r/interesting • u/Lui_Belmont • 16h ago
MISC. She grabbed a random street kitten to fight mouse in her house
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u/Diddyslayer45 16h ago
TACTICAL CAT DEPLOYED
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u/Mochigood 9h ago edited 7h ago
When I saw a mouse in my room late one night, I went and grabbed both my cats, and ran back in yelling "SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIENDS!"
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u/bluealex27 8h ago
Usually when I see a mouse it's because my cat brought it to me, every other time has been outside my house.
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u/ogreofzen 5h ago
I remember my hamster getting out of it's cage one night. I felt it's little paws climb up my shirt. I remember my hamster has been dead for 20 years. Rips shirt off twills it and hammer throws it into a wall. Damn field mice.
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u/Aoiboshi 7h ago
I did that and my car looked at the middle and then looked at me with an expression that asked what I was going to do about the mouse.
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u/covfefe-boy 5h ago
lmao, if I hear a bump in the night I am looking to the cats.
I'M SORRY I LOCKED YOU OUT OF THE BEDROOM!!! SAVE ME!!!
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u/RoabeArt 16h ago
TACCAT.
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u/Fall_Water 16h ago
Tacocat
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u/yoelamigo 15h ago
TACTICAT!
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u/amzwC137 15h ago
Catical
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u/blaZedmr 15h ago
Special meowops
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u/my_cat_is_stoopid 14h ago
Cat in the hole!!!
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u/blubberfucker69 14h ago
I love that the cat is like WHY AM I HERE WHAT ARE YOU DOING-oh a mission! And immediately got to it 🤣
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u/SkilletKitten 13h ago
That had to be a rat. I know the cat is kitten-y sized but that is no mouse.
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u/Odd-Skirt6679 10h ago
There was a military operation with tactical cats, I will admit I found it while doing a random research while procrastinating, so it may be false but I like to imagine they said that when parachuting them in.
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u/brandarchist 15h ago
Threw it at that mouse like it was a kitty Pokémon.
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u/Korlexico 15h ago
" Go random kitty cat , use pounce attack!"
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u/LividTacos 15h ago
"It was super effective!"
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u/Korlexico 15h ago
Palworld version: throw your pall out and it uses it most powerful attack and just destroys the house with the mouse. "Well at least it got the mouse..."
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u/Noyoucanthaveone 12h ago
lol this is the first time I have seen ANYONE reference Palworld in the wild. My daughter loves that game and is level 80 something and has beaten all the bosses. I call it Temu Pokémon with guns and she doesn’t appreciate it.
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u/Korlexico 12h ago
Lol ya I have it and enjoy the base building more then anything with it.
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u/empirialest 13h ago
That "MEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW?" was the kitty saying, why tf did you bring me here?
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u/DropEnvironmental539 12h ago
I had some beef with the fact that in the remake of Pearl, if you don't have a Pokemon that can use the HMs (fly, swim, rock smash etc) then the game says 'A wild Pokemon helped you out.'
Now that I've seen this video, which has perfectly displayed this feature, I no longer have beef with it.
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u/nr1988 15h ago
Ma'am I'm new here can you explain what I'm even supposed to be doing? Oh, a mouse. Got it, thank you boss
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u/Zephian99 14h ago
That always what it sounds like to me. To go from being indignant to "This is mine, bye!"
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u/Western_Ad_4658 16h ago
seen this posted multiple times still funny how cat complains at first
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u/PocketWatchThrowAway 15h ago
Probably shocking for a street cat to just be grabbed randomly and dropped into a house but I've also had house cats complain at me exactly like that for gently asking them to move out of my way so I think the Spirit of General Displeasure exists in all of them
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u/mecha_grove 13h ago
My boys get mad at me for moving them when they lay on my blankie at my pc gaming station in MY SPOT. Even tho I give them my blankie next to me to lay on
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u/SeonaidMacSaicais 12h ago
You have no spot. Entire house is THEIR spot.
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u/mecha_grove 12h ago
I no longer give a fuck I have cat hair in my food, or on my clothes. I just eat, and breathe the orange hairs
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u/ColettesWorld 8h ago
That's exactly how I got my current foster. She was on my porch eating like normal so I stepped out, scruffed her, and maybe 3 seconds later she was an indoor cat. She was upset for about 5 minutes lol. Few weeks later and she runs when she hears the treat bag lol
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u/AhSalamiBacon666 10h ago
I have a feral cat that likes to sit right in front of the screen door outside, so you have to bump him in the face for him to move. He loves when it takes 3 minutes to get the door open. Lol Other than that, he actually has really good manners.
