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It’s worth seeing again..A Private Function. A comedy but at one point when the farmer needed to butcher his pig he wept saying “He were a Christian, he was”. Enough, almost to swear off bacon

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dear michael,

i love animal videos and i love your love of animal videos!

i love this as well: "I’m going to make another confession: I became a vegetarian in November of last year. I don’t talk about it because the last thing anybody wants to hear about is somebody else’s diet. The reason I mention it at all is because my enjoyment of animal videos has increased exponentially since I stopped devouring the subjects of those videos. A pig giving hugs is a lot cuter when I don’t have to wrestle with the guilt of knowing the subject of the video might end up in my BLT."

and this: "It is kind of weird to consider how many millions of species with whom we share this planet, even weirder that we’re the only ones that pass animal videos back and forth."

thank you for sharing!

love

myq

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My son and I were at a park recently and we saw three little chihuahuas frolicking to and fro with unbridled joy and it was so utterly beautiful it made us laugh and we just loved seeing them so much. I still smile when I think of those cute little critters.

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Sharing cute animal videos with your partner while sitting silently next to them for hours is the cornerstone of a successful marriage.

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I once saw a video of a fish trying to flop its body to a nearby puddle, stuck on a drying, city street after a flood. Meanwhile, a dog was pushing water with its nose onto the fish like a chef basting a steak with butter, but it was to keep the fish alive and not prepare it for dinner. I bawled.

I realized then, that animals have more empathy than humans these days.

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https://www.ZooBorns.com is still one of my daily required websites. I get emails of their updates and that thrills me.

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I have something to confess: I had already seen every one of the videos you linked (except for the snuggling pig). We travel in the same cute animal video waters, I see. I'm an aspiring vegetarian married to a meat-eating man who does all the cooking, so there are compromises.

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I've gone from shrugging them off to muted amusement to unbridled glee! Animal videos might just end up being social media's redemption. Have you watched Kiki the Parrot stone cold nailing September by Earth, Wind and Fire? (And congrats on going veg!!)

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I wish animals can also shoot videos of themselves, watch and share with their loved ones. I second that iPhone idea

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do you know about Selfie Monkey? google if you don't! it's not a video but it's close!

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Upgrading the Pumas would be a great start to breaking this trend begore it becomes a problem.

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Do any of your dogs watch TV? My dog loves watching tv. Especially when animals are involved but it is not a requirement. Or maybe it is and when I catch him watching Forensic Files with focused intent it is because he is anticipating a cadaver dog because of that one episode where there was a cadaver dog on screen for 8 seconds.

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My dog, Ole, loves watching TV. Too much so. Anytime any animal appears onscreen, he races to the television and jumps up on the television cabinet. It's adorable but annoying. He particularly loves horses on television, but is indifferent to them in real life. Snob.

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Be careful. Watching cute animal videos is a gateway drug to making cute animal videos of Ole being excited about horses on TV.

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Dana and I have taken to regularly exchanging cute animal videos. My favorites demonstrate that animals are often far more intelligent than we think. She loves videos of adorable rodents getting startled and screaming like a scared human. (Those are dubbed, I know, but still pretty hilarious.)

I don’t know, man. I delight in the idea that our cynical generation is morphing into a bunch of silly, trolly old people. We’re making it cool to be cantankerous and strange in old age.

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Also, I was a vegetarian for three years in the 90s and am not suited for that. My favorite lunch is still vegan mattar paneer with basmati rice, though.

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I'm a "day-to-day" vegetarian, which means I'm not telling myself I'm a vegetarian, only eating vegetarian day-to-day, which has been remarkably easy. Also, I'm not super script. I'll eat stuff cooked in chicken broth, for example, and I'm eating a little bit of small fish like anchovies (although I did have some tuna the other night, which I didn't need).

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Inter-species love affairs always enthrall me. When a dog and cat let us live in their house, the cat would have nothing to do with the dog. Cat died (natural causes) and dog lived on providing great joy

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Ha ha Michael, I can totally relate.

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Welcome out-of-the-animal video-closet! It’s a much nicer, cuter, funnier world than geo politics.

Adored this post!😻

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I too have been on the tofu train for a few months now. And as someone who makes my meager living off of content creation, specifically, cat videos — thank you and Martha for coming to the fluffy side. 😂❤️

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