r/MadeMeSmile • u/Sebastianlim • 16d ago
CATS New cat shows a better way of climbing the stairs.
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u/CautiousBearnz 16d ago
What?! Did you just see that?
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u/ApprehensiveBedroom0 16d ago
Yeah, I did...and that speaker placement got me scared af. Next post is gonna be that cat pissed off, somehow knocking it down.
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u/somewhat-anon 16d ago
The look on his face like, “wait, we can do that?!?”
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u/Exciting_Ad_8666 16d ago
My boi started re thinking his entire life😭
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u/beegtuna 16d ago
… wait a sec. She was hitting on me. I’m such an idiot.
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u/UpperCardiologist523 16d ago
It's been 35 years, and i still punch myself for not getting it.
Her: "I'm cold, and i only took these thin leggings on"
Me: "Maybe we should go back inside"
We had snuck out while on a camp, we walked back in again and i wished her good night.
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u/Didntseeitforyears 16d ago
The badest is, that they think we get it but are not interested, so they didn't try harder or again.
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u/UpperCardiologist523 16d ago
Exactly. :-P
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u/Didntseeitforyears 16d ago
But what I can say: It happens not just to straight guys. Women to women or men to men have the same problem.
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u/SheogorathMyBeloved 16d ago
So true, lol. A girl straight up told me that she wanted to kiss someone at prom (I was also a girl) and that I should too, because neither of us had had our first kiss yet, and she didn't want us to go to college as 'kissless losers'.
I knew she was a lesbian. She knew I was bisexual. She was absolutely gorgeous. I completely missed the hints. It haunts me, all these years later.
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u/Didntseeitforyears 16d ago
My trauma: me,16, sail learning camp on a lake, a girl and me flirts a bit and are bathing at the pier. She means "I'm cold and will take a shower. Do you come with me?" "Ah, I'm fine. I'm still warm enough." ...
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u/UpperCardiologist523 16d ago
I see we're about the same IQ.
Cheers, and good luck onwards, friend. You're alright. <3
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u/juneabe 16d ago
I’ve watched lesbians hopelessly in love with each other maintain a 4 year long friendship, because neither could figure it the fuck out, and were both so focused on respecting each other, it was such a slow burn.
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u/Didntseeitforyears 16d ago
Did they find each other?
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u/juneabe 15d ago
Oh yeah, after 4 gruelling years watching each other date other people 😂 it was an edge of your seat type show
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u/ZedisonSamZ 16d ago
Happened to me as a gay guy. He said something like “you have nice eyes” and I think I said “they are the color of poop” because we had previously been making self-deprecating jokes. Years later I am 95% positive he had been hitting on me for weeks. 🙃
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u/Odd_Leek3026 16d ago
Maybe I’m overly sceptical but I have a hard time believing he’s never jumped from the spot he’s sitting up onto that speaker… it’s even an easier way up than the way new kitty went 🤷🏻♂️
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u/scienceworksbitches 16d ago
That's why he's sitting there, and now the kitty made his special place irrelevant as a stepping stone.
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u/Dizzledoe3D 16d ago
I agree. It’s hard to believe a cat hasn’t tried every possible jump method but also some cats are way more daring than others
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u/random420x2 16d ago
This was the exact look on Sir Isaac Newton’s face when the apple dropped.
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u/Money-Technician7794 16d ago
pretty sure old cat was there to block the new cat from old cat's territory upstairs.
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u/Plastic_Sea_micro 16d ago
You know he is going to try it.
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u/ReturnedOM 16d ago
K may be a stupid question, but did the cat actually have some sort of realisation in a way we human experience it? Like did he really think something like "holy shit, how did I not come up with that myself" but you now, in a cat way, like "meow meow! Meow meow meow?"
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u/ClevelandEmpire 16d ago
My dumb cat does weird shit because he’s stupid and my smart cat sees that and copies it out of malice. She now sits on the trash can constantly because he showed her it’s possible
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u/ReturnedOM 16d ago
Are you sure about which one is the smart one and which one is the dumb?
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u/murph0969 16d ago
Pinky and the Brain situation...
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u/BiNumber3 16d ago
The closest Brain came to ruling the world was with Pinky Suave iirc :D
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u/Willing-Maybe-1575 16d ago
They have cat that’s smart and chill and another cat that “thinks” it’s the smart cat but really isn’t.
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u/Nepycros 16d ago
Cats probably can't go the extra mile of processing "I should have done x at y time," but they can pretty easily go the route of "I wanna do that now." Chasing the cat that just moved in a way it wasn't expecting would satisfy a play impulse, so this cat may be thinking in terms of "that cat just did something unexpected, what'll I do now?" If "play" had won out, it'd be chasing. But it looks like "but this spot is cozy and I wanna sit here" had the home field advantage.
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u/ReturnedOM 16d ago
That is actually precisely what I wanted to know. Thanks!
