The two cat modes of operation: sloth and beyblade

House cats average 10 to 12 pounds, they're on the small side of the feline family, so while they are predators, they're also prey. So they've got basically the same startle response as a squirrel: Explode. Leap into the air limbs akimbo and scramble around until you land then figure it out from there. Aeons of natural selection has apparently selected that as the most successful strategy for small surprised quadrupeds.

almost supernatural reflexes

For real, that video of the mama barn cat in India fighting a fucking KING COBRA to protect her litter is out of this world... Even as a cat lover I was hesitant to watch because of what I thought were impossible odds, then she absolutely bitchsmacks it repeatedly and it just physically isn't fast enough to strike her.

Our boy is the same way, absolutely bomb proof. He didn't even notice the 4th of July happening. He has some mistrust of the vacuum and gets out of the way if it's coming towards him, but otherwise just sits and stares at it like 'the fuck is this thing so loud for?', whereas our previous girl would flee under the furniture the second the vacuum emerged.

The way I knew he actually might have hurt himself after a recent tumble during his antics was that he crawled under the furniture to hide, something he hasn't done in almost a year with us. He was fine, he stopped limping in less than a day and learned absolutely nothing!

Judging by my anxious cat, someone probably casually walked around the corner.

A bad day for that Rally car driver's spine whatever they did.

Must be from a movie of some kind. There doesn't seem to be a back axle at all. To make a fancy explosion scene, they've kind of partially put the car together so that when it's pushed up by some form of an explosion or by some cable on its roof or whatevers, the various parts would jump into random directions more beautifully.

I'd say it's an intentional effect.

My best guess is that this picture was taken while the car was rolling sideways