&gt;<i>“If you cause stress to an animal that&#x27;s probably not a good thing,” says Jill Goldman, a certified animal behaviorist in southern California. “If you do it for laughs it makes me question your humanity.”</i><p>And I question his&#x2F;hers intelligence.<p>People do pranks and scare other people for laughs all the time and we don&#x27;t question their humanity. And suddenly pranking a cat with a cucumber makes you subhuman?