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u/antsh 16h ago
Probably has to be a kitten… I imagine a tomcat just spraying everything in the new, unfamiliar territory.
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u/amzwC137 15h ago
I don't know why but it's infinitely fascinating to me that the cat was able to make it out of that unfamiliar place, using a route they didn't take to get inside. I get that it's not dumb, but it's still cool to think about.
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u/LoneSnark 15h ago
A kitten is accustomed to being carried. They have eyes, they can see where they went and thus where they came from.
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u/Grosaprap 15h ago
Besides, the kitten knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't...
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u/AbstinenceGaming 14h ago
Consequently the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't. It follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
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u/Ghost_of_Gumby 14h ago
The kitten subtracts the position that it is from the position that it isn't, or the position that it isn't from the position that it is, depending on which is greater.
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u/RockyCreamNHotSauce 14h ago
Organic brain spatial reasoning is incredible. It takes so little power and data for an animal to learn a space. Birds can navigate thousand of miles to the exact same tree. Artificial neural networks with billions of miles of data and high power GPUs are still about the same level as a cat.
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u/amzwC137 12h ago
This. As well, how does life experience play into this? That said, we are edging towards a mouse in a maze territory.
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u/RockyCreamNHotSauce 11h ago
The advantages are hard coded into organic brain structures. Baby mammals can remember and reason through space very early on.
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u/baardvark 13h ago
I wonder how that works. It’s akin to ancestral “just add it til it looks right” cooking instead of precision recipes.
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u/E_Dward 13h ago
Animals aren’t dummies. People on the internet, and especially Reddit for some reason, like to ascribe some really dumb and silly qualities to animals.
It’s probably because of the very flawed comparisons between animals and human children. Often we get told they’re as smart as 2-3 year old children, but that’s only comparing things like how many words they can understand or how many objects they can “count” or keep track of at one time.
Dogs and cats are very good at recognizing people and places, and dogs are especially good at recognizing human emotions both through the tone in our voice and our body language.
You won’t see a toddler successfully navigating city streets or deep woods, and they sometimes recognize the emotional states of others, though they are usually preoccupied with their own out of control emotions.
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u/Xen235 11h ago
People overall judge animal intelligence based on what humans can do today.
Some wild animal won't make a computer or a rocket but go to their environment without any technology and they will be smarter, more resourceful and more capable of surviving than you are. This probably wasn't the case with our ancestors but today most people have lost survival skills and instincts.
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u/amzwC137 11h ago
I get that it's not dumb
I get that it's not dumb, and that animals are much smarter than people give them credit for. It's still cool to see animals successfully navigate unfamiliar spaces.
Stating my comment another way: seeing animals do clever things without being trained to is cool to see. Albeit, this video is a low bar for "clever" it still fascinated me in that way.
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u/TheDrummerMB 13h ago
"Wow I can't believe the cat remembered to turn the corner and go out the door it used 30 seconds ago- animals are so smart"
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u/Redditron_5000 14h ago
I trust you mean the new route was via the floor instead of in the hand of a person, because that is, in fact, the same door the cat came in through.
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u/LFP-Throwaway-3982 15h ago
Cats are so much smarter than most people give them credit for. You can agree and fully believe that they're not dumb while still underselling just how smart they are.
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u/misc1972 13h ago
Cat perception is so much greater than ours. Cat whiskers can detect minor variations in air flow, plus acute hearing. That open door to the outside was unlikely to be any challenge to find
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u/SAINTnumberFIVE 9h ago
My cat had a vendetta against the new neighbor cat. This cat showed up in the backyard once, sitting there on the other side of the sliding glass door as my car flipped out trying to get through it, and then the cat casually walked around to the side of the house. The only windows on that side of the house that you could see out were the windows in the bedrooms upstairs. That’s exactly where my cat ran to get a visual again on the neighbor cat and continue his threats.
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u/prnthrwaway55 11h ago
You would be able to do it too, why wouldnt' a cat know? It's elementary. And cats have relatively supercharged spatial processing.
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u/amzwC137 11h ago
I get that it's not dumb
Suffice it to say that seeing animals be smart, is fascinating. Even though this is a low bar for "smart."
It's like looking at an apple fall and being intrigued, only to be told, yeah... Gravity is a thing. Yeah, I know that, but it's still interesting to think about.
You would be able to do it too, why wouldnt' a cat know?
