{"id":519850,"date":"2010-04-07T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01347fb6e6cf970c"},"modified":"2010-04-07T15:16:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T19:16:31","slug":"your-morning-adorable-cat-licks-friendly-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519850","title":{"rendered":"Your morning adorable: Cat licks friendly rat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MYAYzZpY-o8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MYAYzZpY-o8&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s adorable video showing <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2010\/04\/your-morning-adorable-cat-licks-sleeping-dog.html\">a cat enthusiastically cleaning a sleeping dog<\/a> started us on a bit of a mission to find other cat-loves-(<em>insert non-feline species name here<\/em>) videos. Our favorite so far: YouTube user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/aublet\">aublet<\/a>&#8216;s video of Molly the cat and her good pal Chiquita the rat.<\/p>\n<p>When the animals first came to live together, aublet explains, the cat was kept in a separate room whenever Chiquita and aublet&#8217;s other rats were let out of their cage. One fateful night, &quot;Chiquita broke herself and [the other rats] out of their cage and she woke me up by climbing on my face,&quot; aublet recalls. &quot;I was terrified that Molly had hurt the others, but when I got up, Molly was just patiently watching the rats run around.&quot; Good kitty!<\/p>\n<p>After that incident, aublet decided to let the cat interact with the rats &#8212; 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&#8217;s death last year. (R.I.P., little rat!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<br \/><\/br><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2010\/01\/your-morning-adorable-patient-dog-meets-duckling.html\">Your morning adorable: Patient dog meets duckling<\/a><br \/><\/br><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/unleashed\/2010\/03\/your-morning-adorable-gentle-horse-nuzzles-cat.html\">Your morning adorable: Gentle horse nuzzles cat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Lindsay Barnett<\/p>\n<p><em>Video: aublet via YouTube<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;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&#8216;s video of Molly the cat and her good pal Chiquita the rat. When the animals first came to live together, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}