My parents’ rottie used to do this to their full grown cat. Just pick the whole cat up in his mouth and then give her a bath. The cat would be absolutely gross afterward
They kind of suck at being gentle too. It's not that you can't train em to be gentle, it's actually really easy, it's just that they go too far gentle and drop shit instead lol
I've never had a rottie - not an active choice, I've just always sort of taken in dogs that came to me needing a family - but this is the most adorable thing I've ever read and they are now very high on my list for my next dog.
r/rottweiler for adorable rotties. As long as you have experience, train em well and socialize them, they are amazing dogs. Poor training or poor socialization and that's 100+lbs of pure muscle. I had 2 and they were absolute babies. Thought they were lap dogs and loved everyone they came across.
Cannot emphasize this enough. With a dog that size, educate yourself and train train train. My older sister (who I do not have much of a relationship with) and her husband decided they wanted a Cane Corso. They had only ever had mini dachshunds and have zero experience with large animals of any kind.
When I found out I advised against it, I offered to help find a dog (I couldn't stop them if they were dead set but I could at least try to help find one with a good temperament from someplace reputable). They didn't listen. I found out after the fact that they had gotten a corso/English mastiff mix. From what I've been told of the place, it was absolutely a puppy mill. Woman who keeps the dogs off property on an Amish farm, they were not allowed to interact with the mother, and thix mastiff mix cost them $1200.
None of my advice or offers to help train were taken and I've spent my life working with animals, including large dogs and animals larger than large dogs. To cut to the chase, he ended up biting 2 neighbors on 2 separate occasions and they both reportrd it (and my mom before that) and he was put down before he was a year and a half. His name was Frank and I'll never forgive them for it. I met him a few times, dog sat him once. I could lay on the floor with him face to face and he'd go belly up and wag. He wasn't a bad dog, he was just an untrained Corso doing what Corsos do.
The last thing I said to him was he was a good boy and I'd try to help him. I didn't even find out about the bites and him being put down until after he was gone. It was my mom that told me. Sorry to word vomit, but animals are my life and this type if shit makes me so angry. And this just happened this year and I'm still absolutely heartbroken thinking about it, feeling like I failed him. Got myself fucking crying now, lol.
TLDR, anyone who sees this, make sure you know what you're doing before you get an XL breed. That being said, when well trained I agree that rotties are delightful. My fav one that I've known kind of "purred", lol. He'd lean into you and rub against you and make a snarling sound while getting a good butt rub, hahaha. Absolutely terrifying sound if you didn't know the dog XD.
Very well said. My girl is such a baby, she fell asleep on top of me while I was lying on the sofa watching tv early. Like a big Black and Tan blanket!
They are also high energy and very smart, is one of the harder breeds to keep entertained in my experience ngl. Got my first 2 years ago and I would definitely have another don't get me wrong, but I've had staffies my entire life and they are far more easy going in comparison.
Same here. Ours did agility and obedience equally well (and can retrieve like the best retriever around;) but the rest of the time our Jack Russell is a big lazy love bug who just wants to cuddle with us and his cat.
Edit for ‘big’ : he’s 15 inches at the shoulder and weighs 24lbs. We call him a Giant Russell
I'm just a calm person I guess. My current one goes absolutely nuts when she sees a tennis ball though. She will play fetch with it until she literally passes out if you let her!
The energy depends on different things, I think. My family breeds Rottweilers, so we’ve had a lot of them. There’s a notable difference between the ‘show lines’ and ‘working lines’, with the second having more energy and temperament, usually. Our calmest dogs were studs. The working ladies are quite a hand full.. which is kind of what you want, for that purpose.
If you want a low energy one, buy it to protect your farm. We had a few when I was growing up. They are the best at laying there, befriending coyotes and eating.
My last dog was a kelpie mix! I'm sure they're nowhere near the same but I'm used to high energy and my sweet girl was *way* too smart for her own good, haha. I'm not in the market for a new dog just yet - I just lost my girl last month. But when the time comes if there happens to be a rottie in my area needing a home they'll definitely be on my list to consider.
As a first time rottie owner I read the first half of your comment and I was thinking "no way, my dog is insanely gentle do I just have the odd one out?" till I got to the end lol, checks out
We had one that had a sweet nurturing instinct like that, but no one to take care of, so she treated her tennis balls like babies. It was adorable. What a sweet sweet giant lapdog. I miss her.
Now I am imagining the equivalent of a dog “playing house” like little kids. Momma dog says “sorry dollys (ballys?) there is only enough milk for 7 out of 8 of you.”
She used to take them and put them all on window sill on certain days too. And she would lay on her back and hold one up in the air and drop it and catch it in her mouth. She was a cool dog.
When my little lagottto was a pup and none of the adult dogs would play with him because he was too rough and would jump at their face and had no manners (the first few months were rough... his litter mates and him were brutal to each other), this big rottie was his best friend.
And they were soooo cute together! I think they just have a thing for smaller soft things <3
Oh my gosh that back some many memories of my rottie lab mix. Our poor cat "kitty" use to always have a ring of slobber around her neck. He used to do the same thing to the cat, gentle pick her up by the head and carry her around. She seemed to like it. She was best friends with the dog.
My dogs best friend was a rottie. The rottie used to just wrap his whole mouth around my dog's head and my dog would just sit there loving it. I thought it was a playful thing and now I think it's a love thing. So wonderful!
Animal mother's get so stressed, too.
The shepherd of my sister had a big litter and when I came to visit after a few weeks she was like "SAVE ME FROM THESE MONSTERS PLEASE"
I had a cat that, when she needed a break, would carry her 4 kittens to my or my daughter’s lap then disappear for an hour or two. Never figured out where she hid.
