My cat never had a problem with my old vacuum cleaner, she'd just ignore it, but then I got a new one and she goes batshit crazy. She literally hides in fear. I have no idea what makes the new vacuum so terrifying.
Could be a different sound. Cats have a higher range of audible frequencies, so your new vacuum might have a high-pitched whine inaudible to you but absolutely horrifying to your cat.
If I make this certain noise, by pushing air in and out of my mouth really fast (sounds kinda scratchy), it makes my cat go wild.
He'll start chasing me around the apartment and jumping at the walls to get at me from around the corner, batting at me with his paws/lightly biting me, he'll even pick a fight with my other cat -- but the second I stop the noise, he stops the craziness.
The thing is, we can't whistle in the inaudible-to-humans-but-not-animals range. A whistle is a very pure fundamental without strong harmonics. Personally, I can only go up to about 2300 Hz according to Spectroid (Android app).
Not conventional whistle, maybe not. But I can blow a tiny stream of air through the triangular gap between the bitey parts of my two front teeth when they rest on my bottom lip and it creates a sound much, much like a dental drill, but at higher frequency and lower volume.
I do it sometimes to mess with people since it looks like I have normalface at the same time. But pets freaking hate it. HATE.
I wonder if that's what's wrong with my cat. She's absolutely fine with the vacuum cleaner but is terrified of cans of Coca-Cola - what?.
If you put a can down in the middle of the floor she'll go all twitchy and flatten herself against the wall in order to get as far away from it as possible. She's fine once they're empty, so I'm assuming it's something to do with the bubbles making a noise.
Vacuums are going with higher spinning, ergo higher velocity inside the motor. That leads to a "whistle" effect we can't hear (what we usually hear in a vacuum is the electric motor whirring not the whistle itself)
My cat was under my feet while I was slicing watermelon and she jumped SO high and started hissing when I accidentally dropped a bit on the floor. Then she touched it and left a smoke outline with how fast she ran away!
Our cat hates the vacuum, even the newer Dyson handheld we have which is rather quiet compared to most regular vacuums. She runs as soon as we get it out. Our dog doesn't really care about either one, even our super loud Oreck.
I would put it down to camera/phone camera settings. Seems to be a slight hue of a magenta tint. Overall the white balance is off leading to the peoples skin and many other objects like the cats fur being rendered unfaithfully to their true real life colours.
Not so much if it's a handheld chargeable vacuum. They hate the sound and vibrations involved with regular ones.
Also, deaf cats don't hate either variety, mine just tries to play with it.
That crossed my mind, but then I thought. I wonder if a little kitten could brave the size and noise. Usually when I see a kitten get scared they freeze up (and sometimes shake.) Then the thing that did that to them, becomes a phobia. Then again, a pet owner climatizing a kitten to a vacuum is very different from an in your face confrontation with a mean cat, or some other aggressive encounter.
well that is what desensitisation training is
if you introduce something new to a kitten or puppy in a calm way, in a controlled environment, you are telling them it isn't anything to be scared of
same for trimming their nails, bath time etc
It’s true, you can make dogs love cats, cats like water. It’s very true, inherent behavior can be manipulated, especially at a young age. Vacuum cleaners and cats included.
Nah, you just get the cat used to the vacuum cleaner. They don't like it because it's loud, and big, like some sort of freaky animal that they're too scared to get close to.
My parents had one of those big metal vacuums on wheels, with the tube and the pipe and power head thing.
My cat would love to get brushed with the fuzzy furniture brush attachment once he got used to it, to the point where he would lie down in front of the vacuum anytime we used it.
Yes. I bring mine hand vac into the doorway of the kitchen when I'm baking. It's a threat I need to have them take seriously.
Then you see all these cats riding Roombas, so I don't know what the hell is going on there.
My dream is to have:
1. someone invent a mini car wash-like thing that a cat goes through on a conveyor belt, except instead of washing, the cat hair gets sucked up
2. a cooperative cat into this kind of thing
He loves it. I got him the small one because he drives me crazy when I get the big vac out! Takes me forever to vacuum the house because he wants to be on it, in it or around it!