Are you saying this to suggest that a cat can do anything that I can? It's a jump, but why make the comparison?
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u/Corpus_Juris_13 12h ago
Hope that mouse wasn’t poisoned or something. I’ve seen mice in a couple homes and they’re lightning quick and smart. Never seen one just out in the open like that not giving a fuck
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u/SummertimeGladness_ 9h ago
This happened at my work recently except it was our friendly owl that ate the poisoned rats and died. We used to have a pigeon problem in our shop but the owl moved in and made quick work of them, but right when he moved in we had our scheduled pest control come out and the poisoned rats unfortunately got eaten. Natural pest control works so much better it’s a shame it happened.
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u/DollarStoreChameleon 8h ago
thats so awful. i hate poisons. live traps (in case the wrong critter is trapped) or natural native predators would do just fine
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u/OverfistDerFissierer 7h ago
It could also be this parasite that infects the brain of mice and i also think rats, and makes them get patched on purpose, so the parasite can reproduce inside the cat. I don't know, in which part of the world they are, but if I remember right, it's most of them. So the chance is high, that this hasn't anything to do with poison. Atleast I hope so
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u/ipovogel 3h ago
Toxoplasma gondii does cause fatal attraction in rodents, but it doesn't look like this. That rodent was either poisoned or smacked with something ahead of time to stun it for this video.
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u/RatofDeath 4h ago
Toxoplasma Gondii! A very fascinating parasite that also exist in many humans. Supposedly humans infected with it are more likely to engage in dangerous behavior like speeding and such. It's so interesting how a tiny organism like that can completely change the personality and desires of a rodent. They actually start to search out cats. It takes away their fear. Purely because the Toxoplasma want to reproduce in a cat's stomach. It's crazy!
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u/FrondsFerndinand 9h ago
No offense but so many Chinese animal videos are staged, that mouse looked nearly dead aside from one trail twitch
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u/Assika126 7h ago
We had mice like this a couple of years ago. Out in the open and could not care less about us or our cat being there. It struck me really weird but they didn’t seem sick, just not scared
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u/Wabbit65 10h ago
Maybe the mouse was used to not having to flee.
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u/BeatNo4548 9h ago
Sometimes, if they are in an unfamiliar environment, they panic and don't hide. We brought in a potted plant one year with 3 mice in it, and I caught 2 by hand with a small bucket and trapped the other one. It was kinda sad, they didn't know where to go.
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u/feelinzdoc 15h ago
That “random street cat” will now be waiting outside OP’s door every day, looking for an easy hunt and a full meal.
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u/diadmer 12h ago
My dog saw a raccoon duck into a juniper bush once on our neighborhood walk and she still stops and extensively investigates that same bush every time we pass it, 5 years later.
Now admittedly it’s a juniper so it could well be host to rats or mice. But she definitely remembers interesting spots she’s seen in the past and obsesses over them. She found a mouse stuck in one of our basement window wells and now she spends most of her days camping out observing the window wells, and she didn’t do that before that mouse.
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u/One_Leg_Kitty 12h ago
Oh my dumb self. I was trying to Google what a Raccoon Duck was.
Also what a cute constantly vigilant dog you have haha.
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u/pm-ur-tiddys 11h ago
you think she’s forgotten the raccoon, but for some reason has the urge to inspect the bush like “alright, bush inspection. can’t even remember why i do this, but by God this bush is important!”
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u/mitojee 10h ago
Had a "mercenary" cat once when I was a kid. I think it was a neighbor's cat but dunno. Anyhoo, there was a cat that kept hanging around our garage for a week or two so one day when my parents were out I let it in to give it pats.
It went straight to our pantry where we had a small mouse family move in at one point. My dad had killed one with a trap but two or three were still back there somewhere but the cat managed to get them all. I think it took him two visits. He never came back to hang out as if he did his contract job and moved on.
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u/PutAYumYumInMyTumTum 15h ago
I grabbed my cat to fight off the cricket in the bathroom. Locked the door with all 3 of us inside to see how he'd do.
Mofo straight pawing at the door and meowing for me to open it up. I know for sure he ain't about that life.
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u/Beautiful-Cup4161 14h ago
My roomate's cat would corner fieldmice in our apartment but then look back at us like "okay here it is. Go get it" and we'd have to grab the mice ourselves.
After a few weeks, the remaining (or returning) mice wisely just moved elsewhere.
