Just a Kitten and Bunny Playing Tag
May 4, 2017 5:37 PM Subscribe
Interesting tags.
posted by Going To Maine at 6:45 PM on May 4, 2017 [10 favorites]
posted by Going To Maine at 6:45 PM on May 4, 2017 [10 favorites]
The bunny chasing the cat is another video.
posted by wanderingmind at 7:22 PM on May 4, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by wanderingmind at 7:22 PM on May 4, 2017 [4 favorites]
Um, yeah, I'm not sure that's exactly the same game for both of them. The kitten's always doing the chasing, and the bunny's always being chased...
put...the bunny...back...in the box
posted by Naberius at 7:32 PM on May 4, 2017 [3 favorites]
put...the bunny...back...in the box
posted by Naberius at 7:32 PM on May 4, 2017 [3 favorites]
Bunny is the boss! She totally outruns kitty and clearly enjoys making him sweat. Hee hee. Good bunny.
posted by soakimbo at 8:14 PM on May 4, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by soakimbo at 8:14 PM on May 4, 2017 [1 favorite]
Just a bit of friendly predator/prey amusement...
posted by jim in austin at 8:57 PM on May 4, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by jim in austin at 8:57 PM on May 4, 2017 [4 favorites]
Was I the only one picturing Simon's cat as the kitten?
posted by A hidden well at 8:59 PM on May 4, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by A hidden well at 8:59 PM on May 4, 2017 [1 favorite]
come on lil guy this is madness cats are among the hrair. you better have a good reason to be messing around with elil.
like you better be leading that kitten toward one of the general's scouting parties. this better be some El-ahrairah hraka you're pulling.
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 10:46 PM on May 4, 2017 [11 favorites]
like you better be leading that kitten toward one of the general's scouting parties. this better be some El-ahrairah hraka you're pulling.
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 10:46 PM on May 4, 2017 [11 favorites]
This could rapidly stop being cute at any moment.
posted by groda at 1:21 AM on May 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by groda at 1:21 AM on May 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
Metafilter: This could rapidly stop being cute at any moment.
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 1:24 AM on May 5, 2017 [13 favorites]
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 1:24 AM on May 5, 2017 [13 favorites]
That's not playing. That's hunting practice. Poor bunny.
posted by zakur at 5:34 AM on May 5, 2017 [7 favorites]
posted by zakur at 5:34 AM on May 5, 2017 [7 favorites]
When we had a pet rabbit, he was always trying to have his wicked way with the cat.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 6:30 AM on May 5, 2017
posted by The Underpants Monster at 6:30 AM on May 5, 2017
i was concerned a little about the bunny, until towards the end when he made that sick under the belly of the kitten move.
posted by misskaz at 7:13 AM on May 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by misskaz at 7:13 AM on May 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
would it work to get a kitten and a baby bunny and raise them together? would they likely become friends instead of enemies?
They would likely learn to tolerate each other much more than they would normally, but it’s still not a good idea. Cat saliva is toxic to rabbits (as well as many small animals) and kittens have very sharp claws and not great control over their pointy bits.
It would be a huge risk to let them interact, because it would be more likely that the kitten would accidentally injure and/or kill the baby bunny and there’s no way to guarantee that if they both survived they’d have any sort of relationship any different than adult animals would. (Keep in mind it’s also a bad idea to let cats and rabbits interact, even as adults).
~ whyanimalsdothething
So much of the "cute animal" stuff floating around on social media is just anthropomorphic bullshit.
posted by Lanark at 9:31 AM on May 5, 2017 [3 favorites]
They would likely learn to tolerate each other much more than they would normally, but it’s still not a good idea. Cat saliva is toxic to rabbits (as well as many small animals) and kittens have very sharp claws and not great control over their pointy bits.
It would be a huge risk to let them interact, because it would be more likely that the kitten would accidentally injure and/or kill the baby bunny and there’s no way to guarantee that if they both survived they’d have any sort of relationship any different than adult animals would. (Keep in mind it’s also a bad idea to let cats and rabbits interact, even as adults).
~ whyanimalsdothething
So much of the "cute animal" stuff floating around on social media is just anthropomorphic bullshit.
posted by Lanark at 9:31 AM on May 5, 2017 [3 favorites]
That's the most foul, cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on. It's got a vicious streak a mile wide, it's a killer. It'll do you up a treat.
posted by Devonian at 10:07 AM on May 5, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by Devonian at 10:07 AM on May 5, 2017 [3 favorites]
Eh. The rabbit always stops before it gets too far away from the kitten, despite having a good deal of space to keep going in, and in fact hops towards it several times including when the kitten is just standing there. I don't think it's too anthropomorphizing to think that they are both engaging in play, even if the skills they are practicing are different.
I've known a number of people who had both house rabbits and cats without any problems, and the House Rabbit society seems to think it is fine if you are careful.
posted by tavella at 12:15 PM on May 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
I've known a number of people who had both house rabbits and cats without any problems, and the House Rabbit society seems to think it is fine if you are careful.
posted by tavella at 12:15 PM on May 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
... If anthropomorphising is your thing.
