There are lots of video about cats freaking out from cucumber in the internet world. However, many people do not know why. The cat and cucumber videos involves someone placing a cucumber on the floor behind a cat while the cat is eating or drinking. When the cat turns around and sees the cucumber, it exhibits a strong reaction. Cats freak out, jump into the air, and run away. Others stare at the cucumber as if afraid it will attack them. It turns out that cats are afraid of cucumbers because they possibly associate them with a predator or because they are surprised by a stealth placement; however, purposely startling a cat could hurt them.
There are many reasons why cats are afraid of cucumbers. One of them is that cucumbers looks like snakes or anything that resembles threat in cat’s eyes. Some people say it is because cucumbers are long and green. Also, many people believe that snakes are potentially dangerous predators for cats, but, it turns out that cats are not afraid of snakes. They hunt for snakes. Snakeremoval.com claimed, “This means that cats House cats, even if they are kittens are naturally adept at catching and killing snakes.”This means that cats are not afraid of snakes, which explains that this is not the reason why cats are afraid of cucumbers.
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People think that it is fear of unknown rather than cucumbers looking like snakes. So, basically cats are not scared of cucumbers, and they will have similar reaction to a pineapple, a plunger, or a plastic spider or anything that is placed behind them. A video published by CatLab claims, “They don’t care when cucumbers are in front of them.” To prove this they did an experiment. They placed other objects behind cats while they were occupied, and cats exhibited a strong reaction, also they placed cucumbers right in front of cats too, however, cats were not scared. This means that cats are not afraid of cucumbers, rather it’s just a fear of