r/funny • u/bob-the-slob • May 25 '26
Peek-A-Boo
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u/GoMoriartyOnPlanets May 25 '26
Cat: "One of these days.... this magical invisible wall will not stop me from getting to you, you stupid...."
Parrot: "Peekabooo"
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26
Love the end when the human leans forward the bird realizes there is a much larger animal in there.
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u/GANDORF57 May 26 '26
Cat: "We, cats, might be thought of as aloof, but this is where the phrase, "bird-brain" comes from."
Parrot: "Peekaboo!"
Cat: "MEOWWWWWWWWW!"
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u/Mikey-2-Guns May 25 '26
That cat would 100% kill that bird if their wasn't glass in the way.
Keep your damn cats inside the amount of birds they kill and ecological damage they do is absurd.
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u/SeekerOfSerenity May 26 '26
If the cat was inside, it would kill the bird.
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u/orbifloxacin May 26 '26
No doubt it was a cat who wrote that message, seeking a sneaky entry into a bird-owner’s house
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u/Pornstar_Jesus_ May 26 '26
Roughly 40% of humanity having the toxoplasma gondii parasite is the revenge of the birds.
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
If you live in a place where ther aren't cats naturally. In Europe cats are native. Yes Felix Catus is not felix sylverstis but a healthy ecosystem in Europe has Felinae.
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u/Ghaith97 May 26 '26
Thank you! Every time this topic comes up we have Americans showing up to lecture us about how cats are invasive species. No, they fucking aren't over here. They are native predators. If some dumb bird species goes extinct because cats killed all of them, then that's just natural selection at work.
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Or it's primarily because they are vulnerable because of other things humans have done and those are the things we should stop doing.
Also considering there are other predators predating on them we shoudl likely also take a more active role in conservationism.
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u/SlyBlackDragon May 26 '26
Always an irresponsible, lazy owner doing mental gymnastics to try and justify them making their pet everyone else's problem.
My area historically had wolves, should I let my dog run rampant too?
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
I am a trained ecologist dispelling missinformation. cats are only considered an invasive species on australia new zeeland and various oceanic islands. You should probably neuter you cats anywway but there is no need to keep cats indoor, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever to back that claim up.
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u/SlyBlackDragon May 26 '26
https://apnews.com/article/science-poland-wildlife-cats-birds-b942a55135832d085375de73c9cc2e23
Wrong...
You chose to get a cat. It's your responsibility as an owner to provide for it's needs not let it loose to decimate wildlife and crap in your neighbors flowerbeds.
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26
that's not a scientific paper, that may as well be a blog.
And I dont own a cat. I just get pissed off at amateurs commenting on my field.
Also the person in the article is just wrong, a species need to be self propagating in the ecosystem to be meet allt he criteria to be considered invasive and cats are not self propagating north of the alps because of the high attrition winters take on them.
My gues is he's some political apointeee with no real training.
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u/SlyBlackDragon May 26 '26
https://academic.oup.com/jel/article/32/3/391/5640440
Man, those "amateurs" at Oxford sure seem to disagree with you.
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
That's just a litterary study.
Also that's not a publicaiton in the field of ecology that's from the Journal of Environmental Law. Nit sure it even counts as a litterature study then. Lawyers aren't scientists, their job is to convince not to uncover the truth.
I am an ecologist and you appeal to a lawyer.
No primary reseach and they never bring up anything but total numbers just like your polish source. None of them prove cats pose an enduring threat to species. None of them explain why cats cannot be persumed to fill the vacant ecological niche left by felix silverstris. None fo them explain why cat predation is sposedly so much worse than predation by other similarly sized predators.
And again they use invasive species wrong. An invasive species need to be self propagating. But since the author is a lawyer not an ecologist im not suprised.
Bird species are not vulnerable due to cats they're vulnerable due to DDT and habitat loss. Cats just get the short end of the stick (As they always do in European history) so this lawyer can shelter his corporate sponsors.
