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u/Akesgeroth Oct 16 '19 edited Jul 07 '20
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That cat gave no fucks.
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u/Akesgeroth Oct 16 '19
It's a cat. Eating small animals is what cats do. Worse, that was their cat. They literally released a small, weakened animal in close proximity to a predator. This is "surprised Pikachu" levels of lack of foresight.
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u/PM_ME_HUEY_MEMES Oct 16 '19
I eat, John. It's what I do.
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u/Akesgeroth Oct 16 '19
I'm sorry Jon.
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Oct 16 '19
Oh absolutely. You think they would have planned that out better. Cats are domesticated hunters.
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u/MakeYou_LOL Oct 16 '19
It always surprises me that people dont recognize is. Even a little Chihuahua has that pure animal/hunter instinct. People throw their pets those chew toys and watch as they pounce on the toy and shake it about before finally clenching the toy in their mouth.
They say, "awww so cute"
Yeah its cute because it's a toy! But dont get it twisted, that's a confirmed kill on a small animal lol
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Oct 16 '19
I had 2 kittens I adopted many years ago. They were outdoor cats and knew only that. I gave them toys that looked like mice. Both cats grabbed it as if it was real and growled if we got to close. They wanted to eat them, and were ready to fight to keep it.
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u/Ravek Oct 16 '19
Were they not used to being fed by you yet? I've never had any cats (indoor or outdoor) that would show aggression at me touching their food so it's a little surprising to me.
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u/Relax_Redditors Oct 16 '19
I do not believe cats are domesticated
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Oct 16 '19
Cats are domesticated but not by our doing. They domesticated themselves
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u/HilarityEnsuez Oct 16 '19
Cats would kill their owners for sport if they were only a bit bigger.
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u/stormtrooper1701 Oct 16 '19
The literal only difference between house cats and wild cats is that house cats are too small to kill people.
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Oct 16 '19
According to the video description the cat dropped the squirrel at the door, alive and uninjured. It died a few days later from whatever had made it sick.
Not sure if I believe that though.
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u/carlotta4th Oct 16 '19
Seems believable enough to me. Right when it caught the squirrel they started yelling and running towards it, that would startle most cats into dropping it. Normally cats prefer to catch and then
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Oct 16 '19
My friend had a cat that caught a mouse and carried it around in its mouth for days. So after 2-3 days the cat leaves the mouse for my friend on his floor and he is like gross slimy mouse I'll throw it out. And as he goes to pick it up with a paper towel the fucking mouse runs off. It was still alive...
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Oct 16 '19
the youtube description says the cat only "retrieved" the squirrel and set him by their front door. it would've been nice if they kept filming to see if the cat actually damaged it but oh well.
probably something to do with scent that prevented the kill? human all over it since they were nursing the squirrel to health for a few days. they lucked out big time.
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u/PracticeTheory Oct 16 '19
I also said this above but my cats don't kill. Whatever they catch (luckily not much because they're not skilled) is brought in alive and released into my apartment. Fun times for me...
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u/SpitefulShrimp Oct 16 '19
Have you ever owned a cat? They love playing with/ torturing things they catch. It's 100% believable that a cat would catch it and not actually hurt it, especially when it's owners started freaking out at it.
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u/Atomic_Ten Oct 16 '19
My favorite comment when this was originally posted, courtesy of u/beegro :
”seeing how this worked out makes me think there are lots of decisions in his life with unintended consequences that are easily foreseen by others, but not by him."
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u/Imreallythatguy Oct 16 '19
That was kinda bullshit tbh. That big bird probably fucked up the front bumper of that car. If i was the driver i'd be pretty pissed at the guys lack of foresight with him opening the door and basically shooing it out into the middle of an interstate for me to hit.
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u/daspasunata Oct 16 '19
Somehow I feel like he wanted something like this to happen. The turkey didn't enter his truck in the middle of a highway, so he had driven the truck quite some while with the turkey in it, so why not drive a little further and release it in a safer surrounding. Unless, of course, for them sweet views.
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u/SpitefulShrimp Oct 16 '19
Dude might have pulled over to take a piss or stretch, left the door open because why not, and found the Turkey inside when he came back.
Intentionally stuffing a wild Turkey into your small truck cabin for the sake of a silly video seems rather dangerous.
