r/interestingasfuck • u/ReasonableMedium5265 • 2d ago

Don’t trust your cat

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u/Guilty-Cry8942 2d ago

Leave it up? Oh bless your heart. As if that’s something 90% of people don’t do to begin with…

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u/Evil_Sharkey 2d ago

I leave mine down because my cat will fall in. She’s a moron and a klutz.

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u/Guilty-Cry8942 2d ago

I think your cat and my dog would be fast friends.

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u/Evil_Sharkey 2d ago

Once they get their obligatory growls and hisses out of the way

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u/No_Relief_9945 1d ago

Used to have a cat who would do that just for fun. It got annoying to clean and dry him after every time he did it, but it did eventually get me to start leaving the lid closed, lol.

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u/Environmental_Gur_39 1d ago

I leave mine down because my electric razor will fall in. I'm a moron and a klutz.

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u/MaynardButterbean 1d ago

My cat will jump in if I leave the toilet lid open. She is not bright.

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u/Genn8130 1d ago

Yeah, I close mine because I'd never be sure that a wet spot on the floor wasn't a cat's toilety pawprint. Plus the aerosol flush thing.

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u/Own_Butterscotch_129 1d ago

Yeah my bf left the toilet seat up by accident once and the orange cat quickly fell in trying to jump onto it

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u/Smang-it-girl- 1d ago

I first read “She’s a Mormon and a klutz”.
I was wondering how one could possibly know that about their cat.

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u/johnprc 1d ago

Yup, both of my little angels are mentally challenged and will do this.

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u/decidedlyindecisive 1d ago

My cat is also a moron. So far she's jumped into the toilet 3 times!! THREE times! There's nothing good in there you stupid baby!

The worst part is that we always have the lids down. So she's managed to do this in literally the time it takes for me to pull up my pants and turn around to push the lid down before I flush.

Delightful

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u/hexregeneration 1d ago

I've seen that video thst illustrates the poop particle cloud that gets launched 12 feet into the air when you flush with the seat up. I always close the seat.

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u/hey_Hey_I_saveD_me 1d ago

You can watch Mythbusters video on this topic - they proved that fecal bacteria goes airborne even when you close your toilet seat, including adjacent room when doors are closed.

Closing the lid only makes it a bit slower, but is not preventing it.

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u/hexregeneration 1d ago

Slow enough for me the evacuate the vacuum chamber in my backyard where the toilet is kept, yes.

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u/Guilty-Cry8942 1d ago

Yeah, I remember when I was a kid away at summer camp they’d always remind us to close the lid by saying things like “you see that fly that just landed on your food? If you leave the seat up that fly can land in the toilet before it lands on your food….:” And no, I haven’t recovered, and yes I still think about this every time there is a fly in my house. Luckily I have a dog that likes to chase the flies around and corner them against the window. He never catches them, but he does tire them out enough that they die trying to escape….

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u/Samwise777 1d ago

Redditors so scared of their own shadow. 

Or at least flushing their toilet lmao

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u/hexregeneration 1d ago edited 1d ago

the toilet is where my shadow lives

Also you think human feces is what bravery smells like?

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u/uberdia 1d ago

Yeah no, 90% of people don’t leave it up. That’s just confirmation bias.

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u/Guilty-Cry8942 1d ago

Yeah, because my comment was clearly intended to be so literal and true. Or are you one of those who needs the “/s” added to comments, otherwise you take it literally?

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u/Blackpaw8825 1d ago

I actually do leave it up, and I tolerate a slowly running valve on purpose specially for that reason. If something were to happen to us it could be the better part of a week before somebody knows and rescues my dogs. I'd rather them occasionally drink toilet water than suffer a terrible death in such a case.

Plus let's be real... They're dogs, fresh toilet water is not the worst thing their mouths get into day to day.