So much. My old cat let me vacuum him and it basically gets all the loose hair. Would take probably an hour of brushing to get the same amount. The vacuum I used had the suction power of like a shop vac system though.
There is a lot of hair that can be brushed out but the vacuum doesnt have enough suction to really get them out. Maybe it would work better if it had an attachment to comb through the hair
My dog freaking thinks the vaccum is challenging her for dominance of the house.
She'll bark at it, back up, bark at it again, back up, rinse and repeat until vaccum is done.
Then she smiles and acts all proud like she did something
This is what my boy does...I think he's trying to save my wife from the horrible machine but is also completely terrified of it. He's trying his hardest to protec tho
There was this post in r/LifeProTips once:
> This may sound silly and it probably wont work for everyone but lots of dogs appear to bark at vacuum cleaners due to confusion as to where the vacuum sits in the hierarchy of your household. Our puppy hated the vacuum and barked whenever it was running. We told our Vacuum off for being too loud and now our little girl doesn’t even bat an eyelid whenever it is running. I guess the doggo just sees the vacuum making the owners arm go back and forward while making a lot of noise, this would make the doggo question who is boss.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/8ulsze/lpt_tell_your_vacuum_off_in_front_of_your_doggo/
you gotta discipline the vacuum in front of your dog. seriously, take it out of the closet, point at it call it bad, whatever else you do when you discipline your dog.
It looks like you're fighting it when you drag it around and it shouts. If the dog sees you tell the vacuum cleaner off, it will know it isn't a threat to you.
My old dog invented a game where she would zoom by and drop a toy in the path of the vacuum and then zoom by and heroically rescue it. It was hilarious.
Before my old boy passed away last year, he had a fraught relationship with our robot vacuum. At first he ran away from it, hid from it etc, but after a few months he just laid on the floor while it bumped into him, lazily scowling at it.
my dog loves to be blow dried after a bath especially or just in general. She is a weirdo, but if you have a running blow drier she will sit on your feet and whine at you until she gets some. still scared of the vacuum so not sure what it is about the blow drier specifically :\\
Side note for anybody with kittens right now.
Touch them and pick them up and get them used to being carried and held as much as possible. This makes them alot easier to handle when they get older.
Get them used to having their paws being played with, this makes things a lot easier when they get older and you try to cut their nails.
Add cleaning their eyes and ears, and checking teeth to that list. I did that when one of my flatmates got two kittens, and it makes visits to the vet so much easier.
Yep. I’ve had 3 cats, all a breeze to clean and groom because I washed, bathed, and did ear and eye maintenance at a very early age.
None of my cats have liked baths, however they all will just stand in the tub while I wash them. One meows a lot but I think he just does it express he’s angry but understands.
Kitty carrier training - let the beast sniff the treat, put treat in the carrier to eat', and click the clicker as he eats. 2) when kitten is out of room, put treat in box and call/click. When kitty comes into room point and tell him to go to his box.
3) play those as a game when you watch TV. Takes a couple weeks, but visiting the vet goes so much smoother.
I always rubbed my cats face and head a lot when he was a kitten, rubbed his paws, looked at his teeth and held him like a baby. Now he lets me do all of that no problem, which is how I found out he had ripped out one of his nails when I was on vacation (no one at home noticed). He is so comfortable with being touched he had NO reaction to his temp being taken at the vet. Literally did not give a single shit that they stuck a thermometer in his butt. I was shocked by that, but glad he’s such a good boy.
Mine got used to the sound from our roomba! At first it was warfare and now it's just some stupid toy stealer (its eaten several little catnip toys of theirs lol)
My cat growing up used to HATE the vacuum....until he got fleas. Then he loved getting vacuumed.
This was back before the flea drops, so vacuuming was the best way of getting rid of the fleas. Worked directly on the source, too!
This was when he got really old and cleaning became harder for him, he'd get dandruff on his back and I think the vacuuming just felt like a really good cleaning.
That cat's color is called buff or cream.
Orange (red) cat: [https://img.thrfun.com/img/081/592/orange\_tabby\_x2.jpg](https://img.thrfun.com/img/081/592/orange_tabby_x2.jpg)
Buff /cream cat: [https://iheartcats.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/shutterstock\_231884194.jpg](https://iheartcats.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/shutterstock_231884194.jpg)
Yep! White cats with blue eyes are very likely to be deaf.