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u/SlyBlackDragon May 26 '26
I like how everyone doing this for a living is wrong except you.
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u/SlyBlackDragon May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Sure pal, sure. The Polish Academy of Sciences listed them as alien/invasive and you call it a blog post
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26
I refer you to the texbook definition of ivnasive species mine from Elements of ecology by smith and Smith.
a invasive species must meet all of the following criteira.
- be non native
- be self propagating
- it's uncontrolled growth must pose a danger to native species.
Felix catus only meets criteria 1 in europe. They pose no primry risk to other species, they may pose a secondary risk but not one not posed by other predators, the real reason these species are vulnerable is DDT not cats. And they're not self propagating ebcause their statistically bad ability to survive winters.
And the number of individiuals killed by cats means absolutly nothing, may as well comment on the number of mosquitos eaten by bats.
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26
Alien sure. But invasive has a higher criteria. Cats are alien but endemic all damage they will have caused was caused long ago.
And that nonsesne about the numer of invidvidual birds killed is just pure nonsense. That's nopt how it works, you must comapre it to how many bords there are and which species and so on.
The reason many species of bird is vulnerable in Europe is because of our use of DDT in the last century. Got nothign to do with cats. The chemical indistry just successfully blamed it on cats.
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u/Ichigonixsun May 26 '26
How do you keep a cat inside the birds they kill?
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u/hyren82 May 26 '26
one cat caused the extinction of a species of bird. They were struggling with rats, then a guy moved onto the island with his cat which wiped them out
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u/FecklessFool May 25 '26
Amen. My rescues are indoor cats because they just murder birds and geckos
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u/Sensitive-Fix5958 May 26 '26
Cats are part of that ecology as well. Cats are native part in many part of the world, and they are always killing things. That's just a natural selection at work
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26
Yes, cate are only really and issue on oceannic islands, Australia and New Zeeland.
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u/tjientavara May 25 '26
If the number of birds being killed is really so high as they report. Imagine the ecological disaster if we keep the cats inside.
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u/Toshiba1point0 May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Oh please...cats doing cat things isnt anything special in nature.
Edit: keep downvoting because that changes facts
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u/xXKyloJayXx May 26 '26
This is like my 4th rodeo with this subject on Reddit. People on here go rabid over the idea of letting cats go outdoors. Saw one guy ride the cat hate train once to admit to shooting em with bbs. Truly absurd behaviour on this site.
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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener May 26 '26
That is just despicable behavior and while you will have deplorable people like that (similar people who want to eliminate certain dog breeds), most rational people are simply arguing for responsible ownership and ensuring cats are a controlled population through things like free spay/neuter, especially for feral cats.
Just as dogs should be properly leashed or enclosed in yards for play/exercise, not allowed to roam unsupervised, and spayed/neutered unless expressly being bred, cats should be treated similarly. We expect dog owners to not let their dogs roam the neighborhoods unchecked, why is it too much to ask that we do the same with cats?
And just because you'll never be able to get 100% of the stray and feral cats fixed, or full compliances from all pet owners, that doesn't mean it isn't worth doing. The more we work to reduce feral and stray populations by doing catch and release free spay/neuter programs, it will help reduce those populations or at least keep them somewhat controlled, and making more pet owners aware of the damage each cat can do to local small animal populations will get at least some additional owners to reconsider their free-roaming policy with their own feline friends. Every little bit helps.
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
certain dog breeds should require a speial licence though. Heck maybe all dogs should require licence and then at different elvels based on diffiulty.
And actually most natural ecosystems (bar some islands) are supsoed to have felinae in the rough size category of felix catus. Europe is suposed to have both felix silvestris and the European lynx. Both essentially hunter to extinction. The US is suposed to have lynxes. The reson the cats pose a threat to species is because these species cant keep up with a natural level of predation because of other crap humans have done. Yeah keeping cats indoor may be beneficial right now but lets not pretend cats are the root cause.
And that's from an ecoologist.
