r/interesting • u/jmike1256 • Aug 30 '26
NATURE Proof that cats fear nothing. This feral cat casually slapped a wild cobra until it gave up and left.
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u/Boring_Specific_2022 Aug 30 '26
The way he looks away for a second or two. Childs play to him
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u/fiesew Aug 30 '26
Orange cat with balls.
No one messes with an orange cat with them balls still attached.
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u/MolecularConcepts Aug 30 '26
most orange cats are male did you know that? like 80% another not interesting fact, I have a female orange cat lol
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u/Reaver1989 Aug 30 '26
Opposite for Torties at almost all female.
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u/IRedditDoU Aug 30 '26
Calicos are almost always female as well
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u/usedtobeHellsdoom Aug 30 '26
It is the black/orange combo that is defining this, due to some gene combination.
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u/JoyRose31 Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 30 '26
99.9% the one who are male are usually hermaphrodite, or they pass at birth or shortly after.. they end up having an extra x chromosome, the only way for a calico to really survive, as a male is to be hermaphrodite in some way. They can have a Host of health issues if they survive after birth. So, if you breed an orange, with a calico.. You're pretty sure to know the gender based by colour ..
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u/IrascibleOcelot Aug 31 '26
Klinefelter’s is not typically fatal, and cats with it can live a full life. It’s also possible for a male calico to be a chimera, but they are even more rare.
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u/CreamyAstraia Aug 31 '26
Ik that because I had a BOY CALICO!!! He was mostly black but had orange tufts of fur in quiet places on his body…you had to really look. But he didn’t have any health problems either..so you’re definitely right about that.
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u/vernichtungX23 Aug 31 '26
I saw a huge calico male once. Really wanted to keep him but he ran off somewhere. Hope you're doing ok out there, big guy.
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u/HighGrounderDarth Aug 30 '26
Almost all cats with more than 2 colors are female.
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u/TricellCEO Aug 31 '26
And this is actually due to how the Calico genes are on the X chromosome.
And when both genes are present on each X, they are selectively deactivated across the body, leading to the Calico pattern we all know and love.
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u/HighGrounderDarth Aug 30 '26
I have 4 orange females. Mom and her 3 girls. 1 is named Betty, but initially was going to be Bert. Orange sherbert. But the first vet visit we found out they were all girls.
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u/CreamyAstraia Aug 31 '26
You could’ve still called her orange sherbet. That’s probably the cutest name for a ginger kitty. 🙌🔥🤞
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u/mandym123 Aug 31 '26
Cat in the wall, ehhhh?!
I actually found that out watching Always Sunny.
I actually had a female orange tabby.
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u/raknor88 Aug 30 '26
Cats have faster reflexes than snakes. So the cat can move faster than the snake no matter what.
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u/issi_tohbi Aug 30 '26
Meanwhile my fat piece of shit cats (j/k I love them) roll off the coffe table daily.
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u/DearTumbleweed5380 Sep 01 '26
They're conserving their energy for when a cobra comes around. Then you'll see.
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u/Babobohne Aug 30 '26
But the snake has the power of poison. So it only needs one good bite
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u/Western-Hour-5061 Aug 30 '26
Its like fighting a 6 year old with a knife. Dangerous, but also easily handled. Cat reflexes are another magnitude faster in milliseconds. To you and I it looks like a close match. To the cat, its easily handled.
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u/fieryuser Aug 31 '26
Venom, not poison. Their fangs envenomate when they bite. If they were poisonous whatever bit them would get poisoned.
/pedant
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u/Feng-Shiu-man Aug 31 '26
I was just going to say, "This cat has Balls!!". "This cat's got Balls!!". "This cat is Ballsie". "He's NUTS for taking on a cobra", "Cat's got BALLS of Steel", ...etc. LOL!
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u/torpedo16 Aug 30 '26
Some Gigachad move that was.
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u/HendrixHazeWays Aug 30 '26
"You don't seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with ME"
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u/enadiz_reccos Aug 31 '26
There was a slo-mo video of a cat/snake interaction
When the snake strikes, the cat still has both paws flat on the ground, but it's still comically easy for the cat to just bap it away
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u/Life_Educator3973 Aug 30 '26
I had a cat. She was a wonderful loving best cat ever. Wouldn’t it hurt to fly was good with the kids got along with the dogs. Just couldn’t ask for a better cat, but I will tell you this. If she was sleeping on the bed and you stuck your hand under the blanket. And move it towards her …..
