Morris the tiny cat finds his biggest bestie in Champy the horse, and 14 years later, they're still proving the sweetest friendships can come in the most unlikely sizes

Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor

Oct 14, 2026 1:30 PM EDT

Adorable animal friendships come in all kinds of shapes, sizes and species.

And no, this is not something that we are saying as people who have seen a picture on the internet at some point. We have evidence. We have authority on the matter. We, the ICHC editors, have been writing stories about animals for years, and we have seen some of the cutest and strangest animal friendships over our time here. As just the tip of the iceberg, a few of our personal favorites include: the cat who became friends with a rescued giant lynx, and don't worry, the itty bitty feline is the one putting the big one in his place, not the other way around. The orange cat who adopted a baby bunny that lost its mother and is now basically raising that bunny as her child. And the cat who became best friends with a bearded dragon. Literally chilling together in the same tank, yes.

After all this time, we wanted to believe that no interspecies animal friendship would surprise us. We know that these friendships come in all kinds of shapes, sizes and species. And yet, even I, someone who has spent over 6 years writing content about cats, was surprised by this one. Because this is not just a cat and a horse being friends. It's not just their difference in size and in ways of showing affection. It's the time that they have been friends.

Morris was adopted in 2013, and although at first, the idea of being friends with a horse was strange to Morris, eventually, Champy won him over. And they are still friends right now. That's nearly 14 whole years of love.

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One of our biggest pet peeves as people who write about animals is when people humanize animals too much. When we look at the behavior of animals and project our traits and our ways of loving onto them. Animals have their own ways of expressing love - ways that are obviously very different from ours. Cats, for example, show affection by slow blinking at you, by turning their back toward you, and by just choosing to spend time with you in the same room. Just because your cat doesn't cuddle with you every night doesn't mean that they don't love you. Horses, as another example, show their love by grooming you, standing next to you, coming to say hi to you when they see you. Again, you don't need to expect them to tolerate hugs to know they love you.
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What we love here, in this story, is that the affection between the animals is so obvious, you don't need to over-humanize it. The cat is headbutting the horse. The horse is nuzzling the cat. The cat is napping on the horse. The horse is letting the cat sit on it without protest. Their love is so clear and so strong, we only wish that they will have many, many years together to keep being happy like this.
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