Taking the crazy cat lady to a whole different level

The other day a friend of mine was telling me about how her professor wears some sort of weird device in class. At first she said that she thought it was a microphone, but once class started her professor's voice wasn't amplified at all. At least not to her (more to come on that comment in a moment). I told her that maybe it was an insulin pump for diabetes or something and we kind of left it at that. Later she told me that one of her classmates has a hearing aid (she knows that I am kind of nerdy when it comes to the topic of the ear. I like knowing about things that not a lot of other people know much about. It makes me feel smart). Having remembered earlier in the conversation about the mysterious device, I asked her what the hearing aid looked like. If it just attached on the ear, then it was a normal, behind the ear hearing aid. If there was a weird little attachment that connected to his head, then it was a cochlear implant. If it was a cochlear implant, then the device was probably a microphone so that her classmate could hear what the professor was saying. Turns out, it was a cochlear implant.

That's not the point of this post. It's just a back story that I felt should be told to explain why I was looking up cochlear implants on google images. I wanted to find one to show her just to make sure that that's what it was, even though I was fairly certain. I typed "cochlear implant" into the google search engine and found this. Frightening, right? It baffles me, still. I have absolutely no idea why someone would have a cochlear implant for a cat. Maybe to do research, but even then it seems insane. It has to be some sort of animal cruelty. If nothing else because it just looks ridiculous.