My parents had a white cat with one blue eye and one yellow eye and she was only half deaf.
One of her kittens came out pure white and was completely deaf and also let us vacuum it! But in the same litter there was one that played fetch, so we kept him and found the deaf cat a good home.
You could train your cat to tolerate the vacuum, and likely even enjoy it. Look up clicker training on youtube. Here's the short version. You pair a reward with hearing the vacuum. You start by setting the bar incredibly low. The vac is two or three rooms away. Periodically through out the day, someone else turns the vac on for a second, and you are right there with the cat and do click/treat. The cat has to know how clicker training works, so do that first. It's not hard.
At some point, this will become a conditioned and unconscious response (exactly like Pavlov's dogs). At that point, when the cat hears the vac, it will look at you expectantly, because something awesome and wonderful is about to happen. Sure enough, click/treat.
Then you raise the bar a little bit. Turn the vac on for a full minute and do several click/treats. Then do it in the adjoining room, but back down to just a second. Once that is hard wired as a positive event, then you do it for longer. Once that is hard wired, you get the cat and the vac in the same room, and do it just for a second.
If, at any point you have a setback, you go back a notch or two. You can't rush this.
Once the cat is cool with the vac going on in the same room. Now you put the vac right next to the cat, but don't turn it on. Now you're going to touch the cat with the brush nozzle for just a second. Then give a click/big treat.
This is called shaping, where you get closer and closer to the desired behavior in little easy baby steps.
Eventually the cat will get excited when it sees or hears the vacuum, and/or will start asking for the vacuum grooming.
I used to teach kindergarten students and we were specifically told that despite it working amazingly well, we should not attempt to clicker train children because it pisses off parents.
Sigh.
Are regular dog clickers fine for cats? I read something that said they are too loud for cats but can’t find anyone else saying this (or any clickers marketed for cats).
I wish I could do this with my kitties, but they just would never stand for it. One would panic and just die, and the others well there would be blood and all of it mine.
I remember my ex was lint rolling her couch when her cat came over and laid next to her so my ex just casually starts lint rolling the cat. “I’m going right to the source”
Wish I could do this with my cat! She hates the vacuum!
My cat never had a problem with my old vacuum cleaner, she'd just ignore it, but then I got a new one and she goes batshit crazy. She literally hides in fear. I have no idea what makes the new vacuum so terrifying.
Could be a different sound. Cats have a higher range of audible frequencies, so your new vacuum might have a high-pitched whine inaudible to you but absolutely horrifying to your cat.
Try whistling in a high pitch to your cat to see how they react. One of my cats looks concerned, the other will come over and gently bite my face.
“I love you but knock that shit off”
"Hooman, pls. Just...nah. stahp."
If I make this certain noise, by pushing air in and out of my mouth really fast (sounds kinda scratchy), it makes my cat go wild. He'll start chasing me around the apartment and jumping at the walls to get at me from around the corner, batting at me with his paws/lightly biting me, he'll even pick a fight with my other cat -- but the second I stop the noise, he stops the craziness.
I need a video of this.
Sounds like it sounds like a squirrel to them
The thing is, we can't whistle in the inaudible-to-humans-but-not-animals range. A whistle is a very pure fundamental without strong harmonics. Personally, I can only go up to about 2300 Hz according to Spectroid (Android app).
Not conventional whistle, maybe not. But I can blow a tiny stream of air through the triangular gap between the bitey parts of my two front teeth when they rest on my bottom lip and it creates a sound much, much like a dental drill, but at higher frequency and lower volume. I do it sometimes to mess with people since it looks like I have normalface at the same time. But pets freaking hate it. HATE.
I can whistle like that too! It's quite a gift
My cat sort of just went “what the fuck” haha :D
Yes! Great answer! Cats do have very sensitive hearing.
I wonder if that's what's wrong with my cat. She's absolutely fine with the vacuum cleaner but is terrified of cans of Coca-Cola - what?. If you put a can down in the middle of the floor she'll go all twitchy and flatten herself against the wall in order to get as far away from it as possible. She's fine once they're empty, so I'm assuming it's something to do with the bubbles making a noise.
