Cat Prevents Surveyor From Landing Drone on Job Site and It's Pure

These days, private consumer drones are all over the news. Suspicious unidentified drones popping up in airfields. Drones making elaborate lighted formations to celebrate the New Year. A drone even recently grounded one of the firefighting planes working on the Los Angeles wildfires. Usage of the machines have soared, as people realize their usefulness in film and photography, especially in areas like real estate and surveying.

But although drones sound super high-tech, most are nothing more than tiny machines with a camera attached, hardly more elaborate (or sturdy) than your average radio-controlled toy car. Which means that they might not survive a casual encounter with even a small predator—like a house cat.

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The drone pilot in this video is a surveyor who uses the machinery to take aerial pictures of the properties and heritage landmarks that he works on. It’s a useful technique, and one that makes his job a lot easier. But in this clip, we see a possible pitfall, in the form of a feline who does not like this odd, buzzing machine in his space.

“The local neighborhood watch prevented me from landing my drone on this job,” writes the surveyor in the captions. “I had to make an alternative landing elsewhere…”

The cat—a large and fluffy, blue-eyed creature that many are identifying as a Norwegian Forest cat, is seen running toward the drone with such interest that the pilot is obviously afraid any closer may threaten the machine’s ability to return to him.

Cats vs. Drones

“So thats what’s happening with all the drones!” Exclaims one person in the comments section. “People are trying to land their drones but cats are stopping them.”

“I love the whole ‘get off my lawn’ energy,” remarks another. And who wouldn’t? Drones can be invasive of privacy—though obviously in this case, the surveyor was supposed to be there.

Cats, however, may not understand the technical difference.

“Cat army against the drones!” cheers another person in the comments section.

Why would a cat go after a drone like this?

Predator Instincts

Cats are small but efficient predators who were domesticated entirely for their ability to hunt. Pest control is the reason that cats have lived alongside humans for thousands of years, and it is still one of their main activities. But where pests are few, outdoor cats will gladly hunt birds, and are responsible for killing millions of native songbirds every year. One must not be surprised to learn they take down the occasional drone as well.

In fact, cats are classified as invasive species due to their intense predation on a small area around their home when allowed to roam free. It is thought that their hunting skills are so concentrated because that is how they were used for thousands of years—as pest control around barns and granaries, keeping out mice, rats, and other animals which may prove a problem for agricultural humans. Why range far from home for your hunts when there’s a whole silo full of corn bringing the mice to the yard.

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Cats are extremely territorial creatures, and it’s possible this one just saw the drone as yet another bird to take down.

And he isn’t the only one.

“My cat destroyed the mini-drone I bought for him for Christmas last year,” says one person in the comments.

Bottom line: drone pilots, watch out for the kitties.

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