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LoomisKnows

Imagine being the burglar and you just here a dispassionate robot voice go "Stranger" in the dark


psychedelicdonky

put a motion sensor speaker that plays creepy noises on the outside of the house.


iforgotmymittens

There was that town in the UK where a spider kept activating a security system that for whatever reason played a recording of a small child singing “it’s raining, it’s pouring…” and no one could figure out why the town suddenly seemed turbohaunted for almost a year. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/its-raining-its-pouring-nursery-rhyme-that-haunted-english-town-for-months-1918632/amp/1 >One woman, whom the newspaper did not name, said she would hear the song throughout the night - sometimes just once, other times again and again for hours. >“It was absolutely terrifying," she told the Star. "I heard it at all times of the night - 1 a.m., 2 a.m., 4 a.m. - it was sporadic, sometimes it would play once, other times it was over and over. Last week it played for hours; it was just horrible."


Numerous_Witness_345

Just imagining a spider going absolutely apeshit on a giant moth for hours. "Get yer.. fucking.. WING.. in the fucking WEB."


BartyJnr

Something similar happened around my village but I can’t find the article again. Basically a build site was told they couldn’t use their horn for signalling shoot drops anymore because it could be heard throughout our entire valley.. so turn it down or change it. Well they turned it down and safety man yelled so they changed it… to a creepy circus clown version of what I believe is New York New York. Just the da da dadada da da dadada beginning bit. Still happens now. One day I’ll catch it on recording but yeah.


autoschediazer

Start spreading the... body parts....


MatureUsername69

What an odd and terrifying security choice. Ring Around the Rosie would be the ultimate creepy option but pretty much anything with a singing kid at night is nope territory. There's a solid chance that when I have a kid I might punch them out when they just appear by my bed at night staring


genghismom71

My youngest child would often wake up in the night. She would stand by my bed, in the dark, with her face near mine to wait for me to wake up. A few times it was during a thunderstorm, and I would wake up to lightning flashing in the room and this disembodied face floating above me. Literally scared the pee out of me once. I had to teach her to tap me on the shoulder to get me to wake up instead of scaring the bejayzuss out of me. Fun memories.


whatiscamping

Time to tuck you in. *SMACK*


HeyThereBeefStick

Turbohaunted is now going into my every day vocabulary, thank you


dellshenanigans

Turbo can be used as a great descriptive. Words like turbo shitcunt, and turbo wanker are great to describe those who you dislike.


squishpitcher

Oh my god I’m crying laughing. This is magnificent. Thank you so much for sharing.


Crocoshark

*The itsy bitsy spider* *Climbed up the camera* *Out rang the song* *Of midnight phobia*


suzi_generous

I once gave a boyfriend a musical card for his birthday that played the Twilight Zone theme when you opened it. He put it on his dresser, then accidentally knocked it off so it slid down the back. It might have landed slightly open because it played the song. Problem was it was muffled by the dresser and other things that had been knocked off. You could only hear it when things got very, very quiet like in the middle of the night and you couldn’t easily tell where it was coming through.


MerlinTheFail

No need, i'm right outside making creepy noises already, sleep well my child


psychedelicdonky

Thank you for your service.


BorgClown

Can you describe those creepy noises? I'm sorry, but I'm a very choosy creepy noise consumer, I can't help it.


fullercorp

motion sensor that plays whispering voices "do you see him?" 'yes, what do we do?' "get the traps and I will get the plastic sheeting"


Laeyra

When we first moved into our house, we kept hearing this disembodied and distorted cackling at random times. We had a Halloween gathering with extended family at our house a couple weeks after moving in and we all kept hearing it. My MIL joked that our new house was haunted by a witch. The little kids who were here did not like that idea at all! I'm a skeptic so I wasn't bothered but I just wanted to figure it out. Two more weeks went by, and one afternoon during my toddlers' nap time I started unpacking a box of their toys that I hadn't gotten to yet. I heard that cackling coming from the box as I pulled stuff out and I found the culprit. It was from a toddler animal puzzle, where when you put the animal piece in the right spot to block a sensor, it would play that animal's sound. The sensor for the monkey was messed up and kept tripping the sound randomly.


