“Naw, he’s an American Bobtail. They’re born with their tales short and curly.” Disgusting!

Well, not really. It is natural & while I happen to agree cats look better with tails than without I think “disgusting” is going a bit far – unusual or odd sure – but if it was your cat I’m sure you’d get used to it after a while. After al there’s a whole breed of tehm so clearly a lot of people do still like them :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bobtail_cat

Besides its not the only breed like that – you never heard of the Manx cat breed & wouldn’t like them either I take it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx_(cat)

Also don’t forget that when it comes to dogs some people still dock their tails – esp. rottweilers, boxers and some other breeds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_(dog)

Although this practice isn’t one I’d personally recomend or have ever done & is banned in, I think, my state/nation & many others.

A cat needs its tail! Look at the calicos tail during the fight!

A tail certainly has its uses!

I wonder if the black American bobtail ever gets jealous of his “sister” calico’s one – maybe that’s what the fight was about!

#2 – The second rule of Cat Fight Club is, you DO NOT talk about Cat Fight Club. Posting video is ok, though.

#3 – If someone meows, goes limp, rolls over on her back, the round is over.

#4 – Two cats to a cat fight.

#5 – One cat fight at a time.

#6 – No shirts, no shoes. No problem.

#7 – Cat fights will go on as long as they have to.

#8 – If this is your first night at Cat Fight Club, you have to fight.

Two female cats? Not so much Kirk & Spock then more like B’Elanna Torres vs Seven of Nine!

@3. Georg asks : Where’s the black cats tail?

Quoting from the comments there where that was also asked :

“He lost it in an extreme cat fight.
Naw, he’s an American Bobtail. They’re born with their tales short and curly.  He wags it like a dog does. He’s a great cat. Probably my favorite ever.”
- CrazyDood69 7 months ago

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EDIT : D’oh! Did I just say two female cats? Sounds like the black one at least is male. Oh well.

The comment that it must be two females is nutty. First, 2 indoor cats are likely neutered, no matter their gender. A couple of males could fight in the same way. Can’t tell gender unless you get a good look at them. Calico’s probably female, the black is anyone’s guess.
It’s probably a play fight. Many cats love to do this.

This happened at the San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park (not far from Mt Palomar.) Cat A was about 50 feet from Cat B, which was sleeping under a tree on a small grassy knoll. Cat A stared very hard at the onlookers, making sure we all knew we were pwned. Then it walked very, very, very slowly towards Cat B, on step at a time. Every now and then, it glared at us. It took about 10 minutes to walk the 50 feet, but finally reached Cat B, reached out a paw, and bopped it on the head. There was a huge orange and black blur, and then they chased each other off out of sight. Oh, yeah, Cat A and Cat B were frelling TIGERS!

Damn, I’ll get to use that correctly one day.

Edit:
Mariana, I think the music evokes a certain Spartacus historical feel to it as well. Given the gladiatorial setting of the Kirk/Spock fight.

Donnie B,
To be fair William Shatner looked a bit sissy like when running. Watch some reruns.

Ugh, I just realised my first comment could be taken the wrong way. I should clarify that what I meant by composers “not being able to get away with that these days” is that the music was pretty daring, and I don’t think today’s mainstream producers would go with something much different from the heavy metal guitar type thing.

I’m ashamed to say I’m not well versed enough in Stravinsky to place the similarity beyond Firebird and certain passages of the Rite of Spring (the French horns towards the middle of the first part jumped out at me – I just did a bit of cheating. ) But no, in all honesty, it mostly just struck me as Stravinskian.

I wish the latter day Trek series had such iconic music as the Original Series did…

P.S. Also, tomcats tend to smell funny after a fight.

No, the calico is quite obviously “mixed race”. Furthermore, it’s clearly all worked up, as can be seen from the tail action. Pon farr, for sure.

Or, as Nimoy once said, “I am not calico!” Yeah, I’m sure that’s what he said.