Just too cute for words

[dianeduane]

Video: Kitten and chicken are friends!

There should be a book. There should be a development deal for a series. Or a feature. Yeah, that's the ticket... :)

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[cleverthylacine]

They must be wizards ;-)

[dduane.livejournal.com]

Chicken wizards? Now there's a concept. Meanwhile, much, much snorting at your icon. :)

[cleverthylacine]

Glad you liked it :)

[azurelunatic]

They will go on errantry, the silly things. We had two who could escape almost any enclosure when it suited their purposes, and managed to convince my mother to let them come in daily to join her for coffee and banana bread. (They usually passed on the coffee, though.) They can be surprisingly smart, especially given how much eye, and how little brain, is in those tiny heads.

The hen in my icon here also had a great love of books, both literarily and culinarily.

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

Not conviced that the cat isn't planning a late lunch.

FF

[dduane.livejournal.com]

(grin)

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

Hey, I have Max the Mighty Hunter - only one 'kill' so far - the Beanie Baby he stole from a neighbour (in through thier cat flap, stole toy, brought it home, proudly chirruping through his cat flap).

FF

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

This is what I suspected about the snake and hamster "friendship" story that turned up a while ago - the snake was simply too small to manage a hamster that size, but I'm willing to bet it was working on it...

[lady-autumnstar.livejournal.com]

Milo and...Ethel??

[dduane.livejournal.com]

"The Pirate's Daughter"...? ;)

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

I'm already worried enough about the Sky TV dog-and-duck cohabitants (what's going on in that house?) .

[dduane.livejournal.com]

You've got a point. "Won't someone think of the ducklings??!" :)

Okay, here's what I gathered using my bad Japanese:

[cleverthylacine]

The rooster, "Kokko" is 6 years old and the cat, "Kome" is 6 months old. (This is footage from a 20 best videos Christmas special). The guy who owns them is 68 and has too many kanji in his name for me to translate it in the length of time it was on screen.

The first part of the video was taken when the cat was 3 months old; then, the video jumps forward 3 months. (You can see that the cat has got bigger, too.) That part of the vid takes you through a day, to 5 PM and 2 AM.

I think that my favourite part is when the cat makes the rooster let him crawl under his wing. I hope azurelunatic, who used to keep chickens, sees this.

Re: Okay, here's what I gathered using my bad Japanese:

[azurelunatic]

I did!

That's a hen, incidentally. She has a large and healthy comb, but a rooster of that breed would have at least an attempt at the arching tail feathers instead of the plain wedge-shaped tail, and would have longer, pointier, decorative feathers on the hackle (neck) and saddle (back right before tail) instead of her normal-length rounded feathers.

She seems very much unruffled by the pouncing and playing. I don't even see a hint of predator-nervousness, which is very surprising, because chickens don't tend to take awfully well to furry things that chase and grab. There's a lot of trust between them -- she wouldn't be falling asleep in the cat's company otherwise.

It's wonderfully cute!

[posicat.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how well cats and other animals can get together in the right environment.

We were babysitting a friend's hamster, Ball, while his living conditions were going through major changes. Well, hamsters being hamsters, Ball escaped right before we were leaving town for a long weekend. We looked everywhere, and couldn't find him. When we came back, 4 1/2 days later, still no sign of Ball. Until our cat Recall (the one in my LJ icon) made a strange noise. Ball was sitting there at the cat's water dish drinking. Ball didn't even flinch when our other cat Falstaff came over to eat some food.

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

Hm, good job Ball didn't do that in front of my old cat Spookie who was in truth a mighty hunter and brought me many, many kills. Poor hamster would have been lunch.

Max would proberbly love it to death - he carries his beanie babies round the house and lines them up in little rows (after he stole the neighbours beanie baby we got him some of his own). I once found one face down in the water bowl, obviously it had been a bad beanie baby.

FF

[posicat.livejournal.com]

Our 3 cats were small-animal trained by our rats, they'd nip back when the cats poked at the cage, so eventually they decided it wasn't worth it. These 3 cats will back off from any small furry animals.

It might have helped too that I introduced the cats to the hamsters, so that they could smell them. Perhaps they knew that they were part of the family. Our cay Buddy is an amazing mouser, at our old appartment she would present us with how ever many crept through the ancient building's structure.

[allasomething.livejournal.com]

My cat has a fascination with thongs (of the shoe variety). Its amusing, she has her "own" pair and she drags them around to get comfortable and if you slide one across the floor past her, she will follow it and curl up on it.

My Aunt's cat, however has a fascination with socks, underwear and (in one case) the innersole of my cousin's motorbike boot (how she got that one, we are yet to figure out). You know the sock monster that is the reason why you only get one sock back from the wash? This is it. Shelly will climb into washing baskets and gather socks and undies. It was funny when she was just doing it to my cousin's socks, because they couldn't work out what was going on, but now she has started hunting further afield in the neighbours yards.

My Aunt's old cat had a mouse "friend". There are pictures of her sitting on their couch with the mouse sitting on her head. :)