Here’s a dog whose hobby is climbing trees; and he’s good at it, too. The most likely explanation is that he was raised by apes. Apes of the genus Mangani often adopt puppies and teach them to behave like apes.
I’ve only once in my life seen a dog climb up a tree. Toby the spaniel was chasing a squirrel, and ran so fast that his momentum carried him up the trunk… and then left him there. We soon fetched a step ladder and got him down.
Is it just me reading too much into this–or do the birds in this video actually understand what a human baby is, and have a wish to please the baby? Given that parrots and parakeets are surely at least as smart as cats and dogs, I think it very likely that they do.
Just don’t let the baby use the little yellow bird as a pacifier.
Well, heck, it can happening to anybody, getting your head stuck in a plastic bag. Or a tissue box. Or a sleeve of cookies. What I don’t get is the cat who gets stuck, the nice human comes along and frees him–and seconds later, he’s stuck again. They’re not all geniuses.
My poor Missy got her head stuck in a plastic bag loop once (I told her to leave it alone, but did she listen?) and turned into a furry rocket all around the apartment before I could catch her and let her loose. She never bothered with plastic bags ever again.
My iguana liked dogs and always tried to make friends with them. The only dog who didn’t respond was Pepper, my parents’ dog, who always ran away and hid under the furniture. But the cozy scene you’re seeing in this video happened around here a lot, in real life.
We are told there’s another iguana in this video-maker’s household who doesn’t get along with the dog at all. Well, they’re individuals, like we are. They’ll do their own thing.
When I was a little boy, the only bulldogs I knew were in cartoons–big, mean, monster-dogs that terrorized the other characters. I had no idea they were these cute little dogs with lots of personality. Just goes to show you… (Don’t you hate it when people say that, and never tell you what it goes to show you?)
This is a very short video, so I’ll try to find another for you.
Most animals don’t get their reflections in a mirror. They’re also confused by stuffed facsimiles of animals. Even parrots get fooled. And this video also features a koala.
Some of these stuffed animals look like the real thing. It must be embarrassing for a cat or a dog to discover that this weird creature he’s been threatening is only a dummy. Imagine chatting up somebody, only to discover, after several minutes of making a spectacle of yourself, that it’s only a dummy. Mustn’t be surprised if it fools the animals.
You’d think having four legs instead of just two would give you an advantage on a slippery surface; but the dogs and cats in this video are out to prove you wrong–and having an awful lot of fun, doing it.
Now I wonder how a centipede would make out on an ice-skating rink. I’ve never seen one try.
I suspect that one of the dogs in this video isn’t real. So he’s bound to have atypical reactions.
The cats are all real, and seem to have an aversion to human feet… and socks. One of those funny faces that they make, by the way, is how they check out the smell with a sense organ that they have and we don’t. It’s called Jacobson’s Organ, only nobody named Jacobson actually has one.
All right, what’s the secret? How do you get the cat to stay in the car?
This question has stumped mankind for thousands of years. Or would have, if they’d had cars back then. But as Ramses IV once said, “How d’ya get the freakin’ cat to stay in the chariot?”
Dog, watching TV, sees man kick soccer ball. Follows the flight of the ball, which disappears at the edge of the screen. Dog peeks behind the screen to see if that’s where the ball went.
A lot of dogs take television very seriously. That’s probably proof that they’ve spent too much time with humans.