20 Unexpected Animal Friendships to Melt Your Heart

Hoomans, how have we gotten it so wrong for so long? The animal kingdom is just that, a united kingdom, in which all members are personable to one and other, well as long as they are not predator and prey. Yet, when it comes to us hoomans, the last thing we have invested in is our relationship with animals.

Sure, we have domesticated some and bent them to our will, but we are talking about true animal connections here. The difference between taking a person off the street, putting them in your home and telling them that own them, versus just talking to said person on the street as they go about their day. So to prove to you the power of animal friendship, we wrangled a few heartwarming animal examples for you to feat your eyes on and get a taste for the wonder that can come into your life when you make friends and not foes out of animals.

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This utterly cute, and as you will find out in a couple of scrolls, chaotic friendship is one that we most certainly did not expect to see, for some reason (hopefully other than species), the idea of dogs interacting with chickens does not quite seem like a good fit. And it certainly has its quirks, judging by the following photos.
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Literally no words for this. It is like Edgar Allan Poe teamed up with Disney to do a reimagining of his seminal work The Crow, but with two doggo sidekicks who help the crow learn the meaning of love, and they decide to stop being evil together and live happily ever after.
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