Owner chases after hooligan cat who escaped, both freeze when they see 2 raccoons, the cat hilariously runs straight back to its owner and the two flee in sheer panic: 'We just stared at each other like what the F was that'

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Jun 3, 2026 4:45 PM EDT

One thing that cats love to do is get themselves into trouble and then stare at you like it's your fault that it happened.

You know that saying about cats and curiosity? Yeah, it is entirely based on real life. This curiosity is exactly why, despite the fact that our cats are beyond spoiled, are given everything that they could ever need in their lives, they still attempt to dash out of the front door every time it opens. They are such house cats that they don't know what they have. All they know is curiosity. So our cats escape. Mostly, they fail to do so, because we catch them, but sometimes, they succeed, and the most beautiful thing about it is that they always seem just as surprised as we are.

The few times that our cat ran out of the front door, she didn't make it two steps out before turning around and looking at us and wondering where things went wrong. As if it is our fault that she succeeded in running out. It's lucky that we live in a building, and she doesn't have too far to run, because if she eneded up in the situation that this cat and its owner were in, we can only hope that she would have made the same decision and run into our arms.

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Cats always get themselves into trouble in the most ridiculous ways. We're sure that he knew he wasn't allowed to run out like this. We're sure that he was terrified out of his mind by these new surroundings. But he went ahead anyway. Because he's a rascal. A hooligan. And we're sure that when you came back to the house, after all of this madness happened, in his mind, somehow, in some way, he was thinking that this was all at least partially your fault.
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Basically. We're actually glad that the self preservation instinct won this round. Cats sometimes fling themselves right into danger, just because it seems more interesting than safety. There was no telling whether he would run back to his owner or straight toward the raccoons. It's a meowracle that he made the righe choice that time around.
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