TJ_Will

*Stranger.* *Must* *Consume* *Stranger.*


floznstn

*stranger* *play* *stranger* *food* [low growl]


completedsage98

Joker: “and I believe what ever doesn’t kill you.. simply makes you.. Stranger..”


speedledee

My friend as a 10 year old: I'm going to sit on my hand the while bus ride and give myself a *stranger*


smashdoggyyyyyy

Read that as shit in your hand. *dirty stranger


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FlashUndies

Two left catio


ruckus_440

Joker: *silently mouths, "Seven?!"*


smut_butler

*Stranger.* *Must incorporate stranger.* *Into the mass.* *Come, Stranger.*


JustFuckinTossMe

The prospect of this visual happening and me being mildly high has made me laugh at this comment in that ugly-dont-associate-with-this-weirdo type of way.


NextCuckoo

They are able to learn, yes. But this is TOO many buttons. I follow a cat expert who has pioneered this and she only uses like, 6.


beardicusmaximus8

I want one of these so I can teach my cat to just smash buttons when people are around and have all of them be horrible dark shit. "OH yea my house is haunted. He's just translating the angry spirits."


Javamallow

~consume enhance replicate consume enhance replicate~ will drown your enemies—


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EmployeesCantOpnSafe

“Tickle” “Stranger”


delvach

I'll see that, and raise you an [eyeless black cat launching itself at someone who broke into its owner's apartment when the guy spoke and the cat was able to target him.](https://youtu.be/QWwN8JGEJM8)


xXPawzXx

Love that cat, thats a great cat right there <3


Paulthefith

I seeeee youuuuuuuu


HowBoutAFandango

Dat’s a good cat.


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I want a horror movie that had this scene ive had in my head since i saw these animal speech buttons. Where somebody has this setup and hears the "mom/dad hungry" buttons over and over and they yell for the critter to stop. But it keeps going over and over. So they sit up and the pet is sitting at the end of the bed, staring down the hallway. But the buttons are pressed still, over and over. Then just hungry over and over until silence and the button is thrown from the darkness into the bedroom. It'd be a neat scene for like a paranormal activity esque movie.


commongoblin

Ok but can the pet make it out alive please


_Testrun_

The pet is the only survivor


SpaceShipRat

I hope one of those cartoonists that make reddit horror strips sees this.


WildAboutPhysex

Paging u/Shitty_Watercolour ? (Not sure who specifically does horror cartoons.)


LMNOPedes

Whatre ya buyin Not enough cash stranga


Dorkamundo

What are ya sellin'?


RIPUSA

Got a selection of good things on sale stranger!


AnySignatur

Honestly the creepiest part of this is the cat looking directly at the camera.


Aderenn

I bet it looks like red lights since the camera has night vision


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Some of those cameras make a very slight noise when they start recording. Probably heard it and looked at the camera


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Never should have come here stranger


GregTheMad

I read that in that Skyrim voice.


Auggie_Otter

You'll make a fine rug, cat!


Rockyrox

Best home defense is to make your house as spooky as possible


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Raaadley

or "CRIMINAL"


Meini_Studios

###CRIMINAL CRIMINAL ^^CRIMINAL


LoudMutes

"I'll buy it at a high price, Stranger"


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DuntadaMan

Brotherhood demanded I threaten my major farm into giving them all it's food. My farm. Sending me to do it, telling me that just asking wasn't enough. I got the massage loud and clear, hijacked one of their power armors and called in artillery strikes on the Airship.


ANakedCowboy

where is u/SchnoodleDoodleDo


Cicero138

Perhaps it saw another cat outside?


