what's feline's fucking problem with cucumbers?

I think it may be less the cucumber and more the thing attached to that painted nails manhand

They look like snakes

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I wish I had cats so I could scare them with fruit

>>2440141
>fruit
That's a dirigible you fucking idiot.

Cucumbers, tape to the side of the cat, breadface, laser pointers until they are berserk and another normal cat pet slave entertainment. Normals are incapable of love. ("And you don't understand fun. Roasted!")

>>2440438
Go home Hal, you're drunk.

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I has a cat, but no cukes. Would a banana be as effective?

>>2440045
they think it is a snake

>>2440538
Do they, though? Maybe in the moment they think it could be something like a snake, but surely not for long.

>>2440045
The videos of them freaking out are just them being startled. It's like if you were sitting down having dinner and while you were distracted someone put a big blowup doll behind you, or something. It can be startling.

My cats play with fruit all the time. I don't believe it's fear at all, or it would persist. What we're seeing is them being spooked. Like someone popping out and saying "BOO" It's not really "Scary". It does not invoke fear.

It's "startling"

>>2440629
This
It really doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can sneak it in there without the cat noticing

>>2440045
it's a large, unknown object that seems to have snuck up on them. has nothing to do with cucumbers in particular.

>>2440536
you could paint the banana or use a really fresh one

>>2440451
kek

>>2440240
What?

>>2440629
This. All animals, including us, are easily frightened by things they don't expect. Animals are fucking weird and all sorts of shit can scare their little brains. My dog once circled his in fear for 5 whole minutes trying to gather the courage to grab it for no discernible reason.

>>2440538
How can they think it's a snake if they've never seen a snake before in real life?

It's like saying I'm afraid of ogawatts from Jupiter, but that's impossible because I don't even know what an ogawatt is.

>>2440932
How can small animals know that wasps are deadly if they've never seen one before and most that interact with them die?

>>2440932
Basic fear is genetic.

I remember the first time I saw a snake in real life. It scared the shit out of me because it was a quick moving dark thing.

You don't have to see one to be afraid of it, it has scary attributes.

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>>2440960
What? Snakes are qties.

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>>2440967
Not all sneks can be pythons.

>>2440972
He's beautiful in his own way

>>2440932
Are you retarded?

Unfamiliar things are scary. If some three headed alien goop monster with chainsaw jaws appears in front of me I'm not going to stick around.
Animals who have never seen a human are usually afraid of humans when they do see them, or avoid unnatural structures like houses or cars in the middle of the woods.

>>2440972
That's adorable.

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>>2440045
dunno man

>>2440932
hens will fear a hawk despite no hen having seen it in generations. Animals and humans have some sort of "hidden information" within our genes that affect our ehavior regardless of our experiences or lack of them.

>>2441764
What scares us humans?

Have we got a gene for big feline sounds (sabertooth hunted us in the past)

>>2441811
A fear of tall, gaunt, pale, humanoid things in the dark seems to occur across most cultures.

>>2441811
The dark
Things we don't know/ understand

>>2441760
That cat is defective.

>>2440881
His what anon? I've been waiting in suspense for far too long.

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It is a deep, instinctual fear. In prehistoric times the ancestors of domestic cats had to compete with giant cucumbers for supremacy.

>>2441811
I heard that when people trip on ayahuasca, two of the images that occur most frequently are of serpents and big cats because we instinctually fear them. This was back in an anthro class in college, so not sure how true it is, but something that I thought was interesting.

>>2441821
His

>>2441811
mortality

>>2441837
I hate you

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None of my 3 cats are scared of cucumbers

>>2442350
maybe because you dick them every night, animeposter

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>>2440141

I laugh like a reddit baby every time I see this

>>2441811
Other humans.