NEW YORK — The bear picked the wrong home and the wrong cat to mess with.
Buddy the Cat was taking his traditional 3 pm nap after third lunch when he was rudely disturbed by a ruckus outside.
“Stay here, I will check it out,” he told his human, then hopped down from the couch as his powerful stride took him toward the sliding glass doors leading out to the balcony.
A huge form was huddled just outside the glass, and when the lumbering beast turned, Buddy took a sharp breath. It was a bear, a particularly impressive specimen.
Lesser felines would have been terrified, but Buddy stood calmly before the bear and addressed it.
“Inferior animal,” the fearless feline announced. “Yes, you! You are trespassing on Buddesian territory. I order you to cease any and all ursine activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or the nearest convenient parallel dimension!”
“What are you doing?!” a terrified Big Buddy whispered.
Buddy turned toward his human. “It’s from Ghostbusters. Calm down, I know what I’m doing.”
The bear yawned and let out a deep, rumbling moan.
“I can see I’m not dealing with the sharpest claw on the paw,” Buddy said. “Okay, bear, do you understand this?”
Buddy eased back on his haunches and raised two powerful forelimbs, his considerable meowscles rippling meowscularly beneath the luxurious sheen of his silver fur.
The bear watched warily, then flinched instinctively as the intimidating feline launched a sequence of aggressive and powerful paw strikes. The ursine beast recoiled from the thunderous impacts of paws against glass, reconsidering its position in the face of such a formidable display of force.
The massive creature turned in retreat, casting one last fearful glance at the Herculean felid before beating a hasty retreat.
Once he was satisfied the bear was gone, Buddy turned and sauntered back toward the couch, lifting himself onto it in a single graceful leap.
“And that,” the handsome silver feline said, “is how you deal with a bear.”
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Only a New York cat!!😂 And my feral Bootsy is scared of squirrels.
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That’s about as wild as wildlife gets around here, except for the occasional coyotes.
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We have raccoons. Possums. And the occasional skunk that was caught on camera at a feral colony.
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Did you see all the ridiculous controversy over Curtis Sliwa working with Mamdani on cat rescue stuff? The NY GOP bigwigs are losing their mind when they’re the ones who backed Cuomo in the race over their own guy. Besides, Sliwa actually cares about cats, so if the mayor says he’s interested in helping cats, then why not work with him?
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I don’t know who I admire more: the Fearless Buddy with impressive meowscles or the Big Buddy with impressive fiction writing skills and unlimited imagination 💓😺😊💓
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Fiction? Fiction?!?! Little Buddy would have you know this, like, totally happened and stuff.
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Wow, impressive, Little Buddy! If we’re ever able to return to the wilderness, it’s good that we’ll have Shelley the Amazon Warrior Princess with us. No bears ever seen there, but who knows now?!
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Buddy will train other cats in the fine arts of bravery and meowscularity in exchange for modest sums of turkey.
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I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it, I take it back! I take it all back! What was I thinking, doubting the Fearless Little Buddy’s prowess and ferocity when faced with a Bear! And all in a vain, and somewhat pitiful, attempt to be funny. BTW, the truth is I love the Two Buddies. Hearing about your adventures is a delight to my life. Keep on being ferocious, dear Little Buddy 😘
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lol in his mind no doubt he can take on a hundred bears.
We’re very glad you find his adventures amusing. It hit the mid 70s today so I brought him outside and he was very happy. Thankfully no bears or other animals challenged him. Clearly his legend precedes him.
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Did not see that article with Sliwa and Mamdani. Good to know. And good to know the garbage people losing thier minds. Dan Goldman has an office nearby. Got the chance to ask him a few questions about Mamdani. Goldman said my sister and other brainwashed people are Islamaphobes. No one seems to care about Jacob Lang being in N.Y. Notice how the GOP keep thier mouths shut? Conferderate flag. Nazi salutes. Oh yeah. He said Capital police should be put down.
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There are two – or maybe more than two – videos on YouTube showing cats chasing away bears. Here’s one of them: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0vJ0FVPjc3Y
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That’s AI. The bear pops into the frame in front of the fence and there are lots of other giveaways, like the movement and behavior of the animals, visual artefacts, and the sub-10-second duration that indicates it was made with Sora. The person who made it edited out the watermark identifying it as AI.
There are now thousands of incredibly improbable videos of animal fights, stand-offs and encounters all over Facebook. They’re all AI.
Not coincidentally, OpenAI just shut Sora down, but last week someone posted AI footage of Brad Pitt fighting Tom Cruise in a nonexistent kung fu movie, made with a Chinese AI algorithm, and it was terrifyingly realistic.
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Sarge believes it. After all, Buddy is a tabby. 🙂
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The League of Extraordinary Gray Tabbies! Please give the good Sarge a head scratch for us.
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Wow! Buddy the Brave. When I heard a terrible ruckus on my deck one night and turned on our patio door light to discover a black bear standing on his hind legs, paws on the glass, staring me straight in the eye, my kitties did NOT come to my rescue. Rather, I had to take control of the situation myself by striking the glass and then running for my trusty bear horn! Haha
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