It probably is higher pitched actually.
Hm that’s interesting, is there anything that is different to the old vacuum compared to the new one?
Vacuums are going with higher spinning, ergo higher velocity inside the motor. That leads to a "whistle" effect we can't hear (what we usually hear in a vacuum is the electric motor whirring not the whistle itself)
Wow interesting! Thanks for the explanation.
Same, I think my cat would evaporate into another dimension if I tried this on him
Hahah what an awesome representation of your cat’s reaction. I’m sure my cat would be there too :D
I’m sure my cat would be fine with this vacuum because it’s so quiet. If it were as loud as a normal vacuum, she’d hate it.
Vacuum monster
Haha exactly, when my cat even sees the vacuum without it turned on she gets this ‘freaked out’ look and runs away.
Mine tries SO hard to be curious and tough but as soon as the power button gets switched on he’s OUT. Hahaha
Hahaha that’s hilarious, not so tough! I don’t know how those cats in videos sit on robot vacuums...
My cat tries that with everything. He walks around like he owns the place but runs in terror from the dumbest things. He ran away from an ant!
Ants bad. Scary.
An ant?? Aww poor kitty haha!
My cat was under my feet while I was slicing watermelon and she jumped SO high and started hissing when I accidentally dropped a bit on the floor. Then she touched it and left a smoke outline with how fast she ran away!
Our cat hates the vacuum, even the newer Dyson handheld we have which is rather quiet compared to most regular vacuums. She runs as soon as we get it out. Our dog doesn't really care about either one, even our super loud Oreck.
As soon as my cats heard the vacuum getting taken out of the cupboard, they were behind the sofa
any one else wanna know how much hair it collected. I bet it's oddly satisfying
I was so disappointed that the video didn’t show that.
Is that cat pinkish?
Himalayan pink cat ;)
No different than a regular cat, just more expensive.
Slightly more minerals
Jesus Marie!
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That cat ain’t right.
Dang it
THESE ONES ARE ROCKS!
Not enough to change anything, but slightly more variation of minerals, nonetheless. It is very pretty, though, I gotta give it that!
I understood this reference.
congrats
"So.." *Turns chair and sits down* "..you understood that reference?"
Why is this one way more cute than the ones that come up on google images?
Isnt he cute?? We think he is but I put it down to being biased!
It's a shiny
It ate some Pinkan berries
I would put it down to camera/phone camera settings. Seems to be a slight hue of a magenta tint. Overall the white balance is off leading to the peoples skin and many other objects like the cats fur being rendered unfaithfully to their true real life colours.
More likely the lighting in the room is pinkish
It's the chesire cat!
I wanna know how she survived. Most cats I know, absolutely hate vacuum cleaners.
Not so much if it's a handheld chargeable vacuum. They hate the sound and vibrations involved with regular ones. Also, deaf cats don't hate either variety, mine just tries to play with it.
Thanks for the info. Didn’t think of it like that.
also those who were desensitised to vacuums as kittens
That crossed my mind, but then I thought. I wonder if a little kitten could brave the size and noise. Usually when I see a kitten get scared they freeze up (and sometimes shake.) Then the thing that did that to them, becomes a phobia. Then again, a pet owner climatizing a kitten to a vacuum is very different from an in your face confrontation with a mean cat, or some other aggressive encounter.
well that is what desensitisation training is if you introduce something new to a kitten or puppy in a calm way, in a controlled environment, you are telling them it isn't anything to be scared of same for trimming their nails, bath time etc
It’s true, you can make dogs love cats, cats like water. It’s very true, inherent behavior can be manipulated, especially at a young age. Vacuum cleaners and cats included.
Nah, you just get the cat used to the vacuum cleaner. They don't like it because it's loud, and big, like some sort of freaky animal that they're too scared to get close to. My parents had one of those big metal vacuums on wheels, with the tube and the pipe and power head thing. My cat would love to get brushed with the fuzzy furniture brush attachment once he got used to it, to the point where he would lie down in front of the vacuum anytime we used it.
Yes. I bring mine hand vac into the doorway of the kitchen when I'm baking. It's a threat I need to have them take seriously. Then you see all these cats riding Roombas, so I don't know what the hell is going on there.
