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== Films -- Animation ==
* The Disney version of ''[[
* Weirdly inverted in ''[[The Secret of NIMH (Film)|The Secret of NIMH]]'', where the cat itself is the monster, and its arrival is preceded by a rabbit.
* In ''[[Tangled (Disney)|Tangled]]'', shortly after Rapunzel leaves the tower with Flynn, she's startled by something in the bushes. Much to her embarrassment, it turns out to be not thugs or ruffians, but a harmless bunny rabbit.
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* In ''[[Dog Soldiers (Film)|Dog Soldiers]]'' there's an incident with a spring-loaded ''dog'' when the soldiers are investigating a potentially hazardous closet. By all appearances the border collie who startles Cooper must have been sitting on one of the closet shelves waiting for the chance to jump straight forward.
* In ''[[A View to A Kill (Film)|A View to A Kill]]'' there's a very good cat scare when [[James Bond]] is creeping up the broad stairway of Stacey's house.
* There is a [[Cat Scare]] in ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'' when Marion is trying to locate the source of a sound. A hissing cat leaps onto the table before her, just before a soldier throws her down onto it.
* ''[[The Amityville Horror (Film)|The Amityville Horror]]'' has one of these, with an actual cat.
* In ''House II: The Second Story'', someone in a haunted house full of portals thinks he hears something ominous, but it's just a harmless dogerpillar.
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* And also in Emile Zola's 1867 novel ''[[Therese Raquin]]''.
* ''[[Goosebumps]]'' does this at the end of ''every first chapter'', enough to be Lampshaded by [[Mad Magazine]]. It does this with very stupid things some of the times like a ghost just being a pile of clothes or a monster not actually being anything at all. It is pretty ridiculous.
* The book ''[[Friday the
* ''How to Survive a Horror Movie'' cites cats jumping out of every door, cupboard, box, jar, or tube of toothpaste you open as clinching proof you're in a slasher movie.
* Lampshaded in the final chapter of Garrison Keillor's ''Lake Wobegon Days''. An elderly woman has just attended a blood-chilling revival meeting. She is calm as she walks home alone in the dark, but when she reaches for the light switch in her house she touches her cat, who was up on the back of a chair. He jumps sideways and knocks a vase to the floor. She just cleans it up and goes to bed. She's not unnerved at all until the next morning, when she doesn't immediately see anyone around and wonders if the Rapture has happened in the night, leaving her.
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* Played straight in an episode of ''[[Profit]]''.
* ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' has had many a Dog Scare, thanks to Vincent. For instance, in "Homecoming," Vincent surprises Boone, who is waiting for Ethan to attack. While Vincent is licking Boone's face, Ethan comes up ''from the ocean'' to kill Scott ([[Running Gag|or was it Steve]]?)
* The ''[[
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
** There's one in the early episode "The Witch". Notable only because it was used in the credits sequence for quite a while.
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* When watching a scary movie in ''[[Corner Gas (TV)|Corner Gas]]'', the experienced horror movie watchers try to predict this, but as it turns out, a buzzsaw pops out and kills someone instead.
* ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]''. While checking out a house, Tony is startled by a cat jumping from the cat flap, leading Ziva to quip, "Don't tell me you're afraid of a little [[Double Entendre|pussy]]...cat." Subverted though when Tony silently points to the bloody paw prints the cat has left on the ground.
* Used in an unusual fashion in ''[[Five Days to Midnight]]'' when [[Psycho Ex
* Parodied in the first episode of ''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (TV)|Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]'' as, when the newly arrived psychic doctor Liz is greeted by an eldritch cat that tells her to leave, the hands that threw the cat are patently visible.
* A ''parrot'' scare was used on ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'', when an escaped macaw startles a woman in a laundry room. Bodies are found when she returns the bird to its apartment.
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