Taiwan teacher in social media doghouse after dropping squealing cat onto floor in class experiment, promises feline best pet food as compensation
- Experimenting educator holds cat upside down, drops it onto classroom floor
- Video of shrilling feline sparks fury on social media, forcing teacher to apologise
A physics teacher in Taiwan who dropped a cat onto the floor during a classroom experiment has faced a barrage of online criticism.
A video clip of the “experiment” which was filmed by a student went viral on social media at the beginning of March.
It shows the teacher holding the cat upside down with its legs in the air. He then let the cat fall onto the floor of the classroom, the news website setn.com reported.
The teacher, Li Feng, was apparently demonstrating a “conservation of angular momentum experiment”, which he did twice. The animal could be clearly heard squealing when it was dropped.
“It is fine to do this with a cat but we cannot do it with a dog,” Li tells his students in the video.
After receiving an avalanche of online criticism, Li apologised for his treatment of the cat, called Laifu, which belongs to him.
