Cats: Tricking us hoomans since, well, forever.
Felines can be tricky little buggers, as we’re all well aware. Unlike their canine cousins, even if you shower cats with love and affection, they’re likely to turn up their noses at dinner and snub your attempts to get a fluffy hug after a long day at work. But for some reason, they’re able to manipulate us humans into coming back again and again for more hairballs, dead mice, and litterbox messes!
In fact, it turns out that we’re so infatuated with cats that we’re even fooled into thinking that regular objects are cats when they’re actually not. For instance, take this Twitter user who was puzzled as to why the cat pictured below didn’t flee or give a response when he whistled…only to feel like an idiot once he got closer realized that it was actually a tree stump:
https://twitter.com/k_a_obukuro/status/756980406839148544Another unwary victim fell into a similar trap:
実は木の一部。近づいても猫に見えるから視覚って不思議。 pic.twitter.com/j4fMKu3BAs
— ダイ (@daiP_Tetoku) April 7, 2016
You probably didn’t know you needed this collection of such “Hey, that’s not a cat!” moments, but perhaps you can learn a thing or two so that you don’t fall for the same mistakes as the following people!
素敵な空目猫、拝見しました。
— 城久地 宙@佐藤なにがし(小スケール沼の住人) (@shirokuji_chu) July 24, 2016
自分も１０年程前にチェーンでできた子を見てから出会えていないので、貴重な体験かとw pic.twitter.com/JrRw1KtY9p
▼ Cat, or cleaning tool?
https://twitter.com/anananfack/status/629950045517824000▼ Really now, the chances of finding a cat on the way to the station are much higher than those of finding an abandoned afro…
駅前にうずくまってる猫が居ると思ったらアフロだったちくしょう pic.twitter.com/nu1AFGL7g5
— ニリツ (@Ann_NH) January 6, 2015
▼ Tricky earmuffs!
https://twitter.com/shimohuriniku/status/697700993954246656▼ What a cute little…slipper?!
おとなしい猫かと思ったらスリッパ(片方)だった pic.twitter.com/MpKg67uL5p
— 福山 (@TacFukuyama) March 19, 2016
▼ This user made kitty noises only to discover a large scrubbing brush.
ネコだと思ってニャーニャー言いながら近寄っていったらでっかいタワシだった pic.twitter.com/nh6rzpe615
— つあり🌻 (@two_nothing) January 20, 2015
▼ Someone lost part of their fur coat…but not a cat.
猫かなと思ってにじり寄ったらコートとかに付いてるファーだった件 pic.twitter.com/FTzPJtQbGD
— あお (@slts_17) December 12, 2014
▼ That incredibly catlike shape is actually a rock.
猫かと思ったら、石だった。等々力渓谷にて。 pic.twitter.com/5ogmOaXkGu
— hirotarohoppe (@hirotarohoppe) April 10, 2016
▼ Funny how trash bags are looking more and more catlike these days.
今年一番ネコかと思ったゴミ pic.twitter.com/EVRxpQDDzp
— 伊藤ケンジ (@Asimov0803) April 30, 2016
▼ Another one!
猫かと思ったらゴミだった。 pic.twitter.com/tNKtEQjC6B
— 徳川龍之介 (@binbinstory) April 19, 2016
▼ The next two stains must be signs from our feline overlords.
https://twitter.com/_bybybyby/status/698746853009981440 https://twitter.com/wtftokage/status/721589048179974144▼ Excuse me, but isn’t your broccoli looking a little furry today?
https://twitter.com/pnktun/status/683870286425370625▼ Don’t mix up cats with half-eaten rice balls! (What an onigiri’s doing on the roof must be a whole other story…)
猫かと思ったら食いかけのおにぎり笑 pic.twitter.com/w9vysWPmix
— 根田恒玖 (@tsune1022) September 22, 2015
▼ Is that just an incredibly well-timed picture of flames, or did you set your cat on fire??
https://twitter.com/gtgtgtgtgtg/status/754313836547547136▼ Cats even pop up in your hot chocolate.
https://twitter.com/n1a1n2a8/status/750818714912591873▼ Didn’t you guess there would be one in the clouds?
さっき見つけた雲、めっちゃ猫に見える！！ pic.twitter.com/CCH4F031Zg
— トムバズーカ (@Atom1207muda) September 13, 2014
▼ In all fairness to the person tweeting this picture, this dog must be having some major identity issues.
猫かと思ったら犬やった笑笑 pic.twitter.com/Xfk2gzaVfB
— おおえ たけと (@OeTaketo) December 1, 2015
▼ Nope, it’s actually a tanuki (raccoon dog)!
https://twitter.com/mishima_YE/status/687943163122708481▼ There’s some funny monkey business going on here…
https://twitter.com/kakipitatuya/status/660742432603049984Finally, let’s end with an exciting discovery made by someone on a plane who looked down and happened to see a land mass shaped like nothing other than a fat cat:
昨日、飛行機の上から太った猫みたいな形の島が見えた。調べてみたら奄美大島の近くにある上ノ根島という無人島らしい pic.twitter.com/42ekEePtOH
— ロプロス (@ropross) March 21, 2015
It’s actually an uninhabited island called Kannonejima, which is part of the Tokara island archipelago in Kagoshima Prefecture. That has got to be some divine intervention, if nothing is!
https://twitter.com/takumi12121/status/742711777918484481Source: Naver Matome
Top image: Twitter/@k_a_obukuro
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