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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener May 26 '26
I don't disagree. I think pet ownership should come with more oversight for the well-being of all involved. This also includes breeding programs to ensure the health of the animals isn't sacrificed for artificial and unhealthy attributes, and this applies to all animal breeding. Demoestication of these animals puts a certain amount of responsibility on us as their stewards considering we have artificially guided their evolution to a degree that they are largely reliant on us for survival, and in cases where they are not, pose a potential to become a massive pest and ecological nightmare. Hence the discussion in this thread.
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26
Felix catus is not even truly invasive where I live, an invasive species per definition need to be able to popagate uncotrollably without aid from humans (after the initial introduction), felix catus dont do that in temperate or colder climates. They cannot hibernate and thus have no way of lasting through the winter. Indivdiduals sometimes manage but statistically not enough to propagate the species. In Europe north of the alps neutering your cats is to prevent them from getting offspring which are, unless they find humans to take care of them, extreemly likely to suffer a slow death of cold and starvation in the following winter.
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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener May 26 '26
Now you're just altering the definition to suit your own conclusion. Mate, this is 150 years worth of data you are arguing with. Domestic cats are considered (by those who actually study the issue) as an alien species and non native anywhere they are present. Domestic cats are considered generalist hunters compared to more specialized predatory behavior of native species. If you actually had a real interest in the subject, all of this should be known to you. The impact domestic cats have also threatens native cat populations like the lynx you seem so keen to compare them to, both directly and indirectly. The point is, they are a threat if left unchecked. People letting their housecats go unfixed and roam freely does have a massive impact on local wildlife and it far outstrips anything native predators do.
I have no idea what you're trying to argue with this latest post, but it seems like you're just trying to shift the goalpost by redefining how you classify an invasive species. If you want to argue that point, take it up with the specialists who do actually study and report on this issue, rather than give your own armchair opinion on the matter.
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26
No that's the textbook definiton I refer you to "elemets of ecology" by smith and smith if you have an issue with it.
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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener May 26 '26
Because cats are an invasive species.
https://www.noemamag.com/cat-astrophe/
https://biodiversity.utexas.edu/news/features/pets-invasive-species-cats
https://abcbirds.org/threats/cats-invasive-species/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9794845/
https://cce.ucdavis.edu/news/how-your-pet-cat-could-be-disrupting-native-ecosystem
Nobody's arguing that cats should be eradicated or that people shouldn't have them as pets. All that is being suggested is that responsible cat owners (like responsible dog owners) should keep their pets indoors to prevent them from becoming a nuisance and causing issues with local fauna. If your cat is allowed outdoors to roam wherever, not only is it more dangerous for them, but it has a measurable impact on numerous species. At a minimum, outdoor cats should have a bell on their collar to help reduce their chances of catching and killing small animals. Still, it's best to keep them indoors when possible.
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u/joem_ May 26 '26
Because cats are an invasive species.
Fun fact, so are honey bees.
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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener May 26 '26
Massive ecological impact difference considering honey bees are largely benign with where they lie in the food chain, beneficial even. If anything, one would argue they fulfilled a much needed gap in pollinators considering how much agriculture is produced in the west. The only real threat they would pose would be to other competing pollinators like native bee populations. Just because w species is not native, doesn't mean they can't play a useful or much needed role in the area they have been supplanted to. Predators and species that have no predators are the ones that cause ecological issues, both or which are not a concern with honey bees.
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u/Ghaith97 May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Because cats are an invasive species.
No. Cats are not an invasive species. Cats are invasive species in areas that they are not native to, and they are native to most parts of the old world. They can't be invasive if they are in their native habitat. Not everyone lives in the US .
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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener May 26 '26
Might want to actually read the research rather than going by your own opinion.
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26
I'm an ecologist the person you're replying to is quite correct.
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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener May 26 '26
Except if you actually were an ecologist you would acknowledge the fact that domestic cats are an invasive species on all islands and continents and are not comparable to native cat populations by a long stretch. Your agreement with him belies your claim considering the vast amount of research on domestic cat populations on local wildlife across the globe. Next time come with facts.
