Cat Leila and dove Arc-En-Ciel (Rainbow) doing their thing. Happens everyday. -- To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please email licensing@storyful.com
what about the fluffy dove with his funny laugh and precious cooing? i love the sounds of ringneck doves. other doves i like are mourning doves, spotted doves, white winged doves, wood pigeons, rock pigeons, eurasian collored doves, inca doves, etc.
Sorry, the Nobel Peace Prize is only given to warmongers who blow up wedding parties and carpet-bomb entire countries. The cat is far from qualified for this esteemed position.
@@CoralCopperHead No I have these doves and they laugh sometimes to start courting dances or to say that its present (after landing) or after ... uh, mounting and mating
How the hell is a fella going to get any sleep in that living room with the TV on full blast, the dog going balistic and a damn pidgeon chuckling in your ear?! What a nightmare...
That's a European Collared Dove. It's a male and he is doing his courtship mating dance. When they don't have a partner, they will pick a human or other animal, as there is a very strong instinct to mate and pair up with doves. You never see an odd number of doves in the wild, always an even number, with each adult paired off with a mate for life. Poor cat. He just wants a snooze and this dove is cooing right into his ear, too funny!!! Great footage and a very tolerant cat!
What makes it even funnier is the question " what did the bird expect the cat to do if it got up from the attention pestering?" 🤣 Pets are sometimes just ridiculous and it fantastic.
@@yaskstlamas5378 Not necessarily. That gesture along with the noise the dove makes doesn't always mean courtship -- it can also just signal friendliness.
I saw this video so many years ago when it went viral, I am so glad it's still up here on RU-vid. Birds and cats are two of my favorite things on earth, watching the dove play with the cat always brings a smile on my face. Doves are such sweet birds!
Wow, that brought back fond memories of a Dove that flew into my bedroom window. Pookie became my beloved pet and I loved when he did The Laughing Dance on my lap. What a gift from heaven to have this beautiful bird fly into my home. I never caged him and loved watching him bathe in his bowl then he would sit on the window sill and dry up in the sunshine. Thank you Shlarl for posting this wonderful video, it was so much fun to watch.
Rogue T-Rex I used to have a beautiful sweet white dove that used to make that same call. Even the cackling sound. It’s a mating call and dance? He did it a lot.
@@SimulatorWhiz if many people commit mistake it become the norm, in fact, now I say "atleast" instead of " at least" this is language evolution in action
The cat is me on a weekend, trying to ignore my mind's inner chatter. The dove is my mind's inner chatter...do laundry, go to pharmacy, weed the garden....
Maybe he's doing it to get a laugh out of the other doves. Like, "look doves, I'm asking out the cat!" It's maybe why the other doves are yipping in the background
This is one of the most natural videos of animals playing with each other.. It's a pleasure to see these obviously much adored and beloved cat and bird together. And funny too. So different from animal videos that are staged, when you know by the body language and eye movements of the animal [ dog, cat etc, ] by their wide eyes glances at the person behind the camera and also their stilted and hesitant body movements. The cat and dog in this video are a pleasure to watch. Thank you for showing how animals should be - themselves.
I used to watch the birds annoy my cat from the trees. They would even swoop down right over her head. Every so often she would jump up in the air and actually catch one and lights out for the poor bird. Cats and birds are mortal enemies, people think of mice when they think of cat prey but birds are the true target. That's why I'm impressed with the patience of this cat, the cat must know the bird is important to the parent
I feel like the dove is asking a bunch of questions about why the cat is shaped like that and not like a bird and the cat is responding to every question with a very tired "Because I'm a cat"
The funny thing is that the cat really isn't all that annoyed. She's relaxed, closing her eyes, laying on her back. Even when she's batting at the dove, she's doing it in a very playful and happy manner.
@@alexh8754 whenever I wake my cat, she looks at me like “Are you out of your mind!” (But whenever she wakes me up, she’s like “Awaken, for it is by my will alone that you live. Now come, we have a universe to destroy.”)
Cat enjoys that his fresh "fried" dove always near by, thinking by the way "to be or not to be". Dove's confidence grows everyday. he must be thinking "to day is a cat but tomorrow a lion for sure". What a warrior am I?!
