Cats sometimes do not scare away creepers

Perhaps that devs should be asked if it is WAI that a creeper should even be able to begin its aggro/explosion process while within the presence of a cat/ocelot. I have had the front of my base blown up now 5 times and there is always a cat within a few blocks of where the creeper explodes. There is no way the creeper cannot be seeing these cats. Jay can you confirm behavior if the creeper is standing on slabs or stairs, will it run away from cat/ocelot? And does the creeper need to be at exactly eye level with the sitting cat/ocelot?

In 1.14.4 Creeper really do ignore the cats quite a lot: https://streamable.com/letxt
You can see them sprinting to safety eventually but they even seem to stop mid sprint.

This is really very annoying. Since only creeper farms also don't work, I tried a mob sorter. The creepers were not impressed by the cats. The mob sortierer is therefore unusable bar
Some tests have shown that creeper nur Be afraid if the cat was directly on its target path.

Please fix.

Creepers only become afraid of cats when they are 4 blocks away or less. Some of the comments above seem to expect creepers would run from a cat any time they see one, but that isn't how it works.

I spawned a cat and 4 creepers in an 8 x 8 enclosure. I have seen a few examples of what's being described, but only rarely.

• The creepers tended to cluster in a corner away from the cat. At one point, two or three of them happened to path toward the cat, which was in an adjacent corner, at the same time, which was normal because they were far enough from it not to be scared. In the process, they pushed another creeper within range of the cat. It tried to run, but the creepers still moving toward the cat overpowered it and it was stuck.

• Once, the cat moved into the center of a wall next to the corner the creepers were in. Three of the creepers scattered, but one walked directly over the cat to get to the opposite corner, and didn't become afraid until it got there.

I'm not sure whether this confirms the reported bug. The first example looks like normal pathfinding to me. The second one is hard to explain as anything other than a bug, but it seems like too low-probability an occurrence to have generated the number of incidents being reported.

I seem to be having a similar problem. I was testing the range of creeper scaring in a creative v1.14.30 on the windows 10 edition and i ran into the problem that the cats, who were just in a sitting position, didn't scare creepers except in one direction. in every other direction, creepers that were spawned even 1 block away from the cat didn't move at all, even after watching them a bit from a distance

Video: https://youtu.be/YMUedMrHSKM

Aftering view Fabio Vargas's video in the preceding comment, I decided to test this. On my Win 10 PC running 1.14.30, a sitting cat scares creepers in every direction. Note that all of the creepers in this video were spawned on 1 of the 8 blocks surrounding the cat:

Update: Then again, in a survival context, it's just inconsistent:

I believe the problem here–and the inconsistency between survival and creative–is in how the .json organizes the creeper's AI and defines it's avoiding behavior. The highest priority is given to targeting players and mobs that hit them. Those behaviors take precedence over avoiding cats and ocelots. Moreover, creepers' max_dist for targeting is 16 blocks, but their max_dist for  avoiding cats and ocelots is only 6 blocks. This design makes tamed cats following you unreliable for protection from creepers. Here is a demonstration:

The situation with cats and creepers is analogous to the situation with wolves and skeletons, which is raised in MCPE-62439. Creepers have the same max_dist for avoiding cats (6) as skeletons do for avoiding wolves, as well as the same tertiary priority. By contrast, wild wolves have max_dist of 24 for avoiding llamas, and phantoms have a max_dist of 16 for avoiding cats/ocelots. And avoiding is the highest-priority behavior for both wild wolves and phantoms.