(VIDEO) I'm not a cat, lawyer tells judge after Zoom filter error

Colombo (News 1st);  Going virtual can be tricky, but for the first time, a lawyer appeared with a kitten filter on a conference call. [embed]https://youtu.be/KIC1TqkJrLE[/embed] A Texas lawyer accidentally left a kitten filter on during a video conference call with a judge and was unable to change it, eventually responding to a judge’s query about why he was being addressed by a digital feline by saying: “I’m here live. I am not a cat.” The coronavirus has prompted many computer mishaps, as many of the world’s workers adapt to working from home in the face of the pandemic. They have ranged from the inadvertently hilarious to the career-ending. But lawyer Rod Ponton’s accidental morphing into a wide-eyed baby cat appears destined to achieve viral immortality. Faced with hearing legal debate from the kitten’s cute but worried face, Judge Roy Ferguson of Texas’s 394th judicial district told Ponton: “I believe you have a filter turned on in the video settings. You might want to …” The Ponton/kitten entity then interrupts Ferguson in a panicked drawl: “Can you hear me, judge?” Ferguson responds: “I can hear you. I think it’s a filter …” “It is,” the cat-faced Ponton responds. “And I don’t know how to remove it. I’ve got my assistant here, she’s trying to, but I’m prepared to go forward with it … I’m here live. I’m not a cat.” Ferguson deadpans: “I can see that.”