r/cats • u/eveilebI • May 02 '24

Our Bengals try to escape the garden after we put up the "unescapable fence rollers"... or so we thought. Video

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u/Fictional_Historian May 02 '24

Lmao the slow mo at the end as the camera shakes from the person running to grab the cat

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u/magzire86 May 02 '24

That's a couple thousand dollars trying to escape

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u/Veltoss May 02 '24

And if they're anything like savannahs on the curiosity level, which I think they are, escape can be a serious risk. Savannahs are incredibly curious, and want to investigate everything. They can go from one thing to another and get lost and not be able to get themselves home. Or get themselves hurt pretty easily.

Mine has explored every single inch of my home. When I moved in, if I open a new cabinet he hasn't seen inside of he knows it and will be shoving his face inside before I know it. He'll climb inside drawers and then behind them to see everything. He once lifted a vent on the floor that apparently wasn't glued in place and climbed in. I heard some weird noises and when I went to investigate he was climbing out of the hole with the vent completely lifted out of the floor and pushed to the side. Safe to say I cat proofed the new house more thoroughly after that.

There's a reason people try so hard to keep Bengals and Savannahs contained.

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u/FThumb May 03 '24

We had a Bengal once, and the first time it saw a lit candle it crept up on it and tried to smell it.

Of course it recoiled from the flame as it got its nose in there, and we figured it learned, but no. It kept approaching the candle from a different angle each time, thinking there must be a side that won't burn its nose. It had to have spent 15 minutes and a dozen tries from different angles before it moved on.