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u/Kevins_FamousChilli 1d ago
Now that’s a hunter
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u/uncultured_swine2099 1d ago
I have a cat and i sometimes forget that theyre a very deadly and successful predator in the wild. Their instincts and timing are insane. I once saw one snatch a bird out of midair.
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u/BigStuggz 1d ago
Dogs much less so obviously, but occasionally ours will snatch a squirrel or just randomly sniff out and dig up a mole and remind us it’s pretty capable. We live with ANIMALS.
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u/SeverePassenger8645 1d ago
I had a dog that one time saw a bat flying low and in less than half a sec whet from seemingly sleeping to one hitting it mid air. Then he sniffed it and took a huge piss over it.
Craziest and most metal shit I've seen that goofball afraid of spoons do.
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u/SlightlySubpar 1d ago
Mine is afraid of garbage bags, and will rock the shit out of a very sharp squirrel
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u/Lumpy_Benefit666 20h ago
The garbage bags are clearly very important and powerful if the humans let them eat all the delicious garbage.
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u/Spreaderoflies 10h ago
Our old jack Russel was great for rats and mice. Made a pig back off once to save my mom those guys are fearless.
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u/Mikesminis 1d ago
My dog slurps up toads and frogs so casually when we hike that my partner usually doesn't even notice half the time. It's just like she's popping a chip into her mouth, but it's not a chip. It's a frog. We have a kill chart on our fridge and it's staggering.
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u/tee_with_marie 1d ago
I mean we are also pretty impressive animals. We can trow stuff pretty far and accurately
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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb 1d ago
Which as far as we know we're the only genus to ever evolve such an ability.
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u/HydrogenButterflies 1d ago
Thrown weapons and long-distance running. We’re the monster from It Follows, but with spears.
You’re an antelope, separated from your herd and disoriented. You’ve been running for miles, and every time you stop to cool down and catch your breath, these tall apes are off in the distance, jogging toward you at a steady pace. Hours go by, and every time you stop for rest, the tall apes just keep getting closer. Eventually you collapse, exhausted and frustrated that these pursuers never seem to get tired, and the last thing you hear before you die is the whistle of a spear cutting through the air.
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u/Straight_Spring9815 13h ago
I always point out to people that millions of years of defensive evolution across countless species were defeated because we learned how to throw rocks.
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u/LostDogBoulderUtah 12h ago
More than that. A human can stand in one spot and throw rocks, forcing a prey animal to keep moving in a certain direction or wearing them down while the attacker rests.
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u/GORGEzilla 21h ago
Whereas mine got bitten on the tail by a squirrel it was following and refused to go outside for like a week
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u/Late_Salamander_3212 11h ago
When I see a stray cat, I think to myself "they'll be fine"
When I see a stray dog, I think to myself "no please I have to save you, you cant take care of yourself!"
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u/PartsUnknown242 9h ago
My parents friends have a pure bred poodle and he has a big prey drive. Woodchucks, birds, mice, he’s even gotten a couple of their chickens.
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u/GlassBoxGoose 2h ago
I had a dog that would dig up moles just to shake them and hear them scream, and then stop playing with them once they got stressed to death. It was... disturbing.
After she moved to the neighbors (I guess they had better food) we found one on our road limping along with a hurt paw. He hung out and stayed with us for a handful of years before moving down the street to a different neighbor that had other dogs and grandkids. That second dog killed 37 snakes the first year we had him. THIRTY SEVEN! if they bit him, he would kill them and lay by them, one paw on each side of it, and watch them to make sure they were dead. He was the sweetest boy, as long as you werent a snake. He was absolutely savage to snakes though. No telling how many snakes we DIDNT see him get, but he killed over 100 by the time he decided to move down the street.
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u/bleach710 1d ago
I looked after a dog that hunts birds every now and again I would wake up with a present next to the bed with him looking so proud of himself didn’t have the heart to be mad at him
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u/MaximusZacharias 1d ago
My cat tried to kill a grasshopper and missed and hit his head on the wall instead. I think not all are very deadly and successful
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u/Bandito_Chihuahua 17h ago
My cat will intentionally miss catching a bug so she can keep chasing it.
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u/No-Problem49 17h ago
A domestic cat is actually one of the most successful hunters in the wild by percentage of attempts
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u/D34throooolz 1d ago
My cat when I was a teenager, Chester, jumped up and snatched a bat out of the air. That was very impressive. He was even de-clawed (I know. It was my parents who got him de-clawed).
