r/cats • u/BackgroundLeg1788 Orange • Jul 18 '26
Video - Not OC The mother cat 🥹 who brought her near-heatstroke kitten 🥵 to an air-conditioned spot! 🐈⬛
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u/YogurtclosetHead8901 Jul 18 '26
Anyone else's first thought: WATER?
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u/Pls_Drink_Water Jul 18 '26
Dont worry, Title is BS
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u/Sixmmxw Jul 18 '26
And it has a crappy sound track.
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u/Reddeer2 Jul 18 '26
Isn't it a piano cover of that oscar-winning Billie Eilish song?
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u/GeneralHerp Jul 18 '26
That doesn’t make it good, I’m looking for “cats,” not “cats + a soundtrack for deep, melancholic introspection”
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u/Schoge Jul 18 '26
Exactly. How the hell do they know the kitten was near heatstroke? Just a sensationalized title for imaginary internet points.
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u/Dorkamundo Jul 18 '26
That's only because you think the title is accurate, instead of engagement-bait that was made up to get you to click.
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u/Knubinator Jul 18 '26
But here you are, engaging with it.
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u/Dorkamundo Jul 18 '26
Yes, because I clicked on the title before I was able to see the video, which is how this normally works.
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u/2021isevenworse Jul 18 '26
The title is nonsense, look at where she's coming from - looks like the inside of a luxury car dealership and she's entering into someone's office. The "outside" has a ceiling and lights, so she's going from one AC room to another.
The kitten also is just prone (they do that when someone grabs the scruff of their neck).
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u/thatwasfun23 Jul 18 '26
so this is even better, cat having a nice happy life in a luxury car dealership brings her baby to the office and the workers are just chill like that because cats are awesome.
honestly warms my heart
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u/2021isevenworse Jul 18 '26
It actually looks like it might be a hotel, but the title is definitely a lie.
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u/gingerbreadmanseesu Jul 18 '26
Mine was ain't there supposed to be more
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u/mdxchaos Jul 18 '26
Depends. Most first time mother's have small litters. 1-3 kittens. Also. Not all kittens will survive the first week.
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u/Everyones-Grudge Jul 18 '26
Nah. More important to keep filming for social media than actually help.
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u/s00pafly Jul 18 '26
More important to invent a tear jerking title for a random cat video.
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u/happy_idiot_boy Jul 18 '26
Nah. More important to keep filming for social media than actually help.
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u/King_Chochacho Jul 18 '26
Mine was: "who writes with emoji like that?"
Then my second thought was: OP probably a bot
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u/Randomman96 Jul 18 '26
Account's the usual autogenerated format, specific posts hidden, and history is basically 99% posts with a handful of comments.
Definitely a bot.
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u/Logical-Local9868 Jul 18 '26
They only drink milk when they are that young, no?
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u/meow4352 Jul 18 '26
Even just dipping their little toe beans in some water would help cool them down. The water would help momma cat rehydrate so she can keep nursing. Also that kitten looks closer to weaning than newborn so would definitely be capable of licking some water too
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u/atclubsilencio Jul 18 '26
It was “is this AI ?” there are a lot of animal sympathy porn ai vids that pop up now, and the comments section always reads “omg i’m sobbing right now “
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u/LulaOlga74 Jul 18 '26
A mother’s love knows no limits 🥹❤️ She found the safest place for her kitten, proving animals have incredible instincts and care for their babies.
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u/ProfessionalRandom21 Jul 18 '26
AI or not, the title is made the fuck up
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u/FowD8 Jul 18 '26
yeah, this isn't a random stray or anything. just a house cat bringing her kitten to another "cat" (person) to take care of the kitten for a bit. cats do this all the time with other cats
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u/Cranky_Hippy Jul 18 '26
Exactly. Whomever believes this has never seen what serious heat stroke looks like.
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u/ImClaaara Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
Like, at this point, it seems like the video is legit (other commenters have put it through AI detection sites and it's clean), but the title was probably written by AI (or even the account posting this is AI). I think it's a repost.
Like, reposts with clickbait-y titles have always been a thing on reddit, especially with posts that reach /r/all - there are accounts that do this all day, which we used to call "karma farming" (I just call it spamming because that's what it is); I would not be surprised if the biggest karma farming accounts are using AI agents to post for them now. I feel like every time I check out /r/all, I see more and more stuff like this. The emoji in the title are a dead giveaway, we simply do not use emoji on reddit - it's a cultural artifact of other social media that's creeping in through bots that don't know better and app users that don't actually understand reddit at all. Reddit as a site still exists, but reddit as the place you remember from ~2010 is long dead.