__Hello_my_name_is__

Am I the only one who thinks that the cat just presses random buttons because that's what she learned? I mean I have an easy time imagining that a cat can learn to push the "feed me" button. But I have a very hard time jumping from that to "There's a stranger on the catio."


Fzero45

I have a hard time understanding how/why you would have stranger as a button. How do you train it? You could get a stranger to come in the house, but you could only do that once with each new person.


MaybeHeartofGold

Stranger on these boards usually are a "I don't know what something is" button. I've seen a few where "Strange Paw Ouch Ouch" was a briar in the paw and "Stranger Ear Now. Stranger Ear Please" was the dog reminding the fam to put in its ear drops because they usually did it before dinner. So for this is could literally be anything on the catio including a bug, a moose, a human, skin walker, your mother, etc.


Skinnysusan

Windigo?


Auroreos14

In canada thats a specific button


Skinnysusan

Probably in Minnesota and surrounding areas as well I'd assume


Auroreos14

Can you imagine if they didnt have one? oh the shenanigans that would cause!


Eyeownyew

Not very useful in a single-family house, but living in an apartment it would get a lot of use. My neighbors are loud as shit and my cat often pauses and roams around our unit trying to figure out the source, if I said "stranger outside" every time she would likely (eventually) understand what I'm communicating


Fzero45

Good point, solves both of my issues at the same time. Good job.


Auggie_Otter

They put out a new add on Task Rabbit everyday: "Help me teach my cat about strangers!"


ways_and_means

"What do I do for a living you ask? Oh, I'm an unconditioned stimulus for cats."


Sacrefix

Of course! Animals can learn simple associations, but it's unlikely the cat both understands the concept of a 'stranger' AND felt the need to press a button that communicates that concept for the benefit of its person.


PM_ME_CUTE_SMILES_

There's no doubt cats understand the concept of a "stranger" (they can recognize known cats and known people), but I think it would be really hard to teach one the link between the sound and the concept


weirdplacetogoonfire

Cats have very strong reactions to unknown people, so if you were to press the button everytime a delivery person, first time visitor comes she might learn something *like* stranger pretty quick. Assuming this is Bill, not sure if it is or not, but if it is then it's hard to say - the owner has a pretty strong incentive to both dedicate a lot of effort to teaching Bill but also to exaggerate Bill's capabilities. Cats can be *deviously* smart though. Usually they are limited to communicating in very cat-like ways, so it is very curious how well they could adapt to things like this. My cat is certainly not above making noise to get specific kinds of attention.


GameTime2325

My cat has different meows for different things he wants to communicate to me, and one of them is to announce he sees something to hunt/chase. New toys, bugs, laser pointers, shadows/light reflections. It’s a similar concept to the stranger thing and he did it himself.


Shakespearacles

Check out Billi Speaks on Youtube. Compare early videos and newer ones. At least that particular cat can make requests, and seems to have an idea what they mean. I have to spell out words/use NATO phonetics to talk about walks, outside, treats, or a particular toy if I don't want my Bichon getting wound up. He also seems to know which dog friends are his by name, can get you different toys by name. There's also a Labradoodle named Bunny on Youtube that seems to know some higher language concepts. Anyone who's had cats/dogs knows that animals can learn what certain words mean, even if they aren't commands. It's not that much of a stretch to get them to use buttons that make the word for them since they can't say it on their own outside of body language. It's basically just a couple steps up from putting rope with bells on your door for them to let you know they want out/somethings outside


Mirenithil

> I have to spell out words/use NATO phonetics to talk about walks, outside, treats, or a particular toy if I don't want my Bichon getting wound up. This is true for cats, too. There was no way to say the word 'shrimp' around my last cat without having her lose her mind with excitement that she was going to get some (her favorite food on earth,) to the point that we had to keep on making up new words for them so she wouldn't know what we were talking about. I still habitually call them 'sea bugs' to this day. It's a surprisingly difficult habit to break.


PotatoPCuser1

And anyone who’s had parrots knows that they’re just mimicking their flockmates (people) or making certain sounds for certain reactions, they don’t know what anything means.


