Mildly Startled Cats Being Mighty Silly

You know that cat look - when they suddenly pause and glare at something, pupils slightly dilated, curious with a look of very mild confusion on their face? Yeah, that look. The look they give the bird that sits on their windowsill as if someone dared give it permission to sit there. Rude bird. The subreddit r/MildlyStartledCats knows what we're talking about.

It's that cat look that you, as the owner of said cat, cannot help but laugh at. I mean, cats are always hilarious, that's kinda their thing. They're silly and have a tendency to zoom right into the wall sometimes. But what makes them special is that, really, even their very mild confusion by simple, totally normal things, is hilarious to anyone who loves cats at all.

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"I turned the light on."

via u/LavastormSW
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"I woke up from a nap and had the audacity to look at her."

via u/Akira_and_Barns
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"A flock of geese went honking by"

via u/TrickyDaisy
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"My cat Tuna Fish’s reaction to seeing me in the bath. She’s the most expressive cat I’ve ever had!"

via u/tacos_fall_apart
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"Came home from work, caught her stealing laundry"

via u/-Xyriene-
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"What do you mean it's not for me?"

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"I snapped my fingers to get her to look at me for this picture."

via u/LavastormSW
08
"Philip saw a bird on HIS balcony"

via u/PredictablyArbitrary
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"I asked her if she was still growing"

via u/noputa
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"Hummus confuses Peter a lot"

via u/nexusbitch
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"I walked around the corner. That is all."

via u/MachoEvilMonkey
12
"(Now grown up) kitten meets Roomba. Roomba won this encounter"

via u/FinancialTennis6
13
"Daddy dropped a pan and he stopped mid lick."

via u/KatesGivawayAccount
14
"I was told my little gray kitty belongs here"

via u/SabrinaACC
15
"My grandmas cat heard thunder."

via u/pru13
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"He saw something out the window"

via u/supershark09
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"Izzy spooked herself while "helping" with the laundry."

via u/SirNibblertheCat
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"She heard a noise outside (feat. complementary blep)"

via u/biodelic