If not, the rules of the game, and who's cheating is a lot less confusing.
posted by humboldt32 at 12:35 PM on May 5, 2017
If not, the rules of the game, and who's cheating is a lot less confusing.
posted by humboldt32 at 12:35 PM on May 5, 2017
If you guys are thinking that the kitten isn't really "playing," it's practicing hunting, then why are you not thinking that the bunny is practicing fleeing? "Chase-me chase-me" could just as easily be practice for evading a hunter, and you can even see that being some much-needed experience for a little bun.
Bun isn't scared. Bun could get WAY further away from that kitten, but they're staying close to home because they are playing.
posted by Made of Star Stuff at 3:32 PM on May 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
Bun isn't scared. Bun could get WAY further away from that kitten, but they're staying close to home because they are playing.
posted by Made of Star Stuff at 3:32 PM on May 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
My guess on why the rabbit didn’t run off would be that the cat is larger and inherently faster than it is, it knows that taking off at short range and exposing yourself to a larger, faster animal isn’t a good idea (even if it’s not a predator, that still codes as danger). The rabbit appears to be freezing/ standing it’s ground and trying to display at the cat so it likely feels safer trying to defend itself with antagonistic behavior than risk running away.
posted by Lanark at 4:45 PM on May 5, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by Lanark at 4:45 PM on May 5, 2017 [3 favorites]
tl;dr: cats are elil.
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 4:51 PM on May 5, 2017
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 4:51 PM on May 5, 2017
I think we need a new rule that if you want to reveal the dark truth behind a cute video you need to find or make a replacement cute video with no dark undertones and provide that as an alternative.
posted by Going To Maine at 5:19 PM on May 5, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by Going To Maine at 5:19 PM on May 5, 2017 [4 favorites]
OK heres a Sleepy beagle puppy that doesn't want to go for a walk
posted by Lanark at 5:36 PM on May 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Lanark at 5:36 PM on May 5, 2017 [2 favorites]
cats are elil
Is that Quenya for "jerks?"
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:02 PM on May 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
Is that Quenya for "jerks?"
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:02 PM on May 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
I'll see your beagle and raise you a lazy husky.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:06 PM on May 5, 2017
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:06 PM on May 5, 2017
Predator/prey doesn't mean that the two weren't legitimately playing that time; that's a thing that happens.
My guess on why the rabbit didn’t run off would be that the cat is larger and inherently faster than it is, it knows that taking off at short range and exposing yourself to a larger, faster animal isn’t a good idea
One time there was a bunny in the backyard that showed the value of that lesson. Just ran in circles around the yard a few times with the vallhunds chasing it until it went around the corner of the house and there was screaming and then no screaming and I scooped up the dead bunny. It never was clear whether someone (Tish) snapped its neck, or whether it just ran full-speed into the fence and killed itself, or whether it gave itself a heart attack which is apparently a thing that happens with bunnies?
(For the record, I was out in the dark in the gross wet yard in my jammies and slipper socks running and flailing my stupid arms around like the world's most gormless asshole in an attempt to get the dogs off the bunny so it could run away properly)
Anyway, score is currently vallhunds 5, small mammals 0. But the *other* score is skunks 1, Tish 0. Hoooooboy that's a smell.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 6:42 PM on May 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
My guess on why the rabbit didn’t run off would be that the cat is larger and inherently faster than it is, it knows that taking off at short range and exposing yourself to a larger, faster animal isn’t a good idea
One time there was a bunny in the backyard that showed the value of that lesson. Just ran in circles around the yard a few times with the vallhunds chasing it until it went around the corner of the house and there was screaming and then no screaming and I scooped up the dead bunny. It never was clear whether someone (Tish) snapped its neck, or whether it just ran full-speed into the fence and killed itself, or whether it gave itself a heart attack which is apparently a thing that happens with bunnies?
(For the record, I was out in the dark in the gross wet yard in my jammies and slipper socks running and flailing my stupid arms around like the world's most gormless asshole in an attempt to get the dogs off the bunny so it could run away properly)
Anyway, score is currently vallhunds 5, small mammals 0. But the *other* score is skunks 1, Tish 0. Hoooooboy that's a smell.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 6:42 PM on May 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
Cat saliva is toxic to rabbits
Wait, what? How? Aside from it usually accompanying cat claws and cat teeth and cat digestive juices?
posted by maryr at 9:21 PM on May 5, 2017
Wait, what? How? Aside from it usually accompanying cat claws and cat teeth and cat digestive juices?
posted by maryr at 9:21 PM on May 5, 2017
That is one primo beagle. Extra points for floppy front paws.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 8:42 PM on May 6, 2017
posted by The Underpants Monster at 8:42 PM on May 6, 2017
Perhaps this is a more even matchup? Lion Cub and Ferret.
dibs on the twee indie band name
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:30 AM on May 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
dibs on the twee indie band name
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:30 AM on May 7, 2017 [1 favorite]
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