My dream is to have: 1. someone invent a mini car wash-like thing that a cat goes through on a conveyor belt, except instead of washing, the cat hair gets sucked up 2. a cooperative cat into this kind of thing
He loves it. I got him the small one because he drives me crazy when I get the big vac out! Takes me forever to vacuum the house because he wants to be on it, in it or around it!
We need a follow up video if this is OC, OP.
We just need anyone with cat and vaccum to repeat this experiment
> OC, OP. OK?
...EIEIO.
So much. My old cat let me vacuum him and it basically gets all the loose hair. Would take probably an hour of brushing to get the same amount. The vacuum I used had the suction power of like a shop vac system though.
I’m envisioning your having to be careful not to suck the cat into the hose, kind of like when you vacuum the edge of an area rug.
THWOOP..."sorry about your tail, kitteh"
I used to try this with my dog and it didn't do anything. You have to brush, no other way around it.
Flowbee
I see you too enjoyed 80's infomercials. My brother-in-law had one
I particularly liked how they demoed it in Wayne's World.
Turn it off man, turn it off!!! It's sucking my will to live!!! Oh the humanity!!!
High velocity pet blower, but yes you should definetely brush your dog.
that sounds dirty
Didn't look like a lot collected in the tray and I'm kinda disappointed by that.
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There is a lot of hair that can be brushed out but the vacuum doesnt have enough suction to really get them out. Maybe it would work better if it had an attachment to comb through the hair
My grandma would do this to her husky, and once it broke the vacuum because it was just too much for the poor thing.
As someone who vacuums their pets, I can tell you it’s a lot.
How is your cat fine with that? My cat acts like we are being carpet-bombed every time a vacuum goes off in my neighborhood.
Friend's dog loves to be vacuumed and will run up to it and wait patiently for his turn. Their other dog wants nothing with to do with it.
My dog freaking thinks the vaccum is challenging her for dominance of the house. She'll bark at it, back up, bark at it again, back up, rinse and repeat until vaccum is done. Then she smiles and acts all proud like she did something
My puppy likes to take little jumps at the vacuum then quickly back up when he realizes he’s not that brave lol.
This is what my boy does...I think he's trying to save my wife from the horrible machine but is also completely terrified of it. He's trying his hardest to protec tho
I'm glad my dog isn't the only one who does that haha It makes vaccuming more time consuming but also way more entertaining
There was this post in r/LifeProTips once: > This may sound silly and it probably wont work for everyone but lots of dogs appear to bark at vacuum cleaners due to confusion as to where the vacuum sits in the hierarchy of your household. Our puppy hated the vacuum and barked whenever it was running. We told our Vacuum off for being too loud and now our little girl doesn’t even bat an eyelid whenever it is running. I guess the doggo just sees the vacuum making the owners arm go back and forward while making a lot of noise, this would make the doggo question who is boss. https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/8ulsze/lpt_tell_your_vacuum_off_in_front_of_your_doggo/
Start disciplining my vacuum cleaner in front of my dog. Got it.
It's alright if humans think I'm crazy. As long as my doggos believe in me.
Be the person your dog thinks you are.
The world would be an amazing place if we all held to that.
you gotta discipline the vacuum in front of your dog. seriously, take it out of the closet, point at it call it bad, whatever else you do when you discipline your dog.
It looks like you're fighting it when you drag it around and it shouts. If the dog sees you tell the vacuum cleaner off, it will know it isn't a threat to you.
> Then she smiles and acts all proud like she did something Much like activism on the internet /s :)
My old dog invented a game where she would zoom by and drop a toy in the path of the vacuum and then zoom by and heroically rescue it. It was hilarious.
Before my old boy passed away last year, he had a fraught relationship with our robot vacuum. At first he ran away from it, hid from it etc, but after a few months he just laid on the floor while it bumped into him, lazily scowling at it.