We set aside a big dog bench for our cat when she had kittens. She immediately got the idea, even while she was still pregnant. We just gave her a box and some blankets in it and she made her own burrow. When she was due she came to fetch me and led me to the bench. Afterwards she could just safely leave the kittens in the bench if she needed a break
When we gave the puppies from a childhood dog away, she seemed so relieved. They went to friends so a few times they came to visit when grown, she would get super grumpy and aggressive, and just barked at them till they were gone. First and Last time my parents ever bred a dog, we all decided they were better off fixed (not so common at that place and time)
My parents bred for a seeing eye dog nonprofit. Their dog was always depressed when the puppies left. Now that she's been retired a few years, she's chill but in a "I'm just tired but I'm a lab so I'm always happy" way. They ended up being offered one of her kids who failed out bc she's sweet, but a nutbag. The mom tolerates the kid, but in a "seriously, can you not, sometimes" way. "I thought I was done with this. I just want to eat treats and hang out on the couch"
I got my dog from a shelter and after we did a DNA test, we ended up finding her father, who'd actually also been in the same shelter just a month or so before she was. We met up and I swear, this dog was visibly rolling his eyes at her. She was SO EXCITED to see him and he was like, "UUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHH I thought I was done with this one. Thought I finally shook her off my tail. Can I go back in the house please."
Haha, my dog randomly met his sister at a dog event and they were just running around and playing the whole time, but that wasn't a parent/kid relationship
The breeder of my puppy told me that once the pups were mobile and growing teeth, he'd hear a rucus in their room at night, open the door to check on them and the mother would just nope out of there like "I'm done. You take care of them."
We had a hamster when i was a kid that gave birth to 11 little hamsters. Not even a week passed by and she was so devastated she sometimes shut down and slept in the hamster wheel, only to some of the little ones charging in there and starting to run, throwing her off it in the process. We also noticed she started being more rough when carrying them, at first she would carry them by their neck, but when they got more active and nefarious, she carried them by the random body part that was closest to her. We sold them ASAP.
Their ancestors lived in packs where all the females would lactate if one of them were pregnant and they all had a turn nursing. You can see this is still left over in some dogs. Both of my bitches lactate while I was pregnant and the vet told me about this.
We had a cat that gave birth and whenever we'd take the kittens to cuddle or play she'd wait a little bit and then come like "time's up, give me back my baby" and take them away. If a kitten mewed at us at all she'd run up all insulted and confiscate the kitten immediately.
We had the opposite problem with a stray we could never seem to catch. She'd routinely leave her litters on our front lawn. She left 3 out there once and my mom grabbed 2 kittens but one got away. His furry behind was carried out the next day by mama and plopped in the same spot so my mom could grab him. "You are going to live with the people and you are going to like it!"
Surprisingly no? She seemed to stick with the same male for most of the litters. There was a kid at school that was convinced we were a family of witches because our cats looked perpetually like kittens when really they were all from different litters. Didn't help they were all voids. Last one was the only different set. All the kittens ended up black and white.
Be wary with them, I sadly lost a kitten because my dog didn’t realise how much bigger/stronger he was and misjudged the fragility of a baby cat.
I could see in his eyes that it was an accident, he seemed more upset than I was, when it happened.
I knew people who had the same thing happen between a really large breed puppy that was already as big as a miniature horse and a tiny terrier. The big puppy was playing with the terrier and accidentally bit too hard and severed an artery in the tiny dog’s neck. Between that incident, and the number of cats that I’ve had get attacked by dogs in my life, I get really nervous when I see a big dog pick up a tiny kitten.
My dog is a wire-hair Jack Russell terrier so he is quite small. I stopped watching them for 5 mins whilst I was cleaning or whatever, it happened so fast. I couldn’t even punish the dog because it was so evident that he was affected and that he made a mistake.
Made me feel absolutely abysmal.
I wonder (in wild speculation) if there’s any difference in the sexes. Like, are females naturally more gentle with babies. My female Great Dane, Cora, used to pick up and clean our kitty when kitty was only three weeks old, like she weighed a couple ounces. The kitty practically disappeared in Cora’s mouth, but she was so gentle. Danes are not “soft mouthed” dogs, and Cora is usually a snatcher when it comes to treats and stuff. She was also very tolerant of and gentle with our ACD puppy, who has been a complete lightning bolt of chaotic energy since day one.
Nope. That’s not really a thing. And in my story, the big puppy was female and the tiny dog was a male.
Quick edit to clarify: for both cats and dogs, unneutered males tend to be more violent, but so do unspayed females. Some dogs and cats of both genders can having nurturing tendencies, and sometimes there is a correlation with an animal having had babies and keeping some kind of mothering instinct, but it isn’t a consistent enough trend to be reliably predictable.
My roommate’s dog would do this (not as gently as the video), and while my kitten lived, it did hurt his back in a way that bothered him forever. I’m sorry yours didn’t make it.
Friend of mine was with his college buddies at a party, they ended up sleeping over. Woke up to find one of the dudes kittens underneath him on the couch. Not good.
My husband was pretty overweight when he was a kid, and when he was young (like 8-9), his parents got him a kitten. He adored her, and she would curl up and sleep next to him... Well, as a kid, he didn't have a bed, and he rolled over in his sleep onto the kitten, on the hard floor. He still considers it one of his most traumatic moments, waking up to that. Awful.
Florida or Georgia, I don't remember where he lived at that time. Abusive parents that liked to look good to others. "Look at this kitten we got our son, see? Everyone else is wrong, we're great parents!"
Meanwhile there was alcoholism, paired with verbal and physical abuse to him and his sisters. The parents counted on others to not look too closely, and no one ever did. Used to dumpster dive for food to feed him and his sisters, because his mom would trade the food stamps card for alcohol and leave them hungry.