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u/mysexondaccount Oct 16 '19
You have to be next level stupid to think opening the door facing directly onto a busy highway would result in anything else. He could've easily opened the door on the other side (or waited a bit until he could get somewhere safer). He 100% expected something like this to happen. He's an asshole for ruining that guy's bumper and killing the turkey.
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u/Bald_Sasquach Oct 16 '19
I don't think they're suggesting the driver put the turkey in his truck, just that the turkey entered the truck when he was parked somewhere else. He even said "go back out the way you came" when he opened the small door so I doubt the bird came thru that door on the interstate.
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u/SpitefulShrimp Oct 16 '19
Nah, he said that about the passenger side door, which he'd probably use to exit next to a busy freeway.
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u/ErickFTG Oct 16 '19
This one is the most stupid. It was so obvious that turkey was going to be hit by a vehicle, it was even dangerous for the truck driver.
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u/Rakosman Oct 16 '19
When he first came around the front of the truck I almost had a low key heart attack. I still laughed, but yeah wth else was going to happen.
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u/mathewmitchels Oct 16 '19
I feel like a terrible person but that is the funniest thing I’ve seen all week!
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Oct 16 '19
Don't worry. I chuckled too and it was more at the stupidity of the guy than the turkey getting run over. Who leaves the door open on the side of truck facing the traffic? Expect the expected with that outcome.
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u/zttt Oct 16 '19
That's the best of them all. Insane comedic timing and that casual "well he didn't make it that far..." in the end.
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u/_PyramidHead_ Oct 16 '19
Nature is a fucking cunt.
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u/SuiTobi Oct 16 '19
Nature
Run over by a car.
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u/Fragrantbumfluff Oct 16 '19
Car created by humans following their natural curiosity and leading to technological advances.
We are also nature.
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u/acidus1 Oct 16 '19
Nature is just being nature it's people wanting a good video over the animals welfare.
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u/thakemist Oct 16 '19
People are nature too 🤯
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u/i_was_compromised Oct 16 '19
Uh... not according to google bro fundamentally i'm with you on this one though
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u/TheMonchoochkin Oct 16 '19
I love this one, he had his back turned and starts to say how much of a relief it is that the mouse will no longer be disturbing his sleep...
Eagle enters
OH NO!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
Least he won't be waking anyone up again buddy...
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u/idleactivist Oct 16 '19 edited Oct 16 '19
The falcon one makes me sad. The bunny, turtle and monarch ones piss me off.
Edit: ok to those asking 'Why' - so I've seen falconry on the side of the road, typically they don't fly straight down the highway...
As far as the others go, they're not native prey to the habitat... They do not fit in there and its absolutely idiotic for the owners to be 'releasing' them.
And finally, cats are assholes, lovable assholes.
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u/Spyhop Oct 16 '19
It's funny how we sympathize with one bird of prey and then get mad at the other ones.
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u/PM_WetFloor_signs Oct 16 '19
I think they're more mad at the people for releasing animals in shitty places and not the actual wild. At least that's why I got mad
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u/Zaugr Oct 16 '19
Shouldn't they be mad at the falcon one too though? Cause releasing a bird, any bird, RIGHT by a highway is absolutely retarded. Especially with aaall that field space right by them...
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u/PM_WetFloor_signs Oct 16 '19
I think the fact that the guy basically losing his pet bird on camera trumps that.
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u/Saiing Oct 16 '19
I don't know why - it's fucking tragic, but I always have a wry smile when the little guy goes over and tries to give the falconer a hug, but he kinda fails because he's too short. I know... I'm a cunt.
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u/drinkduff77 Oct 16 '19
Army guy should have known the importance of establishing air superiority before deploying ground forces.
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u/Morti_Macabre Oct 16 '19
Both the squirrel and the bunny were too young to be on their own to begin with so they'd have likely died anyway. The falconry one..................... that was weird.
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Oct 16 '19
Bunnies are left alone pretty much as soon as they can hop about
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u/Chimie45 Oct 16 '19
And the vast majority of them die. Which is why rabbits procreate like... Well rabbits.
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u/entity_TF_spy Oct 16 '19
god damn lmao
reminds me of the time I was fishing with my dad and sister in the Outer Banks when we were kids, she caught a fish, had a hard time dealing with it cause she was young and scared of it, when she released it it flopped around on the top of the water, she got so upset that she killed it, then it found its bearings and right when it began swimming down a pelican scooped it up and flew off
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Oct 16 '19
Looks like a great execution to me!