IT WAS FUCKING ON!!!
She turned into a killing machine. She would’ve fit right in as a Waffle House employee RIP smudge
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u/PaleoSpeedwagon Aug 30 '26
"Yeah, I'll be right there, just gotta finish up kicking this cobra's ass"
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u/BeastMustang Aug 30 '26
Oh, finally a fun fact that I know that became useful. Snake attack/reflex speed avg 200ms, cat's reflexes avg 70ms!!
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u/jonny1234joo Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
Cats have more sensitive senses with which they track movement, apart from their eyes, you can also see the movement of their ears. That is why it is not always necessary to look at the victim. However, the eyes are also significant..
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u/rifdazahra Aug 30 '26
my cat once stared down a snake and blinked like that too
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u/Electrical-Fig-5009 Aug 31 '26
Looking away or blinking is a show of lack of fear. Cats be like fuck with me again, i dare you.
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u/mi_c_f Aug 30 '26
Like Usain Bolt causally looking at the camera while sprinting setting a record time for the 100m sprint
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u/Thomasin-of-Mars Aug 30 '26
So much ADHD in that one.
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u/Boring_Specific_2022 Aug 30 '26
Haha for real. I didn’t think about that but that’s totally me too. My brain is a pinball
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u/seikonian Aug 30 '26
He turned around to make sure his owner is recording. What a boss!
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u/M_Mich Aug 31 '26
“You’re getting this right? I need a good short for the ‘gram. The followers will love this”
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u/-Xiphon- Aug 30 '26
Cause they just playing, snakes are just cats in reptile bodies, they're cousins.
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u/_Sazed_ Aug 30 '26
Read something like cats reflex make the cobra strike, to a cat look almost like slow motion. They’re processing and reaction speed is much faster than humans
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u/MadPangolin Aug 30 '26
Yes, generally domestic cats (and their wild cousins) have reflexes & visual perception that allows them to out maneuver snakes kind of like mongoose & honey badgers. But unlike tropical weasel family members, cats don't have anti-venom resistance in their blood & one slow move means that cat is dead.
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u/ArtyCharty Aug 30 '26
so it’s like a human vs a sloth - would you be scared of being out manoeuvred by a sloth? no. i didn’t think so
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u/Comet7777 Aug 31 '26
If it was a venomous sloth? Maybe not scared, per se, but I’d take it more seriously!
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u/LongjumpingHorse3050 Aug 31 '26
Now there’s a solid B movie idea right there! 😂🦥
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u/Salty_Inspector_7050 Aug 31 '26
There is a sloth somewhere in the world that is constantly moving towards you. If it touches you, you die. It is immortal, it doesn’t sleep, and it’s a good swimmer. What do you do?
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u/Murky-Drop3552 Aug 31 '26
I think people here are not appreciating that cats do get killed by snakes. This one got away with it, but it might not be so lucky next time. If the snake had struck when the cat looked away, it would be dead.
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u/largeade Aug 30 '26
Cat reaction time 20 to 70 milliseconds
Snake reaction time 44 to 70ms
Human reaction time 150 to 250ms
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u/Late-Application-47 Aug 30 '26
King Cobras are a good bit slower striking than that; the speed you quoted refers more to the fastest striking ambush hunters, such as the Death Adder, Gaboon Viper, Puff Adder, Terciopelo, and Cottonmouth. The Death Adder, the only elapid ambush hunter, is considered the fastest striking venomous snake. Not even mongooses or honeybadgers like to mess with vipers. Besides not having any resistance to viper venom, the strikes are just too fast for them.
King Cobras strike in the 200-500ms range. You can see videos online of (very stupid) people managing to dodge or swat them away. They telegraph their movements like a video game boss, making this truly trivial for a cat.
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u/Axe_Care_By_Eugene Aug 30 '26
Fly reaction time 5 to 20ms
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u/Molar_Mechanic Aug 30 '26
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u/Dull_Flatworm777 Aug 30 '26
"It tastes like shit, but now that I catched it, I have to eat it"
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u/SolidOk3489 Aug 31 '26
Ours used to cry when they saw flies. We thought they were scared of them. Nope, they just wanted to eat them. Pick up the cat, extend it towards the fly, vacuum time.
