Everyone has chores around the house. 🦎🐈🐕🧹

August 16, 2019 11:39 AM

You're a member of the family, you gotta do something to keep this place tidy. Even you, chameleon, you have some work to do. Max the cat, don't just lay around (or do, and I'll put you to work). But Jesse the Jack Russel Terrier, the most helpful dog in the world really tackles chores with gusto (bonus Jesse clips: useful dog tricks #1, #2, #3).

Useful dog tricks, original video, previously.

posted by filthy light thief (20 comments total)

Nellie the Cat used to try to "help" me make the bed, thus inspiring the term "Nelping."
posted by The Underpants Monster at 11:58 AM on August 16, 2019 [8 favorites]

excuse me, i need to borrow a chameleon
posted by phooky at 12:15 PM on August 16, 2019 [12 favorites]

(I think Useful dog tricks #3 link goes to video #2)
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 12:20 PM on August 16, 2019

Jesse seems... kind of aggro?
posted by grumpybear69 at 12:24 PM on August 16, 2019 [1 favorite]

Hey, Jesse has my coffee grinder! Good boy!
posted by mittens at 12:32 PM on August 16, 2019 [1 favorite]

Max and Beatrix T. Cattenborough clearly have similar chores around the house. Although Beatrix prefers to stare under the stove for hours on end until, maybe once or twice a year, a mouse comes out. She also likes to make sure Mrs. slkinsey's ankles stay in their lane.
posted by slkinsey at 12:48 PM on August 16, 2019 [2 favorites]

My dog rinses the dishes before they go in the dishwasher. It's important to teach responsibility.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 1:03 PM on August 16, 2019 [10 favorites]

For more: https://www.justjessethejack.com/
posted by Peach at 1:36 PM on August 16, 2019 [1 favorite]

I spent a couple of seconds wondering how Max the cat had got stuck up the wall like that, before realising that he was actually lying on the floor.
posted by Fuchsoid at 1:47 PM on August 16, 2019 [2 favorites]

The Underpants Monster: Nellie the Cat used to try to "help" me make the bed, thus inspiring the term "Nelping."

We also have a helpful cat, Mum-rah. She is the source of the term "helpful like a cat." As in the sarcastic "you're being helpful like a cat."
posted by filthy light thief at 2:02 PM on August 16, 2019 [7 favorites]

I think Jesse is just, like, super enthusiastic.
posted by allthinky at 2:28 PM on August 16, 2019 [1 favorite]

Jesse does that "look at mommydaddy all the time when walking" thing.
posted by rhizome at 4:16 PM on August 16, 2019 [1 favorite]

As in the sarcastic "you're being helpful like a cat."
We sing Helping from Free to Be You and Me to our cats:

Some kind of help is the kind of help
That helping's all about
And some kind of help is the kind of help
We all can do without

posted by cheshyre at 4:35 PM on August 16, 2019 [4 favorites]

Jesse seems... kind of aggro?
posted by grumpybear69 at 3:24 PM on August 16

He's just a Jack Russell Terrier. If you took away the aggro, you'd have a small pile of fur and a collar.
posted by ZaphodB at 6:29 PM on August 16, 2019 [21 favorites]

The woman in the Max video was basically every terrifying mother/school teacher from my childhood.
posted by thivaia at 6:56 PM on August 16, 2019 [1 favorite]

Jesse needs to learn how to load a washing machine properly. There definitely weren't enough clothes in it. On top of that, I hear he doesn't separate them in to colors vs. darks vs. lights vs. whites.
posted by Nanukthedog at 7:02 PM on August 16, 2019 [3 favorites]

grumpybear69: Jesse seems... kind of aggro?

allthinky: I think Jesse is just, like, super enthusiastic.

ZaphodB: He's just a Jack Russell Terrier. If you took away the aggro, you'd have a small pile of fur and a collar.

Can confirm as a Jack Russell owner that what you’re seeing in the Jesse videos isn’t aggro and is more enthusiasm, though ZaphodB’s comment made me laugh. They are very intense little creatures! And they are also smart and can be neurotic; they need a job to do or else they get bored and think too much and become anxious and destructive. So Jesse’s owner is very, very smart to teach Jesse to do all these things...a busy Jack Russell is a happy Jack Russell.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 8:29 PM on August 16, 2019 [7 favorites]

Are we sure? I feel like Jesse is enslaved and needs a stoner family to love with.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:54 PM on August 16, 2019 [1 favorite]

“That’s no broom. It’s a chameleon range extender.”
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 6:52 AM on August 17, 2019 [2 favorites]

Abehammerb Lincoln: Are we sure? I feel like Jesse is enslaved and needs a stoner family to love with.

That is a most excellent typo!
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 1:42 PM on August 17, 2019 [2 favorites]