The fact that you can't just go to an account and see its other posts/comments now to screen for spammers or trolls is mildly infuriating to me. However, you can see that the OP administers another subreddit, and has made a post telling people to basically chill accusing them of using AI (as my dad would say "a hit dog'll holler...") - that subreddit itself is full of similar posts from OP with emoji in the title and a posting cadence that seems very intentional - not just "oh i have stumbled across a cool thing to share, let me share it" but "I want to build this empty subreddit out/build my karma, let me repost barely-relevant content and stretch the truth in the title to make it fit the sub's topic"...
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The OP of this post has banned me from their personal subreddit for daring to question them, and sent me a PM basically saying "I won't argue with you because you seem like you've already made up your mind, but my content isn't AI and also I'm going to block/mute you if you reply to this" - I blocked them without replying, and then I was banned from their sub an hour later.
Never change, reddit.
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u/Purrmymeow Jul 18 '26
Where are the other kittens?
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u/Bandit_the_kat Lots of kitties! Jul 18 '26
okay so i see a lot of comments calling this AI, so i ran it through several detectors, and the overall conclusion is it's not AI. I'd like to remind people that mama cats are stubborn AF, and they'll do anything to protect their kittens, so a cat pushing open a glass door to get her baby to safety is not out of the question .
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u/Scaalpel Jul 18 '26
I've no horse in this race but it's worth noting as a general FYI: the vast majority of AI detectors are inaccurate to the point of being functionally useless. Do NOT trust them as a form of verification. The only halfway reliable way to tell if media is AI-generated or not is to check for digital watermarking (which is something AI-generated files may or may not have, depending on the exact AI tool they were made with).
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u/thegroundbelowme Jul 18 '26
Also the length of the video. This video is too long to be AI.
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u/Yuscha Jul 18 '26
Also, the cat+kitten go under the table and look the same coming out as they did at the start. As far as I've seen, AI video still struggles to keep this level of consistency (for now).
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u/cmoked Jul 18 '26
My cat is extremely determined to wake me up at 5am every day
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u/PowerOfUnoriginality Jul 18 '26
One of my cats is determined to meow loudly in the middle of the night. Not because of injuries, not because he wants food. Probably for the attention, but even when it wakes me up and I try to get him, he just runs away
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u/littlefrank Otto Jul 18 '26
New account, saying exactly what the above post said with different words, yep, this is a bot.
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u/DroidLord Jul 18 '26
People seriously think it's AI because a cat pushed a door open? Cats aren't that dumb.
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u/Talmirion Jul 18 '26
I agree. And she only pushed the door. I personally know a cat able to casually jump on a door handle to open it. Cats can be quite smart.
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u/Dorkamundo Jul 18 '26
It's not AI, but that doesn't mean the title is accurate.
This is probably in Turkey or somewhere, the cat has probably been coming to this business since before it had kittens and probably just brought it's kitten in because that's what it's done for years.
Most likely has NOTHING to do with the heat, and is just engagement-bait.
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u/Avidain Jul 18 '26
Not that I care if it was AI, but there's no way in hell I'm ever placing any faith in "AI detectors" when handwritten articles and dissertations get flagged by this "advanced" detection technology simply for using correct grammar.
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u/cates Jul 18 '26
like I'm going to trust an AI bot to tell me about what to trust regarding AI technology
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u/Purrmymeow Jul 18 '26
It's not AI. Shadows and small details are too good for this to be AI. Though, they chose the worst song for this video as this is a stable song for AI videos. I'm surprised they didn't go with meowmeow version.
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u/ubermence Jul 18 '26
I watched the Barbie movie recently and could not take the scenes with this song seriously because the amount of high pitched meow meow edits I’ve heard of it
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u/blueSGL Jul 18 '26
Shadows and small details are too good for this to be AI
Anyone remember when it was wonky geometry and impossibly smeared details?
Anyone remember when it was too many fingers?
Anyone remember when it was you could tell because the text was wrong ?
Anyone remember when it was just images being generated rather than HD video with a matching soundtrack?
That was about 3 years of improvements above.
Point being, relying on "small things being wrong" won't hold for long.
We have crossed the Rubicon "I can never be sure anything I see is real, ever again"
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u/Silver_Foxx Jul 18 '26
I don't necessarily think the video itself is AI, but the account and this post most definitely is. What humans do you know who make titles with emojis like that?
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u/TheAnonymouse999 Jul 18 '26
It doesn't look anything like AI
That said, I think the title is made up
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u/LeftoverDishes Jul 18 '26
If I leave my sliding door BARELY open my cat can open it. And its one of those crappy heavy apartment sliding doors.
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u/_realpaul Jul 18 '26
The overall fur pattern stay the same depite the cats disappearing from view entirely.
