Cats are funny.

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Combwork

Especially when you wipe them across the face of a colour TV, makes their fir stand up.

I have had cats for years (am on my third one now) and loved them all (including my current furry friend, six-year-old Kiki), which is why I cannot see the sense in what you are suggesting. Why would anyone want to do that, except just for the heck of it or "just to see what happens"? Sounds to me like a trick a child (or someone with no love or respect for animals) would pull. Besides, I think exposing cats to the static charge on a color (or b&w) TV's CRT could be harmful to the animals, to say nothing of frightening them badly or even killing them outright. Had this been the 1970s (there was a color-TV x-ray scare in this country at that time, which eventually led to the current x-radiation laws that have required high-voltage shutdown circuitry in CRT color TVs from the '70s until the end of the CRT era), there would have been concerns over the possibility of exposing the cats to x-rays as well.