I don’t say my cats are paragons, but Robbie and Peep would never, ever do any of the things depicted in these videos. We give them cardboard boxes to shred into confetti, and they seem content with that.
But oh! the cups and straws and toilet paper, and mail, and pages from a magazine–all over the place! They’ll be clamoring for free college next…
Look, if you wanted a rocket scientist, you’d get a rocket scientist–right? You don’t need your dog to be a savant. Jolly and cuddly is better!
Even so, you do have to wonder, sometimes, what the dog could possibly be thinking…
This kitten wants to be a gecko when he grows up. But maybe by then he’ll have learned to fly.
Don’t try this yourself: it’s harder than it looks.
We once had a mouse named Sleepy, who had a lot of babies. They didn’t want to be weaned. Instead, they would chase her around until they caught her, then all try to nurse at once: and wound up lifting her off the floor of the aquarium. Her only recourse was to climb up to the top of the water bottle, where they couldn’t get her, and chatter crossly at them.
The mommy critters in this video all had an easier time than that.
Sorry, but the things from Venus failed to show up (so unreliable!), so we had to wing it with just baby bunnies.
The ones hopping all around on the bed–yeah, I’ll have a few of those, please.
If the lion and the lamb can lie down together, then so can the gecko and the French bulldog. And the dog and the parakeet. And the kitten and the chicken.
If the human race has done nothing else right, at least we’ve created conditions whereby animals can love each other–even if we haven’t yet quite mastered it.
This is something we don’t get to see much of, here in New Jersey. Several people in my neighborhood have trampolines in the back yard, but you never see anyone, human or animal, using them.
The bison in this video clearly wants to use the trampoline, and is just as clearly miffed not to find it in working order. He acts like he’s used a trampoline before, but it’s possible he’s only trying to give that impression.
You’d think cats would be pretty quick to catch on that these are not living things. But then inanimate objects aren’t supposed to move, so maybe they are alive, after all…
They do the best they can, adapting to a whole world mismanaged by humans.
Do you love it when your pets show affection for each other? Although the parrot and the dog in this video are not so much friends as they are partners in crime.
I once lived in a house where the cat learned how to open the refrigerator and push stuff out for the dog to eat. Cuddling is one thing; stealing the humans’ suppers is another.
You’d think a dog, a cat, a parakeet, or an iguana could tell these toy animals, regardless of how realistic, aren’t real. But all of them react as if they were.
The only creature my iguana ever attacked was a cat whose intention was to climb onto my bed and poo on it. As it was his bed, too, he was not about to let her do that. With all other cats and dogs, he was ready to make friends.
I wonder what my cats would do if I brought in one of those big stuffed tigers…