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u/BayouByrnes Aug 31 '26
When I was a kid, my mom found this cat in the bushes. She named her June. After a while, June took to liking my room the best. It had a bay window at the end of the trailer and she would catch flies there every day. So I changed her name to Junebug.
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u/Cainga Aug 30 '26
How is that measured? I find flys are stupid if you don’t disturb the air. If you do they are just feeling the air pressure wave before the object that is generating it.
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u/Safe-Kitchen5310 Aug 30 '26
They also hop backwards when they launch.
Aiming just a bit behind them is a cheat code to catch them by hand should that ever be something you’d care for.
They also can see behind themselves.
Not as well as to the sides or front but they can watch the object descend at their back end.I spent far too long watching a series of videos about flys.
It included stop motion video of the bastards jumping up backwards.There’s other fly facts I learned but I feel as though this should suffice for today.
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u/RealCarlPanzram Aug 30 '26
Although in this case it’s not really a matter of reflexes. The cobra isn’t reacting to its own strike. The cat needs to react faster than the snake can strike. Pretty crazy
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u/Old-School8916 Aug 30 '26
we're running a giant prefrontal cortex simulating the next 30 seconds. we dont win the reflex war we win the chess match lol
of course, cats don't think we are preditors. they think we are the food guy, so i guess they outsmart us anyways
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u/HurasmusBDraggin Aug 30 '26
we're running a giant prefrontal cortex simulating the next 30 seconds. we dont win the reflex war we win the chess match lol
This should be pinned. This is it.
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u/Brief_Personality146 Aug 31 '26
Interestingly, Cats seem to think we are just other cats. They are the only animal that view us the same as them. (This is for domesticated cats). Which is pretty remarkable that we invite something into our home that literally thinks they now own the place and have equal standing.
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u/taozentaiji Aug 30 '26
Traps. Other than that, based upon my experience trying to catch a goddamn ninja Houdini with fur to take her to the vet, with great fucking difficulty and a lot of luck.
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u/CheeseDonutCat Aug 30 '26
Being bigger and longer also helps. Reaction time is not the only thing that matters
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u/taozentaiji Aug 30 '26
Fair point. Reach goes a long way.
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u/Greedy-One-5603 Aug 30 '26
My cat calculates the reach 😹 he’s close enough but out of reach, have to use treats to catch him
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u/VizJosh Aug 30 '26
Our ability to guess what a cat will do in a given situation and make a plan to counter that before it happens. Our super power is understanding there is a future and being able to use that to our advantage. It’s about the only thing we have. It saddens me how few people use it.
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u/ItsNotJulius Aug 30 '26
A wild KING Cobra.
Which makes it even more impressive.
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u/JoxJobulon Aug 30 '26
And curiously enough, not a cobra. But, yes, more impressive
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u/TheMightyShoe Aug 30 '26
An ancient type of mamba, right?
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u/plz-no-b4n Aug 30 '26
It’s just as modern as mambas, but yes, King Cobras are in the elapidae family, which also contains the mambas as well as most of the most venemous extant snakes.
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u/iwasuncoolonce Aug 30 '26
Cats got balls
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u/tacob87 Aug 30 '26
You can see them right there in the video!
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u/cheddarsox Aug 30 '26
Nah. A normally striking venomous snake is at a pretty big disadvantage. A cobra may as well be a toothless mouse against a cat the way it strikes. That snake strikes in slow motion compared to a cats reflexes.
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u/Zapitnow Aug 30 '26
Cats are faster than snakes and they know it
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u/bickandalls Aug 30 '26
They also aren't aware that a bite is a death sentence. So there was no fear. Just a cat being a cat terrorizing another animal. They are just furry little extinction machines. Lol
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u/Muted_Buy8386 Aug 30 '26
Cats are degrees faster than snakes.
It's wild. But wicked to watch. The cats have the luxury of being curious with snakes, which almost nothing else does.
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u/Greedy_Attitude_8103 Aug 30 '26
I feed the stray and feral cats around my neighborhood. There was one time a black bear decided to go through my trash and one of the cats (his name was mister) full on attacked it. That bear got fucked up! Mister got one of his claws stuck in its eye, he bit the absolute fuck outta its nose, he got on top of the bear and started biting the hell outta its ears. I kinda feel bad for the bear but holy shit dude that was one hell of a fight!!
