Fear can come in all shapes and sizes from the small spider to the existential crisis but for our pets they can be much stranger. Viral videos and challenges have gone round in which pet cats jump at ...

But it turns out, cats aren’t really afraid of cucumbers. They’re afraid of snakes, predators and random objects sneaking up behind them. Some theorize cucumbers look similar enough to snakes that if ...

Clips of cats springing into the air at the sight of a cucumber have become a familiar part of internet culture, but animal ...

So you’ve probably seen that viral video showing cats having the bejeezus scared out of them by a particularly snake-like vegetable: the lowly cucumber. Hilarious, right? Sure—if you’re a human. As a ...

I’m not exactly sure how I happened to get sucked into the internet vortex of “cats versus cucumbers” YouTube videos. I’m not normally so susceptible to the charms of cat videos, but this overwhelming ...