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u/midwest-emo 12h ago
as someone whose cat actually caught the mice i would have preferred this to having to fight her to get the half dead mouse out of her mouth 🫠 she misses our old mouse infested apartment so bad……personally i do not lmao
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u/BiscuitTiits 15h ago
Honestly genius. A street cat won't play around when it finds a free meal.
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u/YouThinkYouKnowMe29 16h ago
Cat be like "friends let me tell you about this self serve diner two blocks away"
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u/RetinaJunkie 15h ago
Love how this kitten went straight to work. Guess they loose desire to hunt once fed and living cozy house life.
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u/SteakHuge1017 14h ago
We had house cats, from kittens, some had extreme hunter instinct some did not. Those hunter hunted even if they were fed.
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u/RagnarStonefist 13h ago
We moved into this old house and shortly after move-in my wife had an encounter with a mouse on a trip to the bathroom. We had a cat three days later, and it went to work. We spent a solid three months finding half eaten mice around the house every few days, and by the time we'd been there for a year, the mice were straight up gone.
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u/Equivalent-Muscle446 13h ago
I feel bad for the mice in a way, but this right here is exactly why 1 or 2 cats were brought on ships for long voyages either merchant ships or army ships because they found their food stores would be ravaged by mice and they would struggle towards the end of their journey to feed everyone on the ship. Bring a cat or two and that problem quickly gets solved in a massive net positive.
Mice and rats in general are way more agile than they look, so before you think how tf did mice get on a ship on the water, they can either swim and climb, or run across the ropes to board the ships.
You’d struggle to find a well managed ship without at least 1 cat.
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u/Fresh_Friendship_518 11h ago edited 10h ago
My cat spartacus would disagree, he hunts for sport.
Edit: Most recent hunt (NSFW if your squimish) https://imgur.com/a/zFuxJv4
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u/Gingersnapandabrew 10h ago
My cat Vi(olent) got put on a diet because she was getting a bit chonky. She gained weight. The field mice near us are clearly easy pickings
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u/Mike7676 10h ago
My cat Tyson has made sure no anoles, mice or rats exist near my home. He's fat and indoor/outdoor. Running out of songbirds too.
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u/camilo16 10h ago
Please don't let your cats out exactly because of this reason :/ They are extremely effective hunters and they decimate native fauna, many songbirds are being driven to extinction and cats are a non neligible part of why.
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u/Full-Honeydew-4898 9h ago
At least put jingle bells on the kitties to make the birds aware.
Also unless it’s a barn kitty you should keep cats indoors. Why you ask? Besides the bird issue there are other bird issues. Birds of prey will grab and eat cats.
Also other predators will eat cats like coyotes, wolves and Bobcats ( yes, bobcats ).
Last but not least there are crazy people out there that kill cats and then there are
Vehicular cat-I-cides ( run over ).
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u/Jazzlike-Point9743 9h ago
Isn’t ‘non negligible’ doing a lot of heavy lifting? I understood domestic cats were far and away the biggest killers of birds. Followed by windows about an order of magnitude lower.
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u/Bender3455 8h ago
Mine takes out every chipmunk she can find. I swear we're probably in the 40s now, how many she's killed.
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u/NotDrunkJustBigB0ned 9h ago
Some cats hunt for sport,
Others hunt for food.
The only thing my cat's hunting for
Is an outfit that looks good...
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u/LostN3ko 9h ago
Some cats are born to hunt. Some cats achieve hunt. This cat had hunting thrust upon them.
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u/RhydYGwin 11h ago
They're better hunters when they're fed and living well. They have more energy for one thing.
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u/pullingteeths 8h ago
No. Only about a third to half of pet cats that are allowed out hunt at all. And out of those only half or so ever eat what they kill, and many will be picky and just eat their favourite parts since they have plenty of other food. Cats that hunt to survive or just that enjoy eating what they hunt will be more determined and skilled hunters
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u/daecrist 11h ago
We have four cats in our house. Any rodent who thinks they've lost the desire to hunt may test that assumption at their convenience.
The last suicidal mouse who made it into the house had its face ripped off.
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u/omjy18 9h ago
Had cats growing up and one killed a raccoon once. It was the small one too the big one topped out at like 12lbs. Ive also seen them fight a Coyote. Idk man some cats are just crazy
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u/Bleades 8h ago
My old cat growing up got cornered on a stump by two foxes. We heard the commotion and scared them off. About a week later there was a dead fox on our door step. Dude was a beast and apparently very vengeful.
