Author Topic: Animal Friends thread (Read 299392 times)

Deozaan · « **Reply #150 on:** June 28, 2014, 08:24 PM »

Nothing about these two videos makes sense.

First video: Why would you just stand there and film your kid drown, saying "Goat in the water!" instead of going in after him yourself?

Second video: It's Comedy Central. Lots of things he says are silly and obviously not true (or not meant to be taken seriously). Such as the death penalty part for breaking the NDA.

Personally, I don't trust either video.

Edvard · « **Reply #151 on:** June 30, 2014, 12:01 AM »

Cats and dogs meeting for the first time

mouser · « **Reply #152 on:** July 03, 2014, 12:52 PM »

I spent this morning digging a trench in our front yard to lay bricks.
A bird came by and was really excited about all the worms we were digging up.
He had like 3 in his mouth and was bouncing around.
Then he came over to me and gave me one of his worms!
He was like "THANKS FOR ALL THE WORMS HERE HAVE ONE KTHX BYE".

mouser · « **Reply #153 on:** July 04, 2014, 01:53 PM »

So I went back out today (next day), to finish up the digging.
My little bird friend was back!

This time he came over to me with a beak full of worms and tried a different approach -- i think he was trying to teach me how to get my own worms. He would drop a worm near me and then pick it right back up.
I think we was saying: hey big dumb creature, you are doing a great job of digging up worms but you don't seem to know what to do next.

Edvard · « **Reply #154 on:** July 05, 2014, 07:00 PM »

Do you have any capability to take video? That would be fun to see.

mouser · « **Reply #155 on:** July 05, 2014, 08:51 PM »

I wish i had

tomos · « **Reply #156 on:** July 06, 2014, 05:29 PM »

The european robin will hang out if you're doing any gardening or pretty much up to anything outside. I've fond memories of messing around in the garden as a kid while my dad did the serious gardening and a robin hanging out nearby with it's head cocked waiting for a worm to appear.
But I've never seen or heard of one trying to teach someone how to catch a worm

40hz · « **Reply #157 on:** July 07, 2014, 04:18 PM »

cranioscopical · « **Reply #158 on:** July 07, 2014, 09:15 PM »

This time he came over to me with a beak full of worms and tried a different approach -- i think he was trying to teach me how to get my own worms. He would drop a worm near me and then pick it right back up.
I think we was saying: hey big dumb creature, you are doing a great job of digging up worms but you don't seem to know what to do next.
-mouser (July 04, 2014, 01:53 PM)

And where is Cody while this dialogue proceeds? Sulking?

mouser · « **Reply #159 on:** July 10, 2014, 08:28 AM »

Stray cat sneaks into zoo to hang out with his new best friend, a Lynx:

http://gawker.com/zo...comes-bff-1592562541

Video at link.

40hz · « **Reply #160 on:** July 10, 2014, 09:14 AM »

The european robin will hang out if you're doing any gardening or pretty much up to anything outside. I've fond memories of messing around in the garden as a kid while my dad did the serious gardening and a robin hanging out nearby with it's head cocked waiting for a worm to appear.
But I've never seen or heard of one trying to teach someone how to catch a worm
-tomos (July 06, 2014, 05:29 PM)

My GF has a brown-headed cowbird that recognizes and hangs with her any time she's messing with the garden, running the lawnmower, or doing stuff outside that stirs up bugs. It will even stand right next to her digging hand (she's actually had to gently shoo it aside or shrug it off her shoulder a few times) when she's weeding or planting in the two raised-beds we have out in back.

Now that it's figured out she lives inside the house, it goes to the den window and pecks and chatters until she comes out if it thinks she's been absent for too long.

They look like this in case anybody isn't familiar with the species:

mouser · « **Reply #161 on:** July 17, 2014, 12:06 AM »

When I was very young I remember seeing a dog who had wheels instead of rear legs, and I cried because I felt bad for the dog. But that was misguided.

The amazing thing about animals is that they don't feel bad for themselves or need our pitty -- they take it in stride and just get on with enjoying life.

