Best Friends Beyond All Borders

[qos]

This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. . .

Thank you, autumnonthelake

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[watcher457.livejournal.com]

that's totally awesome, and very adorable. it makes me want to go out and have a friend.

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[watcher457.livejournal.com]

that is also quite adorable. :) i feel a little bad for the cat, though. s/he had the air of patient tolerance.

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[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

'Patient tolerance' is a form of feline love. The cat's attitude is very similar to an older cat dealing with a kitten. When I fostered a very young kitten, most of my cats (even those that had been Momcats in their former lives) wanted nothing to do with her. She was obnoxious and busy and never left them alone.

One tomcat would sit and twitch his tail while she attacked it. He looked much like that cat, just sort of "I'm not allowed to hit it and I know that", but any time the foster kitten ran off to play with something else, he'd get up and sigh and follow after her, so he could be annoyed wherever she'd taken herself off to. Sometimes he bathed her, with the definite air of "shut up, you need a bath", and tried very hard to deny that either he or she was purring.

The bath is a pretty good tell, most of the time.

The cat likes the rat just fine, he just doesn't want to admit it.

[amqu.livejournal.com]

It makes you wonder why they're such good friends. Does a herd of elephants interact the same way a pack of dogs does? I'm assuming elephants and dogs use different social cues. The dog is as tall as the elephant's toenail. How do they communicate? What drew them together in the first place?

Fascinating.

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

That is touching.

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[watcher457.livejournal.com]

You know, I was thinking it was a sham when the cat was allowing the rat to groom him/her. that's just funny.

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[qos.livejournal.com]

That's quite something! Thanks for sharing.

[qos.livejournal.com]

Those are all excellent questions, and I wonder if we'll ever be able to find out the answers. . .

When I was a horse-crazy adolescent, one of my serious books about horse care had an entire chapter on the importance of providing barn companionship for your horse. If you can't have two horses, make sure to have some other living creature around. It included stories about companionship between horses and cats, dogs, goats. . . All these years later, I still remember that.

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

Here's the story it reminded me of: Reuniting elephants (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzEUayHqrRc). It is a bit of a weeper, but a happy ending.

Elephants are remarkably social and loving animals, and don't do well without companionship.

[revpanthera.livejournal.com]

omg i'm in tears .. thank you