No, don't do it.

December 2, 2006 4:10 AM

Please don't feed LSD to your cat.
posted by Meatbomb (53 comments total)

i wonder what happens when you give sedatives to lab technicians ... and drive them down to the zoo and sneak them into the lion cage to wake up in the middle of hungry lions
posted by pyramid termite at 4:18 AM on December 2, 2006

WARNING: this is NOT a cute kitty video.

Do NOT watch this video if you're a cat lover; it features an animal in distress and can be extremely disturbing.
posted by Ian A.T. at 4:18 AM on December 2, 2006

wowowewa!
posted by StrasbourgSecaucus at 4:20 AM on December 2, 2006

I have two things to say about this:

1.) My trips (averaged twice a week from age 17 to age 20, or thereabouts) were always better than that cat's trips.
2.) That was an excellent cover of Inna Gadda Da Vida.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:21 AM on December 2, 2006 [1 favorite]

Wow, that's worse than that video of a dog after smoking pot, though this video is with scientists and stuff and the latter was some young punks.

Poor kitty :(
posted by champthom at 4:25 AM on December 2, 2006

Just for the record, I am not endorsing the administration of psychoactive / psychedellic drugs to animals, young children, or any others who cannot give their informed consent.
posted by Meatbomb at 4:30 AM on December 2, 2006

THAT'S FUCKING AWFUL AND I FUCKING HATE YOU!
posted by Mayor Curley at 4:30 AM on December 2, 2006

Wrong and hilarious. Wrongilarious. Hilarong. Take your pick.
posted by slimepuppy at 4:31 AM on December 2, 2006

That was fucking horrible. I could only watch for about three seconds. The ONLY time I click on something before reading the comments and this comes up....
posted by bunglin jones at 4:34 AM on December 2, 2006

This explains so much about ceiling cat.
posted by TweetleBeetleBattleBookie at 4:35 AM on December 2, 2006

This was awful. I didn't like it AT ALL.
posted by armoured-ant at 4:37 AM on December 2, 2006

No crueler than getting a declawing.
posted by the cuban at 4:38 AM on December 2, 2006 [1 favorite]

Science!
posted by Science! at 4:39 AM on December 2, 2006 [1 favorite]

And then they asked the kitties to draw the scientists...
posted by maryh at 4:44 AM on December 2, 2006 [1 favorite]

[NSFCL]
posted by papercake at 4:52 AM on December 2, 2006

Thanks, now I feel awful and I wish I could un-see that. Maybe give a warning in your post next time you decide to grace us with this kind of crap?
posted by redshifter at 4:56 AM on December 2, 2006

It seems as if these mice fared a bit better.
posted by exit at 5:03 AM on December 2, 2006

Hilarious!

I just wish there was more video of tripping animals, especially goats on acid: In their study of goats on LSD, Werner P. Koella, Roger F. Beaulieu, and John R. Bergen found that drugged goats walk in predictable geometric patterns, including squares, figure-L's, and figure-8's.

Not sure I'd want to see the death throes of poor Tusko the tripping elephant, though.

And, especially for those upset by photogenic animals getting twatted: high spiders spin rubbish webs.
posted by jack_mo at 5:05 AM on December 2, 2006

Scaredy cat?
posted by GooseOnTheLoose at 5:07 AM on December 2, 2006

That was pretty bad, a warning would have been courteous.
posted by marxchivist at 5:09 AM on December 2, 2006

What in the hell? Did they debone that cat? Are they experimenting with microgravity on an airplane? I'm pretty sure they accidently dosed that cat with Valium or Quaaludes or something - and if not I would like to suggest that you're not supposed to marinate your test animals in LSD like some sort of unhinged Godflesh BBQ.

I would hope that acid freaking on the kitty would elicit more chasing invisible self-transforming Faberge egg machine elves and less Oh shit where's the fucking floor!!

And what is up with that cover of Inna Gadda Da Vida and it's awesomeness? And why was that guy talking about Pynchon and subcultures? Where can I see the rest of this movie or subscribe to a newsletter?
posted by loquacious at 5:10 AM on December 2, 2006 [1 favorite]

Pathetic. Cruel. Awful.
posted by dropkick at 5:11 AM on December 2, 2006

Please don't give your elephant LSD either.

I'll bet these "scientists" made the same kind of gross error in dosage as the CIA morons did when they injected poor Tusko with 297mg (milligrams, not micrograms) of pure liquid acid.
posted by Enron Hubbard at 5:14 AM on December 2, 2006

My cat used to trip out on catnip all the time. He loved it. He destroyed all the catnip on our street. The psychadelic properties of catnip are somewhat less potent than those of LSD, I imagine.
posted by asok at 5:19 AM on December 2, 2006

I apologize to those disturbed, I thought the title made the nature of the link quite clear.

For those who were unhappy about the LSD science test subject: crow and cat become friends. It will warm your heart.
posted by Meatbomb at 5:20 AM on December 2, 2006

Yeah, the thing is, cats are already tripping all the time, so there's no need to give them actual hallucinogens.

One time back in the acid-pushin' days someone I know dosed out about 6 hits out onto some cookies, then left the room for a second, and his smallish dog ate the cookies. Reportedly the dog bounced around sniffing at all sorts of things that weren't there, ate an entire bag of dog food, and went to sleep. It was fine the next day.
posted by BeerFilter at 5:29 AM on December 2, 2006

For those who were unhappy about the LSD science test subject: crow and cat become friends. It will warm your heart.