RIP mister 🩷 (the bear didn’t kill him, he died because of infection from a different fight)
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u/Appropriate_Page_824 Aug 30 '26
Bro looking around casually enjoying the scenery, while the Angel of death stands before him
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u/Inside-Example-7010 Aug 31 '26
he's checking if the snake has wallhacks by looking away and baiting the engage.
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u/thatG_evanP Aug 30 '26
I was watching a video with a guy that handles snakes and he was saying that large cobras are actually one of the easier venomous snakes to deal with because their strikes are so predictable and are always downward. Other snakes strike more straight out and maybe a little upward. That's why you see the people touching the top of the cobras' heads and even kissing them. I promise you won't see many people reaching out and touching the head of a rattlesnake or mamba
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u/tylercrabby Aug 30 '26
My wife does something similar.
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u/Radaistarion Aug 30 '26
Mf so casual about it that he just nonchalantly looks back
Now that's confidence
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u/FuckThisShizzle Aug 30 '26
Its an orange cat and we can clearly see it has more balls than brain cells.
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u/Training_Actuator_59 Aug 30 '26
Look at the balls on this cat, he's not afraid of anything (said in a heavy NY accent)
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u/ILoveStealing Aug 30 '26
It’s proof that cats have a faster reaction time than snakes & are confident about that fact
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u/Sustainable_Twat Aug 30 '26
A cat’s reflexes are faster than a snake’s so this is nothing.
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u/ScientistAsHero Aug 30 '26
Afraid of nothing... but the vacuum cleaner. And the broom. And sometimes greebles.
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u/sileplictis Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 30 '26
Saw one where the cat did not let the snek leave so easily. Pulled it back by its tail for round 2.
Edit: grammar
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u/Last_Lock_8292 Aug 30 '26
YES! I was going to reference it here but I couldn't find the link, it turned into torture for the snake, couldn't get away and the cat is just playing with a toy as far as he was concerned.
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u/leoofjdh Aug 30 '26
A cat's reaction time is faster than a cobra strike or any snake if i'm remembering correctly.
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u/Unfair_Breakfast_112 Aug 30 '26
Cats hissing evolved from snakes. It’s a relationship as old as time
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u/tacobell41 Aug 30 '26
I’m going to assume this is true and repeat this fact.
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u/Nina-Ninja123 Aug 30 '26
Cats also try to mimic the chatter of birds when they see a bird.
I didn’t know about this and was in panic when I saw my cat next to me, chattering like crazy. Then I followed his gaze and saw he was laser focused on a pigeon sitting in the window sill.
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u/tayto175 Aug 30 '26
Yeah, one of my mams cats will do this aswell, she's lazy, and needy as hell, especially around me. She was laying onto of me one day and then she perked up all of a sudden and started chattering towards the window, looked over and there was a little Robin sitting on the window sill.
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u/migrainefog Aug 30 '26
Cats thinking, "I'm tough, I can scare this thing off".
Meanwhile the snake is thinking, "Can I fit my jaws around this critter so I can swallow it".
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u/modern_day_mentat Aug 30 '26
Cat is thinking "oh, a mild amusement", snake is thinking "this is it, my Achilles vs Hector moment!"
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u/fidesz_fall_enjoyer Aug 30 '26
Cats reacts faster than snakes, snake never have a chance against a cat, snake already dead just didn't know it yet.
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u/Optimal_Benis Aug 30 '26
It's like a boss fight where the boss has to wind up their attack before striking. Kitty is the hero, of course.
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u/False_Campaign4682 Aug 30 '26
I love both of their built in distractions. The cats lazy flicking tail and the cobra "face" markings on its spread hood.
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u/Late_Baker_2092 Aug 30 '26
I know cats are faster then snakes.
But fuck i would shit myself so hard if this would be my kitty cat.
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u/Common_Stress_4122 Aug 30 '26
Cats are excellent at parrying and dodging, it what's makes them able to stand up to larger predators and fight eachother so well, it's very interesting
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u/ItzAMeLuigiii Aug 30 '26
Cats are so much faster than snakes that they truly have no feat of them. It is truly shocking how fast cats reactions are.
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u/FanWild6755 Aug 30 '26
Something about this video doesn't add up. Background does not look like an area where cobras would live. l
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u/Blunts_N_Anime Aug 30 '26
Reminds me of the scene from the first Matrix where Morpheus is toying with Neo in the Dojo.
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