“They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon…”
The Department of Unexpected Interspecies Friendship is seriously considering setting up a permanent satellite office in Japan. Their latest discovery is an inseparable pair made up of one Scottish Fold Kitten named Marimo and a Little Owl named Fuku. That’s right friends, these two are the makings of a real-life version of “The Owl and the Pussycat.”
This adorable pair live together at Hukulou Coffee, an owl-themed cafe in Osaka, Japan, along with a few more owls and sometimes a bunny friend too. They hang out on perches together looking cute as can be. But the best times are the cuddly shared naps and goodnight kisses:
Head over to the Hukulou Coffee Twitter feed for more photos of this awesomely sweet pair of furred and feathered friends.
[via RocketNews24]
My heart…it hurts. Cant handle this
zooophagous
The department of unexpected friendship? Thats a really nice way of saying “we cram together natural enemies for the sake of cute photos.”
This post is gonna be salty as Hell but you know what? People who cram animals together that are natural enemies like snakes and mice, birds and cats, tigers and dogs or whatever else are worse idiots than people who fight dogs for entertainment.
Dog fighters at least know what they’re doing. They try to give the dog the best chance. They stand by ready to administer veterinary care, and they have the tools to stop a fight when it goes too far.
People who do dumb cutesy shit like this are much the same, they stick together animals that have a high likelyhood of seriously hurting each other, in the name of cutesy entertainment instead of gorey entertainment. Unlike dog fighters though, they don’t know how to break up a fight or administer emergency care. When fights do break out all they can do is throw water on the two and shriek that they never saw it coming.
Owls are shitty pets to begin with, even making poor birds for real falconers, keeping one in a home with a cat is an awful idea. The owl could seriously hurt the cat (they have huge talons and foul tempers) and whats more, cat saliva is very, very bad for birds. One overly hard playful nip from this kitten could open the bird up to serious infection, and how many small animal veterinarians do you think operate on owls?
And good lord did I read about a “bunny friend?” The natural prey of BOTH of these? Being cute doesn’t remove instinct. Why would you gamble with their lives like this.
For the love of God owls are not pets.
Sadly, these aren’t even pets. They live in a cafe. Japan is full of animal cafes where you go to spend time with the animals. So not only are they with animals they shouldn’t be with, but they get harassed by strangers.
Even worse. I hope a business has at least a care fund set aside but I feel like its more likely that “euthanize it and get a new one” is the standard for this.
Even worse is the fuck face that actually believes dog fighters give two shits about their animals.
They give enough of a shit to keep the animals alive long enough to breed them or make a profit. Out of the dog fighting documentaries I’ve seen, it’s pretty common for the “dog men” to have stockpiles of medical equipment to patch a dog up after a fight. Dogs aren’t single-use, they have to stay alive to win more than one fight to be valuable for anything. So yes, it is an established fact that dog fighters do administer medical care to their dogs (at least the ones that take it very seriously and make large amounts of money off of them)
There’s lots of chumps who “fight dogs” that are stupid kids who try and train a dog they got for free on Craigslist to fight and they have no issues with killing it the moment it loses, but the dark seedy underbelly of dog fighting that spreads across the nation (and even internationally) involves a LOT of veterinarians, many of whom will patch a dog up or accept payment on the side not to say anything to anyone about where Rover got his glasgow grin.
Trying to believe otherwise because you’re uncomfortable humanizing a dog fighter is nothing more than sticking your head in the sand.















