Have people seen the viral video about cats freaking out when their owners sneak up and place a cucumber (or zucchini) near them? It's very funny. Someone I know made a video of their own cat, but sadly, the cat notices the cucumber, but does not do anything except turn back to the food bowl.

I want to say our cats would be totally indifferent, but you never know. This might be the one and only thing that freaks Slinky out.

I think we will wait a few more days past surgery to try that on the cats, but try it we will.

I predict that the young one will freak and jump into the air, and the old one will hiss a cat "fuck you" at it. Because that is their reaction to most things.

I hope I'm not the only one who thought it was cruel to do that to the cats.

I kind of want to try the cucumber thing on my cats, but I think the dog might be the one traumatized by the cucumber.

I'm glad that in general, my FB friends are rational on subjects like Syrian refugees. The problem is the assholes that my friends are friends with.

I think brief cucumber freakout (if it even happens, which I doubt) is fair payback for the 5AM wake up caterwauls to fill up an 80% full food bowl. I'm not planning to stash them around the place like landmines.

Well, don't be surprised when you find decapitated cucumbers in your beds.

Fair enough.

I noticed that most of the cats are eating and I wonder if a) they're not just so wrapped up in eating they don't hear anyone come up behind them, or b) they're more on guard when they are eating. I accidentally kicked a cat toy right by Oz while he was eating the other day and he nearly did a backflip.

Makes sense. With all the laptop cords and phone chargers around here, I have to assume that any snake-sensitivity in these cats is evolutionarily dead.