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People need to stop scaring cats with cucumbers, say animal behaviorists
Fox News ^ | November 20, 2015 | Michael Harthorne

Posted on 11/20/2015 12:56:05 PM PST by sparklite2

The new viral craze is apparently scaring cats with cucumbers, because the Internet is a weird place and humans enjoy low-grade animal cruelty as long as it's adorable.

But National Geographic reports that we should all maybe not be scaring our cats with cucumbers. According to Upvoted, the first cat-scared-by-cucumber video appears to have been uploaded in May and went viral by July or so.

Countless others followed, to the point where Reddit has an entire Cucumbers Scaring Cats community. The idea behind these videos is that if you put a cucumber behind a cat, it'll freak out when it sees it.

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TOPICS: Humor; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: badgerbadgerbadger; cats; cucumber; cucumbers; kittyping; snakesnake
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1 posted on 11/20/2015 12:56:05 PM PST by sparklite2
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To: sparklite2

as soon as I stop laughing...


2 posted on 11/20/2015 12:57:08 PM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: sparklite2

What about zucchini?


3 posted on 11/20/2015 12:58:28 PM PST by kaktuskid
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To: NativeSon

Pussies
Cucumbers

What not to laugh at?


4 posted on 11/20/2015 12:59:38 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: sparklite2

Maybe the cats need to get counseling and just deal with it...


5 posted on 11/20/2015 1:00:06 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Tony Schwartz and Meredith McIver, a couple of dam* fine authors...)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Did you see the video? Apparently, size doesn’t matter...


6 posted on 11/20/2015 1:00:49 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Tony Schwartz and Meredith McIver, a couple of dam* fine authors...)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

But what should a Kathmandu?


7 posted on 11/20/2015 1:01:40 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: NativeSon

Me too. I couldn’t stop.


8 posted on 11/20/2015 1:02:03 PM PST by dware (Free Survival & Prepper Ebooks: http://www.survivetherockies.com)
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To: NativeSon

read the headline and went HUH and then WTF.

We have millions of people today with mental issues, no common sense, or just plain stupid with too much time on their hands,.


9 posted on 11/20/2015 1:02:07 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: NativeSon

Next time my little cat claws me, I’m going to shove a garlic dill pickle up her butt and see how she likes it.


10 posted on 11/20/2015 1:02:13 PM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: sparklite2

OK, that made me chuckle. :)


11 posted on 11/20/2015 1:03:27 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Tony Schwartz and Meredith McIver, a couple of dam* fine authors...)
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To: sparklite2

Who would pound puddy with a cuke?


12 posted on 11/20/2015 1:03:36 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: sparklite2

If I structured my day around not scaring the cat, we’d die of starvation within a month. Everything freaks him out, especially shopping bags. I’m on crutches after foot surgery a couple days ago. As soon as I pick up a crutch, he becomes a cucumber-cat with eyes the size of golf balls and takes off in sheer terror. Sorry, animal kooks. I’m the boss and the cat better get used to it — one of these years.


13 posted on 11/20/2015 1:03:37 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: sparklite2

My mother had a multicolored glasses case that would do the same thing to her cat


14 posted on 11/20/2015 1:04:34 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: sparklite2
There are many ways to scare a cat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KIKrSG-Xzc
15 posted on 11/20/2015 1:04:49 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: USMCPOP

now that’s waste of good pickle... and a hand


16 posted on 11/20/2015 1:05:32 PM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Mine’s bigger

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p9ZjOCSLYlc


17 posted on 11/20/2015 1:06:32 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
After 10 days of shooting a pill down my cat's throat with a special syringe, he isn't too thrilled to see me opening the medicine bottle...
18 posted on 11/20/2015 1:07:16 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Tony Schwartz and Meredith McIver, a couple of dam* fine authors...)
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To: sparklite2

Not about to do it to my three indoor cats.


19 posted on 11/20/2015 1:07:51 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: sparklite2

I, for one, will be stopping on my way home from work to buy a cucumber. I will then use it to scare my
cat.


20 posted on 11/20/2015 1:08:08 PM PST by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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