This is the coolest cat thing I've seen. Cats on LSD, not so much.
posted by twistedonion at 5:33 AM on December 2, 2006

Not a nice way to start a saturday morning. :( Poor kitty.
posted by Hildegarde at 5:36 AM on December 2, 2006

The effects of drugs on college professors is similarly disturbing.
posted by Meatbomb at 5:43 AM on December 2, 2006

Cruel, and like most science produced for the sake of changing how we think about issues, useless.
posted by HuronBob at 5:48 AM on December 2, 2006

animal losing it's shit, great.
it didn't help that I had a tabby myself, but my instinct was to hunt this guy's kids down (him being too old, and what would be worse?). Then there's that frame at the end, and I realized his chances of procreation are scant.

and what the hell does this have to do with aeronautics?
posted by Busithoth at 5:51 AM on December 2, 2006

and what the hell does this have to do with aeronautics?

What the hell does this clip have to do with anything?

Perhaps it's part of a well thought out, well controlled, and effective research project exploring drug effects on the brain. That would certainly be of interest to an aeronautics institute, or perhaps they just had the facilities. I support animal experimentation for some research projects, this might fall into a category I support or one I would actively work to end. However I have no background information on the test, the researchers or the goals. All I have is a single short clip taken out of context, probably in order to elicit the same response seen in this thread.

Then again it could be a half assed research project carried out by assholes, or worse and uncontrolled unneeded project carried out by horrible people.

Without the context this clip means nothing.
posted by Science! at 6:01 AM on December 2, 2006

the effect on humans: an l.s.d. case study
posted by madamjujujive at 6:08 AM on December 2, 2006

Jebus help me, but I laughed waaay too hard.

I'll pay for that sin when I die and go to Kitty Hell.
posted by Dagobert at 6:11 AM on December 2, 2006

that's a horribly cruel video and i wish i hadn't seen it. that'll teach me to read the comments first next time.
posted by scrm at 6:15 AM on December 2, 2006

my instinct was to hunt this guy's kids down

Classy.
posted by atrazine at 6:18 AM on December 2, 2006

Guess now wouldn't be a good time to tell you that container the cat was placed in was an early prototype microwave oven.
posted by hal9k at 6:30 AM on December 2, 2006

I'd also probably start vibrating like a cell phone on silent mode, if some one gave me way to much LSD and stuck me in a cardboard washing machine. This was too disturbing.

Any thought of what that cat was thinking??
posted by savagecorp at 7:02 AM on December 2, 2006

I've wanted to see a "where are they now" followup on the toddler who ate several hundred candy colored acid tabs his uncle left lying around. Went into a coma-like state for a few days and gradually pulled out of it as I recall.
posted by StickyCarpet at 7:38 AM on December 2, 2006

When you do drug tests, I thought you were supposed to introduce the LSD into the animal's bloodstream, not replace the animal's blood with LSD entirely.
posted by Bugbread at 7:39 AM on December 2, 2006 [1 favorite]

Thanks, Dagobert, you've helped me see the world in a new way: People going to Kitty Hell and people not going to Kitty Hell.

The thought of seeing all those cat-haters batted around like balls of string, well... that warms my heart.
posted by Robson at 7:40 AM on December 2, 2006

Meh. Count me in the group who almost always read the comments first, but not this time. I was a expecting a cat acting silly, not sprawled on the ground and shaking like the worst seizure in hell.
posted by Atreides at 7:42 AM on December 2, 2006

madamjujujive: "the effect on humans: an l.s.d. case study"

I feel sorrier for that hotdog than I did for the cat.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 7:45 AM on December 2, 2006

This post is fucking bullshit. Who's life is now better for having clicked on the link?
posted by psmealey at 7:49 AM on December 2, 2006

The awesome cover of In A Gadda Da Vida is from The Residents' Third Reich and Roll. It's about 13:10 into the B-side of the LP, "Hitler Was a Vegetarian".

This video is horrible. It's weird that someone would recontextualize this footage and create a fake 49 year old documentary.
posted by Nelson at 7:53 AM on December 2, 2006 [1 favorite]

METATALK!
posted by Arqa at 7:54 AM on December 2, 2006

Poor Kitty.
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 7:54 AM on December 2, 2006

On a lighter note, did anybody catch the story on NPR about the dog who loved to suck on toads?
posted by JT at 7:55 AM on December 2, 2006

Who's life is now better for having clicked on the link?

Mine. I laughed my ass off.
posted by c13 at 7:57 AM on December 2, 2006

One more for the "I thought this would be funny, not horrific" group.
posted by kafziel at 7:58 AM on December 2, 2006

Not hilarious, fucking godawful, exploitative crap. Kill the post.
posted by moonbird at 7:59 AM on December 2, 2006

Oh, and single link vidfilter to boot.
posted by moonbird at 7:59 AM on December 2, 2006

psmealey : "This post is fucking bullshit. Who's life is now better for having clicked on the link?"

Mine. I've occasionally been curious about what would happen to people/animals with extraordinarily large doses of LSD. Now I know.

Was my curiosity great enough that I'm happy the experiment was done? No, of course not. But the experiment was done years ago; it is a fait accompli. Was my curiosity great enough that I'm happy someone linked to the video? Yes.

Not saying it should be for anyone else, or that this is a great post, or anything like that. Just trying to answer your question as it pertains to me.
posted by Bugbread at 8:03 AM on December 2, 2006