All the better to kronche you with, my dear! (just for fun, of course)
From YouTube uploader CamelsAndFriends: “Pancake is a 7 week old kitten I’m fostering for a friend after he was found abandoned in a hot parking lot. Sugar Tree is my 2 year old Doberman and is probably embarrassed that I’m uploading this video.”
FAVE FRAME™!
Yikes! Good thing the kitten is naturally camouflaged against that rug.
At about 13 seconds, Pancake looks up at Sugar Tree and blinks with the most innocent expression. That one tiny moment somehow encapsulates why I loves me some kittayns. This video is sweet, and the Dobie is being very good. His teeth, how he pulls his lips back to expose them, and the clicking sounds each time his mouth closes are a bit scary, but he’s obviously a big softy.
I don’t know which critter I love more–Pancake for simple adorableness or Sugar Tree for his EXTREME care in the face of severe provocation. They’re both wonderful.
I love when tough and rough looking doggies are being all playful and sweet. Proves you should never judge a book by it’s cover!
Second that! One of my go-to youtube searches for when I’m in need of smiles is “doberman and baby” or some derivative thereof. So lovely to see those very tender and sweet kronches, its obvious the dobe is very careful to not play too rough with the kitten.
Talk about a Marc Anthony moment, check out Pancake and the family german shepard:
Life can be good when you have friends.
Too cute for words! That is one chill shepard.
Kit: Dees big doggies is my moms and dads!
Yeah, that kitteh is ruling this roost with the Doberman and German Shepard
I am slain! I also need a nap now.
So sweet! It’s great watching them play. How cute.
That is one brave and fearless kitteh.
I think the Dobie’s the brave one! Such fierceness in that kitty!
Brave kittie indeed. I’d be a scaredy cat.
1:06 – boop boop!
and also: yaaayyy eyebrow dots!
adorable! such a sweet doggie and nave kittayn
Sugar Tree is one sweet dog. I vote Pancake stays with him, as they are clearly destined to be.
Second this vote!
brave, not nave!
I love the part around 41 when Dobie fits all of kitten in his mouff. Haum!
… and doesn’t hurt the kittie! amazing!
When I watch shows about raising dogs and training them or choosing certain breeds, they mention an aspect called using a “soft mouth” which is a dog’s “strategy” for bringing birds to their person, w/o damaging the bird.
Some particular dog breeds are more-known, for this selective skill. I might
be remembering some of the medium-to larger breeds of spaniels/ English spaniels, Springer spaniels & (trumpet flourish here please) Brittany Spaniels.
Pancake is quite the little instigator! Cute video, though I did gasp involuntarily when Sugar Tree put his entire mouth around the kitten tum. So glad that Sugar Tree is such a sweetheart!
This is a standard doggeh behavior with unruly babies. Momma dogs do this to puppies all the time.
I know…but those TEETH!!!! I is scared of dem!
I is too :O Very scared…
Although it’s cute of course.
Pancake and Sugar Tree? Best names ever!
I need an insulin shot from the names. Seriously though, Sugar Tree? I bet we have trouble laughing that name off at the dog park: SU-GAR TREE-E-E! SWEETIE! SU-GAR TREE-E-E!
That dobie though, like most I’ve known, they fall over when you look at them for a belly rub.
Omg…. ;_; my dobie did that all the time, she was a big baby…
how did you see eyebrow dots with all that flailing going on??!!
but the dog does have nice white toofs.
and – is the background a different color today?
Holy fangitude, :44 – :48, entire kitty, IN THE MOUF!
“Fostering,” eh? I wouldn’t want to be one the trying to take SugarTree’s new
best friend away from him…
Oliver & Company !
In this corner: Beeg Teefs vs. Teeny Tuxi (guess who’s always going to win…….yes, my friends, our Feline Cuteoverloads)
That kitten is like a scooby-snack for that dobie. Thankfully, Sugar Tree isn’t in the mood to eat Pancakes.
Yes, normally the odds would be stacked against him.
Beauteous, Oakley.
I love the “sneak attack” from the air at :26 in the video! LOL Dobies have a bad rap, they are very good with little kids and are actually big softies!
I peed in my pants a little when the doggie put his jaws around the kitten’s middle, but then again if the kitty had gotten kronsched in half it probably wouldn’t be posted on CO.
That’s a classic and super-gentle move that big doggies often use on pups or, in this case, kittens. It’s the attempt to gently pin down the wiggle-baby for a have a second. I’ve seen them use it a million times. They never bite down, just pin.
LOVE this video. I’m so glad to see it become so popular. I’ve been watching this fur-family forever.
oh look there’s skippymom telling us how her body system reacted to the vid.
“Bless her heart” !!!
(JK of course– I only say this, in understanding)
omg the teeth sounds are too much!! fears for kitteh? maybe an accidental type little bit?
Most big doggies know how to handle little, hyper furballs that size. If you think about it, their puppies aren’t much bigger. There’s no fear. Sugartree has a ton of fur-friends of varying sizes.
The camels are likely more unintentionally dangerous than the dobie. XD
Right! My bro was close friends with a guy with a big old dog who was a bit grumpy, but never with his very lively little cat buddy, who was always pouncing on him. We often saw the dog use the jaws hold, never ever hurt the cat.
