Cats and dogs just love to turn the tables on each other–especially, it seems, when there’s a camera present. “How can I make this dog look like a total doofus?” wonders the cat. Or, “Here’s where I make the cat jump out of his skin in front of all these people!” You’d swear they do it on purpose.
Our cat Buster used to love to lay his head down on your hand. Which meant you had to stop whatever you were doing; but for that much love, it’s worth it.
And there’s a tiny puppy in here who seems to think he’s about ten times bigger than he is. I knew a little man like that: always picking fights with fellows twice his size. The puppy is cute. He wasn’t.
I love to watch a cat trying to figure out something that he’s never seen before. If you listen carefully, you can hear the wheels turning.
And I love to watch tiny puppies threaten mayhem–especially to inanimate objects.
And now to bed.
Well, now I know why I feel so flamin’ tired. I’ve caught Patty’s cold. Oh, joy.
So I’m going to bed, having left you with these excited little dogs grooving on television. You wonder–are they just playing, or do they think what they’re seeing is real?
But then you could ask the same question about CNN viewers.
You just know you’re gonna grow up to have a hard life, if your cat beats you at table hockey.
Look at the fun cats can have with people-toys, when there are no paper bags or cardboard boxes–or purses left open–available.
I wish they’d play chess, though. Nobody to play it with, around here.
Watch this little black dog–how does he do it? Up the tree, down the tree, back and forth along the branches–was he raised by squirrels?
Granted, it doesn’t look like a very hard tree to climb. But that’s like hearing a dog recite “Jack and Jill” and saying, “Well, it’s not the Gettysburg Address, is it?”
So I looked out my upstairs window one day, and our cat, Henry, walked past. Holy cow! He was way up high in a tree and tooling around on the branches. Just like the cat in this video, who shinnied up his tree to catch pigeons.
Henry got down on his own; he never met the tree that could defeat him. But in this video, we are left in some doubt as to how the cat gets down again. I expect a man with a ladder figures strongly in that scenario.
Whoever filmed this video seems not to have known the difference between a toad and a frog. The dog didn’t know, either.
I shall elucidate. The largest and most common toads in North America have a pale stripe down the middle of their backs, which can be clearly seen here. No frog has this.
I knew a dog named Lulu who once picked up a toad in her mouth. Within minutes she was a tower of pain and had to be rushed to the vet. Toads defend themselves with poisonous skin secretions which can make a dog very sick (you should have seen poor Lulu).
So, however amusing the dog’s antics might be, it’s a really bad idea to let him mess around with toads. Unless you find vet bills amusing, too.
P.S.–That’s “Music Box Dancer” playing in the background. I always liked that song.
Parrots are very, very intelligent and very sociable, too. But how do the birds in these videos know the cats won’t hurt them–even when they purposely try to tease the cats? And then there’s the cockatoo teaching himself to play the guitar. If this can ever be done without hands, a bird will do it.
Y’know that classic ghost story by M.R. James–Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad? The one in which the sheets on the other bed in the room rise up and start to fold and wrinkle themselves into–well, never mind, I don’t want to spoil it for you. Point is, it’s almost certain that that story was inspired by a cat. And in this video, you’ll see how that was possible.