Think about this thing that God has done. He has made it possible–in fact, not at all unusual–for members of totally different species to love each other.
Would we have thought of that, if any of us had made the heavens and the earth? No way we would have thought of that!
You have to be in a bad way indeed, if being hugged by a cat (or fussed over by a dog) doesn’t soothe your soul.
God loves us by pouring love on us!
Is this little guy for real?
Hi, Mr. Nature here, with something to wash out the bad taste of the last news report. You’ve seen jerboas (Old World jumping mice) before, but none like this.
The long-eared jerboa has never been filmed before, and we’re lucky to have this clip. When they say “long-eared,” they’re not kidding. I can’t think of any creature that has bigger ears than this, proportional to its size.
Are we sure we’re not looking at a special effect in a movie?
The work of God’s hands–endlessly wonderful and fascinating.
One thing about dogs–they do like to have fun, which includes sliding around on a slippery wooden floor. Nor do they seem to mind if the joke’s on them.
For some reason cats don’t like you to sleep if they’re not sleeping. So here are some cats employing various tactics for waking up their owners.
My cat Henry used to get very upset if the phone rang and we didn’t answer it. You know, sometimes you are engaged in something that simply won’t allow you to go to the phone. But Henry accepted no excuses. “I don’t care what you’re doing! Answer the phone!”
And he used to wake my wife by putting his nose against her eyes.
Watch what happens when these two little boys stop petting this lemur. I should say, “try to stop.”
What do you feel, when you compare man’s creations to God’s?
We like dogs here, too. Dogs will try almost anything once. Here’s a Corgi obligingly navigating a snow tunnel that his people set up for him.
Now, a dog who digs his own snow tunnel–that I’d like to see.
Well, don’t that beat all! A baby squirrel falls out of its nest, the people put it in the box with the kittens, and the little fellow fits right in. The mommy cat treats it just like one of her kittens, loves it, feeds it, grooms it–and the baby squirrel has learned to purr.
God’s stuff not only works. It works better than we can imagine.
My wife has always been head over heels in love with baby sloths. What I want to know is, how do you wind up getting a job cuddling baby sloths and watching them learn how to climb? That’s gotta be a real stress-buster.
Go ahead–tell me you don’t think these babies are big-time huggable.
(Thanks to reader LifeIsGood for suggesting this video)
Here’s something I never knew about cats: some of them freak out at the sight of a cucumber.
Huh? What gives? Why should a cucumber, just lying on the floor, startle a cat?
We’ll never know.
Here’s what happens when you leave jerboas unsupervised. Although probably it happens when they’re supervised, too.
Jerboas are long-legged jumping mice that live in the deserts of Africa and Asia. We have kangaroo rats in our deserts. What is the connection between the desert lifestyle and jumping?
Beats me.