I don't know much about dove behavior but i suspect you're right, at least partially (the dove also seems to be kidding around just for fun). For about two years my two cats & I had a crow who lived with us, a young crow I took in after finding him calling for help in a neighbor's yard. I recognized his distress calls, realized he was lost & calling for his family, so I watched him for a while to see if anyone answered his calls, then took him home with me. (As I found out months later, he had been living with a friend of mine who was curator of birds at the Audubon Institute, had been being rehabilitated to return to a crow flock after his broken wing had healed.) He was still a juvenile when i took him in, though already almost as large as an adult. I'd studied crows & had watched them all my life, had always loved & admired them for their intelligence & humour so I was thrilled to have him come to live with us, even if temporarily. My two cats were at first very curious about him but also very wary. The crow, whom i called Shakbatina after he repeatedly answered to that name rather than other possible names I called out, was allowed freedom in our house when i was present & not sleeping but was put in a large cage when i was.out or asleep...our apt. was two large rooms with no door in between, so I couldn't simply put the crow in a separate room when needed, though he didn't seem to mind being in the cage. Until I could make sure the cats would get along with him, it seemed too risky to leave him out unprotected. For several days the two cats would come near him only when he was in the cage. Otherwise, they kept their distance, especially after the second day when he thoroughly terrified them by flying over to join them as they were eating. The cats had their faces in their dish, didn't see him coming, & suddenly this big bird was descending on them like a predator. Scared the hell out of them both & they swiftly ran & hid in the adjoining room. Shakbatina had seemed to enjoy startling them, thought it was.funny. (Months later I learned he had enjoyed playing such games with cats when he had lived with my ornithologist friend, Tom.) After that incident the cats refused to come into the room unless Shakbatina was in his cage. But once he was secured in his cage, the cats would approach closer & closer, trying to find out if the bird was dangerous or not. As they got used to him, & as he made friendly overtures toward them, one.of the cats became friends with him, but her brother didn't like him & began making predatory moves. (Both cats had lived indoors all their lives so had never been around birds.) Though Shakbatina lived with us for about two years before joining a local crow flock (his decision), the one cat continued to treat him as potential prey. Eventually the cat stopped making predatory moves on the crow but only after the crow repeatedly let him know he'd have a serious fight on his hands if he tried anything. The crow never harmed the cat, merely made moves to let him know he'd better back off. The crow was very civil about this, very polite under the circumstances. When the cat made predatory moves toward him, he'd stand his ground while puffing up his feathers to seem larger & staring the cat in the face to let him know he should back off. When Shakbatina started reaching sexual maturity, he began making signs toward me that indicated his interest in forming a 'marriage' with me. Crows generally start looking for a permanent mate at that age (close to a year old), & once two crows form a close relationship in this way, they continue this relationship for a year or two, a relationship that includes continued courtship & closeness & commitment but which doesn't include sexual mating. During this year or more, each crow helps its parents raise & train their newer babies & young. Crows have a real language which has to be learned from elders, also have specific rules regarding behavior toward other crows. In fact, they have what amounts to a system of laws re: acts such as killing another crow as well as less serious acts. It's rare for a crow to kill another crow but, as with humans, occasionally there is an individual who commits such crimes. Crows have been observed by specialists holding court to decide whether one of their colony has committed murder, a session in which apparently the crow 'jury' hears evidence & decides the sentence. In cases of outright murder of another crow, the culprit is often sentenced to death. I've observed this twice over the decades ...the crows chase the fleeing murderer & kill him/her. Even if u normally don't pay attention to crows, this is such a loud event that it can't be ignored if you're nearby. Sentences of a less serious nature (antisocial behavior generally, "manslaughter', etc.) can result in the crow's being banished from the colony (at worst), but unlike most species (including humans generally), crow flocks will accept strangers from other flocks & give them a second chance...an extremely rare behavior among birds in particular but also quite rare among mammals, who usually will drive away or even kill a stranger of their own species. Crows are extremely egalitarian, more so than most human societies. Anyway, Shakbatina courted me for many months, which at first shocked me when i realized what he was doing. The bowing behavior was a part of this courtship, as it is among many birds. Even if you know nothing of crow behavior, you'd notice if a crow courted you... similar to human courtship, with lots of cooing & attempts to please. Pretty gushy. Shakbatina exhibited all the courtship behaviors I'd read about in the books on crows by specialists in the last twenty or so years. The books by Candace Savage are excellent, as she compiles the results of many studies by crow specialists. When asked if they thought crows were more intelligent than humans, in various interviews, she & several specialists hesitantly replied yes, probably so. In a long interview with Savage on public radio by Terry Gross in '05, Savage went on to say that not only did she think crows were more intelligent than humans, that crows have societies that are superior to most human societies, in that crow societies are more egalitarian, fair to all members, far less violent, committed to truly caring for others, including stranger-crows who seek to become members. (Among crows, there would be no such thing as 'illegal aliens'. Each one seeming asylum would receive a fair hearing & if shown to be a potentially good member, received as a resident. Crows must be a member of a flock to survive; in the worst cases of murderer-crows who aren't executed but rather escape, the murderer-crow would be exiled from nearby crow colonies as well, which would likely end in the murderer-crow's death. Crow colonies communicate widely with other colonies, spreading the word about crows who've committed cold-blooded murder.) Candace Savage & the various specialists on crows have all suggested that humans would do well to emulate crow societies. Crow society if very similar to various Am. Indian societies of the pre-colonization times, native societies which were based on true democracy, not majority rule, in which all adults had an equal say, regardless of gender or status. Also these native societies had no respect for great wealth & thus there were not vast differences in class, no elite who by their great wealth were allowed more power over others. Some native nations still practice some.form of this traditional social-political system, but being under control of the US & state governments to a great extent & having lost most of their homelands, the traditional native democracies can't function as they did in pre-colonial times. It should be no surprise that many native peoples had high respect for crows & ravens, nor that their long observation of & interaction with crows & ravens helped them learn how to build truly egalitarian democracies. Socialist? Yes, but not Socialist with a capital 'S', not the forms of existing governments in various modern western nations. Rather, a form of socialism that was traditional for centuries among many native peoples, socialist societies based on total & equal participation of all members. Crow & raven society present a good example of an ideal society.
