughter to see your show and the
very week you know we got
your training kit the next week i can't went over to the house and i paid for i