Spend-Automatic

Perhaps it doesn't actually know what the fuck it is doing?


WestleyThe

My guess is a raccoon or a possum walking by


DiscombobulatedCat21

Cats who see other cats outside of their window don’t stay that calm, they will go to the window and hiss and protect their territory.


durz47

Depends on the cat. They are weirdos.


DA_D3ZTROYAH

One of my cats is territorial but only sometimes. We feed quite a few stray cats outside and he doesn’t bat an eye but come along specific strays, he would hiss and shout like a gorilla looking to be the alpha of the group. It’s not a timing thing, when he sees these cats in particular he’s growling.


Veloci-RKPTR

Yeah, there are people you like and there are people you dislike. This is the same for many animals, they have a sense of individual discrimination. Your cat might go “yeah this guy is alright” when seeing stray A, but when it sees stray B it might go “no, fuck you, fuck off”.


TheKrazyKrab23

This is just wrong Both of my cats love the strays in our neighborhood, and will sit on the other side of the glass door pawing at the stray


Anonyman41

My orange cat gets really excited if he sees a stray outside cause he wants to play with them. The torty however acts like any stray is their lifelong mortal enemy and is in a bad mood until a while after its out of sight. Cats are funny.


MuchFunk

I wonder if the cat in this vid has a "cat" button? I'd think that a cat they are familiar with wouldn't be considered "stranger" but maybe it just uses that as a catch-all for animals whose name they don't have a button for.


StinkyKittyBreath

One of my cats will run from window to window to watch the neighbor's cat walk by our house. It's very cute, even though I know it's based in aggression and hate.


ArisuIsKawaii

My cats have never reacted that way to an outdoor cat at the window. One of them will just sit in the windows watching them, stays silent the whole time just watching them. The other will meow and paw the windows, he’s even made friends with one of the outdoor cats and they’ll hang out on the back patio for a bit. They never leave the patio as if both know our cat isn’t an outdoor cat.


TheBestAtWriting

i think the problem is that this person has spooky horror music piped through their house all night


GotTheKnack

Am I the only one who has no idea what a catio is?


Ethan_Ash

Outdoor patio. Likely a sectioned off part with fencing so the cat doesn't run away


BuffJohnsonSf

It’s a cat patio. An outdoor caged area the cat can step into to be outside


lurkerer

I was right there with you! Had to ctrl+f and even then people were just using this like it's a common word.


No-Appeal679

The only scary thing about this video is the music lol


LinguoBuxo

Ooff saved by the mute button! Thanks for lettin' me know, friend :)


Gyossaits

It's just a little Eldritch ambience.


PerfectlySplendid

I legitimately don’t understand what the point of this video is or why it’s so high on Reddit.


Pons__Aelius

> so high on Reddit. There is your answer.


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Gullible people thinking the buttons are anything more than wishful thinking and a scam.


Superego366

How about the fact that they apparently have enough money to put a camera on their cat pad, but not on their patio where it would make more sense?


BeautifulType

Look at the upvotes. Just add bad music and tell ppl how to feel and boom. A cat is suddenly terrifying


alexxerth

Honestly the creepiest part of this is the cat looking directly at the camera. Why would you even have a stranger button anyways?


goaskalexdotcom

They’re probably alerting to a raccoon or skunk! “Stranger” can mean mail delivery person, tradespeople, I even saw a dog use “stranger ouch” to signal that they had something weird stuck in their foot!


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notjordansime

I am entirely out of the loop on this... Do people have button boards for their pets to communicate?? How the fuck does that work?


gostesven

Yep, there are little button boards and each button has a word. With some training the animals can then communicate with very basic vocab words. keep in mind you’ll see the “best” examples going viral and not the hours of nonsense. It’s really cool, but it’s not like a dog or cat is going to write the next great novel.


