The cat and cucumber prank usually involves a human placing a cucumber behind a cat while they eat. When the cat turns around and unexpectedly finds the cucumber, they may jump in fright. This is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skip the produce when playing with your cat. You’ve probably seen the videos as you scroll through your social media feed: It ...

If you’re a cat owner, chances are you’ve spent a fair amount of time looking at adorable feline videos on the internet (hey, we’re not judging). And during your online travels, you may have come ...

Videos showing cats being scared at the sight of a cucumber placed behind them have been going viral in recent years. In the clips, the felines can be seen suddenly jumping or walking away when they ...

There’s a reason why cats don’t like cukes—and why you should think twice about attempting to scare your own kitty with one If you’ve spent any time on the internet, chances are, you stumbled upon ...

Fear can come in all shapes and sizes from the small spider to the existential crisis but for our pets they can be much stranger. Viral videos and challenges have gone round in which pet cats jump at ...

You may notice in Little Kitty, Big City that the cat we play as has a negative response to and seems scared of cucumbers. However, you may not understand why these items are as “terrifying” as a dog ...

People are scaring their cats with cucumbers. It’s been a meme for a little while now, but it became the subject of curiosity after Huffington Post made a supercut of cats getting startled by the ...

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If you’ve spent any time on the internet, chances are, you stumbled upon viral videos of cats encountering cucumbers. Their reactions aren’t what you might expect: You’ll see cats leaping into the air ...