Definitely not AI as copies of it have been posted on the internet as early as 2019. I think it has been taken as a panorama, resulting in that effect where the top ridge of the roof appears to be bending away from the camera
While you're right, I don't blame the person too much. Cats look and sound downright vicious even when playfighting, it's not always easy to tell in the moment
I didn't see any sort of a pattern about the size, but to be fair he wasn't my dog so I didn't see him interacting with other dogs most of the time. He was fine with both greyhounds the same size as him and whippets that were much smaller, so I don't think it was about size
That said you have reminded me of an entertaining memory. I worked at a greyhound rescue centre for a little bit (not the one my aunt's dog came from), and I was just about the only person there that wasn't a functionally-retired little old lady. One morning while we were walking the dogs, a squirrel darted across the path. It was carnage. Grannies scattered like bowling pins. Everyone was okay
My aunt's old greyhound actually was, uhh... dog racist, I guess. I don't mean towards humans, I mean other dogs. He'd happily interact with other greyhounds, doing all the usual dog greetings, but the less the other dog looked like a greyhound the more likely it was that he'd awkwardly ignore them and refuse to engage. Whippet? Cool. Lurcher? Ehhh, cautiously acceptable. Labrador? Absolutely fucking not
He was an ex-racer that my aunt got from a shelter, and he had clearly been through a lot before that. He got a good retirement with her though
To be honest I trust the cat here. They're quite capable of knowing when something is hostile to them. Here it's all curled up and not even feeling the need to watch the dogs, its body language is pretty relaxed
Cats have an instinctual response to a specific patch on the back of their neck being pinched. Their mothers carry them by that part when they're kittens, and the response keeps them still. Male cats also bite female cats there during mating. It can be used to functionally restrain a cat, though doing so unnecessarily is just gonna stress the cat out so it's generally not recommended
To give everyone here the benefit of the doubt, the first bottle seems to be a pet shampoo for getting rid of mites and ticks (the second is just a regular delicate soap). It could quite plausibly be that the poor thing had a bad infestation and stopped trying to escape when it realised it was feeling better. If that is the case then it'll be freaked out but definitely better off for it
I think it's just not really in the spirit of the event. It's not meant to be a completely serious athletic endeavour, it's a bit of fun and fundraising. They're getting 2,000 people of all ages on to a tiny island with a population of 61 to chuck some stones across a pond. There doesn't seem to be a big cash prize or anything. There was a raffle to win a wheelbarrow described as doing "0-3 mph in 1 second"
I think I can skim a stone farther than I can throw one, given a good stone and flat water... and a few attempts. I'm definitely not getting remotely near 60m though, that's wild
Aside from that this article only comes to the conclusion of broad implications and the author himself says he used both interchangeably in his book, this is an American source and the headline for this post is British. I don't know about American Engkish, but there is no expectation of a stone being worked by humans in British English. In common usage here a rock is generally bigger than a stone - I'd say whether you can throw it one-handed is roughly where the extremely fuzzy line is - but you could absolutely just pick up any small piece of stone from the ground in nature and call it "a stone" without anyone questioning it
Batcat?