You can see the moment when he realizes there's no human servant coming to see he's fine and decides to end the farce and leave the pool by himself.
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I actually got a completely different read from this. I think the cat stopped panicking because they didn't realize there were stairs until their paw hit one. We can see the stairs just fine but the cat is at a shallow angle and their eyes work differently than ours.
Edit: I also just noticed a cut in the middle of the video where they seem to be more exhausted and moving slower. That cat might have been there for a bit.
I’ve always said you should throw your pets in the pool, and coax them towards the stairs. Then repeat it until they can get out without coaxing.
Is it mean? Yeah. But it’ll save their life if they ever fall in. I’ve seen stories of pets drowning in the deep end of pools, simply because they didn’t know there was a staircase on the other end. They never thought to swim to the other side. They just exhausted themselves by desperately clinging to the edge in the deep end.
Doggy paddle is not a very efficient stroke. When will cats learn?
I've seen humans behave similarly. Panic while swimming just hits different.
New mantra: "Oh, stairs."
He stopped contending with the edge and started contending with the water. So many things in life are like this. Let go of that thing you think you really really have to do to solve the problem, and just face the problem itself.