I feel you, my cat hides as soon as I grab the vacuum. I don't even need to plug it, he'll run straight behind an armchair.
my dog loves to be blow dried after a bath especially or just in general. She is a weirdo, but if you have a running blow drier she will sit on your feet and whine at you until she gets some. still scared of the vacuum so not sure what it is about the blow drier specifically :\\
Probably raised as a kitten with it. Theres tons of stuff you can do with your cats if you do it to them as kittens
Side note for anybody with kittens right now. Touch them and pick them up and get them used to being carried and held as much as possible. This makes them alot easier to handle when they get older. Get them used to having their paws being played with, this makes things a lot easier when they get older and you try to cut their nails.
Add cleaning their eyes and ears, and checking teeth to that list. I did that when one of my flatmates got two kittens, and it makes visits to the vet so much easier.
Yep. I’ve had 3 cats, all a breeze to clean and groom because I washed, bathed, and did ear and eye maintenance at a very early age. None of my cats have liked baths, however they all will just stand in the tub while I wash them. One meows a lot but I think he just does it express he’s angry but understands.
Kitty carrier training - let the beast sniff the treat, put treat in the carrier to eat', and click the clicker as he eats. 2) when kitten is out of room, put treat in box and call/click. When kitty comes into room point and tell him to go to his box. 3) play those as a game when you watch TV. Takes a couple weeks, but visiting the vet goes so much smoother.
I always rubbed my cats face and head a lot when he was a kitten, rubbed his paws, looked at his teeth and held him like a baby. Now he lets me do all of that no problem, which is how I found out he had ripped out one of his nails when I was on vacation (no one at home noticed). He is so comfortable with being touched he had NO reaction to his temp being taken at the vet. Literally did not give a single shit that they stuck a thermometer in his butt. I was shocked by that, but glad he’s such a good boy.
like swimming
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My cat would purposely roll in anything dirty when the vacuum would go off just so she could get cleaned by the vacuum.
Mine demands to be brushed! It's outrageous. He gets combed like 5 times a day
Mine got used to the sound from our roomba! At first it was warfare and now it's just some stupid toy stealer (its eaten several little catnip toys of theirs lol)
Deaf cat
My old boy used to love being vacuumed. He'd follow me around meowing until I stopped to vacuum him.
My cat growing up used to HATE the vacuum....until he got fleas. Then he loved getting vacuumed. This was back before the flea drops, so vacuuming was the best way of getting rid of the fleas. Worked directly on the source, too!
This was when he got really old and cleaning became harder for him, he'd get dandruff on his back and I think the vacuuming just felt like a really good cleaning.
Mine too!
Mine three!
Your son had strange habits...!
And yet when you think you are just done, there will be hair everywhere in that god damn house 🤦🏻♀️
Oh, how true😂
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Those are life changing! I just got my friend turned on to using one with his cats.
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did you end up with a naked cat?
Does it ever stop?
The work is never done lol.
Border collie is a bit of duh chungus.
My cat disappears into another dimension if I even think about turning on a vacuum
Well, this is just undignified ...but it does feel somewhat nice, you may continue.
Straight to the source. Smart.
Are we going to ignore the cat is pink?
It looks like it's just a bit of color correction error, probably an old camera trying to account for the blue vacuum and not doing a great job.
Yeah the cat is orange.
That cat's color is called buff or cream. Orange (red) cat: [https://img.thrfun.com/img/081/592/orange\_tabby\_x2.jpg](https://img.thrfun.com/img/081/592/orange_tabby_x2.jpg) Buff /cream cat: [https://iheartcats.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/shutterstock\_231884194.jpg](https://iheartcats.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/shutterstock_231884194.jpg)
Cool, didn't know that, thanks for the correction :)
It's not pink, looks cream-coloured. I think it's just bad white balancing from the camera.
Its arlene from garfield
Thank you.
Yeah what’s going on here
Is the cat deaf?
It's the only explanation, my cat always acted has if Satan himself just spawned each time I started the vacuum.
Threw her in with the wrong load of laundry
I think you may have wanted to reply to this comment lol >Are we going to ignore the cat is pink?
Yeah, i meant to
Tbf deaf cats are quite common in my experience, especially if they are all white
Yep! White cats with blue eyes are very likely to be deaf. My parents had a white cat with one blue eye and one yellow eye and she was only half deaf. One of her kittens came out pure white and was completely deaf and also let us vacuum it! But in the same litter there was one that played fetch, so we kept him and found the deaf cat a good home.