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u/professorbuffoon 15h ago
My fat ass tabby house cat would 100% be laser focused on that mouse and capture it. He's scary when he's hunting. But also loves his kibble and belly rubs.
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u/Dafferss 15h ago
lol, domestic cats kill so many birds on their outside walks. They don’t lose that desire at all.
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u/Uncle-Cake 13h ago
I don't think so. There is a very long history of humans using domesticated cats to control mice and rats.
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u/Perle1234 15h ago
Hi can assure you they do not lol.
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u/mowtowcow 15h ago
My cats do not hunt. They see a bug walk by and couldnt care less. They look at the hummingbirds at the feeder at the window and and then go back to sleep. Eventually, they do.
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u/TheGuyThatThisIs 14h ago
Play with your cats and they'll start hunting. If they don't practice, they lose the drive.
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u/AdWonderful5920 14h ago
Growing up on a farm, there were dozens and dozens of cats over the years. Most of them hunted, but yeah sometimes the cat family had some deadbeats who laid around waiting for a handout from us or the other cats might bring something in. Most often it was a tom who had driven off his brothers and occupied the patriach role.
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u/NoSemikolon24 11h ago
Not at all. And house cats are devastating every wildlife they cohabitate. Keep your cats on a leash or locked inside!
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u/KalozKapitany 16h ago
You gotta be kitten me
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u/The_Flo0r_is_Lava 15h ago
I cat you not
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u/Highlandertr3 15h ago
That comment was a catastrophe
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u/Wisdomisacurse 14h ago
I've seen all these puns before. You're all a bunch of copycats.
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u/Highlandertr3 14h ago
Damn. Cats out of the bag now.
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u/EatShitAndDieKnow 16h ago
Thats a rat not a mouse
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u/Dron41k 13h ago
Probably very sick rat since it just sits there in the open.
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u/WatashiwaNobodyDesu 13h ago edited 13h ago
Just hoping its not up to the gills with rat poison.
Edit: Do rats have gills? looks under the fridge
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u/Real_Piccolo_3370 12h ago edited 10h ago
Has anyone here ever caught a street kitten? Comments suggest not a single person here has, because this is NOT how they act. This is a domesticated mouser and a fancy caption.
EDIT: Yeah, this comment isnt about being capable of picking them up. You could potentially do that to a stray in any countries.
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u/onehalflightspeed 11h ago
This really depends on where you are. Street cats are well taken care of in Turkey for example, and perfectly comfortable around people
Street dogs in Thailand are similar
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u/SleepyCatMD 10h ago
Not all strays are feral. Some street cats are the laziest more cuddly cats you’ll find because everyone in the neighborhood feeds and cuddles them.
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u/BusyBanana4205 11h ago
In my neighborhood, it’s pretty easy to earn the trust of a street cat if you are really patient and have food. Idk if they’d be this tame if you picked them up, though. Lol
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u/JustJoshingWine 11h ago
I would only attempt to pick up a street cat after thoroughly getting to know them. They really tend to hate it
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u/GreatSunshine 6h ago
in asia my cat was a random stray off the street who i just picked up one day. he was too friendly to the point where my neighbour who hated him just walked over and scooped him up before i was able to rescue him
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u/IncompletePunchline 13h ago
I always found it ridiculous the mouse just sat there, even after hearing the meow. Hopefully they didn't poison it before feeding it to the cat.
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u/Ichiyama22 14h ago
"I found a cat! Cat, do the thing!"
"What are you talking about!? Who are you!? Where am I!?"
"Allow me to clarify." points cat at mouse
"Ah, okay, I gotcha." catches mouse "Mission accomplished. Farewell."
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u/Seated_WallFly 15h ago
Hmmm…something seems off in this video. The rat/mouse sees the cat and doesn’t move. It doesn’t run away. Why not? Is it sick? Poisoned?
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u/Ninja-Panda70 15h ago
The kitty meowing at first like, "What do you want me to do bro? Ohh there's a mouse! Got it"
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u/D1rrtyharry 15h ago
Wish Tony Baker would do a voiceover for this one so we can hear the “y’all be good praise God” as the cat leaves
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u/Gringo_Anchor_Baby 14h ago
And my cat brings them into the house and lets them go.... Which is why she isn't allowed outside after the giant meets adult shoe incident of 2024.
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u/Kindman_I 14h ago
Accidentally went from a street stray to a fully contracted Chief Pest Control Officer overnight. 😭 Talk about an incredible corporate promotion! He looks ready to secure the perimeter.
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