'He chose to live with sheep': Lonely stray cat who's never known what care or warmth felt like bonds with farm sheep, now acts like he's part of the sheep flock, leading the little lambs

Cats don't just choose humans. Sometimes, they choose to adopt friends from other species as well.

We say it all the time. Cats are the ones who choose their families, not the other way around. You think that when you walk into a shelter, looking for a cat to adopt, the outcome is in your hands, but it is not. Whether you walk out of there with a cat or not is entirely in the cats' paws. They might choose you, and they might not. You need to prove yourself worthy first. 

Of course, we don't know the exact way in which we can prove that we are wrothy to them. That is why the cat distribution system still, to this day, catches people off guard. It works in meowsterious ways. But it does always work. And although, more than anything else, cats choose humans to adopt, sometimes, they also choose other animals. 

And it can be any animal. A cat can choose a dog as its best friend, despite their differences, despite the fact that they are known as sworn enemies, despite how different their behaviors are from one another. A cat can choose a bird as its best friend forever, despite the fact that one is prey and one is the opposite, despite the fact that you would never imagine a cat befriending a bird. We have even seen cats choose turtles as best friends, and isn't that a ridiculous combination that you have probably never thought of.

For animals that have such a reputation for being aloof and preferring to be on their own, cats are actually extremely friendly creatures. They are simply friendly only with the creatures that they choose to be friendly with. And honestly, we think that is fair. You would think that we would be incredibly surprised to see the cat in today's video befriend a bunch of sheep in a flock, but no. 

The thing that actually surprised us about this video is not the interspecies friendship. That is something that we have seen quite a few times, both with cats and with other animals. No, what actually surprised us was the cat turning into a little shepherd and leading the flock himself.