Occasionally even PuffHo has something good, and this article on the friendship between a cat and a fox is just the ticket for Fox Week.
As the article notes:
This duo was discovered by fishermen on the shores of Lake Van in Turkey, according to BuzzFeed.
Photos of their friendship spread across the Internet last November, but the pictures resurfaced on Reddit today.
Here are some:
And here’s a video (from a Turkish television station) that shows the felid-canid love even if you don’t know Turkish:
I need an insulin injection after watching that video!
Sweet.
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Wonderful!
Awwww!
That’s wonderful! Is the cat a Turkish Van?
Yes, very likely, it has the right coloring, although normally Turkish Van cats are long-haired cats.
Probably bears the same relation to Turkish Van as a random longhaired farm cat in New England or Minnesota to “Maine Coon”…
Selectively-bred Turkish Van are “semi-longhair” but single coat without either guard hair or down. Land-race version of Vans have a high incidence of this trait, associated with being able to dry off after a swim. A cat like the one in the photo might have this trait and also be pretty fluffy in the winter.
Turkish Van
Not to be confused with Van cat or Turkish Angora
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Van
Here’s one Turkish Van kitten who bears a great resemblance to the one with the fox:
http://www.pets4homes.co.uk/classifieds/351515-turkish-angora-x-turkish-van-kittens-kingsbridge.html
I’m amazed that the birds stay so close!
For a minute, it looked like the birds wanted to join in!
Cute!
I know! I would think that foxes would threaten birds just as much as cats would.
Basically, predators only threaten and/or hunt when they are hungry. When they are replete, they tend to ignore preys altogether.
…and, perhaps not so surprisingly, the prey is able to tell when the predators aren’t hungry. Why waste your energy running away when there’s nothing to run away from?
One can easily imagine, though, a predator taking advantage of such reactions to prey, and to mimic a lack of interest in prey until opportunity presents itself….
b&
And via Daughter of Hempenstein, a combo canid counterpart from Norway.
Thanks – absolutely delightful!
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…as are most this from Norway!
Awwww cute! I had a dog who had a cat friend. We have no idea where the cat lived but in the morning he/she would come into the yard and rub all over him.
Well, that’s thoroughly adorable.
I know a cat fox!
Sigh….. this gives me the warm and fuzzies…..