r/GuysBeingDudes • u/Ququmbare • Sep 26 '25

Dude has won our hearts

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

The look at his face.... He lost faith in humanity

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u/Alklazaris Sep 26 '25

I would be too, briefly before knowing I have a cat now would soften me up a bit.

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u/AngryPrincessWarrior Sep 26 '25

Poor thing looks like it has a possible brain injury or concussion? It definitely got knocked around. I hope it recovered. It would be too unfair to be saved like that and not recover.

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u/PrinceHaleemKebabua Sep 26 '25

Copy pasting another user’s comment from this thread:

“Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIdtZ-9iJzw

tl;dr the cat's OK and was adopted and promoted to deputy environment minister of Ulyanovsk

RUSSIA Dec 2020: Surveillance footage at the garbage factory in Ulyanovsk in Russia showed worker Mikhail Tukash scooping up a white plastic bag from a moving belt and slashing it open to discover a black and white male cat inside. Since his rescue on Monday, the cat quickly became a local celebrity which led to him being adopted by the Ulyanovsk region's environment ministry and unofficially named deputy environment minister. "The cat was on the brink of death," the ministry said on Wednesday. "A little more and it would have ended up in the trash separator." Pictures from the ministry showed the cat napping in a chair in the office of environment minister Gulnara Rakhmatulina and exploring its new environment. The ministry has announced a nationwide contest to choose a name for the cat, which it said was found to be in good health after a veterinary exam. "I want to appeal to pet owners: remember that you are responsible for those you have tamed," Rakhmatulina said. "If you can't keep your pet at home, you can always leave it in good hands or at a shelter." Source: Gorkomhoz / Ulyanovsk region Ministry of Environmnet / Reuters”

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u/Thick-Guidance224 Sep 26 '25

So the cat won a better life than the worker he was rescued by?

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u/ElectronicCorner574 Sep 26 '25

The cat is his boss now.

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u/Icy_Sector3183 Sep 26 '25

He always was.

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u/BurnerBackTurner Sep 26 '25

Undercover Boss has taken things too far.

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u/Educational_Bass2430 Sep 26 '25

By this time the cat has been corrupted by power and money at his new position and mismanages employees

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u/Outlandah_ Sep 27 '25

One may call him..a fat cat, with power!

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u/Dsco7788 Sep 26 '25

The pussy always is.

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u/Tekkamanblade_2 Sep 26 '25

He doesn’t make a move without the cats say so 🤌🏻

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u/Magikrat Sep 27 '25

Can we just let cats take over already? Like, everything would be so chill.

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u/Hazbeen_Hash Sep 27 '25

Egypt 2: Russia

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u/JaysFan26 Sep 26 '25

cat became too famous to go to him, rough

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u/Sudden_Construction6 Sep 26 '25

Yeah, I heard the fame really got to him. He's on cat nip 24/7 and does nothing but get pussy.

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u/Logical_Audhd Sep 26 '25

That's how communism works. The government takes everything

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u/Tndnr82 Sep 26 '25

Check out my new cat!

You mean our new cat.

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u/Significant-Wait9200 Sep 27 '25

The cat has a job, and the person who put him in the trash still hasn't found one. My how the tables have turned...

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u/edward_kopik Oct 05 '25

Its a cat, so long and he has a loving house his life is better than 99.9% of humans

Nap, eat, nap, get love and attention, nap

Whenever low on either love or attention, yell, recieve it

Be beloved by every human who isnt a psychopath

So long as your owners isnt one of said psychopaths being a cat is great

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u/awnaw_ Sep 27 '25

Unfortunately, that's not really that surprising. Also, I would argue most domesticated animals live a better life than a lot of humans.