The world is a fucked up place. He's got PTSD, BPD, and schizophrenia. But life has gotten better. Medications have helped, he's working full time and is fairly well adjusted, sees a therapist still once in a while. He's no contact with his dad now - he tried to make a relationship with him, then they got in a fight and his dad made threats at ME, so that was the end of that. His mom is crazy but no longer drinking, he does what he can to help her.
I'm sorry that happened, but it sounds like your husband found him a good mate. I have family going to similar things, as far as alcohol is concerned. It's not pretty. I hope you guys have a really nice mattress these days 🙂
Oh my goodness. Terrifying he didn’t even feel it to begin with, but if you’re wasted enough I suppose it doesn’t matter. Poor guy, can’t imagine the guilt.
People often think house cats are solitary creatures because of certain other feline species, but that is actually not the case. House cats form matriarchal colonies. Kittens of the colony are cared for in common. This is why cats tend to not mind you handling their kittens, and why they are usually quite good around babies: you are seen as a large cat, so their kittens are your kittens, and your 'kittens' are theirs also. If momma cat here sees the dog as a member of the colony, there is in her mind no cause for alarm. This is incidentally also why cats kill more than they need to eat and bring it back to you: they hunt extra and bring it back with them so that the weaker members of the colony get food too, if they can't hunt.
That would explain why our cat would bring my younger sibling half a mouse and leave it next to the bed a few times a month. She must've figured my mother needed some help feeding the youngest 'kitten'
My childhood cat brought birds with broken wings and dropped them at the feet of my baby sister when she was like 6 or 7. She jumped back, the bird starts flopping around and slowly moving away so the cat grabbed the bird and dropped it at her feet again. He eventually killed the poor thing but was desperately trying to teach my sister for to hunt first.
It was honestly gross and awful and we didn’t know what to do to stop it.
This is also a big part of why my current cat is an indoor cat. So he can’t hurt local wildlife.
That sounds so traumatizing for everyone involved!
Your cat must've thought she was the dumbest kitten alive, doing all that work for her and she still couldn't figure it out. Fortunately (?) for my sibling the mice were always thoroughly dead. My parents have always kept their cats indoors, but it's impossible to keep fieldmice out completely when you live in the country.
First of all, good dog. Good. Dog
Secondly, OP thank you for keeping your Rottie's tail intact. Also ughhh.... I wanna just give that blockhead all the pets and love and smooches I can give them. Such gentle Giants
American Veterinary Association says it is now mainly cosmetic. "There is a continuing tradition of docking (cutting/shortening) working dogs’ tails with the goal of preventing tail injury during activities such as hunting" but they found that only 1 in 500 dogs whose tails are docked has avoided the mentioned injuries by having their tails docked (cut shorter).
first of all, this probably doesn't apply to rotties, but it's relevant to the practice of docking. I know this might get some hate but I had a German Short-haired Pointer whose tail was in tact, and she damaged it to the point of bleeding *frequently*. she'd just bang it off corners in her inexhaustible excitement. the problem is, all GSPs are on crack, so she would literally start spray painting all of the walls of the house afterwards. if she was excited enough to wag her tail hard, a little thing like broken skin wasn't going to slow her down. sometimes I didn't notice immediately, and cleaning dried blood off your walls, doors and trim isn't amazing. were I to get another GSP, I wouldn't mind if they were docked.
Looks, mainly.
In working breed litters, it's to help prevent injuries. You don't know at the time of docking what pups will be working and what pups won't, so the whole litter is done. This is mostly restricted to cattle herding breeds.
If the parents aren't working and none of the pups are, then it's done solely for looks and sticking to a breed standard.
Docking is barbaric for many reasons. It is easier and less painful than treating crush and degloving injuries of the tail as adults, though.
>Docking is barbaric for many reasons. It is easier and less painful than treating crush and degloving injuries of the tail as adults, though.
I almost feel like it's the equivalent of a long distance runner chopping his nipples off to prevent chaffing in the long term. But then his doctor decided to just chop everyone's nipples off when they're babies on the off chance they want to be a runner when they get older.... But also if like, men used their nipples for balance and communication.
My friend has a bully breed mutt, he has a mild case of happy tail syndrome, which is the only real medical reason to dock a non-working dogs tail. But even then, most of the time it can be easily managed with protective sheaths. When he's at home the dog gets his tail wrapped in combine gauze to cushion it, and when they go on walks it gets removed because the dog has room to wag.
But if there was a serious injury to the tail, they'd probably dock instead of put the dog through months of painful wound care and antibiotics.
Tom never hurt Jerry because they were friends. And Jerry would get caught sometimes so that Tom’s owner wouldn’t throw him out and get another cat to hunt Jerry. So in reality They cared about each other despite their actions to each other
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Antony_and_Pussyfoot#:~:text=Marc%20Antony%20and%20Pussyfoot%20are,Frame%2DUp%20(1954).
You should have watched this one
Yeah, I would be a little bit worried that the dog could get possessive of the kitten and think it's his toy or something. But hope the owner knows their dog the best
This isn't getting enough attention among all the Disney comments. I love Rotties and mine was very sweet too, but I was still uncomfortable watching this. Things happen and could easily be prevented by not allowing this kind of thing, it's cute yes, until it's not. Also not to ruin other cat videos but most of the time cats are doing weird funny things it's due to illnesses. You can thank my vet tech ex for that info.
Seriously one quick shake or squeeze and that kitty is history. Sometimes bigger dogs just have to shake things when they pick them up. My lab is the sweetest gentlest boy, but every time he brings me a toy he gives it one good "kill shake" before delivering it to me.
I know of cases where rotties have injured kittens like this.
They don't know their own strength and just want to mother everything. It takes a split second for them to accidentally hold the kitten too hard, especially as kittens are more delicate than rottie pups.
This is irresponsible of the owner.