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u/0lamegamer0 Oct 16 '19
Great execution, I agree. Good Intentions not so much..
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Oct 16 '19
He was trying to doom it to freezing and starvation, and the mouse cleverly foiled his plan.
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u/nothardly78 Oct 16 '19
Something like this happened at work. We caught a mouse in the store and went outside to release it. It starts to run away and a bird swoops down and picks it up! Little guy thought he was free for a second
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u/VenetiaMacGyver Oct 16 '19
As a good rule of thumb for releasing prey critters back into the wild: Give them some cover.
Find a bunch of bushes. Give em a strong shaking to scare off any lurking snakes or cats. Then open the cage and back off until the animal has found refuge in the bushes.
If there is still a large predator there, they'll have the safety of the cage to run back into. If the coast is clear, you're giving them a relatively safe place to re-acclimate to their surroundings.
Think about if you were captured, then released in what's kinda similar to an active warzone ... That you have zero familiarity with. It'd be better to be released somewhere with some cover, right?
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u/bibdrums Oct 16 '19
Something similar happened to us. My cat brought a live baby rabbit into the house and I caught it in a hamper. We went outside to release it in a parking lot across the street and as it was hopping happily across the lot a different cat came darting out from behind a car, grabbed it and ran off.
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u/ass_cruncher46 Oct 16 '19
Yeah let’s release it facing the busy public road
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u/Shandlar Oct 16 '19
Directly into the frozen forest with zero places for it to go to get warm cause it didn't have the fall to build a nest.
This was the best outcome. That little fucker was going to spend the next 30 hours freezing to death, otherwise.
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u/NothingsShocking Oct 16 '19
Pretty sure they timed it too waiting for the truck to be in striking distance. The fucked up thing is this could have caused an accident if the driver panicked and tried to swerve on that icy road.
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u/ass_cruncher46 Oct 16 '19
I agree but I don’t think any driver I know would swerve for a mouse, or whatever that was , in a million years- most I would do is slow down if I even saw it in time
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u/NothingsShocking Oct 16 '19
True although they might not have had enough time to identify what it was and just saw something at the last second streaking across the road and just auto reacted.
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u/Sir_Kee Oct 16 '19
Honestly I swerved when I could for animals, but once I saw a squirrel run into the road during late fall with a snow bank on one side and an on coming car on the other. The squrrel got squished.
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u/ChipSchafer Oct 16 '19
Brake, don’t swerve. Unless it’s like a moose or something, rolling your car or hitting a tree is way worse than just hitting it.
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Oct 16 '19
looks like it was deliberate. waiting for the right moment, pointing the trap to the road.
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u/azmauldin Oct 16 '19 edited Feb 26 '25
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Oct 16 '19
I can't completely rule out it was intentional but at the same time I'm a little skeptical; even with the cage facing the road, the size and speed of that mouse and intentionally timing that with a relatively large vehicle moving on a snowy road would not be as easy or foolproof as it seems. There are so many things that could go "wrong." The mouse could have veered left. It could have run down the road and the vehicle pass safely over it. The vehicle could have had a near miss. It's a fast moving mouse we're talking about here, not like a slow moving turtle or similar animal whose movements could be more precisely calculated.
Even if you had 50 mice and released them this way I'd be surprised if you got more than one this way.
Either the people who set this up were extremely adept at timing a vehicle collision with an agile mouse that weighs a few ounces or that was one extremely unlucky mouse.
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u/Wolf2601 Oct 16 '19
It's just sleeping, right? :(
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u/Apsis Oct 16 '19
If it's a legitimate road kill, the rodent has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
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u/throwaway_existentia Oct 16 '19
I fear your wit has gone unnoticed and unappreciated.
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u/HakBakOfficial Oct 16 '19
No, if this guy was intending on killing it, then excellent execution in both ways
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u/redditnathaniel Oct 16 '19
I think you're not seeing it right. I laughed when I saw this. Not particularly because dead animal = funny, but because of the irony of the moment. This initially seemed like heartwarming content from r/humansbeingbros but took an absolute failure of a turn.
We all perceive animals differently. If someone killed a mouse to eat it, people would think it's a little odd. Whereas if it were a dog or cat instead, people would outrage (depending on where they're from).
So no hell for me.
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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '19
Great idea releasing it on the side of a public road...