Does anyone else think that the screen capture image at the start of the video resembles the Alien? Eeeek
Heee…it does! Stay frosty, Pancake.
Now I am hungry for cornbread…
Nicely done Saffron! LOL
That was my first thought! The Alien scares the pants off me!
The way he tilts his head and shows off his big teeth reminds me of the T-Rex from Jurassic Park.
Or “How to Train Your Dobie”
Awwww……Dobes are very sweet & very smart. They know they can romp heartily with the big kids & play gently with the little ones.
Agreed! There was a dobie that owned the pet store down the street from my old house (i.e. her owner owned it) and while she was huge and probably pretty intimidating looking for some people, she would just follow you around and even carry a bag for you. We always bought her a treat as a tip. She was absolutely lovely.
Now THAT’S a really nice story! I am scared of Dobermans but this story makes sure I will not judge a puppy by its fur in the future! Thanks, CJ!
The neighbor kids (5-7yr olds) used to come to my Mom’s back door & ask if ‘Sam’ (the doberman) could come out to play. He trotted around & nudged them gently; when he played with us 20somethings, he ran full tilt & hits us head on. He also hid behind my 5’2″ mom when a stranger came in the door.
Yup, all puppies are different just like all humans. Certainly some breeds are more possessive (and therefore could be sharper to people that aren’t their human) but I’ve generally found that if they’re raised kindly it shows.
Dog and kitty version of the ‘I’m gonna bite your face off’ game
I just love when big ferocious goggies turn out to be push overs for tiny feline!
Admit it. We’re all pushovers for tiny felines!
*first to document self, in this CAT-egory”
What a gentle, sweet doggy that Dobie is being. Melts my heart.
awwww this reaffirms why I love dobies. My first puppers was Dobie…and he was the sweetest thing in the world. He also was very gentle with the other dog and kitties around the neighborhood.
*snap-snap* Maybe we all CAN just get along…
Beautiful! ~sigh~
Oops… part of my message got deleted. Oh well- still beautiful.
i’ve never met a dobie or dobie mix that wasn’t sweet. i’m sure that they can throw down when needed, but for the most part, cuddling was the prime objective. anyhoo.
PANCAKES? that’s the kitten’s name? do you want us all to go into diabetic shock and die?
Wait a patient little doberman!
I love all the kitten fur on the dobe’s schnozz. I completely sympathise there!
I am equally amazed that the kitten is that fearless — the teeth are as big as its head! — and that a dog with teeth like that can be that gentle. The gentlest dog I ever knew was a Doberman but I’m still not sure I’d have gotten inside her mouth! Just amazing.
Love the moment when the kittayn falls over. He looks so befuddled!
0:28: “Oh, it is ON, beeatch!”
Pancake is amazing! And she looks like she´s wearing a black wig.
pancake is going to need a bath. he will be entirely covered in doggie drool. it looks like the Dobie wants to put pancake in his pocket so he can just have a moment’s nap.
Apparently pancake’s not very good at baths:
Let me try that again.
Pancake takng a bath, FAIL
That was a lot of fast grab the kitty while at the same time keeping the video in the censored range!
PANCAKE HAZ A TEDDY BEAUW !!!!
Best playmates EVER!!!!
What a big scary ferocious dobie! NOT!
I just love it when huge dogs are so patient and gentle with kittlets, puplets and kidlets. I hope Pancake gets to stay with her new BFF.
Hmm “Pancake”, I wonder if he’s related to Waffles:
http://cuteoverload.com/2009/05/31/waffles-grabbed-a-bee/
Awwwww! NOW I remember Waffles! What a picture that is!!
You named your Doberman Sugar Tree and are concered he will be embarrased about a video of him playing with a kitteh?
My grandmother used to have a Dobie named Gretchen. My grandma lived alone, in a rural area, and Gretchen was protective as all get out when anyone she didn’t know approached the yard, but she was gentle and sweet with my brother and myself when we were kids. Good, good dog.
Adorable, but as someone who has small chunks of a calf missing from where a playful Dobie got a little to into it with her teeth, I do worry for teh kitteh.
I second that. I love dobies, too, and this one looks super sweet but I hope this human keeps a cool head and always supervises. Dogs will be dogs.
I see stuff like this and really, really hope that the humans decide to let the obvious friends stay together forever.
Same here, Felic
Another kitten named Pancake? Did Natasha Allegri start a tread?
…I’m guessing though I’m the only one around that’s seen enough Adventure Time to get that reference… ^^;
That pup has some scary fangs :O It’s evidently all in good fun, but…just….:O
Somebody give the dobie a treat for being such a good sport!
Cropped ears and a docked tail always make me wonder if there’s any limit to the vanity of human nature… Lovely and adorable animals in any case.
lol reminds of when I used to babysit. The family had two cats and a Rottie named Lola. The female cat used to bat and hiss at Lola, but unlike the dog in this video, Lola would whine and hide. I used to laugh that this big 120 pound dog was terrified of a little tiny 12 pound cat.
Double boopage at the end!