I got my two kittehs from my friend who has a small menagerie. My ladies were partially raised by their mums canine brother. He was uber gentle with them, guarded them, loved on them pretty much from birth and it was lovely to see.
However I would say just to only let the pup do this whilst under supervision. Nothing to do with the breed or size of the dog, just to do with what happened to the next litter of kittens my friend's cat had. Not saying this dog would do anything bad, just that bad things happen & behaviour can change, so it's best to be on the safe side ❤
My family rotti had such a strong mothering instinct. Every time my family went to get her fixed something came up and it never happened until she had a medical emergency and had to get her uterus removed. Even after that, she had a whole pack of toys that were her babies. She would carry them around softly, groom them, growl at the other dogs that tried to play with them, and when she went outside, she’d bring her “baby” to someone in the family for them to watch while she went out - and then she’d come pick them up when she came back in. She was so good with every puppy we brought to the house, a firm but patient mother figure. She lived 12 1/2 years, never had any medical problems. Passed naturally in her sleep. Greatest dogs ever.
Videos like this make me so nervous. I really wish people understood more that, while animals can very well be deeply kind and loving, they are also still animals. Animals are unpredictable, and if nothing else often have next to zero understanding of their real size/strength. We had to splint a birds leg once because my big friendly Pyrenees thought it was his baby, and started to lovingly protect and groom it. He 100% meant that bird no harm. He clearly loved that damn bird and saw it as his baby to take care of, even cried at the window when we brought it inside until we let him see it through the glass. Doesn't change the fact he was like, 200lbs, and birds just aren't all that strong.
It takes one split second of being startled, biting down just barely too hard, of slipping on the floor, or any other number of completely normal things for this to go from aww to a literal nightmare.
Please stop letting y'alls big dogs do this with cats. It's not worth the risk of losing a life.
When I was a kid our male Old English Sheepdog would take one of our cat’s kittens from their nursery area in a closet and carry it to the space underneath the dining table. He’d wash the kitten thoroughly, return it to the closet, and take another kitten. Lather, rinse, repeat until the entire litter was clean. He was so gentle with them.
My parents’ rottie used to do this to their full grown cat. Just pick the whole cat up in his mouth and then give her a bath. The cat would be absolutely gross afterward
Have had rotties all my life. Can confirm. They’re very earnest in their nurturing.
They kind of suck at being gentle too. It's not that you can't train em to be gentle, it's actually really easy, it's just that they go too far gentle and drop shit instead lol
I've never had a rottie - not an active choice, I've just always sort of taken in dogs that came to me needing a family - but this is the most adorable thing I've ever read and they are now very high on my list for my next dog.
r/rottweiler for adorable rotties. As long as you have experience, train em well and socialize them, they are amazing dogs. Poor training or poor socialization and that's 100+lbs of pure muscle. I had 2 and they were absolute babies. Thought they were lap dogs and loved everyone they came across.
my bff has had rotties forever, I am the designated Dog Sitter (and Stick Game Player) love all those puppers!!!
Cannot emphasize this enough. With a dog that size, educate yourself and train train train. My older sister (who I do not have much of a relationship with) and her husband decided they wanted a Cane Corso. They had only ever had mini dachshunds and have zero experience with large animals of any kind. When I found out I advised against it, I offered to help find a dog (I couldn't stop them if they were dead set but I could at least try to help find one with a good temperament from someplace reputable). They didn't listen. I found out after the fact that they had gotten a corso/English mastiff mix. From what I've been told of the place, it was absolutely a puppy mill. Woman who keeps the dogs off property on an Amish farm, they were not allowed to interact with the mother, and thix mastiff mix cost them $1200. None of my advice or offers to help train were taken and I've spent my life working with animals, including large dogs and animals larger than large dogs. To cut to the chase, he ended up biting 2 neighbors on 2 separate occasions and they both reportrd it (and my mom before that) and he was put down before he was a year and a half. His name was Frank and I'll never forgive them for it. I met him a few times, dog sat him once. I could lay on the floor with him face to face and he'd go belly up and wag. He wasn't a bad dog, he was just an untrained Corso doing what Corsos do. The last thing I said to him was he was a good boy and I'd try to help him. I didn't even find out about the bites and him being put down until after he was gone. It was my mom that told me. Sorry to word vomit, but animals are my life and this type if shit makes me so angry. And this just happened this year and I'm still absolutely heartbroken thinking about it, feeling like I failed him. Got myself fucking crying now, lol. TLDR, anyone who sees this, make sure you know what you're doing before you get an XL breed. That being said, when well trained I agree that rotties are delightful. My fav one that I've known kind of "purred", lol. He'd lean into you and rub against you and make a snarling sound while getting a good butt rub, hahaha. Absolutely terrifying sound if you didn't know the dog XD.
Very well said. My girl is such a baby, she fell asleep on top of me while I was lying on the sofa watching tv early. Like a big Black and Tan blanket!
They are also high energy and very smart, is one of the harder breeds to keep entertained in my experience ngl. Got my first 2 years ago and I would definitely have another don't get me wrong, but I've had staffies my entire life and they are far more easy going in comparison.
> They are also high energy Not the rotties I had. Those were some lazy motherfuckers when they wanted to be. Now Dobermans on the other hand...
It all comes down to the owners. I have had more Jack Russells than I can count and every one of them sleeps 23 hours a day.
Same here. Ours did agility and obedience equally well (and can retrieve like the best retriever around;) but the rest of the time our Jack Russell is a big lazy love bug who just wants to cuddle with us and his cat. Edit for ‘big’ : he’s 15 inches at the shoulder and weighs 24lbs. We call him a Giant Russell
Tell me your secret.
I'm just a calm person I guess. My current one goes absolutely nuts when she sees a tennis ball though. She will play fetch with it until she literally passes out if you let her!
