Something good for a chuckle or 50

March 10, 2024 2:27 PM

They aren't all pets, and they aren't all funny, but they are all animals and they are all entertaining to watch. The FUNNIEST Pet Videos of 2023! 🤣 | BEST Compilation [1h20m]
posted by hippybear (19 comments total)

I've only watched the first 10 minutes of this.

There goes my evening...

Pretty much mirrors my FB feed of puppies, goldens, kittens and moose.
posted by Windopaene at 2:55 PM on March 10 [1 favorite]

WHY IS THERE A BEAR IN THE HOUSE AAAAH
posted by capnsue at 3:14 PM on March 10

And CW: some are "WTF are YOU DOING!!!"

(Baby with ferret? sharp-beaked bird taking food out of your baby's mouth?)

Also, kitties, puppies, and bears Oh My!

EDIT: Camels, llamas and such appear to:

1) Know where the tourists' foods are.
2) are kind of dicks about it
posted by Windopaene at 3:27 PM on March 10 [4 favorites]

Some of these are mildly upsetting if you spend any time thinking about zoonotic disease transmission. Many are adorable. Pretty sure they are not all from last year but whatever.

(please stop kissing your pets and especially random wildlife, people)
posted by emjaybee at 4:13 PM on March 10 [7 favorites]

Camel says "SPIT"
posted by Windopaene at 4:52 PM on March 10

All of us animals are just so weird. And some of us are super cute.
posted by Windopaene at 4:58 PM on March 10 [2 favorites]

Best argument for SLMF evarrrrr and I've only watched about 20m so far...
posted by supermedusa at 5:30 PM on March 10

The people are always surprised and then outraged when the llamas and camels stick their heads into the cars and remove the containers of kibble. Every time. It's like... which one is supposed to be the higher order primate, again?
posted by Don Pepino at 5:36 PM on March 10 [4 favorites]

please stop kissing your pets

NEVER
posted by mittens at 5:39 PM on March 10 [12 favorites]

I know, right? To think that that is the low-hanging fruit to keep us from being wiped out by a zoonotic virus.

You know what? If I do get something from my dog, it's highly unlikely to turn into another pandemic for the world to not give a shit about, since the humans in our household wear masks everywhere.
posted by tigrrrlily at 5:44 PM on March 10 [2 favorites]

Cat movement options:
- silky smooth
- explosion of random muscle spasms
posted by clawsoon at 6:27 PM on March 10 [2 favorites]

Thanks to this post, all these have magically appeared in my YouTube feed today:

Best Funny Animals 2024

Best Funny Animals 2024

Best Funny Animals 2024

                                
      ...so far
posted by y2karl at 10:18 PM on March 10

Yeah. Too many of these "funny" videos show people being shits to their pets.

Also, the zoonotic disease transmission aside - why do people have apes, goats, deer, and what looks to be a marmot in their living rooms!? This cannot end well for either the human nor the "pet".
posted by Dotty at 10:26 AM on March 11 [1 favorite]

why do people have apes, goats, deer, and what looks to be a marmot in their living rooms!?

Mmmmmmmhmm!

There's one with an ocelot who tears across the kitchen counter and leaps into the microwave to eat whatever they've put in there and the humans are all helpless to stop it, and I'm like, "Well, yeah! This is why you don't get an ocelot."

Then a few minutes later there's another one showing a day in the life of another family with an ocelot, and this family also has a regular garden variety housecat. In that one the ocelot leaps into the open fridge and begins frantically pillaging, knocking a bottle of A1 onto the floor next to the poor housecat, who vacates the area. Then the ocelot leaps out with a whole package of raw skinless chicken thighs in its mouth and proceeds to rip into it. A1 all over the floor.

You know how dogs have bad spacial relations? And thus there are roughly 600,000 videos online showing them trying and failing to get sticks wider than doorways through doorways? Because people continue to find that hilarious no matter how many times they watch it? Well, I feel like the camels-stealing-kibble-buckets and these two ocelot video clips are basically the same thing as those dog-stick-door videos but for our species. We should put them on the next Voyager we send off so that one day advanced life forms in another galaxy can watch them and learn why our species failed.

That poor housecat before it gets bombed with A1, just watching and shaking its head, totally appalled, like, "Jeeeesus Christ, look at this asshole. Rules for me but not for thee."
posted by Don Pepino at 1:05 PM on March 11 [3 favorites]

these compilations are a guilty pleasure, but the above-noted observations are valid and they do diminish the enjoyment a little

I once met a woman who needed multiple intensive facial reconstruction surgeries after a dog attacked her, and even as an unabashed dog lover it makes me nervous to see the proximity of some of those dogs to little kids' faces.

I'm a sucker for these videos though, cannot deny
posted by elkevelvet at 1:17 PM on March 11 [1 favorite]

One thing this video didn't have which other compilations videos have had are clips showing cats either about to fall or possibly actually falling from a great height. I've watched some compilations that contain clips like that and those 5 seconds wake me up in a panic in the middle of the night. I clicked onto this one with a lot of trepidation, but what I saw didn't contain any of that. Which for me is actually honest nightmare fuel.
posted by hippybear at 2:03 PM on March 11

The animal videos that give me pause are the ones featuring, pumas, leopards and black jaguars living in the compounds of the children of Russian oligarchs. Especially as there is no legal international trade in large cats that I know of. But obviously they are being bred somewhere.
posted by y2karl at 3:37 PM on March 11 [2 favorites]

The animal videos that give me pause are the ones featuring, pumas, leopards and black jaguars living in the compounds of the children of Russian oligarchs. Especially as there is no legal international trade in large cats that I know of. But obviously they are being bred somewhere.

My mind immediately jumps to the work of the Wagner Group in African gold mines, but I have no actual idea if that's connected.
posted by clawsoon at 4:35 PM on March 12

Here is yet another example. In a word:Yikes! I had no idea lynxs grew that big. What is it about rich Russians and exotic pets?
posted by y2karl at 11:06 AM on April 4