Can cats swim????

lmao that pic of the cat w/the lime on his head. That's great.

 

lol.. yea the pic was funny in so many ways, one is obviously stupid and the other is laughing at the cats reaction. so its cool for morans and geniuses (is that genii?).
Anyway, im sure tigers are good swimmers... but i was asking about the common domestic cat..lol
I wouldnt be confident enough to take my eyes off my cat for one second if he fell into a swimming pool.
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ps, dont ever go swimming with a cat unless you really want your skin to get ripped to shreds.

 

cats are very good swimmers... they just hate it.

 

When our oldest cat was a kitten, we had never owned a cat before, so we learned a lot. She coughed up a hairball once and my mom flushed it down the toilet and she jumped in after it. After that, I can tell you that yes, cats can swim. They also can clog toilets. Thank god Mom was quick and caught her before she drowned...Damn animals and their attachment to their wastes...Haha.

 

while cats generaly are not infavor of doing so, i would like to mentions one subspecies, the asian fishing cat, yes this is very much for real, and i guess common knowledge to anyone who has studied nondomestic creatures, but apperantly from what i'm seeing in this thread, not as yet to everybody. and no this isn't something brand new discouvered within the last decade. although i don't know if or how well they were known more then a couple of decades ago. but there is, a subspecies of cats, i'll have to look up their latin nominclature if anyone insists, and the are a SUBspecies as all true cats ARE cross firtle, even lions and tigers. but back to the asian fishing cat. this is a cat that not only swims and LIKES TO SWIM, but actualy does so to catch fish. which it does extremely well and lives by doing so.

it is unlikely, do to efforts to perserve their specific sub species for further study, that they will ever be or within human knowledge of their existence, been, alowed to cross breed with ordinary house cats.

they ARE wild and feral, and probably wouldn't make good pets. but the're no larger or more dangerous then say a normal sized ordinary housecat. certainly never as big or larger then a lynx or bobcat.

a very interesting creature as cats go, and certainly AN answer to CAN cats swim

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The fishing cats latin name apparently is Prionailurus viverrinus or Felis viverrina. I looked it up cuz it seems cool (lol.. wikipedia, the answer to everymans prayer!!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_Cat
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