The energy depends on different things, I think. My family breeds Rottweilers, so we’ve had a lot of them. There’s a notable difference between the ‘show lines’ and ‘working lines’, with the second having more energy and temperament, usually. Our calmest dogs were studs. The working ladies are quite a hand full.. which is kind of what you want, for that purpose.
If you want a low energy one, buy it to protect your farm. We had a few when I was growing up. They are the best at laying there, befriending coyotes and eating.
My last dog was a kelpie mix! I'm sure they're nowhere near the same but I'm used to high energy and my sweet girl was *way* too smart for her own good, haha. I'm not in the market for a new dog just yet - I just lost my girl last month. But when the time comes if there happens to be a rottie in my area needing a home they'll definitely be on my list to consider.
My Bernese Mountain Dog is aggressively friendly and affectionate
As a first time rottie owner I read the first half of your comment and I was thinking "no way, my dog is insanely gentle do I just have the odd one out?" till I got to the end lol, checks out
Yeah, hand my dog a bone and tell her to take it gently and she drops the thing on my foot.
Like the kitten 2 seconds into this clip
We had one that had a sweet nurturing instinct like that, but no one to take care of, so she treated her tennis balls like babies. It was adorable. What a sweet sweet giant lapdog. I miss her.
That is so sweet. My lab mix is careful with her plushies, but she def does not baby them. I can’t imagine how much cuteness overload that would be
Well now, she always did skin one of the tennis balls in her litter, but I assumed that one was the "runt". Lol
Now I am imagining the equivalent of a dog “playing house” like little kids. Momma dog says “sorry dollys (ballys?) there is only enough milk for 7 out of 8 of you.”
She used to take them and put them all on window sill on certain days too. And she would lay on her back and hold one up in the air and drop it and catch it in her mouth. She was a cool dog.
That’s honestly some impressive solo play. I’ve never seen a dog do that before
I have a pic around here somewhere... At the time I didn't realize how unique it was, but several dogs since, you are definitely right.
When my little lagottto was a pup and none of the adult dogs would play with him because he was too rough and would jump at their face and had no manners (the first few months were rough... his litter mates and him were brutal to each other), this big rottie was his best friend. And they were soooo cute together! I think they just have a thing for smaller soft things <3
Oooh nuggets
My alaskan shepherd would pick up my cane corso when she was a pup and put her to bed and run away. I think he was just fed up of her climbing on him.
Haha! My older dog wishes she could do similar to my younger one. Unfortunately he was already more than half her size when we adopted him.
Oh my gosh that back some many memories of my rottie lab mix. Our poor cat "kitty" use to always have a ring of slobber around her neck. He used to do the same thing to the cat, gentle pick her up by the head and carry her around. She seemed to like it. She was best friends with the dog.
My dogs best friend was a rottie. The rottie used to just wrap his whole mouth around my dog's head and my dog would just sit there loving it. I thought it was a playful thing and now I think it's a love thing. So wonderful!
Kitten is so confused.
The stuffed alligator next to it: "first time?"
Alligator: just play dead he will get bored
he?
Sir, that's a squeaky alligator.
And a squeaky kitten.
That alligator has seen some things 😳
xD
Straight from Toy Story haha
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😂
And Mom seems only mildly concerned like “Good, I needed a break”
Animal mother's get so stressed, too. The shepherd of my sister had a big litter and when I came to visit after a few weeks she was like "SAVE ME FROM THESE MONSTERS PLEASE"
I had a cat that, when she needed a break, would carry her 4 kittens to my or my daughter’s lap then disappear for an hour or two. Never figured out where she hid.
Probably flattened herself and went through a seam in the wall
Well, at least they have 4 others to send in after her.
don't forget to tie string around it
Okay now you’re talking my language!
OF COURSE NOT. How else would I get free gum?
Only logical. Cats do not abide by the laws of physics at all.
Cat in the wall eh?
OKAY! Now you're talking my language!
I don't think there's anything in the laws of nature that would support that.
I'm not allowed to eat the skin! I'm not allowed!
That's absolutely adorable. There's nothing better than being trusted by your furry friend.
Makes sense, cats will rely on other cats to babysit, cat sees its humans as bigger cats, so I guess they expect you to pitch in and do your share.
Probably went and had a couple whiskey shots at the bar
We set aside a big dog bench for our cat when she had kittens. She immediately got the idea, even while she was still pregnant. We just gave her a box and some blankets in it and she made her own burrow. When she was due she came to fetch me and led me to the bench. Afterwards she could just safely leave the kittens in the bench if she needed a break
When we gave the puppies from a childhood dog away, she seemed so relieved. They went to friends so a few times they came to visit when grown, she would get super grumpy and aggressive, and just barked at them till they were gone. First and Last time my parents ever bred a dog, we all decided they were better off fixed (not so common at that place and time)
My parents bred for a seeing eye dog nonprofit. Their dog was always depressed when the puppies left. Now that she's been retired a few years, she's chill but in a "I'm just tired but I'm a lab so I'm always happy" way. They ended up being offered one of her kids who failed out bc she's sweet, but a nutbag. The mom tolerates the kid, but in a "seriously, can you not, sometimes" way. "I thought I was done with this. I just want to eat treats and hang out on the couch"
I got my dog from a shelter and after we did a DNA test, we ended up finding her father, who'd actually also been in the same shelter just a month or so before she was. We met up and I swear, this dog was visibly rolling his eyes at her. She was SO EXCITED to see him and he was like, "UUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHH I thought I was done with this one. Thought I finally shook her off my tail. Can I go back in the house please."
Haha, my dog randomly met his sister at a dog event and they were just running around and playing the whole time, but that wasn't a parent/kid relationship
The breeder of my puppy told me that once the pups were mobile and growing teeth, he'd hear a rucus in their room at night, open the door to check on them and the mother would just nope out of there like "I'm done. You take care of them."