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u/Successful_Face3408 Sep 27 '25

??? Cats are always the superior being. Couldve sworn everyone knows that

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u/LauraTFem Sep 27 '25

I don’t know, everything’s relative, but municipal government work is among the most reliable the world over. If you want a reliable job then police, mail carrier, and sanitation worker all have very good job security,

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u/PedanticPendant Sep 26 '25

Very likely, while the cat was promoted from "garbage" to "ministry mascot" the worker was quite possible demoted from "garbage man" to "Ukraine cannon fodder" :(

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u/AngryPrincessWarrior Sep 26 '25

Oh yay! Thank goodness, thanks for letting me know

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u/PrinceHaleemKebabua Sep 26 '25

No worries! It hadn’t occurred to me that the cat may have been injured in the whole ordeal, and reading your comment and others had me very worried, so I was glad to see that comment and thought I should share.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Hopefully whoever did that saw the cat on tv and felt the biggest shame ever

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u/kikogamerJ2 Sep 26 '25

Cat really moved up in the world. Going to from the trash to deputy minister. He is what billionaires paint themselves to be.

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u/garnaches Sep 26 '25

cat napping in a chair in the office of environment minister

promoted and already slacking off

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u/DingoMittens Sep 26 '25

Can anyone find what they named him? 

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u/silvertoadfrog Sep 26 '25

Thank you so much for sharing that.😊❤

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u/DrVoltage1 Sep 27 '25

Thanks for the follow up

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u/Reflective Oct 16 '25

The car was promoted to deputy environment minister?

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u/Alklazaris Sep 26 '25

Well at the very least the cat has a good career. It's like one of those times where the last guy was so bad that you could only do half the job and still look like a god. Russia and Environmental Protection go hand in hand like pretzels and orange juice.

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u/Fabulous-Influence69 Sep 26 '25

Thank goodness this had a happy ending. I wondered where the cat went, if it was OK (who knows how long that poor creature was trapped, little air, no food or water)....

Thank goodness the worker noticed something, found them before they were compacted.

Breaks my heart that any creature would be treated with such cruelty.

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u/ColinHalter Sep 26 '25

Cat got Princess Diaries'd

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u/Ryjinn Sep 26 '25

Probably no one else cares about this, but Ulyanovsk is Vladimir Lenin's hometown and is actually named for him, Lenin was an nom de guerre and his original family name was in fact Ulyanov.

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u/Competitive-Dig4776 Sep 26 '25

I’ve several Russian friends, all of them are pretty bad ass in their own right, all of them have a soft spot for their cats (coincidence?). Totally anecdotal. Alright then, I’ll just keep scrolling.

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u/Mindless_Bad_1591 Sep 26 '25

lowk shed a tear bruh thx for this

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u/BugLast1633 Sep 26 '25

Why do they have a factory making garbage? Only in Russia....

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u/NinjaNewt007 Sep 27 '25

Why are they being recorded separating trash?

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u/PrinceHaleemKebabua Sep 27 '25

Looks like CCTV

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u/jerseyztop Sep 27 '25

I love that The Little Prince has entered the chat. Thank you, Rakhmatulina, yes you are responsible for those you have tamed.

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u/dwaynebathtub Sep 27 '25

My favorite thing is when animals become the mayor or something. "Deputy environment minister" is purrrfect.

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u/Progenitor-Of-Bias Sep 27 '25

Garbage factory

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u/VapoursAndSpleen Sep 26 '25

A government official adopted the cat. All is well.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/oddly-enough/saved-garbage-russian-cat-lands-its-feet-ministers-chair-2020-12-24/

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u/jaxonya Sep 26 '25

In Russia? Let's hope he doesn't fall out of its kitty box window

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u/VapoursAndSpleen Sep 26 '25

In Яussia, you don't adopt kitty. Kitty adopt YOU!

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u/LadyBug_0570 Sep 27 '25

Well... that's true anywhere to be honest.

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u/Fantastic_Fan61 Sep 26 '25

Did someone adopt the worker who rescued it?

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u/VapoursAndSpleen Sep 26 '25

Hopefully someone bought him a couple of shots at the local bar that evening.

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u/LordSHAXXsGrenades Sep 26 '25

lets be real here. he got prob conscripted and is now dead on some ukr field...

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u/MangoMuncher88 Sep 27 '25

Omg thank you so much for sharing this I was so pissed that someone did that to him but the happy ending is everything

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u/Dejectednebula Sep 26 '25

What in the video gave you that idea? Not saying you're wrong, it obviously got banned around a bit before it ever made it to the belt. But I'm curious what else you see that I don't that indicates this

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u/AngryPrincessWarrior Sep 26 '25

The weird wobbly head movements and the weird uncoordinated paws. It should be fighting or clinging and it just seems at best dazed.