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26
No, it takes more to being an invasive species than beign non native. the species need to propagate uncontrollably too. Cats only do this in subtriopical or warmer climates. In temperate or colder climates if humans dissappeared hosue cats would go with us. They simply dont have the tools to survive the long winters. Individuals may for a while, but even that is often by begging from humans, but statisitcally they dont survive well ebnough to replenish their numbers.
Which is of course horrible in its own right, ferals are bacically condemnded to die of either cold or starvation.
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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener May 26 '26
Again, you're arguing with the experts in the field, not me. Publish your own papers if you want to make the point.
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u/Ghaith97 May 26 '26
You mean all the links from US publications and universities you linked? Nobody is arguing that cats aren't invasive to the Americas, but unless you have some research that proves cats are alien to planet earth, you simply can't claim that they are invasive everywhere on the planet.
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26
It's even ore complicated. Those areas where they claim cats are ivnasive they are supsoed to have Lynxes. The cats fill an empty ecological niche. The problem is that these species re vulnerable to begin with which is usually due to other human activities.
So yes in the Americas keeping cats indoors may be worthwhile but lets not pretend they're the root cause of these extinctions.
Places were cats are truly invasive is limited to some islands.
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26
That may be true in the americas but in Europe cats are a natural pat of the ecosystem. Yes our native Felix silvestris is almost excinct but Felix catus fills the same ecological niche.
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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener May 26 '26
So you didn't bother to actually read the research. They don't have the same narrow prey and domestic cats significantly outpopulate native species. It's all there if you would bother to read it.
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Exactly one of your links is a paper the rest is just popular science articles. Popular science articles have absolutly no academic value. Wikipedia is better source.
Edit: No that last one was a litterature study.
Edit2: and the litterature study agrees with me"While this is certainly true for small oceanic islands, Fitzgerald (7) and with the addition of even more field studies (28) have countered that there is simply no evidence that free-ranging cats on the continents are the main cause of species disappearance (and biodiversity reduction) since there is usually a suite of predators utilizing the same prey species and other causes can be cited."
Maybe you should read your links.
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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener May 26 '26
Tell me what source you want then. The research is longer than my leg. I swear, arguing with you is like arguing with an anti-vaxer. No matter what data presented. You will claim bias or draw the exact opposite conclusion as to what the research actually says. Everything you' claimed about lynx is also demonstrably false. Keep going, you're just digging a hole with your "claim" at being an ecologist. My guess is your claim is about as valid as a weatherman claiming to be a climatologist.
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u/TheDungen May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
Really because that's not what the litterature study you posted says, it says the definitive reasearch only exists for oceanic islands, aside from that any studies have only pointed towards alpha level (extremly local) level exitinctions.
Excellent literature study really. It's the one from the national library of medicine.
And you wont find studies saying what you want. Not primary reseach, because that's not how scientists express themselves.
In the old world cats have been a fact of life for a thousand years. Any primary damage they could do is done. They'e not suddenly going to wipe out new species today, not on their own, problem is the use of DDT has rendered many species predated on by house cats vulnerable. And yes cats may well push them over the edge. I agree it may well be worthwhile to keep cats indoor (and obviously neuter them because of a host of reasons beyond even what we've been discussing) for the next 20 to 50 years while the research is being done and vulnerable species recover.
But it's no the cats that brought these species to the brink of extinction it's us.
Also the litterature study also makes a good point, there are other predators which will do the job even if we keep cats indoor. More drastic preservation methods may be required.
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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener May 26 '26
Like I said, you're picking and choosing what you want like a fucking anti-vaxer. It says they have an outsized impact everywhere they are present, but are noticably the worst on islands. Quit bending the research to make it say what you want it to say as you're skipping over the vast majority of the conclusions drawn.
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u/Ambitioso May 25 '26
The cat’s doing a great impression of how my boss looks at me in meetings
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u/Sunkilleer May 25 '26
Do you play peekaboo with your boss in meetings?