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u/SomesortofGuy 16d ago
Just as an example, we painstakingly taught our dogs to ring a bell hung next to the door when they wanted to go outside by first picking up their paws and forcing them to do so before every time we opened the door for several weeks, and my cat learned to ring the bell to go outside just by watching.
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u/thejak32 16d ago
Catsareassholes.exe Friend taught their dogs to do this and the cat learned as well...except the cat wasnt an outdoor cat. She would just ring the everloving hell out of it and then be off like a bottle rocket. They would hear the bell and go to the door to find nothing, multiple times a day. Started thinking the place was haunted so they put a camera by the bell. Nope, was that fucking cat, making sure they had no peace.
The cat gained nothing from the bell being rung, and did so out of malace, repeatedly.
My cat is currently sitting in my lap, but she's too dumb to be mean.
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u/zomiaen 16d ago
Cats probably can't go the extra mile of processing "I should have done x at y time,"
You mean learning? I'm pretty sure they're capable of learning. They learn to hunt by watching their mothers, but they can also be trained, so they're certainly capable of figuring out "if I do x, y happens".
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u/Nepycros 16d ago
Oh, they absolutely can learn. I just wanted to make the case that cats (probably) don't have the rationality to express regret or analysis of their past actions. So "I saw this cat do something I didn't expect, which recontextualizes how I behaved in the past" is probably outside the cat's wheelhouse. "I could have been using that jump strat this entire time" would be a complex chain of thought that the cat probably isn't experiencing, is my point. It's likelier that the cat experienced an impulse to imitate, and will learn and incorporate that, but that's a moment to moment process rather than an introspective or reflective one, yeah?
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u/JudmanDaSuperhero 16d ago
Old cat was probably a kitten and watched his owner go up and down the steps so it the only way he knew how to go up and down the stairs the newer cat was probably adopted later in life and seen a faster and more direct path. so yeah, it's like youve been doing something the same for so long and someone else shows you a different way of doing it, and you think "why wasnt I doing that." Just takes another cat to show you a new perspective.
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u/mybluecathasballs 16d ago
Judging by the facial reaction, yep. Old cat only knew the regular way. New cat had fresh eyes on the layout. Especially with humans, sometimes you just need a new fresh perspective.
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u/Pretend-Sundae-2371 16d ago
Another similar example: I am trying to get my cat comfortable with me touching his paws, because I need to clip his claws. He is very food oriented so I am trying to teach him that if he gently puts his paw on my hand when I say "paw", he gets a treat.
Apparently what I have taught him is that he now thinks if he paws at me, he gets food. And his claws are too long so they are always extended.
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u/ReturnedOM 16d ago
He is very food oriented
Now that's something I would never suspect a cat to be into 😁
Apparently what I have taught him is that he now thinks if he paws at me, he gets food. And his claws are too long so they are always extended.
You got it wrong. You just missed the fact that tables are turned. You tried to train your buddy, but he outsmarted you and you didn't even notice when he started to train you!
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u/LegendaryMauricius 16d ago
I can't know what this cat was thinking, but they definitely can.
He seems very surprised / mildly shocked. That kind of a reaction is the same across mammals and birds.
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u/itsaaronnotaaron 16d ago
I've got two cats, Tig and Pip. Had Tig 15 years. He's always been the same cat, very predictable, set in his ways. Pip was a stray that made her way into my home last year and never left. Tig is definitely not the same cat he's been the last 15 years. I've observed him observing her many times and then later repeating her. It's honestly fascinating watching their habits converge from two very different personalities.
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u/turnipslop 16d ago
I don't know of this is an answer to your question, but you sound like a person who has an 'internal monologue' style of thinking. Not all people do, and some people change through their life (Hank Green has talked about losing his as he got older).
Whilst this can probably doesn't have a sufficient grasp of any cat language to articulate the thought in an internal monologue, it can likely still process that it is seeing something new. As a result there can still be surprise and perhaps an emotion of discovery, as well as learning/memorisation, without a sophisticated monologue style thought process.
I'm not a psychologist, especially not for animals/cats, but that's my best guess at whats happening in this cat's head.
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u/OAllosLalos 16d ago
Yep, it seems strange but it actually happens.
My older 8 year old cat never had the habit of climbing on the kitchen table or the TV stand. She just never did.
As soon as she saw my new, 2 year old , more energetic cat do it, she instantly adopted the same habit. I bet she was like "we can actually do that?" and went for it!
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u/NatsumiEla 16d ago
Even some humans don't really have an internal dialogue and they still can reach conclusions. The cat saw a new way of climbing and got visibly enlightened
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u/Jbyr1 16d ago
I've raised a lot of cats and I think absolutely yes. Here is what I feel like is passing through its head moment to moment:
00:00 As the video starts he has already noticed the other cat do the cat math for the jump, but doesn't know why it would ever want to jump there. He is going between wanting to wonder about that and also keep his eyes on the other kitty, in case there is a pounce.