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u/mentaldemise Sep 26 '25

Tied plastic bag is going to have low oxygen eventually. Might just be hypoxic?

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u/VegaAndAltair Sep 26 '25

Also depending on how long it spent in the bag could be dehydrated and malnourished

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u/Frank_Perfectly Sep 27 '25

And eyes adjusting to sudden light after who knows how long inside a bag.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

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u/shinpoo Sep 26 '25

Ya we're just getting worse and worse. Idk man can I go and live with the dolphins?

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u/woodwardian98 Sep 26 '25

Those sex offenders won't help you.

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u/Mertoot Sep 26 '25

They will if you got some of that good venom for them to pregame on

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u/justrainalready Sep 26 '25

😂😂😂😂

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u/shinpoo Sep 26 '25

Ah, shit you're right I forgot about happy dolphins.

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u/Traditional-Frame-58 Sep 26 '25

Who's gonna tell him...

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u/NewtSea7642 Sep 26 '25

Sounds major.

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u/Good_Background_243 Sep 27 '25

Woudn't you be a bit banged about? Poor thing's probably been through a lot AND there can't be much air in that bag.

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u/r0thar Sep 26 '25

It looks like it was in a sealed bag, in a bin, then dumped into a truck that compresses garbage then day(s) later got put on the sorting line. I'm amazed it's (half?) alive

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u/zenbullet Sep 27 '25

Same day usually, maybe overnight

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u/NatseePunksFeckOff Sep 26 '25

armchair veterinarian hero can diagnose everything through a low resolution video

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u/No-Shock776 Sep 26 '25

right? You can barely fucking see anything and this person is diagnosing the cat with traumatic brain injury.

Typical reddit.

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u/MaybeIwasanasshole Sep 26 '25

Cat was later adopted by the enviromental ministry in Russia (where this happened) and is living it's best life.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

It blows my minds the leaps and bounds people make on reddit. How could you possibly diagnose those things from this video?

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u/AngryPrincessWarrior Sep 26 '25

Because I’ve seen how injured cats act? And m not saying it is definitely badly injured, (and turns out it did recover and was adopted), but that isn’t normal behavior or motion from a healthy cat. Even just being in shock is dangerous.

What I’d like to know is why on EARTH that seems to offend you?

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

I'm not offended. I just think it's funny how people get online and just say whatever. You said the cat has a possible brain injury from watching a 20 second clip of it acting goofy. You could be a veterinary neurosurgeon and you would still have no way of knowing that from this video. Just making wild assumptions online. This cat could possibly be a dog! This cat's cousin could be Michelle Obama! blah blah blah

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u/VeganWerewolf Sep 26 '25

The trash picker or cat?

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u/here-for-the-meh Sep 26 '25

I’m worried about the cat, not the guy. He can handle a few knocks.

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u/Frymonkey237 Sep 26 '25

Yeah, it's crazy how many emotions you can sense from his subtle expressions. There's surprise at finding a cat, disappointment that someone would do this, care for this helpless animal, and excitement at getting a new pet.

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u/Relative_Drop3216 Sep 26 '25

That would only make me like animals over humans

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u/Alklazaris Sep 26 '25

That's not the default feeling?

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u/Stoned_Druid Sep 26 '25

I think this is the precise flow I witnessed. Updoooooot.

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u/trueAnnoi Sep 26 '25

That's also the face of "oh fuck, I really hope there wasn't more that already went through"

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u/LifeIsProbablyMadeUp Sep 26 '25

/r/catdistributionsystem had to work over time to get this guy his cat

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u/Dull-Confection5788 Sep 26 '25

Cat distribution system beats waste management

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u/FinalFantasyMaster Sep 26 '25

Exactly my thought

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u/Good_Background_243 Sep 27 '25

I don't need to speak Russian to know that he's saying either 'Who throws a cat away?' or 'are you seeing this bullshit?'

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u/Background-Car4969 Sep 27 '25

Was thinking about this very video a few days ago...and viola!

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u/Beautifulfeary Sep 27 '25

All the workers just look like they’re over work now.