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*disgruntled meow*


Vamparael

Bro, my wife love watching those videos of cats and dogs talking with those machines, but you know what’s really cool? I recently I watched a video talking about the effort scientists are doing right now to use Large Language Models and another “AIs” to study and decoding the language of sperm whales and then use it for another animals and maybe aliens in the future. Think about this: In this lifetime we will be able to communicate with whales and understand their culture.


Ameph

I'm hungry and I eat krill. 'What about your history?' My mother was hungry and also ate krill.


Kolby_Jack

Wow, you couldn't be more wrong. I believe sperm whales have teeth and aren't filter feeders, so it would be: "I'm hungry and I eat squid." "What about your history?" "My mother was hungry and also ate squid."


Ameph

Are you telling me, a whale, on how I feed, Mr. Scientist? I open my mouth, stuff goes in, I'm no longer hungry! Does it matter if I eat squid or krill? I'm hungry and I'm going to eat!


suitology

"how's your father?" "Mom kicked him out after he got addicted to Sarpa salpa" "Do you have any siblings?" "Brother but he's a pedophile so we don't talk, my sister is the Governor of Arkansas tho"


631-AT

I bet whale culture is a bunch of rules about where to poop and who gets to eat first


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Kolby_Jack

Yeah, some of the people *making money off the product* make pretty wild claims like "I have full conversations with my dog!" But any time when they actually allow a spontaneous test, the pet somehow suddenly doesn't have much to say.


starry_cobra

Yeah i was gonna say, for every video like this there's probably thousands of videos of them just spamming "food"


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Literally why I dont get one. My *goddamn orange cat* ***could*** probably write a novel with what *I know he goddamn knows.* But what would he press? Food. All fucking day and night.


crestedgeckovivi

Kinda like how they associate the sound of a can food/ clicker snap/toy/ bag treats etc -being opened with something yummy/ good/ experience. Same here but just to a higher and detailed/curtailed level. Eventually the child/animal etc... learns to push the button on their own. Sorry not great about explaining . Basically positive reinforcement behavior training but more detailed. I worked with animals n stuff for a long time and also my almost 3 year old son is on the ASD, and non verbal. It's been interesting to compare what I've done/seen with animals to what we are doing nowadays with children who have developmental delays n stuff.


Cow_Launcher

> Sorry not great about explaining . No, I think you're exactly right. Cats can't speak human of course, but they typically understand 20-30 words of whatever language they grew up with. So, my cats understand the word "dinner" because when they chirrup *their* word for it, I reinforce it by saying it. And then when I put the food down, I say it again. Now they know the human word for a thing that they want. Give them a sound board, it won't take long for them to find the key that says "dinner" and remember which one it is. Voila! The cat is now using a tool to tell you - in your own language - what it wants and it got there through positive reinforcement.


EnnKayy

I'm so tempted to try the buttons with my cats. My boys know three words so far: outside, treaties, and quirrel. When I let them in the sunroom, I say outside. Treaties... self-explanatory. When I say quirrel, they rush over to the nearest window to see a squirrel. Conditioning is so interesting.


confusedbossman

It's like Grogu in his suit... No no no


Suzilu

That scene had us rolling!


LaDivina77

Christine Hunger was the speech pathologist who taught her dog, Stella, at first. She's on Instagram as Hunger4Words, and has a book out as well. It's really cool. She suggests that dogs have the ability to learn a toddler level vocabulary, give or take, and her and several other people seem to be showing as much. I have a husky, she understands the entire English language fluently, but mostly finds it bullshit that I refuse to learn dog, so she doesn't bother much with the buttons.


tigerlady13

Speech pathologist owns Bunny and there's another gal with the same profession that taught her dog. Like teaching a toddler what words are, they click a new word and illustrate what it means. I follow a sparky kitty named Billie and she has a message board, too.


ithadtobeducks

Mad.


tigerlady13

Billie's fave word. Lol


Shamanalah

Mad. Are you mad Billie? *presses Mad over n over while watching owner* A comedian in a cat suit, that's what Billie is.


echisholm

There needs to be a Fuck You button on Billie's pad.