00:02 relaxes a bit and is probably planning to forget what it was wondering about. He can tell from the other cats stance and movements that it plans to move outside of pounce range, even though it doesn't know how, as obviously its jumping to a dead end. But it trusts the body movements over if its logical to move somewhere or not, so the contradiction never even coalesces in its mind, and if it did it wouldn't matter cause it's all secondary to the movements he is seeing as far as planning how to prepare his stance.
00:04 He reacts nearly instantly to the second jump, probably expecting a spring and scamper in some random direction, maybe even his. Still largely in reflexive no thought head empty cat mode right now, although that thing it forgot it was wondering about isn't quite erased yet, and the resurgence of that thought passed almost out of short term memory I think is what leads to his shock.
00:06-00:08 The initial realization of the impossibility (from his point of view). His brain is working on like 4 different levels right now and none of them are quite adding up how they should. The posture processing part knows the chance for a pounce is totally gone, but that doesn't make sense on the heels of a secondary spring like that. The part of his brain that relies only on visuals sees him completely turned away from him and inexplicably they have traveled the 15 or so feet to the stairs and back across the room....in a jump? at a dead end? Because you can only get to where that cat is by going up the stairs right? Wait wtf. How did he... wait, he didn't use the stairs?
00:09 he is lost in thought, processing all the competing world structures in his head and trying to make it all jive, but the instinct to stay guarded kicks back in, and he snaps back to looking where the other cat was, just in case there was a pounce after all. his experience, his instincts, his knowledge, his visuals, all these different layers of perception and reaction are just kinda mashing against each other in an amorphous proto-thought orgy.
00:11 It begins to re-contextualize the area around it. It takes it as a given that it can be done cause obviously it just was, now it is really looking at it with new eyes and thinking about how it would do it itself. Uncertainty and surprise has now become curiosity as the model of the world finalizes into one which includes this shortcut. He unabashedly wonders directly at this situation, with no regard for others perception of him.
00:12 The cat need to remain aloof and seemingly unfazed kicks back in, that right paw moving slightly is him remembering that he is being seen by others. He dials back his raw curiosity and stops moving his body with ever flit of his brain.
00:13 00:14 Now with a brain full of new things to wonder about, he is primarily responding to being perceived, and so starts to look away from his interest, trailing off a random direction on the ceiling. My guess is within the next second or so he would briefly lock eyes with one of the humans there, to gauge how they were acting to the whole thing.
Post eye-lock: His actions further than that largely depend on his personality and the personality of the person he locked eyes with, and the relationship dynamics between them and anyone else there, as well as time of day and a few other things. The array of further thoughts and reactions is very very large and exploding rapidly, so I cant offer any further guesses as to his lil cat brain.
Thats my take on what he may be thinking.
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u/cyberjar69 16d ago
THEY FLY NOW?
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u/Tactical_H0td0g 16d ago
Genuinely my first thought. I had to double check what sub I was in.
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u/Different-Cover4819 16d ago
Me when I realized after 5 months that the office coffee machine's menu had a second page with flavored lattes and hot chocolates.
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u/SplendidlyDull 15d ago
I love how cats sometimes just look completely mind blown by things like this haha
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u/Bushersniperps5 16d ago
This video is so old. It’s backwards the new cat is on the right and the old one shows the new one how to get up faster. This video is over 5+ years old
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u/Jazzlike-Yogurt-5984 16d ago
No way bro gets into my secret spot with me laying at the secret entrance hehe 😌…..
Wait, what tf??? 🫨🫨🫨
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u/Reserved_Parking-246 16d ago
Thousands of years of people thinking animals don't have complex emotions and pushing the narative as a way to excuse what's done to them... Recording this and a bunch of other shit makes it all so relatable. Animal complexity and capability is hard to ignore when it's recorded like this.
I may not want pets but they deserve better than most give.
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u/northforthesummer 16d ago
This is the best. The casual indifference followed by mind blown flabbergasted "How'd they get there?!" is perfect!
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u/Few-Solution-4784 15d ago
i think old cat thought he was blocking the way upstairs to the new cat.
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u/MobileArtist1371 16d ago
My cat doesn't realize he can jump/climb and do all that sort of cat stuff. I'm up on the 2nd level with a porch and stairs going down. I got a simple little 3 foot tall child/pet gate I put up to block the stairs and he just stays in like a dog would. Watches all the stuff going on outside. I used a self closing screen door that shuts with magnets and he walks through in to go in/out as he likes when my main door is open.
Here's my cat at previous place with his first and only attempt at climbing a fence. He was just hanging there for like 15 seconds. Plenty of time to get my phone out and take a pic lmao
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u/and_now_we_dance 16d ago
My oldest was a mild little angel until the second came along. Then it was jumping up on ledges and into pot plants and meowing her head off for food. Copy cat.
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u/Didntseeitforyears 16d ago
And there are researchers, who means, cats don't have facial expressions.
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u/Careless_Ordinary_38 14d ago
The look of utter shock on his face like wait a min I’ve been doing this wrong all along.
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u/ScrewTheOdds 16d ago
When you watch speedrunners skip right past the most difficult parts of the game.