Japanese Twitter’s definitive collection of “Wait, that’s not a cat!” moments【Photos】
Cats: Tricking us hoomans since, well, forever.
Felines can be tricky little buggers, as we’re all well aware. Unlike their canine cousins, even if you shower cats with love and affection, they’re likely to turn up their noses at dinner and snub your attempts to get a fluffy hug after a long day at work. But for some reason, they’re able to manipulate us humans into coming back again and again for more hairballs, dead mice, and litterbox messes!
In fact, it turns out that we’re so infatuated with cats that we’re even fooled into thinking that regular objects are cats when they’re actually not. For instance, take this Twitter user who was puzzled as to why the cat pictured below didn’t flee or give a response when he whistled…only to feel like an idiot once he got closer realized that it was actually a tree stump:
このノラ猫全然逃げねえなと思って口笛吹きながら近づいたけど木の根っこだった。周りから見たら俺木の根っこに話しかけてるアホみたいになってた。 https://t.co/bjC76aVssT
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顔 (@k_a_obukuro) July 23, 2016
Another unwary victim fell into a similar trap:
実は木の一部。近づいても猫に見えるから視覚って不思議。 https://t.co/j4fMKu3BAs
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ダイP提督【鹿屋】 (@daiP_Tetoku) April 07, 2016
You probably didn’t know you needed this collection of such “Hey, that’s not a cat!” moments, but perhaps you can learn a thing or two so that you don’t fall for the same mistakes as the following people!
@k_a_obukuro 素敵な空目猫、拝見しました。 自分も10年程前にチェーンでできた子を見てから出会えていないので、貴重な体験かとw https://t.co/JrRw1KtY9p
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城久地 宙@佐藤なにがし恐怖の正体 (@shirokuji_chu) July 24, 2016
▼ Cat, or cleaning tool?
猫かと思ったらちがった。わら http://t.co/hdSv8Q3fiO
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箱崎 (@anananfack) August 08, 2015
▼ Really now, the chances of finding a cat on the way to the station are much higher than those of finding an abandoned afro…
駅前にうずくまってる猫が居ると思ったらアフロだったちくしょう http://t.co/nu1AFGL7g5
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ニリツ/3日目東シ56a (@Ann_NH) January 06, 2015
▼ Tricky earmuffs!
黒猫かと思ったら耳あてだった https://t.co/FcAxlJ2y0F
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しもふり (@shimohuriniku) February 11, 2016
▼ What a cute little…slipper?!
おとなしい猫かと思ったらスリッパ(片方)だった https://t.co/MpKg67uL5p
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福山タクは前未来 (@TacFukuyama_HEA) March 19, 2016
▼ This user made kitty noises only to discover a large scrubbing brush.
ネコだと思ってニャーニャー言いながら近寄っていったらでっかいタワシだった http://t.co/nh6rzpe615
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つありん(ご) (@two_nothing) January 20, 2015
▼ Someone lost part of their fur coat…but not a cat.
猫かなと思ってにじり寄ったらコートとかに付いてるファーだった件 http://t.co/FTzPJtQbGD
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あおʕꙬʔ (@slts_17) December 12, 2014
▼ That incredibly catlike shape is actually a rock.
猫かと思ったら、石だった。等々力渓谷にて。 https://t.co/5ogmOaXkGu
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(@hirotarohoppe) April 10, 2016
▼ Funny how trash bags are looking more and more catlike these days.
今年一番ネコかと思ったゴミ https://t.co/EVRxpQDDzp
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伊藤 沼太郎沼 (@Asimov0803) April 30, 2016
▼ Another one!
猫かと思ったらゴミだった。 https://t.co/tNKtEQjC6B
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徳川龍之介 (@binbinstory) April 19, 2016
▼ The next two stains must be signs from our feline overlords.
猫かと思ったらシミでした( ´・ω・` ) https://t.co/enF2A8FKaF
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寝癖 (@_bybybyby) February 14, 2016
猫に見える https://t.co/7Z5eSmCop2
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さなか (@wtftokage) April 17, 2016
▼ Excuse me, but isn’t your broccoli looking a little furry today?
猫かと思ったらブロッコリーだった… https://t.co/2LpmX9fQWm
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ぽんこつん (@pnktun) January 04, 2016
▼ Don’t mix up cats with half-eaten rice balls! (What an onigiri’s doing on the roof must be a whole other story…)
猫かと思ったら食いかけのおにぎり笑 http://t.co/w9vysWPmix
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根田恒玖 (@tsune1022) September 22, 2015
▼ Is that just an incredibly well-timed picture of flames, or did you set your cat on fire??
今日家でバーベキューをしたからTwitter用に写真を取ったら火が猫に見えて惚れ惚れしてる。 もう猫にしか見えない。 https://t.co/ggUivXDkTa
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秋夜 (@gtgtgtgtgtg) July 16, 2016
▼ Cats even pop up in your hot chocolate.
スマホいじっててココア飲もって思ったらこんな跡(?)がついてた笑 猫に見える笑 https://t.co/Ra0DXFgCyp
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ななこ (@n1a1n2a8) July 06, 2016
▼ Didn’t you guess there would be one in the clouds?
さっき見つけた雲、めっちゃ猫に見える!! http://t.co/CCH4F031Zg
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トム松 (@Atom1207muda) September 13, 2014
▼ In all fairness to the person tweeting this picture, this dog must be having some major identity issues.
猫かと思ったら犬やった笑笑 https://t.co/Xfk2gzaVfB
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おおえ たけと (@OeTaketo) December 01, 2015
▼ Nope, it’s actually a tanuki (raccoon dog)!
猫かと思ったらたぬきだ https://t.co/0T725uPTaW
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みしま (@mishima_YE) January 15, 2016
▼ There’s some funny monkey business going on here…
猫かと思ったら誰だてめぇ https://t.co/8VshziG8Xt
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かきぴー (@kakipitatuya) November 01, 2015
Finally, let’s end with an exciting discovery made by someone on a plane who looked down and happened to see a land mass shaped like nothing other than a fat cat:
昨日、飛行機の上から太った猫みたいな形の島が見えた。調べてみたら奄美大島の近くにある上ノ根島という無人島らしい http://t.co/42ekEePtOH
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ロプロス (@ropross) March 21, 2015
It’s actually an uninhabited island called Kannonejima, which is part of the Tokara island archipelago in Kagoshima Prefecture. That has got to be some divine intervention, if nothing is!
太った猫に見える無人島! https://t.co/9nhxPhijg2
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ありがとたくま! (@takumi12121) June 14, 2016
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