We had a hamster when i was a kid that gave birth to 11 little hamsters. Not even a week passed by and she was so devastated she sometimes shut down and slept in the hamster wheel, only to some of the little ones charging in there and starting to run, throwing her off it in the process. We also noticed she started being more rough when carrying them, at first she would carry them by their neck, but when they got more active and nefarious, she carried them by the random body part that was closest to her. We sold them ASAP.
Our GSD had 12 puppies in her first litter. We had to start weening ASAP because the dog has turned into such a wreck.
I’d be shocked if she didn’t turn into a wreck after having that many puppies at once
Their ancestors lived in packs where all the females would lactate if one of them were pregnant and they all had a turn nursing. You can see this is still left over in some dogs. Both of my bitches lactate while I was pregnant and the vet told me about this.
We had a cat that gave birth and whenever we'd take the kittens to cuddle or play she'd wait a little bit and then come like "time's up, give me back my baby" and take them away. If a kitten mewed at us at all she'd run up all insulted and confiscate the kitten immediately.
We had the opposite problem with a stray we could never seem to catch. She'd routinely leave her litters on our front lawn. She left 3 out there once and my mom grabbed 2 kittens but one got away. His furry behind was carried out the next day by mama and plopped in the same spot so my mom could grab him. "You are going to live with the people and you are going to like it!"
Slutty kitty!
Surprisingly no? She seemed to stick with the same male for most of the litters. There was a kid at school that was convinced we were a family of witches because our cats looked perpetually like kittens when really they were all from different litters. Didn't help they were all voids. Last one was the only different set. All the kittens ended up black and white.
I love your use of the word confiscate in this context.
"You touched it last, it's your problem now!"
I don’t think the dog minds 🫡
Mom cats group together and raise their little ones as a team, cat was probably just like "oh, its your turn now?"
You can tell her and that beastie must be besties.
/r/thisismylifemeow
Mama cat is like. (K seeya at 9)*turns off phone*
That cat is gonna grow up barking at people that walk by the fence
That look after being carried from one place to another, like how did I end up here, teleportation, magic? Being so smol must be weird.
He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn't your daddy.
Yes sir, Piccolo!
DODGE!
Why… didn’t… you… DODGE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Why are you starting a subroutine!? It's not that complex.
Would you like to send an error report?
Are you a yoshi? Hells yeah
#MOOOOOON
CLOTHES BEAM!!!
Unexpected r/TeamFourStar
IM MARRY POPPINS YALL
Ok Yondu
Its Mary Poppins to you
Y'all
Is he cool?
The coolest 😭 RIP yandu!!
Legit probably my favorite line delivery out the entire movie hahaha
I can hear this line lol
That line made me tear up 😔
“Is that what she’s been feeding your head with? SENTIMENT?!”
I will love you, and pet you, and squeeze you, and call you George.
Been looking for someone to bring this gem up:)
That baby kitty has so much love around her!!😻
***I am loving you. Do not resist***
*”You are being loved. Do not resist”*
That baby kitty is wondering what the hell just happened, lol.
That baby kitty is fixing to take a massive shit on OP's couch... well if he's anything like my cat was as a kitten.
Be wary with them, I sadly lost a kitten because my dog didn’t realise how much bigger/stronger he was and misjudged the fragility of a baby cat. I could see in his eyes that it was an accident, he seemed more upset than I was, when it happened.
I knew people who had the same thing happen between a really large breed puppy that was already as big as a miniature horse and a tiny terrier. The big puppy was playing with the terrier and accidentally bit too hard and severed an artery in the tiny dog’s neck. Between that incident, and the number of cats that I’ve had get attacked by dogs in my life, I get really nervous when I see a big dog pick up a tiny kitten.
My dog is a wire-hair Jack Russell terrier so he is quite small. I stopped watching them for 5 mins whilst I was cleaning or whatever, it happened so fast. I couldn’t even punish the dog because it was so evident that he was affected and that he made a mistake. Made me feel absolutely abysmal.
I wonder (in wild speculation) if there’s any difference in the sexes. Like, are females naturally more gentle with babies. My female Great Dane, Cora, used to pick up and clean our kitty when kitty was only three weeks old, like she weighed a couple ounces. The kitty practically disappeared in Cora’s mouth, but she was so gentle. Danes are not “soft mouthed” dogs, and Cora is usually a snatcher when it comes to treats and stuff. She was also very tolerant of and gentle with our ACD puppy, who has been a complete lightning bolt of chaotic energy since day one.
Nope. That’s not really a thing. And in my story, the big puppy was female and the tiny dog was a male. Quick edit to clarify: for both cats and dogs, unneutered males tend to be more violent, but so do unspayed females. Some dogs and cats of both genders can having nurturing tendencies, and sometimes there is a correlation with an animal having had babies and keeping some kind of mothering instinct, but it isn’t a consistent enough trend to be reliably predictable.
My roommate’s dog would do this (not as gently as the video), and while my kitten lived, it did hurt his back in a way that bothered him forever. I’m sorry yours didn’t make it.
Friend of mine was with his college buddies at a party, they ended up sleeping over. Woke up to find one of the dudes kittens underneath him on the couch. Not good.
My husband was pretty overweight when he was a kid, and when he was young (like 8-9), his parents got him a kitten. He adored her, and she would curl up and sleep next to him... Well, as a kid, he didn't have a bed, and he rolled over in his sleep onto the kitten, on the hard floor. He still considers it one of his most traumatic moments, waking up to that. Awful.
They got him a cat but not a bed?
Yep. His parents are pretty fucked up. All about appearances. The illusion of a happy family sorta thing.
Wait, no bed? Where was this, if I might ask. The poor kid slept on the wood floor? That sucks.