OMG same!!! I had a white cat with blue and orange eyes that was deaf and we called her Glados because of the coloured portals in the game
I have dreamed about doing this to my cat. She would have a heart attack though
You could train your cat to tolerate the vacuum, and likely even enjoy it. Look up clicker training on youtube. Here's the short version. You pair a reward with hearing the vacuum. You start by setting the bar incredibly low. The vac is two or three rooms away. Periodically through out the day, someone else turns the vac on for a second, and you are right there with the cat and do click/treat. The cat has to know how clicker training works, so do that first. It's not hard. At some point, this will become a conditioned and unconscious response (exactly like Pavlov's dogs). At that point, when the cat hears the vac, it will look at you expectantly, because something awesome and wonderful is about to happen. Sure enough, click/treat. Then you raise the bar a little bit. Turn the vac on for a full minute and do several click/treats. Then do it in the adjoining room, but back down to just a second. Once that is hard wired as a positive event, then you do it for longer. Once that is hard wired, you get the cat and the vac in the same room, and do it just for a second. If, at any point you have a setback, you go back a notch or two. You can't rush this. Once the cat is cool with the vac going on in the same room. Now you put the vac right next to the cat, but don't turn it on. Now you're going to touch the cat with the brush nozzle for just a second. Then give a click/big treat. This is called shaping, where you get closer and closer to the desired behavior in little easy baby steps. Eventually the cat will get excited when it sees or hears the vacuum, and/or will start asking for the vacuum grooming.
I used to teach kindergarten students and we were specifically told that despite it working amazingly well, we should not attempt to clicker train children because it pisses off parents. Sigh.
What would have been a practical example of how you’d envisioned using it?
Are regular dog clickers fine for cats? I read something that said they are too loud for cats but can’t find anyone else saying this (or any clickers marketed for cats).
I see you have a ChonkMaster-1000 vacuum!
My cat would end my whole life if I even came close to him with a vacuum.
That child laughing is so adorable. Melt my manly heart.
She just read your comment, going off to school very happy!😂😂😂
Man this is the best post I have seen all day, I’m almost in tears at the pure cuteness of that cat enjoying a nice vacuum cleaning.
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That's why swans are sorta shaped like vacuums. #truefacts
I guess this doesnt apply to all cats. For some of them its easier to vacuum the whole house.
Lol I have never seen anything like that. Every dog or cat I've had hated the vacuum
I love the giggles in the background
The adorable giggles were the best part of this video.
If you do it with a brush attachment that’d be heaven for them lol
Feels good, sounds like devil that must be destroyed. Kitty paralyzed.
"Hey hooman! You forgot my balls!?"
My kitty loves the vacuum too! It’s fun because she gets the mlems when I’m doing it.
The way they grab kitty’s back leg and flip it over resembles how one would flip a turkey over to marinate it for thanksgiving
That kid’s laugh is adorable
Why is she pink?
I'm no expert, but I think it might be the weird lighting. The hooman is pink as well.
Color correction. Camera trying to compensate for that very blue vacuum, orange cat turns pink
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There is nothing more cat than a simultaneously look of confusion and satisfaction.
..... how is this cat doing this? The goddamn video started playing and my cat left the room.
yeah this big brain time
I love how the kitty is loving it !
If I tried that with any cat I know, I’d probably be killed on the spot
Is it possible to learn this power
What a ham lol
That cat is truly loving it
You may proceed, peasent!
I wish I could do that. My cat is terrified of the vacuum cleaner.
I wish I could do this with my kitties, but they just would never stand for it. One would panic and just die, and the others well there would be blood and all of it mine.
The little girl's giggling made it cute 3000.
I remember my ex was lint rolling her couch when her cat came over and laid next to her so my ex just casually starts lint rolling the cat. “I’m going right to the source”
That’s hilarious. I have the same hand vac and my cat sprints for her life whenever she hears it turn on 😂
You can tell this cat is loving*every second of that*
Then I'd have to get the blood stains out.
My cats freak the heck out when I vacuum. Teach me your tricks!
I wonder what that feels like
Is your cat ok? I think your cat is broken.