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CucumberGate, Terror, Abuse, and You

November 21, 2015 by Dr. V

So by now you've all seen the videos, right? A person places a cucumber behind a cat who's blissfully chomping away on some food. The cat turns around, spots the sinister gourd, and jumps about five feet in the air. The first thing that happened was that a bunch of people thought it was funny and shared it all over the internet. The second thing that happened was a bunch of experts chimed in warning about how this wasn't a benign thing, that cats could be permanently scarred, and that ... Read more »

Filed Under: Mother of the Year, Musings Tagged With: animal abuse, cucumbers

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