Monday’s adorable video showing a cat enthusiastically cleaning a sleeping dog started us on a bit of a mission to find other cat-loves-(insert non-feline species name here) videos. Our favorite so far: YouTube user aublet‘s video of Molly the cat and her good pal Chiquita the rat.
When the animals first came to live together, aublet explains, the cat was kept in a separate room whenever Chiquita and aublet’s other rats were let out of their cage. One fateful night, "Chiquita broke herself and [the other rats] out of their cage and she woke me up by climbing on my face," aublet recalls. "I was terrified that Molly had hurt the others, but when I got up, Molly was just patiently watching the rats run around." Good kitty!
After that incident, aublet decided to let the cat interact with the rats — only while they were under the supervision of a watchful human caregiver, of course. Molly and Chiquita became the best of friends and remained so until Chiquita’s death last year. (R.I.P., little rat!)
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— Lindsay Barnett
Video: aublet via YouTube