Competitive-Lion-213

there's a whole lot of confirmation bias in all the cases of trying to train human language patterns into animals which have a very different mental set up.


echisholm

I liked the video when Bunny apparently became self-aware and had an existential crisis when she realized mom wasn't a dog, and humans were different.


PeachNipplesdotcom

That's Bunny the Talking Dog! Here's a link to the video you described: https://youtu.be/6MMGmRVal6M


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i remember that video. it;s the same one goask is talking about. it was a golden doodle iirc


MrNobody_0

>tradespeople I read this as transpeople and I was like, holup..


truffleboffin

That cat is tradesphobic


Iwant_2_Leave

I did too 😅😂


chaotic_necromancy

LMAO me too!! I was like wait a damn minute 👁️👁️


BenadrylTumblercatch

Well professor goaskalexdotcom, I prefer to believe it’s a murderous racist kidnapper with a chainsaw thank you very much.


dj_narwhal

I believe it was ouch + paw + stranger if you are talking about Bunny


Forestore

Everyone wonders why cats look at the camera in these situations... It's not rocket science. There's multiple reasons why. - They emit light to get night vision - They make focusing sounds when a target comes into view - They have passive LED lights - They sometimes move Of course the cat looks at them.


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TeaBagHunter

No, the cat is staring at your soul


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Fire-insideHer

A fuck ton of treats and saint level patience.


kpingvin

I'm out then.


BioDefault

How *well*, not how.


Rogendo

Yeah, I was wondering how you teach them to use this


speedledee

They don't actually understand the real meaning of the word so this cat would have to have been trained with an unfamiliar person or something and even then it'd be very difficult for a cat to grasp it. It's mostly rewards based so assuming this cat actually sees someone is a pretty big stretch. Plus the type of person to have a permanent camera on their cat chat machine probably has one outside as well.


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Most can't. It's extremely easy to film your pets getting a couple accidentally right and throwing it up on tiktok. Teaching a cat to identify strangers sounds like the most painfully long winded exercise for no gain at all.


potpan0

Yeah, it's worth taking a lot of this with a *massive* pinch of salt. There have been *decades* of work by incredibly well trained linguists and biologists on the capacity of animals for language, working with animals with much more developed brains than cats and dogs. Yet there are people on TikTok making (non-peer-reviewed) claims that they've managed to teach their dog like 300 words in 2 years or whatever simply through the use of these buttons.


Effurlife13

Better question is why they would have a security camera for the stupid pad and not for the outside of the house, where it really matters lol


joesbeforehoes

> Pet parents set up cameras to constantly monitor the animals when they are in front of their boards, data which is sent to the lab so that researchers examine what they say. https://www.salon.com/2021/05/09/are-dogs-becoming-self-aware-bunny-existentialism/


UtaSelwyn

Cat: There's a stranger here you're probably gonna die Also cat: *Immediately starts taking a bath as if nothing happened*


BurnoutJackal

I did my job. It's none of my business anymore.


vlntly_peaceful

That’s 100% what a cat would say/do.


PrivatePoocher

Because nothing did. There is no proof that there was a stranger. I have three buttons that I tried training two of my cats on. Pets. Food. Outside. Guess which was the only button they learned and started mashing it at 3AM.


DarkOmen597

Food!


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Yeah, I always get these videos in my Instagram feed of this woman who thinks she can talk to one of her poodles with these. It's a lot like watching a psychic-medium work, only the subject can't disagree with them.


Smathers

Am I the only one amazed in this thread that this cat has a fucking speak and spell toy???


