Braingle: 'What a Creature' Brain Teaser

What a Creature

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Puzzle ID:	#4038
Fun:	(2.92)
Difficulty:	(1.7)
Category:	Trick
Submitted By:	zoltan_90
Corrected By:	Fire_Shell96

What is a living creature that has four legs, eats cat food, and sees equally well on both ends of its body?

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librashorty May 17, 2002	Good work.
munkybubble14 Jun 02, 2002	couldnt it be a regular cat too?
odcsurferchick Jun 04, 2002	it could be a normal cat 2!
piffle Jun 15, 2002	good teaser.
QtistLilShorTy Jun 19, 2002	Very simple, I got it right after reading the question. No, It couldn't be a normal cat because, at least I am assuming, it means that the cat can see equally well on both the outside and inside of it's body. Therefore only a blind cat would not be able to see at all on both of those "sides".
oxygen_deprived Jun 21, 2002	he means both sides i.e. left and right, & a blind cat can see neither, so geddit? but it could also be a chameleon, u know, and i assume that since my chameleon eats dog food, it wud prolly eat cat food as well, and it CAN, btw, look left & right at the same time cuz of the positioning of it's eye.
jonnyonline Jan 24, 2003	"sides" needs to be defined in advance in order to reach that specific conclusion. If we are referring to a sphere, please tell me how you would define a "side".
jimbo Apr 15, 2003	I'm still laughing....Oh well I got it 50% right.
beanie89 Aug 31, 2003	Ha ha ha! That's a good one! One of my favs
Smart_Alex Apr 23, 2006	Shoot! The last one threw me off. Nice one!
4demo Jul 26, 2006	I got the "cat" part after reading "eats cat food", but not all cats eat cat food, so...
WCCope Oct 19, 2008	I got blind, but was trying to come up with a creature that doesn't have eyes.
crocodile Nov 22, 2009	I was thinking a dead cat, but that can't eat cat food, right?
VitalStatistic Dec 09, 2009	Haha. Very good. I LOLed
scallio Dec 09, 2009	LOL! That's hilarious!
dani4w45t Dec 09, 2009	Good teaser! Sides refer to the frontside and the backside, so it couldn't be a normal cat because none has eyes on the back of it head of on its backside, lol!
elentir Dec 09, 2009	As it never states what the ends are, left/right is as equally valid an assumption as front/back. If you choose left/right for your ends, a normal sighted cat sufficiently answers the question as well as a blind one. However, a blind cat will cover all presumed 'ends' and thus so, is the best answer. Good teaser!
emu77alu02 Dec 09, 2009	Awwh, this reminds me of my poor blind, long-departed kitty! But the teaser was maybe too obvious, but then again, I can't think of how it could have been written as a better trick.
Mitty44 Dec 09, 2009	HaHaHa! That was tricky. I got the cat part. The blind part was hard. A blind cat can not see anything equally on the cat's body. Which makes a blind cat.
crazy10man Dec 09, 2009	Come on . . . "Sees equally well" implies sight and then the answer is a cat who can't see? The answer should be a cat that turns its head to the side; it can see both in front and behind at the same time.
doehead Dec 09, 2009	Blind cats don't see. But over all consideration, this was about as stupid as they come. If I stepped on the writers toes I'm sorry, because they needed stomped on.
patiencewithaP Dec 09, 2009	Or a two-headed cat Good trick!
phyllisa Dec 09, 2009	I thought this was a horrible teaser. Is it supposed to be funny? My answer was an elephant.
braingle100 Dec 09, 2009	That was funny! I thought it was a regular cat, cause it has a left eye and a right eye, and each I sees equally well?
auntiesis Dec 09, 2009	Groan!!!!!
jcann Dec 09, 2009	It says both "ends" of it's body---not "sides". To me it is quite clear what that means. It sees equally well, which in this case is "not at all". I can't understand what all the fuss is about. Why spend so much time and waste space picking apart the teasers? I thought is was a good riddle, even though I don't like the concept of a blind cat.
FatHead Dec 09, 2009	Good one! I was thinking a dead cat!
leroyleroy Dec 09, 2009	NOW THATS FUNNY REAL REAL FUNNY!!!
Bastet Dec 09, 2009	Reread the teaser, folks. It said both ENDS, not both sides--in other words, its head and its butt. I can't believe I didn't get it! What a fun teaser!
GreenApples27 Mar 18, 2011	Poor cat.
kittygirl19 Aug 06, 2012	Neat teaser! I was thinking an eyeless cat!
jaycr Dec 09, 2012	Could have been a few other blind animals. But I'll give you credit for coimg up with the story.
Babe Dec 09, 2012	That is gross and not even funny. Those kind of jokes are sick!! Yell at me all you want. It is how I feel and my opinion!
BeanSC Dec 09, 2012	LOL! I liked it!
cutebug Dec 09, 2012	Worst and most sickening teaser ever.To the writer-GET A LIFE.
bestgirl Dec 09, 2012	I have to agree with Babe. I found it somewhat gross.
HABS2933 Dec 09, 2012	First let me join the list of people who didn't like this teaser. IT could have been any number of animals. As someone else stated his chameleon eats cat food as does my dog. "sees equally well out of both ends of its body" to me that would mean the front end and the back end (head and rear). And on a final note - "Blind' does not mean having no sight at all. There are degrees of blindness in humans (I should know, I am considered legally blind but can see well enough to get around on my own without a cane or dog but not well enough to read or drive). This is also true for animals. A blind cat may still be able to see a few feet, or see shadows or the outline of objects. Ergo, no he cannot see equally well from both ends (regardless of what ends we are discussing) as one does not see at all and the other could potentially see something (albeit not much). Not a good teaser at all.
crazy10man Dec 09, 2012	Well said HABS!!! this teaser is way too ambiguous.
thecatladycac Dec 09, 2012	Some people are "blind" to the concept that this is a "trick" teaser. And even though I have several cats, and love them all enough to volunteer for a cat rescue, I enjoyed your teaser. We need humor (even occasional "black humor") to maintain our sanity! Thanks for submitting!
eamon Dec 09, 2012	I got an actual chuckle out of it. Thanks.
FatHead Dec 09, 2012	For my hint, I would have said, "What creature can see out of its rear end? What does that tell you about the other end?" Good teaser.
iggy39 Dec 09, 2012	Sorry I thought it was stupid. No offense but this one sucked.
spikethru4 Dec 10, 2012	Well said, @thecatlady! And what's gross about a blind cat anyway? It's not like it had its eyes poked out for the sake of the teaser. Lighten up people.