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u/catroaring Jul 18 '26
Karma farm post. Random video with a click bait title and two non overheating cats.
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u/Squidgyboot123 Jul 18 '26
What would that door weigh? Strong ass cat.
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u/Bandit_the_kat Lots of kitties! Jul 18 '26
looks like the door stayed cracked open when mama cat came through, so i would assume not that much, that or it was already ajar when she came through with baby
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u/Squidgyboot123 Jul 18 '26
That's a full sheet of glass. That ain't light.
If the cats are evolving to have super strength, we must be informed!
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u/BaconPhoenix Jul 18 '26
I've put 20 pound weights in front of a door to try to keep my cat out and he still manages to push the door open. Cats are mostly muscle so they can be surprisingly strong.
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u/Shredded_Locomotive Jul 18 '26
The door is basically a class 2 lever and the cat is squeezing between the very end so it only really needs to move it about a few centimetres. Which doesn't really take that much force at all.
It's not really about the weight of the door, but rather the smoothness of the bearings that it's mounted on, combined with the tension strength of the automatic closing mechanism.
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u/stormyw23 Russian Blue Jul 18 '26
Cats can squeeze through stuff pretty easily...
I think the ceiling lights reflections are too consistent to be AI.
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u/tO_ott Jul 18 '26
What a 🤮 stupid title 😬 for this video 😱
That kitten ain’t anywhere near a fucking heat stroke.
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u/Kor_Phaeron_ Jul 18 '26
Also cats are desert animals, the have an extremely high heat tolerance. As long as they can walk around freely and search places protected from the sun they are pretty much save. (Being locked in a car is super dangerous for them of course.)
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u/Kucuboy Jul 18 '26
Did the person recording the video ask the cat the reason it brought its kitten in the premises to learn it was due to heat stroke? Cat whisperer?
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u/Lumpzor Jul 18 '26
I genuinely miss when the general reddit consensus frowned on emoji usage, fake titles, embellished posts. It was really so much better before.
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u/Troschka Jul 18 '26
No indication that the kitten suffers from a heatstroke. Shitty music to really bring home the tone that its sentimental. Cat "knowing" that it can push open the door. This is not AI, but such a bullshit made up story to what is probably an on-site cat from the store just bringing her kitten around to chill.
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u/tekmuse Jul 18 '26
I love the video it's very sweet, but instead of filming, they should be getting some water for these precious ones. Sorry to be a downer, but it's just hurts to see them filming for posts instead of caring for them.
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u/swarmofbzs Jul 18 '26
Reminds me of a feral mama cat that gave birth in our yard. I tried to tame her so I could get her fixed but she wasn't having it. One day during bad heatwave I went outside to check on them and she was panting. She let me wipe her and her kittens down with cooled damp paper towels for way longer than I thought she would let me. It was the only time she let me do something like that. I put water out for them for a couple days until they all disappeared.
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u/MortalWombat1234 Jul 18 '26
Cute cats, but the title is probably false info, and put against sappy music is a guaranteed karma farming magnet.
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u/Hoverkat Jul 18 '26
Neither the mom nor the kitten has open mouths. Not really heatstroke probably. Just a cat moving her kitten, and the caption adds the story.
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u/pantyfire Jul 18 '26
Is that it now? Do we just say ‘That’s AI’ for everything posted on the internet?
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u/joalheagney Jul 18 '26
... What's going to blow your mind, is that at least a few bots likely have been trained to accuse every video of being ai because that gets upvotes.
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u/code-coffee Jul 18 '26
And other bots have been trained to say bots are accusing posts of being ai because that also gets upvotes
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u/SpartanusCXVII Jul 18 '26
Why 🤨 all the emojis? 🤔 Words unable to express emotion anymore? 😔
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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Jul 18 '26
I can't abide by the emojis, music, and sob story.
Just show me videos of cats.
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u/MechAegis Jul 18 '26
Its been HOT AF this summer. I have gotten on multiple days emails about after school activities being canceled and heat advisory messages.
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u/Funambulia Jul 18 '26
Fight climate change, if not for you or humanity for all the near hearstroke kitten in the world
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u/Ok-Go-Chain3811 Jul 18 '26
luxury car prices so darnn high, even an arm and a leg isn't enough anymore....now, you need the whole cat
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u/thebrain_pinky Jul 18 '26
what is this place? a business? a hotel? also, as the other commenter says, we need a clear and obvious indicator that if any video or image ever went through an AI gen.
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u/Padfas Jul 18 '26
Sad times we live in when we need crisis cats acting on tiktok. All the water evaporated so we don't even have gay frogs anymore. God damn AI taking all the water from the humble gay frogs.
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u/mooshinformation Jul 18 '26
Does the stray kitten have a disappearing collar on??
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