A New Kind of Snowcat: Avalanche Rescue Cats

[thetrailboss]

I was in my supermarket last night and saw on the front page of Backcountry Skiing Magazine a headline that said: Avalanche Rescue Cats. The article chronicles a new organization in Canada known as The Canadian Avalanche Rescue Cat Association or better known as CARCA.

Turns out that a Canadian documentary film maker just did a film on this new movement that is featured in the Banff Mountain Film Festival.

The guy says that cats are better because they eat less, weigh less, can be carried to the avalanche site, and are cheaper to maintain. So far it looks like Fernie is the only place with them.

 

[bigbog]

Cats are funny, playing in the snow...

 

[wa-loaf]

I'm sorry but the videos and writing all say farce to me. I think you've been had TB.

 

[marcski]

I'm sorry but the videos and writing all say farce to me. I think you've been had TB.

"Mockumentary":

http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Chasing+mice+saving+lives/5981829/story.html

 

[thetrailboss]

I'm sorry but the videos and writing all say farce to me. I think you've been had TB.

These guys reported on it. I think it is funny, but I don't think it is a farce.

EDIT: I guess it is a big spoof! Too funny! :lol:

The short film follows his fictional struggle for feline recruits to be accepted by the canine-biased avalanche industry, and comes with a snappy tag line: they have nine lives, because you only have one.

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/entert...saving+lives/5981829/story.html#ixzz1sDvppQ25

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[SkiDork]

of course its a joke. Ever try to train a cat to do anything? Not possible.

 

[SIKSKIER]

I've been farced also.I thought the thread would be about mechanical snowcats on the line of a winch rescue.

 

[thetrailboss]

I re-read the Backcountry article and if it is indeed a farce they seem to have taken it as well, hook, line and sinker! :lol:

 

[Tooth]

of course its a joke. Ever try to train a cat to do anything? Not possible.

I have heard some women have trained cats to do things with peanut butter. uke:

 

[thetrailboss]

I have heard some women have trained cats to do things with peanut butter. uke:

Yikes! TMI!

 

[jaja111]

I saw this thread title on another forum and thought of snow cats, like bombardiers... with tracks, used for high speed response to avalanche scenes. I didn't have time to click on the thread but thought, yeah.... that's a good idea. I had NO idea.

 

[Cornhead]

I have heard some women have trained cats to do things with peanut butter. uke:

Make sandwiches? I don't think cats eat peanut butter, do they? We had a cat who would eat a full breakfast, bacon, eggs, and toast. Everything but coffee. Gotta be better than cat food, yuck. The only drawback I can see to being a house cat.

 

[o3jeff]

I have heard some women have trained cats to do things with peanut butter. uke:

I've heard the same thing, but using dogs.

 

[Nick]

wow i knew the second i saw that it was a joke. I mean the guy skiing down the mountain with the cat i the box? :lol:

That would be hilarious though.

 

[abc]

Perhaps if the back country skiers all carry some fish in their backpack, rescue cats might start scratching?

 

[Cornhead]

With such an important role in rescues, they'd have to be tested for cat nip.:wink: