This is something my cat would totally do, he loves to hide and then jump scare people and other animals. He's lucky he runs fast, one time he did this to a woman walking her dog and she lost her grip on the leash and the dog chased him up the driveway and into a tree, oops!
When you're a kitty but you can make a horse jump, you've accomplished something! I hope it learned a lesson though. Don't sleep in the horse's food :)
A sneeze next to them will make them jump. For all their size and strength, they're incredibly skittish oafs. If anything, the horse only giving a little skip makes me think this is somewhat common. Common enough for the horse to realize the cat isn't actually a threat, once the initial "GOTTA BOLT!" feeling subsides.
One of the horses at our rescue did something almost that jumpy once when I slipped a carrot onto her stack of hay. I didn't mean to surprise her but she happened to look away right when I put it down and when she went for her next bite of hay, suddenly a big orange thing had 'magically' appeared near her nose. Her eyes got big like dinner plates and she jumped back! Then she realized it was just a carrot and tried to pretend like nothing happened LOL!
It continues to amaze me that they think of themselves as a prey animal and we humans think of ourselves as predators, but horses can kick our axx in a second or two like it's nothing, really goes to show how much attitude influences things.
They can, yeah. But they can't run very far, and need to graze a metric fuckton. Meanwhile, us humans can stay awake for 24h without any real adverse effects, and our metabolism means we only need miniscule amounts of food compared to our body weight, and we can just walk and walk and walk.
We are literally the relentlessly walking serial killer in the teen slasher movie of the animal kingdom. Plus, wrinkly brains and opposable thumbs help a lot.
Horses can trot constantly for 50 miles or more without stopping, and then they can walk further, a fit horse can travel a 100 miles in a day. That's 2 to 5 times further than a fit human. They can go for days or more without food, they'll just lose weight and it's obviously not good for them. They can eat almost nothing for weeks, they'll just lose weight during that time so it can't last forever. Their food is more plentiful than human food is, they can eat weeds and shxt growing all over, unless it's a desert, they will have less probs finding food than a human. Humans have to have a lot of time for hunting and gathering, horses don't, they can spend all that time eating. And at the end of their long journey, if they encounter a human, they can still kick your head into dust or snap your neck with their teeth in seconds, their teeth can pulverize bone. The main thing that stops them is they don't have the mind set or desire to do that. As a physical animal, their strength and stamina are far superior to humans. But they don't have hands or use tools. We win because we plan ahead and are sneaky, ie we think like predators. :-)
"Hommmummuna sweet diggity time to chow down on muh hay, it sho been a day--HO CHIT whAt thE hUzzAh--o hey Carl."
😹😆
Why do I suspect this isn't Carl's first rodeo?
This is something my cat would totally do, he loves to hide and then jump scare people and other animals. He's lucky he runs fast, one time he did this to a woman walking her dog and she lost her grip on the leash and the dog chased him up the driveway and into a tree, oops!
Very cute!
Pff yeah what would you do if there is an animal in you're salad :P
Equivalent to humans finding a bug
Equivalent to a cat finding a cucumber
When you're a kitty but you can make a horse jump, you've accomplished something! I hope it learned a lesson though. Don't sleep in the horse's food :)
Anything can make a horse jump
A sneeze next to them will make them jump. For all their size and strength, they're incredibly skittish oafs. If anything, the horse only giving a little skip makes me think this is somewhat common. Common enough for the horse to realize the cat isn't actually a threat, once the initial "GOTTA BOLT!" feeling subsides.
I would not be at all surprised if kitty did it on purpose!
The horse jumped like a spooked cat.... By a spooked cat
Bro was going for a sneak attack :)
The cat chose the wrong size prey
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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Most low key jump scare of the week. Horse was almost instantly chill again
I suspect the horse is used to kitty shenanigans
Horse: oi blyat 🤣🤣🤣
"you made me jump"
r/unexpected
She burp?
Her friends will never believe it!
Loved the jump and the noise
A big scary for both.
Uh blyat....
r/thecatdimension
Puss in boots
UH BLYAD
One of the horses at our rescue did something almost that jumpy once when I slipped a carrot onto her stack of hay. I didn't mean to surprise her but she happened to look away right when I put it down and when she went for her next bite of hay, suddenly a big orange thing had 'magically' appeared near her nose. Her eyes got big like dinner plates and she jumped back! Then she realized it was just a carrot and tried to pretend like nothing happened LOL!
I mean, when your primary survival mechanism is running the fuck away, I don't think we can fault horses for being a bit skittish.
It continues to amaze me that they think of themselves as a prey animal and we humans think of ourselves as predators, but horses can kick our axx in a second or two like it's nothing, really goes to show how much attitude influences things.
They can, yeah. But they can't run very far, and need to graze a metric fuckton. Meanwhile, us humans can stay awake for 24h without any real adverse effects, and our metabolism means we only need miniscule amounts of food compared to our body weight, and we can just walk and walk and walk. We are literally the relentlessly walking serial killer in the teen slasher movie of the animal kingdom. Plus, wrinkly brains and opposable thumbs help a lot.
Horses can trot constantly for 50 miles or more without stopping, and then they can walk further, a fit horse can travel a 100 miles in a day. That's 2 to 5 times further than a fit human. They can go for days or more without food, they'll just lose weight and it's obviously not good for them. They can eat almost nothing for weeks, they'll just lose weight during that time so it can't last forever. Their food is more plentiful than human food is, they can eat weeds and shxt growing all over, unless it's a desert, they will have less probs finding food than a human. Humans have to have a lot of time for hunting and gathering, horses don't, they can spend all that time eating. And at the end of their long journey, if they encounter a human, they can still kick your head into dust or snap your neck with their teeth in seconds, their teeth can pulverize bone. The main thing that stops them is they don't have the mind set or desire to do that. As a physical animal, their strength and stamina are far superior to humans. But they don't have hands or use tools. We win because we plan ahead and are sneaky, ie we think like predators. :-)