the music video features a number of cats and a large lampshade falling on the head of bassist phil thornalley. there are many shots of a mansion which the band told a buyer they were interested in buying it. they returned the keys in the morning. real cats were supposed to be used but after proving to be troublesome, taxidermied ones were used in the place of cats. smith said of the video: "'the love cats' is far from being my favourite song: composed drunk, video filmed drunk, promotion made drunk. it was a joke."