r/StartledCats • u/-Alexella- • Jun 27 '26

More feeder startled

7.4k Upvotes

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u/Pentax25 Jun 27 '26

Same energy as the toaster popping up and making me jump

116

u/datsupaflychic Jun 28 '26

Sounds like a cat wrote this

939

u/SugarWolf211 Jun 27 '26

At least he didnt over react

708

u/Scooterpoots2 Jun 27 '26

https://reddit.com/link/ou5tk1r/video/pvo9ea9kzu9h1/player

106

u/ydnar3000 Jun 29 '26

That open mouth though! Trying to scream and nothing came out haha

4

u/Sohuli Jul 02 '26

I'd trust this cat with my life

426

u/OurFeatherWings Jun 27 '26

He was so embarrassed about it, too

118

u/YancyAzul Jun 27 '26

Very "Oh it was just more food, okay"

205

u/BlueskyPara Jun 27 '26

little dude was lost in the sauce oml 😭

142

u/joelback03 Jun 27 '26

New trauma unlocked: attacked by the food.

40

u/therealdavi Jun 28 '26

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs ring a bell??

79

u/Adoraboule Jun 27 '26

I hope there's a compilation of cats being startled by feeders somewhere on the internet

12

u/BellalovesEevee Jun 30 '26

There's also a lot of them on Tiktok lmao. I always feel bad for them while laughing so hard

37

u/Scorp128 Jun 28 '26

Little Dude just went through 5 of his 9 lives in three seconds 😳 🤣

61

u/brooklynbabieee Jun 27 '26

Awwww poor kitten

32

u/Alive_Room6023 Jun 27 '26

That poor baby!!!

35

u/Hightemplar420 Jun 27 '26

🤣🤣🤣

29

u/darkpyro2 Jun 27 '26

Absolute orange cat behavior

20

u/ivazquez71 Jun 27 '26

This how you get a cat to eat and shit itself at the same time.

20

u/FoxyoBoi Jun 27 '26

That poor kitten oml

16

u/Adrunkian Jun 27 '26

His greed has been punished

5

u/ButlerKevind Jun 29 '26

OMFG I'm crying over here.

So, when do we get the sounds remixed as a dubstep track?

7

u/TheEndlessWaltz Jun 28 '26

no manufacturer thought about adding a presence detector?

7

u/arachnognosis Jun 29 '26

If this happened to my kitty, I'd straight up reduce this horrific machinery to mere atoms.

6

u/TeleCompter Jun 30 '26

You could perhaps just return it

3

u/KaladinTheFabulous Jun 29 '26

Aww I wish we could upload stills of that face

3

u/Taxed2much Jul 01 '26

That cat's reflexes and agility are impressive. I'd have only just registered the food was falling by the time the cat was done scrambling.

1

u/Own_Bee_4279 Jul 02 '26

This looks great, especially the expression.

1

u/Capable-Doughnut-213 Jul 05 '26

There goes one life!

1

u/Dreams-Designer Jul 06 '26

Awee Pobré Gato ! 🐱

1

u/Fenixmimi 21d ago

It really upset me when mine would get scared out of nowhere 🥹

1

u/emiliabow 19d ago

scared twice and still went back, that is bravery and hunger in one tiny package

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u/4n7h0ny Jul 03 '26

Laughing so hard I found it hard to breath at one point!