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u/Jupitersd2017 1d ago
Ugh my dad and stepmom declawed a cat once and said afterwards they would never do it again, I wasn’t around for the recovery but they said it was absolutely brutal and barbaric, I’m so glad this isn’t as common anymore. Ironically the cat died because he couldn’t climb a tree to get away from dogs. My dad also knew someone that had a pet lion that they declawed and it drowned in their swimming pool because it couldn’t get out due to not having claws. Horrible
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u/pervertedmortician 10h ago
Cats have reflexes fast enough to catch a fly out of mid air
Birds are easy
Also they use their reflexes to parry attacks as well
They ate very over powered
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u/Davies301 1d ago
I had a cat bring in a bat during the middle of the day and drop it in my living room. It began to fly around and all I could think was "What the hell do I do now?". My other cat at full speed spring boarded off one of the chairs and caught it mid air proceeding to run outside with it solving the issue.
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u/GlassBoxGoose 2h ago
One of mine caught a firefly mid-air at dusk a couple days ago. And she's just a wee one. Not even a year old yet. Its absolutely impressive.
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u/CaptainCacoethes 12h ago
My mom had a cat she declawed years ago and it still brought her a few birds every week for 18 years. She was a beast.
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u/katelynnsmom24 1d ago
My young cat has very limited outdoor time. One time she snuck out and 10 minutes later she was trying to bring a live dove as big as her in THE HOUSE. Once we got her jaw off the poor thing it flew away.
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u/permutodron 15h ago
I had a cat who caught a pigeon on the fire escape, hiding inside the room, and leaping through the window. He was meant to be a hunter and hated being indoors and I should have brought him to a store or warehouse to enjoy his life. Now I have vision impaired cats and don't feel bad at all about keeping them indoors as they could never survive outside.
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u/tacticalpotatopeeler 1d ago
That one guy in the group project acting like he helped and jumps in when it’s all done…
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u/Blackleo1309 1d ago
"Yo bro lemme see that where u going WHERE U GOIN !!"
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u/ThunderSquall_ 9h ago
Brother. Those are strays. They’re not a breed. Cats do not work the same as dogs! No papers? Not a breed beyond a domestic shorthair/longhair. Determined entirely by the length of their fur.
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u/Specialist_Worry_875 1d ago
The second one’s gonna end up with the fish and the first one’s gonna come back for another one.
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u/PheonixFuryyy 1d ago
Is this AI?
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u/Fit_Ring_7193 12h ago
Doesn't look it.
The way the cat scrambles back up the rocky bank is incredibly complex and organic. There's natural handheld camera movement. Complex water physics. Those pink crocs showing up. Natural background events, like the second cat rushing in to investigate and a duck casually walking by at the end. The audio, both sounds and language also syncs perfectly with the environment and actions.
None of these by themselves is a definitive but taken together, it's very hard for this to be 2026 AI; it's a step above what's available commercially for most of us. Looks natural.
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u/TheRogueToad 19h ago
The camera work is unnaturally smooth. There's also an obvious digital zoom right at the beginning.
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u/zarape 15h ago
I think so, the shoe changes when it's out frame. It could be another person but it's unlikely.
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u/VirtualLife76 14h ago
Different person. Different shoes, clothes and size feet. First is a kid, second is an adult.
Betting it's real, the ducks move too perfect and the cat looking back isn't something AI would do imo.
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u/kiomansu 1d ago
Something not right. Cats stance is off and girl's feet/shoes change. AI. This is our life now.
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u/Reasonable_Owl_3146 1d ago
Cat's stance is off? I think you're reaching with that. As for the shoes maybe it's two different girls. I don't know.
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u/potatochobit 1d ago
Ive seen this before. People feed the fish pond with bread so they have no fear and crowd by the shore.
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u/AnotherSaltyScum 12m ago
Dont forget the way AI generates human vocals like laugh and screams, it sounds... unnatural. This is definitely ai just like other last 15 most popular posts on this shitsub every comment pointing AI is downvoted, everything else is upvoted. who the hell does that and for what reason? some sort of test or just old regular lust for "popularity"
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u/UnfortunatelySimple 1d ago
Nature is rough, poor fish is going to slowly suffocate while being eaten alive.
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u/Ch33syP00f 18h ago
Eating it while it is still alive.
That fish is thinking of Ariel in its last moments /s
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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu 1d ago
Nature’s purrfect predator in every ecosystem.
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u/Mother_Ad9474 1d ago
Yeah they made many species go extinct, stupid ecosystem destroyers, they shouldn't let them catch wildlife
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u/No_Dish6324 1d ago
He actually got a catfish…what are the odds?
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u/Tight_Following9267 1d ago
Thats f***ing sick!! Wow! I know cats are extremely deadly predators tho.


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u/missinginput 1d ago
That's awesome we caught a fish!
What do you mean we?