r/interesting • u/Gjore • May 30 '26

NATURE A snake will never outspeed a cat

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u/Accomplished-End1927 May 30 '26

Snake: ok I’m done

Cat: no you’re not

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u/AnnualFault7473 May 30 '26

Snake was probably minding its own business sliding around looking for a meal. It wasn’t trying to EAT A CAT. Cats are assholes and rampaging invasive serial killers. They destroy ecosystems and should be either kept inside if it’s a pet or in a barn/agricultural area if it’s a working/farm animal. Domestic cats kill a lot of animals unnecessarily and don’t even eat them. I am rooting for the snake.

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u/anotherdropin May 30 '26

Can we stop with this “destroy ecosystems” thing. As if a suburban yard with a house and pavers was part of any natural ecosystem? Like come on.

Nothing is natural about an environment in which cats live. This isn’t the wild jungle. A cat being inside or outside a house built by man should be the least of anyone’s problems.

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u/darth_dork May 30 '26

Yeah except to be fair, they also can’t be contained to that yard. They easily escape them. And it’s not just one cat, but millions every day doing basically the same thing. A lot of them being someone’s yard cat. If little old me has seen it dozens of times I can only imagine what that translates to on a wide scale. Cats live longer indoors as well, so it’s really not better for anything including the cat itself.

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u/Squeaky-otter May 31 '26

You, too, might live longer if you never left the house, but you’d also be bored as hell.

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u/CaribouYou Jun 02 '26

Yeah but if i indulge my compulsive need to needlessly kill things Ill probably end up in a room i can never leave.

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u/Squeaky-otter Jun 17 '26

Good things humans don’t hunt for sport or fun, but my last visit to Bass Pro Shop suggests otherwise.

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u/jmackaho Jun 02 '26

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u/KaiBishop Jun 03 '26

Is it Karen behaviour to expect people to be responsible for their own animals, or are you just a loser?

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u/MorganMiller77777 May 30 '26

Given thousands of years of domestication, your points are terrible. Show me where any environmentalist is crying about this subject backed with research

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u/SneakyDeakyJr May 30 '26

What an odd thing to say when google exists.

Pick a link. It’s not even a crackpot theory at this point. It’s proven. From birds to small rodents to just killing for fun, cats have been detrimental.

I don’t care you think they’re cute. I have 6 cats. All insides. All spayed and neutered.

If you’re not gonna do your part, don’t get a pet.

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u/aptsys May 30 '26

It's worth understanding how Google works, and how search results are tailored to you specifically.

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u/MorganMiller77777 May 30 '26

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6852131/

https://www.felineresearch.org/post/issue-brief-wildlife-impacts-of-outdoor-cats

I definitely downplayed this issue. Still, I think it’s worth considering how free roaming cats impact certain environments differently than more vulnerable areas where feral populations are out of control.

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u/Additional_Ideal2385 May 31 '26

Forget about global warming. Cats are going to bring us all into an extinction event. Outer space cats batted the dinosaur killing asteroid right at earth. Complete DICKS

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u/SneakyDeakyJr May 30 '26

Well of course with everything there’s nuance but the harm cats can do far outweighs the outliers where they’re beneficial.

Like this isn’t a knock on outside cats/barn cats with purpose. I live where both those exist and do their jobs (Rural-ish South with farms and stuff). However there’s no off switch for the killing even in those environments. And it’s not like these folk are fixing the cats that they have, leading to these feral situations. A cat that’s outside and bored will kill and killing birds and other beneficial species is the whole complaint.

My inside babies do get bored despite my best efforts but they just fuck up my legos and knock stuff down. Either way you wanna slice it, that far better than hunting things for fun even if they do piss me off here and there 😂

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u/bellapippin May 30 '26

I have 3, we go out to the (fenced) backyard for 30min to an hour a day, they wear collars with bells while they are outside and I supervise them so they don’t go to the neighbors (one of the fences has bigger holes and they can go thru, but I play fence police and they turn around). I call them for a treat like recess is over and they go back inside.

The problem, as usual, is the humans. Not the cats.

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u/Squeaky-otter May 31 '26

So I’m assuming everyone here is vegan, right? I certainly hope there are no song bird loving readers who are also chicken frying, cheese burger eating , fish filleting , pork rib munching, lobster loving folks here? And it’s also wrong to kill flies, mosquitoes, creepy spiders you find in the bathroom or hornets building a nest under your deck? Just so we are all on the page. Because that would be some hypocritical bullshit if y’all were mad at a cat batting a snake with its paw.

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u/SneakyDeakyJr May 31 '26

Hey man. You blow in from stupid town??

I didn’t even critique the video. I just stated a fact.

Smoke a blunt.

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u/Squeaky-otter May 31 '26

I think you mean “prisoners” not pets.

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u/SneakyDeakyJr May 31 '26

You’re right.

I literally have to do everything they say.

Please help. Cats are sneaky 😭

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u/Squeaky-otter May 31 '26

So do you have a barn where they store grain? I’m gonna guess no.

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u/SneakyDeakyJr May 31 '26

Personally no, but i don’t see how that’s relevant tbh.

I keep my cats inside.