Posts tagged "interspecies friends"

Check out this animal video featuring a cat, rabbit, guinea pig and huge (at least in comparison) pit bull named Sharky, all gathered together. Has Christmas come early this year? It's wonderful!

Not only should this prove that pit bulls are by no means inherently vicious, but, moreover, that they can be big, sleepy comrades to animals of all kinds: felines, rodents and fluffy bunnies. So the next time you hear a news report about a pit bull attack, just think of Sharky, and let the close-up image of her, asleep, with a rabbit cuddled against her snout, resonate loud and clear. This is hard-core cute.

In Zibo, China, a dude found an adorable stray puppy on the street. Out of the kindness of his heart, he took the dog in, domesticating the rescued pup as only a good person who rescues an animal would. So that's awesome.

The same dude also brought in a duckling as a pet for his daughter. (It remains to be seen whether this happened before or after the pup joined the family.)

Needless to say, the pup and duckling are inseparable, and we've just witnessed on of the year's cutest cases of inter-species love yet.

There's an orangutan whose best friend is a hound dog; a cat whose playmate is a crow; an elephant whose constant companion is a Chow-mix dog; a baby hippo who pursues a friendship with a 130 year-old tortoise; a lioness who bonds with baby antelope; and the story of Christian, a lion cub purchased at Harrod's Department Store in 1969, who remembers his first owners a year after returning to the wild.

You may have seen them on Youtube, but now in "Unlikely Animal Friends," the National Geographic channel explores these six unusual animal bonds in depth with extensive footage, interviews with the animals' owners and commentary by experts.

Perplexing as the unlikely friendships are, they illustrate the "ability of animals to feel complex emotions," says one expert on the show. Love and compassion, it seems, are not solely the domain of humans: witness other inter-species videos such as the fawn who bathes a cat and the dog who befriends a duck.

The one-hour program, "Unlikely Animal Friends," premieres this Saturday, September 26 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic channel.

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