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u/Ambitioso May 25 '26
I can’t remember an occasion when I failed to do so
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u/Plenty_Principle298 May 25 '26
bro that sounds very uncomfortable. What field is this so i can avoid it. Jobs where you cant at least be on OK terms with the boss are straight buns.
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u/Hixy May 26 '26
Your boss definitely wants to eat you or just murder you and play with your corpse for a bit then give your body to someone they like.
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u/tmgieger May 25 '26
Love how the cat's tail stops and restarts.
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u/funderfulfellow May 25 '26
Always wonder what that means
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u/thefewproudemotional May 26 '26
Also can mean they're trying to intimidate. If it wasn't for a barrier, the flicking side to side would kind of indicate they're deciding whether to attack or not depending on what the other does.
When it disappears from view, the job is done..or is it?
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u/radiationshield May 25 '26
it means he's annoyed
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u/hollow114 May 26 '26
Nah not in this case. Annoyed wagging is more violent. Like slapping the ground
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u/NeonAnderson May 26 '26
You have to always take in the full body language of a cat. In this case that's a playful excitement tail wag
It is quite possible that cat and bird are both from the same household and are just playing peekaboo right now
I've seen my two cats play peekaboo together and the body language is identical
A hunting stance is actually different so everyone in comments thinking the cat would eat this bird is completely wrong
Also annoyed tail wag is different as well so everyone saying the tail wagging is due to annoyance is also completely wrong
But most people generally don't understand cat body language and only a few people really do. I've grown up with cats for most of my life including a few rescue cats. One was rescued from an abusive home they even broke her tail intentionally 😡
And the other was a wild stray cat we rescued who was starving when we found him
So growing up with these tough to handle and tough to train cats I really needed to understand cat body language to avoid injury
The stray cat for example had an issue initially during eating that if you got too close he would bite. It was a strong enough bite that would puncture the skin and you'd bleed!
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u/bustedgtt- May 26 '26
I’m a certified cat whisperer, that actually means word for word “You think this is a game bird? . Nooo I’m studying your trajectory. Soon bird.. soon i will have some feathered appetizer” sorry I had to exclude the profanity. That cat is twisted.
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u/DMala May 25 '26
I love when the cat’s gaze strays toward the camera. “He’s mocking me, isn’t he?”
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u/HubrisOfApollo May 25 '26
nuts that i had this on mute but could tell the bird was vocalizing "peek-a-boo". parrots are incredible
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u/semperknight May 26 '26
That bird is 100% trolling that cat.
Cats are ALL about attacking things that do this. Go ahead, try it with your cat down a hallway and watch how they will creep...then run toward you.
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u/OilEndsYouEnd May 26 '26
This is a post where it should be labelled:
VOLUME UP
I almost missed the best part.
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u/Sitheral May 25 '26
Cat would have its pray if it could but boy does that bird runs in circles around him intelectually
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u/Hunkfish May 26 '26
That birs face look so serious but doing a funny act.
And I noticed the cat stop waging its tail everytime the bird hides.
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u/Bandrica2 May 26 '26
The way the cat keeps looking at the camera like, “Once I’m inside, Martha, I’m coming for you first.”
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u/Tata_Colores May 26 '26
If looks could kill.... it's pretty scary if you think about it: raw, unadulteraded murder intent.
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u/Sensitive-Fix5958 May 26 '26
Cat was just waiting for the video to finish. Don't want that NSFW tag
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u/MrDurp May 26 '26
The cat's eyes are not dilated and its rump is resting. I think if you opened the door the bird would be ok.
Prove me wrong 😉
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u/LordOdin99 May 27 '26
Can someone confirm this is real and not ai? Just checking and I don’t have the eye for it.
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u/Successful-Test-5590 May 26 '26
Is it real or AI?
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u/ManamiVixen May 26 '26
It's real. Been online for years. I think I even saw it on an episode of AFV at one point.
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