Recently the Internet was filled by videos in which owners throw to cats cucumbers, and those are terribly frightened. Whether really cats are afraid of cucumbers and why they so violently react to them? Let's try to understand.
Some owners of pets, tell a set of stories in which authenticity it is hardly believed. But some go further, shooting a video on which we see that the cat silently sits at the bowl, and behind the owner slowly creeps and throws a cucumber. Reaction of a cat is unambiguously inadequate, he jumps up, begins to rush about on kitchen, to shout heart-rendingly, etc. And here, it seems, the fact is proved, cats are afraid of cucumbers.
Naturally, a half-dozen of such rollers, and we already sacredly believe that cucumbers cause in cats sacred horror, but in practice, all absolutely not so.
According to experts in cultivation of domestic cats and also veterinarians, it was succeeded to learn the reason of such impassioned reaction of a cat to a cucumber:
- a cat you are afraid not of the cucumber, she is frightened the subject which appeared unexpectedly in her territory. Cats got used to control everything that occurs around them, and the new subject beats out them from habitual behavior;
- the fright which we see at an animal is generally not a phobia, and quite normal reaction to possible threat or danger. It is quite possible that the cucumber is subconsciously compared at a cat to some natural danger, for example, with a snake;
- the cucumber is thrown when the cat eats, at this moment, the animal is most weakened, and that place where there is a bowl and eats an animal, it is considered for it the safest in the house. Small retreat: the person sits at a table and has tea with favourite buns and at this moment on a table the cucumber unexpectedly falls whether will be able quietly to react you?
- it is quite possible that the cat was frightened earlier or threw in her a cucumber therefore reaction to its emergence is justified and natural;
- besides quiet domestic cats, there are pets possessing the aggravated reaction or a neuravnovenny warehouse of character, such animals violently react to any unforeseen situation.
Especially meticulous owners decided to experiment, and here besides cucumbers, bananas, squash and other oblong objects were put to use, reaction of cats to them was identical - they them are frightened. There can be a business not in cucumbers at all?
By the way, not all cats violently react to unexpectedly appeared vegetable, some begin to play with it, and someone tries even to gnaw.
If after reading of article, someone decided to check the pet and to throw to it cucumber, then you should not do it because:
- there is an opportunity who the animal will be wounded about pieces of furniture and an interior;
- after such experiment at a myrlyka some fear or pathological alarm can develop.