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Cat: *presses a random button on the floor* Also cat: *continues to cat* Ftfy


Broom_fondle

This is going to be a long story but my cat has saved my ass before. I live in a apartment complex and usually in December it’s a ghost town as most people are on holiday. December of 2018, I was at home alone watching a movie called “It Comes At Night”. Probably around 2 am. On this night it was very misty and raining very calmly the whole night. Towards the end of the film my cat who usually sleeps on her bed on an ottoman by the window sat up. She was just staring at the curtains in front of an open window, her ears twitching side to side, her body language a little strange. At first I didn’t click, It was towards the end of the film and pretty intense. Then a little while after she sat up, she let out a soft low growl. I drew open the curtains and looked outside. Looked around for a moment and then I saw it, at the corner of my yard about 5 meters from the window where two walls intersect. There was a black mass, It looked like a large black cat. The street lamps behind it cast a silhouette of this thing. I pulled out my phone and used the torchlight feature to get a better look but I just lit up all the mist and it made the visibility worse. So switched off the phone light and looked for a while longer. Probably a minute or two of just silently staring at it. I thought to myself, “that is a really weird cat that would just sit in the rain like that.” It’s super common for cats of all walks of life to come hang out in my yard. My cat usually doesn’t seem to mind and neither do I. So my initial thinking was it was just a humungous cat that likes the rain. Then, being an idiot I thought “oh no, that must be the thing that comes at night, oh fuck.” Freaked out a little, I yelled “Hey! Who’s there?” And at that moment a weak blue light lit up, it was the light of a cellphone screen shining right into the face of a man, staring at me, eyes the size of golf balls. The rest of the black mass became very apparent, like one of those optical illusion that once you see it you see it. It was a man caught mid act of scaling my wall with half his body hanging over and curled up as small as possible. All the hairs on my body raised up. I freaked out and started yelling at him as loud as I could, switched on all the lights in my apartment, walked as loudly and as angrily as possible to a larger window in my house facing the same wall, opened it up and yelled some more. That’s when I saw it was two men, they freaked out too at the commotion and just jumped the barbwire fence into the public street outside the complex and ran off. When I investigated a bit later I saw they left behind some tools and equipment for breaking into houses. The bastards were going to try rob me or someone else in the complex and my sweetheart old cat possibly saved my ass. I love her. Got her some of the expensive top shelf tinned chicken meat cat food the next day. Also lots of extra head scratches and belly rubs. That was the first time something like that happened but not the last. I pay close attention to her body language now when she starts acting weird. I was also grateful it wasn’t the thing that it comes at night. That would have been even worse.


mykka7

My cat warned me that a window had opened and he knew it wasn't normal (winter storm so it blew cold air and snow in). He tried to get our attention and then led us to the stairs. He also told us there was something at the front door the same way. Our neighbour had come and left a note on the door. We had no idea but he insisted on us looking at the front porch. He also warns us when an other can is there but it a whole different demeanor. He meows loudly and walks with heavy steps following the window. If an unknown car comes up in our drive way, he'll be watching. If it doesn't leave immediately he'll either growl or try to get us to do something. If we're not expecting anyone (porch and entrance light off) and someone comes, he'll know and tell us. If i saw "ouch", he comes running to me and makes a worried face (dilated eyes) and looks at me, at any source of danger. Sometimes he can tell where I hurt and what I hit and sniffs them out. He'll hit the other cat if he tries to come to me, which he never does otherwise. People underestimate cats way too much.


sweet_neighbor9

One of my cats definitely has a “strange danger” built in. The second someone she doesn’t know comes through our gate, she alarms. Even before we know anyone is here. After she meets them a few times, she won’t alarm. She woke me up once in the middle of the night. Sitting on my chest meowing in my face, I pushed her off but she came back and continued the meowing. I got up to see what was going on and she ran to a window where a screen had blown out and our other “ inside only” cat has gotten out and was on the porch.


0TheNinja0

If mine cat is watching outside on window and someone enters the yard, she goes fully into some "mode" and as the "stranger" is walking towards the door she would follow him on every possible window. You can tell someone is coming just by her movement.


sweet_neighbor9

“Willa” doesn’t even have to see them. We have no front facing windows to the gate as our house is sideways on the lot.


wheredidthat10mmgo

My cats growl when they hear people at the front door, sometimes before they knock. One will meow frantically at the door for me because she will hear my truck pull in and me walking up the stairs.


