The Company You Keep (Cat and Owl)

The title of this video says the cat and the owl are best friends. I don’t know about that. The cat seems friendly enough, but it’s very hard to read an owl’s facial expression. I never learned how to do it. I suspect the cat wants to borrow money from the owl and the owl is pretending not to understand.

Cats in Tricky Situations

It’s not easy being a cat. You have so many opportunities to get yourself into real trouble.

You will love the cat playing with the hamster ball.

And you will pity that person who seems intent on teaching his cat to play around with his computer.

You Can’t Hide from Your Cat

Here’s what happens when you try to hide from your cat. He finds you.

Actually, a lot of cats really enjoy this game. It’s a wise human who plays with a cat. And now, if you’ll excuse me, I want to go see what Peep is doing.

A Most Unusual Animal

Here’s a critter some of you may never have heard of before–the pangolin. It’s an ant-eating beast that lives in Africa and can’t be rhymed with anything. If it was a few hundred times larger, it would look like something that wrecked Tokyo while fighting with Godzilla.

Because the pangolin’s front claws are so huge, it has to walk on its hind legs, all slouched over. Very poor posture!

Look at the size of the hole it digs, getting at the ants. I think you might almost rather have the ants in your back yard.

Please feel free to try to think of something that rhymes with “pangolin.”

Sanity Break: Animals Playing Together

 

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.       –Isaiah 11:9

Every now and then the Lord gives us glimpses of what it will be like when He regenerates His whole creation, and casts out sin and death forever.

This is one of those glimpses. Love it.

 

Priceless! Pets vs. Toys

If some of these don’t make you laugh, better see if you can still fog a mirror!

I especially like the young iguana who really, truly, deeply doesn’t take to the stuffed toy iguana. The cat here is an innocent bystander.

Sanity Break: Kittens at Play

All right, I’m a sucker for kitten faces. Can’t help it.

But I do admit to a feeling other than warm coziness that time I checked under the bed and there found the two little round furry faces, big ears and all, peering back at me, upside-down, from a hole they’d torn in the bottom of the box spring.

None of the kittens in these videos do things like that.

Video Treat: Omar the Cat

Tami sent us this video of her family cat, Omar, playing with a treasured family heirloom. This is why it is recommended to keep such things away from cats.

Omar is named after an old Norwegian pastor who has discovered that he likes cats, after all–well, this one, at least.

Sweet Treat: The Cat’s Meow

Oh, here he goes with another one of those soppy cat videos!

I’m a swordsman. I can post all the cat videos I please.

If that first little kitten doesn’t do it for you, I don’t know what will.

Sanity Break: Corgis Are Fun

I get a kick out of these little dogs–just the kind of kick I need right now, after surveying (I started to type “surviving”) more of this day’s unedifying news that I couldn’t bear to write about.

God knew what he was doing when He gave us dogs and cats. They can help us keep our sanity.