This is a very funny compilation of surprise videos and scaredy cats. All of us with kitties know about this surprise reaction commonly.


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Our Maya is like this more than our other past cats have been.
Her latest scaredy attack was with her water bottle dispenser.
She has since being a little kitten attacked the water dispenser and bam bam bam... boxes with both her paws to make the water come out. We have been unsure if this is a fear thing or a play thing. Well when we filled up the back porch dispenser when the weather warmed up, she did her bam bam thing, and it glugged and spit a drop out which hit her in the face. The reaction to this was just as funny as these videos! She ran around at super speed for about 3 minutes and finally went into the basement! It happened so fast, I couldn't even think of photographing it! But it was hysterically amusing!
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Those were so funny. My cats startle like those cats sometimes....especially Panda. She can be walking by and if you move your feet even a little she will jump straight up. It's hard not to do it on purpose when she's walking by but I restrain myself.
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Thanks mrsD - very funny
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My 17 y.o. cat often has similar moments of madness - I wonder if she is channeling her kittenhood.

Sometimes she will climb the curtains. When that happens I have to be very careful not to laugh - if I do she will glare at me and stomp off in a sulk.

That's hilarious.

My cat has a fear of well-defined doorway thresholds.
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I see your cat is conversational too?

So is Weezie... she answers us with the most creative sounds!

That was a cute video. Thanks for posting it.

Weezie took a long time "mastering" doors. She is still
a bit unclear about them.

Purposely scaring hypersensitive kittens and cats to make a video to put out on the internet is not funny in the least, it is cruel. We all have seen a cat innocently get spooked by a shadow or foot under a bedspread but to purposely grab, scare or turn a vacuum cleaner on a pet to see it react for "entertainment" purposes is abuse. Scaring a kitten and it smashes into a wall is funny? The proliferation of these videos, doing things to animals to see them react is getting increasingly more and more cruel and it is being fueled by social media. Should you turn on a vacuum cleaner, throw a big fake spider or grab a toddler from behind to see him/her scream and jump because their reaction is funny?
No, of course not.
We should not be doing it to animals either.
Diandra

You do have a point, Diandra, but I thought the kittens and the vacuum were done while they climbed on it and accidentally turned it on themselves!

Our own Weezie got stuck in a paper bag once, and she ran around too. I thought these guys were just ready to video "in case". Cats often do surprising things, and many times they are funny.

I've seen many videos on YouTube that were odd, staged and cruel. One comes to mind, a ceiling fan one with a cat hanging on it. (foolish and dangerous). Cats hanging from doors, or falling from great heights... also cruel and not funny.

I think throwing a rubber spider is not cruel... most cats will leap up in the air over basically nothing commonly. In fact we have had 2 cats who had rubber insect/spider toys! Our late Sheba would pick up a big rubber ant with her mouth, by one leg and toss it in the air, and go after it. If she ran into it by accident and was startled , there would not be "damage", but just surprise.

I'm sorry you don't agree with these videos. I thought they were funny and reminded us of our past and present kitties.

hi mrsd. thanks so much for the funny link. i loved it!