That is so cute. It reminds me a little bit of the female gorilla at the National Zoo whose baby passed away. She was so withdrawn that the staff of the zoo brought her a kitten whose mother died to see if they would console each other. The gorilla adopted the kitten and raised it as her own.

Awww…soooo sweet

I’m too late for anything, but you people whining about no more Miracle Pets? It’s called Animal Miracles, it’s still hosted by Alan Thicke, and it runs on Animal Planet presently. They reran the kitten/crow pair, and with a much higher production budget, too.

I’m too late for anything, but you people whining about no more Miracle Pets? It’s called Animal Miracles, it’s still hosted by Alan Thicke, and it runs on Animal Planet presently. They reran the kitten/crow pair, and with a much higher production budget, too.

So very cute! But I am not surprised…I have a couple of 10 year old cats that have a very content “live and let live” modus vivendi with the local craws who come for my peanuts….When one of the cats feels playful or ambitious and goes into a bogus crouch, or even attempts a lazy leap, the craws, totally unalarmed , waddle couple of inches off target…and actually seem amused…..

awesome humanistic video. thank you.

It’s interesting how easily we can generalize this video to ask “why can’t people who have been enemies for so long learn to live together as friends like these two creatures?” Some viewers’ comments point exactly to the answer. Here both the kitten and the crow (perhaps as a pet?) were given an experience early in their lives of being with others in a gentle way. You could say they have missed out on life’s too common lessons to distrust (or even hunt) others.

So do we do this with our children? Do we create for our children an experience where their innocent trust gets rewarded? Not really. Certainly not often. Rather, we humans teach our children most everywhere to distrust, even to hate — mostly to hate certain groups. We specifically avoid exposing our children to such trust-enabling early life situations that both these creatures must have experienced.

And, you know? Can you imagine the howl of protest were someone to suggest we raise our children differently than we do, that we deliberately “cultivate” the child’s capacity to love and befriend others (particularly those others who we vilify by tradition)? Fear drives us to do just the opposite.

All our institutions (religious and otherwise) can then be viewed as attempts to cover up those early life teachings and experiences that keep most of us from functioning with each other like these two “dumb” creatures do.

At least by viewing this sweet video we’re given an opportunity to reflect upon ourselves, upon how far we have yet to go.

Thanks to those who made this available.

ALAN THICKE….SUPERSTAR???

Lis Riba…thanks for the updated info. I too was wondering what became of this pair. I’m so glad to hear that they are still around and doing well.

My Sister told me about this over the weekend, but you really have to see it to believe it! This was too cool!

ahn. that’s the first CO post that has actually made me cry. Just delicious.