{"id":348,"date":"2016-02-29T22:14:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T22:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=348"},"modified":"2016-02-29T22:14:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T22:14:36","slug":"unexpected-feline-friendships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected feline friendships&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of St Valentines Day that was obviously earlier this month, I thought I&#8217;d write a little about some of the unexpected feline friendships that have been extended to animals of other species.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m adding a few links to some of my favourite articles, because they&#8217;re a joy to read and watch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/channel.nationalgeographic.com\/wild\/unlikely-animal-friends\/videos\/the-house-cat-and-the-bear\/\">http:\/\/channel.nationalgeographic.com\/wild\/unlikely-animal-friends\/videos\/the-house-cat-and-the-bear\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iheartcats.com\/friendship-comes-in-all-shapes-and-species\/\">http:\/\/iheartcats.com\/friendship-comes-in-all-shapes-and-species\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And last, but not least, my favourite story online at present&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Friendship Cat &amp; Owl - Unlikely Friendship Between A Cat And An Owl(Watch Now)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o8xC6FjPeL4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Having witnessed a bond develop between a beautiful foster rabbit I cared for called Storm and my rather naughty Wee Free Man, Darwin, I can honestly say that the theory all cats are aloof, standoffish animals is very ill founded. (As I&#8217;m sure most cat lovers already know&#8230;.) Hopefully this short footage of them playing together will work:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/video-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/hvideo-xfa1\/v\/t42.1790-2\/1259804_10151790610760901_59871_n.mp4?efg=eyJybHIiOjMwMCwicmxhIjo1MTIsInZlbmNvZGVfdGFnIjoibGVnYWN5X3NkIn0%3D&amp;rl=300&amp;vabr=154&amp;oh=f7b2a60978db39fefa2093b27a400174&amp;oe=56D5034A\">https:\/\/video-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/hvideo-xfa1\/v\/t42.1790-2\/1259804_10151790610760901_59871_n.mp4?efg=eyJybHIiOjMwMCwicmxhIjo1MTIsInZlbmNvZGVfdGFnIjoibGVnYWN5X3NkIn0%3D&amp;rl=300&amp;vabr=154&amp;oh=f7b2a60978db39fefa2093b27a400174&amp;oe=56D5034A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone needs a little love, and these stories are a wonderful illustration of interspecies friendships \u00a0that have occurred despite it being rather unlikely. Hopefully they made you smile as much as they made me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of St Valentines Day that was obviously earlier this month, I thought I&#8217;d write a little about some of the unexpected feline friendships that have been extended to animals of other species. &nbsp; I&#8217;m adding a few&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}