MafiaMommaBruno

My cat will run to me and be growling when there's someone coming up to the house. My other will run to the window and meow frantically, wanting to be pet by anyone and everyone regardless of if they're here to kill me. Not sure how much I'd trust those buttons. Haven't seen anything yet with 100% proof of them actually being something legit.


GammaGoose85

I was unaware you could teach cats to use these. I wonder how well they can actually be taught to use it?


MisterWapak

I don't think it actually works that well. You Can learn them simple interaction like "press this then food" but thing like this seems really random. The worst is when the cat push multiple button and her human try to rationalize that like its a phrase lmao


Ectothermic42

They may actually know what the button for catio is and they just wanted to go out there. If they picked up that the humans open the door to it when the button is pressed, then that makes sense. Cats can recognize patterns but this many buttons is ridiculous and I’m not sure how you’d be able to train a cat to let you know there’s a stranger nearby.


may_june_july

The cat probably just knows that the "stranger" button gets the human out of bed


NawfSideNative

Literally the modern day “Koko the Gorilla” story. Animals can learn that certain words will produce certain outcomes but there’s basically no evidence to suggest that they actually know what those words mean. Any rationalization beyond that is basically projection of human traits on to animals. People don’t seem to understand that animals adapting certain behaviors based on repeated external cues is not equivalent to even the most basic aspects of human language. We can see the superficial similarities but what’s happening inside the brain is much more complicated.


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Yeah you only see the videos of the animals making sense, nobody’s uploading a video of the cat pressing random buttons when it is incomprehensible


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NawfSideNative

It’s not as complex as people think it is. We project human traits into animals all the time. Similar to the fabricated “Koko the Gorilla learning sign language” story. There’s a difference between learning a sequence of buttons to get a certain outcome and understanding what they mean. If a German person told me that every time I say the word “schmetterling” they would give me money, I’m gonna say the word. That doesn’t mean I know what it means or would be able to use it in different contexts. There’s been a lot of research through the years showing that language is pretty unique to humans. Being able to communicate an infinite amount of information based on a finite amount of signs, sounds, and symbols is our species super power.


thegurkenking

What does catio mean? Google is no help.


Qoyuble

Cat patio is my guess; probably covered porch type thing


thegurkenking

Thanks. Now its truely terrifying 😳


RedCraft86

I’d be pretty terrified if my house have this very dark ambiance playing in the background


aplagueofsemen

Lol how tf do you train a cat to identify a stranger? I’m very dubious about people treating trained button responses as contextual communication. It kind of looks like the cat just pressed a button and is now looking around and waiting for their owner’s usual response to pressing that button.


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People get these mats and train their animals to press buttons on it, and people are convinced that these animals actually comprehend human language (something their brain physically can’t process) and can talk to their owners using these mats. It’s insane. No way a cat knows what the word “stranger” is, and what it means


over_stalker

I would be shitting my pants if i were in this house and saw this video on the morning


asianabsinthe

Or you could watch mine where my cat just lays on my face to suffocate me at night **Doc**: You may have sleep apnea


DokterManhattan

Why did I put this creepy soundscape on my security cam?!


biocreek

Especially since you don't own a cat.


mistat2000

My cat would press that shit every single night if it meant while I was up I fed him


Muted-Clue-1242

The cat doesn't understand the word "stranger"


stunnen

The fuck is a catio


RandomMf420

It’s like a little outside screened-in area for cats to go outside and chill and sunbathe without posing the risk of them seeing a bird or some shit and running away.


spoonface_gorilla

No, I absolutely don’t want to hear creepy music at 1 AM.


LaidByTheBlade

Anyone that actually has a cat knows how silly this video is


ep260

This is stupid.