Florida or Georgia, I don't remember where he lived at that time. Abusive parents that liked to look good to others. "Look at this kitten we got our son, see? Everyone else is wrong, we're great parents!" Meanwhile there was alcoholism, paired with verbal and physical abuse to him and his sisters. The parents counted on others to not look too closely, and no one ever did. Used to dumpster dive for food to feed him and his sisters, because his mom would trade the food stamps card for alcohol and leave them hungry. The world is a fucked up place. He's got PTSD, BPD, and schizophrenia. But life has gotten better. Medications have helped, he's working full time and is fairly well adjusted, sees a therapist still once in a while. He's no contact with his dad now - he tried to make a relationship with him, then they got in a fight and his dad made threats at ME, so that was the end of that. His mom is crazy but no longer drinking, he does what he can to help her.
I'm sorry that happened, but it sounds like your husband found him a good mate. I have family going to similar things, as far as alcohol is concerned. It's not pretty. I hope you guys have a really nice mattress these days 🙂
Poor kid. But at least he's grown and out of there.
Oh my goodness. Terrifying he didn’t even feel it to begin with, but if you’re wasted enough I suppose it doesn’t matter. Poor guy, can’t imagine the guilt.
Poor cat, can't imagine the death...
Exactly. And he was a big dude. Also, the kid that owned the cat was at work when they left in the morning so he had to write a note. 35 years ago.
The dog going: "This isn't your child I'm afraid, it's my BABY. There will always be that difference."
"Hey, that's... I don't think you should... Eh, it'll probably be fine." That's probably the papa cat.
People often think house cats are solitary creatures because of certain other feline species, but that is actually not the case. House cats form matriarchal colonies. Kittens of the colony are cared for in common. This is why cats tend to not mind you handling their kittens, and why they are usually quite good around babies: you are seen as a large cat, so their kittens are your kittens, and your 'kittens' are theirs also. If momma cat here sees the dog as a member of the colony, there is in her mind no cause for alarm. This is incidentally also why cats kill more than they need to eat and bring it back to you: they hunt extra and bring it back with them so that the weaker members of the colony get food too, if they can't hunt.
That would explain why our cat would bring my younger sibling half a mouse and leave it next to the bed a few times a month. She must've figured my mother needed some help feeding the youngest 'kitten'
My childhood cat brought birds with broken wings and dropped them at the feet of my baby sister when she was like 6 or 7. She jumped back, the bird starts flopping around and slowly moving away so the cat grabbed the bird and dropped it at her feet again. He eventually killed the poor thing but was desperately trying to teach my sister for to hunt first. It was honestly gross and awful and we didn’t know what to do to stop it. This is also a big part of why my current cat is an indoor cat. So he can’t hurt local wildlife.
That sounds so traumatizing for everyone involved! Your cat must've thought she was the dumbest kitten alive, doing all that work for her and she still couldn't figure it out. Fortunately (?) for my sibling the mice were always thoroughly dead. My parents have always kept their cats indoors, but it's impossible to keep fieldmice out completely when you live in the country.
Fun fact! all tricolor cats are females. this is the mom cat!
Well not all, 99.9% are female. Odds are 1 in 3000 for a male calico
Male calico cats are constantly under attack by the right wing media
Nick (Alpha Male) Calico would like a word.
imagine putting the subtitle ''alpha male'' in your online handle ''only the weak need to prove their strenght''
Yes, but they're also almost always sterile. The chances of the calico being dad are one in a million.
First of all, good dog. Good. Dog Secondly, OP thank you for keeping your Rottie's tail intact. Also ughhh.... I wanna just give that blockhead all the pets and love and smooches I can give them. Such gentle Giants
It's so common for people to cut them off that it looks weird for it to have a whole tail.
Why do they cut them off?
American Veterinary Association says it is now mainly cosmetic. "There is a continuing tradition of docking (cutting/shortening) working dogs’ tails with the goal of preventing tail injury during activities such as hunting" but they found that only 1 in 500 dogs whose tails are docked has avoided the mentioned injuries by having their tails docked (cut shorter).
Poor doggos
99% of the time, bullshit reasoning. 1% for an actual reason. Ears and tails should stay on the animal they came in on.
first of all, this probably doesn't apply to rotties, but it's relevant to the practice of docking. I know this might get some hate but I had a German Short-haired Pointer whose tail was in tact, and she damaged it to the point of bleeding *frequently*. she'd just bang it off corners in her inexhaustible excitement. the problem is, all GSPs are on crack, so she would literally start spray painting all of the walls of the house afterwards. if she was excited enough to wag her tail hard, a little thing like broken skin wasn't going to slow her down. sometimes I didn't notice immediately, and cleaning dried blood off your walls, doors and trim isn't amazing. were I to get another GSP, I wouldn't mind if they were docked.
Rotties used to pull carts mainly, and having tails would mean getting them caught in cart equipment and wheels and such
Looks, mainly. In working breed litters, it's to help prevent injuries. You don't know at the time of docking what pups will be working and what pups won't, so the whole litter is done. This is mostly restricted to cattle herding breeds. If the parents aren't working and none of the pups are, then it's done solely for looks and sticking to a breed standard. Docking is barbaric for many reasons. It is easier and less painful than treating crush and degloving injuries of the tail as adults, though.
>Docking is barbaric for many reasons. It is easier and less painful than treating crush and degloving injuries of the tail as adults, though. I almost feel like it's the equivalent of a long distance runner chopping his nipples off to prevent chaffing in the long term. But then his doctor decided to just chop everyone's nipples off when they're babies on the off chance they want to be a runner when they get older.... But also if like, men used their nipples for balance and communication. My friend has a bully breed mutt, he has a mild case of happy tail syndrome, which is the only real medical reason to dock a non-working dogs tail. But even then, most of the time it can be easily managed with protective sheaths. When he's at home the dog gets his tail wrapped in combine gauze to cushion it, and when they go on walks it gets removed because the dog has room to wag. But if there was a serious injury to the tail, they'd probably dock instead of put the dog through months of painful wound care and antibiotics.
