4 thoughts on “Cats And Cukes”

  1. I’ve seen startle behavior very similar to this before in cats. I grew up on a farm and cats startled by a snake would act the same way. I won’t make a strong claim to understand what goes on in a cat’s head, but they’re probably processing the first glance as a snake before they figure out what it really is.

    1. Any creature gets startled by something appearing behind it that it didn’t expect. And I suspect that cats are hard-wired to be startled by anything that resembles a snake — primates have the same reaction instinctually, and no reason to think that mammals in general shouldn’t share a similar fear of snakes.

  2. I tested this on my cat the other day (with a zucchini, not a cucumber, but that’s similar). There was no effect.

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