This warmed my heart:

Although.. come on lady, sticks are free, it wouldn't hurt for you to have more than one.

40hz · « **Reply #162 on:** July 17, 2014, 04:30 PM »

Although.. come on lady, sticks are free, it wouldn't hurt for you to have more than one.
-mouser (July 17, 2014, 12:06 AM)

But then it wouldn't be a game!

Our dogs would chase a ball (and each other) around for hours. But of you give each of them a ball they'd either stop playing, or decide among themselves which was the "play" ball and ignore the rest.

Dogs get games.

mouser · « **Reply #163 on:** July 17, 2014, 04:32 PM »

or decide among themselves which was the "play" ball and ignore the rest.

ha!

KynloStephen66515 · « **Reply #164 on:** July 18, 2014, 08:44 PM »

Every night for the past three years, a junkyard dog in Brazil has made an eight-mile journey along dark and dangerous roads so she can retrieve a bag of food for her friends – another dog, a cat, and several chickens. At first she left home to feed her puppies, but now she still makes the journey so she can feed her friends.

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Watch The Video

mouser · « **Reply #165 on:** July 18, 2014, 09:03 PM »

Wonderful

panzer · « **Reply #166 on:** July 21, 2014, 03:36 AM »

Bizzare world where animals are bigger humans than most of beings that call themselves that but are (most of them) just monkeys with big brains.

panzer · « **Reply #167 on:** July 21, 2014, 04:07 AM »

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #168 on:** July 21, 2014, 05:53 AM »

Every night for the past three years, a junkyard dog in Brazil has made an eight-mile journey along dark and dangerous roads so she can retrieve a bag of food for her friends – another dog, a cat, and several chickens. At first she left home to feed her puppies, but now she still makes the journey so she can feed her friends.

Read Full Story

-Stephen66515 (July 18, 2014, 08:44 PM)

This is almost the best post ever. Anyone can post vids/pics of cats being funny for 45 seconds. Here we have a dog going at least four and maybe eight miles each way just to feed four more animal friends. That ... just ... rules.

tomos · « **Reply #169 on:** July 21, 2014, 02:13 PM »

^ yep

KynloStephen66515 · « **Reply #170 on:** August 08, 2014, 09:21 PM »

tomos · « **Reply #171 on:** August 13, 2014, 05:33 AM »

This one doesnt really qualify as a friends one, but it is one animal rescuing another - (and I dont see how they could have faked this one...)

KynloStephen66515 · « **Reply #172 on:** August 17, 2014, 10:39 AM »

In the city of Phetchaburi in Thailand, a dog discovered the fish out of the water and unconscious on the pavement. It will try not to let them die by spraying water with its snout. Besides the fish are few puddles. The dog will then sprinkle the fish, as if he wished they would not die. Touching!
-Youtube Video

mouser · « **Reply #173 on:** August 17, 2014, 03:42 PM »

Holy cow that dog+fish video blew my mind. Amazing. That has to be one of the most remarkable videos in this long thread.
What an incredible dog.

And I can't help but notice the humans are laughing in the background while the dog seems genuinely concerned and troubled.

Deozaan · « **Reply #174 on:** August 18, 2014, 08:38 AM »

In the city of Phetchaburi in Thailand, a dog discovered the fish out of the water and unconscious on the pavement. It will try not to let them die by spraying water with its snout. Besides the fish are few puddles. The dog will then sprinkle the fish, as if he wished they would not die. Touching!
-Youtube Video

-Stephen66515 (August 17, 2014, 10:39 AM)

Holy cow that dog+fish video blew my mind. Amazing. That has to be one of the most remarkable videos in this long thread.
What an incredible dog.

And I can't help but notice the humans are laughing in the background while the dog seems genuinely concerned and troubled.
-mouser (August 17, 2014, 03:42 PM)

Occam's Razor:

The dog sniffed the dead fish (touching his nose to the fish) which was so putrescently odiferous that he was trying to scrub his nose clean on the wet pavement.