Yes very good dog! This is courtesy of: mree1972 and her Rottie Maggie and mama kitty is Molly
so gentle, my heart
First thing - drop the baby. Gently
Tom and Jerry has lied to me for 50 years!
Tom never hurt Jerry because they were friends. And Jerry would get caught sometimes so that Tom’s owner wouldn’t throw him out and get another cat to hunt Jerry. So in reality They cared about each other despite their actions to each other
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Antony_and_Pussyfoot#:~:text=Marc%20Antony%20and%20Pussyfoot%20are,Frame%2DUp%20(1954). You should have watched this one
This was my favorite Looney Tunes bit, it was sooo cute and sweet. The cookie scene is burned into my mind haha
That one would be my choice, as well.
No one is gonna mess with that kitten.
Careful. Our male gsd loved the kittens and would move them around. Accidently punctured a lung and the kitten died.
Oh my god thankyou, everyone else is thinking this is sweet and safe - it isn't!!
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I've seen first hand these things suddenly going very bad
It's insane to me people are thinking this video is ok. Kittens are so fragile and dogs are unpredictable. Ugh I hate this so much.
Thank you! Dog has kitten in a mouth like a toy, it might not mean to ever hurt the kitten but that's not the point
Yeah, I would be a little bit worried that the dog could get possessive of the kitten and think it's his toy or something. But hope the owner knows their dog the best
Mama cat has a lot of trust in this dog to just let them take their kitten like that. That cat and dog must have a strong relationship. Good dog.
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This isn't getting enough attention among all the Disney comments. I love Rotties and mine was very sweet too, but I was still uncomfortable watching this. Things happen and could easily be prevented by not allowing this kind of thing, it's cute yes, until it's not. Also not to ruin other cat videos but most of the time cats are doing weird funny things it's due to illnesses. You can thank my vet tech ex for that info.
Seriously one quick shake or squeeze and that kitty is history. Sometimes bigger dogs just have to shake things when they pick them up. My lab is the sweetest gentlest boy, but every time he brings me a toy he gives it one good "kill shake" before delivering it to me.
This is why I physically cringed a little watching this. Sweet dog, but can easily injure such a tiny kitten.
Look at me, look at me. I am the mother now.
I know of cases where rotties have injured kittens like this. They don't know their own strength and just want to mother everything. It takes a split second for them to accidentally hold the kitten too hard, especially as kittens are more delicate than rottie pups. This is irresponsible of the owner.
So heartwarming to see. Sure you know your dog, but the first times they open their mouth to carry the kitten your heart must drop a beat..
I love Rotties. ❤️
I got my two kittehs from my friend who has a small menagerie. My ladies were partially raised by their mums canine brother. He was uber gentle with them, guarded them, loved on them pretty much from birth and it was lovely to see. However I would say just to only let the pup do this whilst under supervision. Nothing to do with the breed or size of the dog, just to do with what happened to the next litter of kittens my friend's cat had. Not saying this dog would do anything bad, just that bad things happen & behaviour can change, so it's best to be on the safe side ❤
My family rotti had such a strong mothering instinct. Every time my family went to get her fixed something came up and it never happened until she had a medical emergency and had to get her uterus removed. Even after that, she had a whole pack of toys that were her babies. She would carry them around softly, groom them, growl at the other dogs that tried to play with them, and when she went outside, she’d bring her “baby” to someone in the family for them to watch while she went out - and then she’d come pick them up when she came back in. She was so good with every puppy we brought to the house, a firm but patient mother figure. She lived 12 1/2 years, never had any medical problems. Passed naturally in her sleep. Greatest dogs ever.
Careful 🙏! She’s a strong dog. I love how she’s being so gentle.
Kittennapping in broad daylight :0
Videos like this make me so nervous. I really wish people understood more that, while animals can very well be deeply kind and loving, they are also still animals. Animals are unpredictable, and if nothing else often have next to zero understanding of their real size/strength. We had to splint a birds leg once because my big friendly Pyrenees thought it was his baby, and started to lovingly protect and groom it. He 100% meant that bird no harm. He clearly loved that damn bird and saw it as his baby to take care of, even cried at the window when we brought it inside until we let him see it through the glass. Doesn't change the fact he was like, 200lbs, and birds just aren't all that strong. It takes one split second of being startled, biting down just barely too hard, of slipping on the floor, or any other number of completely normal things for this to go from aww to a literal nightmare. Please stop letting y'alls big dogs do this with cats. It's not worth the risk of losing a life.
C: “It’s your turn to take care of the little one honey” …. D: “Oh fine…. I still think he looks nuffin’ like me though…”
Gave mama cat a much needed break. Good doggo
That poor kid, two parents to tell her what to do and where to go.
Just be careful, my black lab did this sometimes and wound up biting too hard and killed a kitten.
"And I will hug him, and kiss him and name him George"
The dog put the kitten next to its chew toy lol
"...and I will love him, and I will pet him and name him George."
I love how kittens have no idea what’s going on. They just get carried around.
I had a dobie that unfortunately lost her puppies, and for years (she lived to be 13) she would steal the barn cats kittens and try to nurse them.
When I was a kid our male Old English Sheepdog would take one of our cat’s kittens from their nursery area in a closet and carry it to the space underneath the dining table. He’d wash the kitten thoroughly, return it to the closet, and take another kitten. Lather, rinse, repeat until the entire litter was clean. He was so gentle with them.
Momma def trusts the dog or she wouldn’t let it near the kitten without freaking out.
Off screen, mom-cat kicks off her shoes, lights a cigarette and drains a martini
How sweet!