BeastlyLove

January 20, 2005 6:41 AM

Let's be friends
posted by srboisvert (36 comments total)

Awww...
Just.. Awwww.

Although that cat looks a mite uncomfortable being monkeyhandled in the last pic.

But still... Awwwww
posted by Thoth at 6:48 AM on January 20, 2005

There's something sublime about the post titles:

- Tiger and piglets
- Kitten and a puppy
- Kitten and a hedgehog
- Guinea pig and a dog
- Ducks and a kitten
- Dog and a horse

I think i'm going to use one of those instead of a string of curse-words.

*steps on Lego blocks in bare feet*
"Dog and a horse!!!"
posted by tpl1212 at 6:51 AM on January 20, 2005

Because the picture of the tiger and the piglets made me curious, a few more pics and some backstory here.
posted by Cyrano at 6:55 AM on January 20, 2005

That's not a mouse. That's a rat. Very cute regardless.

I should get some pics of my rats with my SO's cats, but the cats are terrified of the rats. The rats are pretty non-plussed about the cats, though.
posted by loquacious at 6:55 AM on January 20, 2005

The monkey & cat ventriloquist act looks like a winner.
posted by Smart Dalek at 6:56 AM on January 20, 2005

*MELTS. TOTALLY MELTS.*

Thank you, srboisvert.

*MELTS MORE INTO WARM PUDDLES ON CUBICLE FLOOR*
posted by Shane at 7:15 AM on January 20, 2005

I wonder if the tiger appreciates the fact that the piglets are wearing the skins of it's dead relatives?
posted by DBAPaul at 7:21 AM on January 20, 2005

Why do I find this so oddly excellent?

Is it the sparseness? The almost haiku like presentation? Is it the monkey yoking up the cat? Why are animals so funny?

I love it? Yes!
posted by Divine_Wino at 7:22 AM on January 20, 2005

Awww indeed. : )

My dog cuddles up with his toys like the cat and toy chick pic.

And the dog and horse pic reminds me of when I went to visit my grandparents shortly after I got Barney. There's a stable in their neighborhood, and I was walking Barney near there. I got to talking to a guy who was there while Barney was doing his thing, and it turned out that his granddaughter had a horse in that stable who was also named Barney. Of course I had to take Barney the dog to meet Barney the horse! I held my dog up and the two sniffed each other. It was very cute. : )
posted by SisterHavana at 7:27 AM on January 20, 2005

I have a sense that, for a lot of these, the next picture in the series involves evisceration.

With a fast enough shutter speed, anything can look like friendship.
posted by felix betachat at 7:28 AM on January 20, 2005

Koko loves kittens.
posted by found missing at 7:29 AM on January 20, 2005

Thanks. I really needed that today.
posted by availablelight at 7:33 AM on January 20, 2005

Ohhhhhhh! The monkey! The monkey holds the kitty! Now I dead from cute!

Er, in other words- thank you so much for sharing; awesome link!
posted by headspace at 7:34 AM on January 20, 2005

These are cute. Especially the monkeys.

Note to loquacious: a few years ago, someone corrected my use of nonplussed, and I've been grateful ever since, so I thought I'd do the same for you, and get to sound like a smarty-pants in the baragain. Though it seems as if it should mean "blase and unruffled," it actually means "confused and at a loss for words."

That's what I hate about rats -- throw a curve ball at them, and they clam up. Come on, rats -- spit it out.
posted by adgnyc at 7:37 AM on January 20, 2005

man and rabbit.
posted by Mayor Curley at 7:38 AM on January 20, 2005

Bear playing with dog
posted by found missing at 7:40 AM on January 20, 2005

The "poorly" hedgehog and the squirrel is divine, as is the cat holding a stuffed animal. And the tiger's expression as it sleeps is wonderful; looks like any domestic cat, really.

Although I have to agree that some of these probably weren't all that happy in the next frame. The dog and horse one in particular - I think the dog started yapping and running away about 1 second later.
posted by livii at 7:40 AM on January 20, 2005

heh... breakfast in bed! :)
posted by LouReedsSon at 7:46 AM on January 20, 2005

"Breakfast In Bed" would seem to imply that the dog is about to wolf down that cute white cat that he's embracing so tenderly.
posted by liam at 7:47 AM on January 20, 2005

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr. Raymond Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
posted by Crackerbelly at 7:50 AM on January 20, 2005

dear livii,

My mother owns a miniature dachshund. This miniscule animal likes to go bark at the horse that lives in the field next door. Or, she did. One day the horse, across the field, looked up and came at the poor doggie at a gallop. The dog, terrified, remained where she was. The horse slowed as it approached until it came to a full stop just in front of the still petrified dog. Then the horse nudged the miniature dachshund quite gently with its nose. The dog pissed everywhere and yelped its way under the deck.
posted by sciurus at 7:50 AM on January 20, 2005

sciurus: hah! I thought so. ;)
posted by livii at 7:53 AM on January 20, 2005

There's a Polar Bear Fanclub!

Even in my wildest dreams...
posted by nixerman at 7:55 AM on January 20, 2005

This just goes to show that an animal predator's natural instincts to consume easily reachable prey are wholly suspended by the presence of a camera.
posted by soyjoy at 8:06 AM on January 20, 2005

It just doesn't get any better than this:


posted by fixedgear at 8:38 AM on January 20, 2005

sems broken, now.

**stamps foot, narrowly missing Lego piece**
"I wanna see the puppies!"
posted by Al_Truist at 9:01 AM on January 20, 2005

shortly after i forwarded this to a few people, i think the site was overloaded. I pdf'd though, it ya want it Al.
posted by grimley at 9:10 AM on January 20, 2005

Overloaded now. However, the first working link on google search for letsbefriends is worth looking at.
posted by googly at 10:19 AM on January 20, 2005

the first working link on google search

Oh, googly... that's your solution to everything.
posted by soyjoy at 10:44 AM on January 20, 2005

Here's a bunch more. And one more. (I've linked to these on my weblog previously.)
posted by Zed_Lopez at 10:53 AM on January 20, 2005

I hate to admit it, soyjoy, but you may be right.
posted by googly at 10:58 AM on January 20, 2005

man and rabbit.

Man and rabbit.
posted by rafter at 11:45 AM on January 20, 2005

It sure is strange
how it took falling in love with you,
getting married so we
could get divorced for me
to miss our friendship.
Could we be friends again?

©1999FrankB.Holcomb

It's all yours man.

I'm sorry. I just continued googly's derail. As you were.
posted by gramschmidt at 11:53 AM on January 20, 2005

I wanna seeeee, I wanna SEEEEE!

Stupid overloaded page, grumble mumble.
posted by Specklet at 12:19 PM on January 20, 2005

But blogspot is blogger is google. Those sites can be overloaded? Oops.
posted by srboisvert at 7:21 PM on January 20, 2005

Google saves Google's Blogger ass. In Firefox, you can right click on the missing images and see them.
posted by dhartung at 9:21 PM on January 20, 2005