Other than these two being best bud , we do have one possible explanation .
This much - too - friendly cat and mouse might be the qualification of the nextTom and Jerry , but there ’s something else that could explain this mouse ’s hardy feline riding .
These two new friends — we very much hope — come to us from a Nov. 3TikTokposted by Jessica Pippen . Someone , presumptively Pippen , open her door to a pair of cat , one of whom has a humble mouse crawling on their back . Weird !
Courtesy of jess_pip / TikTok
" Is that a mouse on your back ? " she asks . " OK … OK … "
The human quickly ventures back into the house , catch a stunner towel , and then plucks the mouse off the tri - colored cat — murmuring , " Oh my God " under her breath — before fix the gnawer a safe distance away .
The video realise 10.1 million opinion and position several question : Did the African tea notice the shiner ? Are they buddies ? How did the mouse get there ? Most importantly , why would a mouse mean it ’s a in force idea to hop on the back of an creature who could easily kill them ?
We might have an account for that : toxoplasmosis , a disease because of a leech that can falsify a rodent ’s behavior .
" This disease is do by a parasitic infection that alters the brain alchemy of rodents and seems to eliminate their instinctive reverence of cats and other predators , " say Jenna Stregowski , RVT and Daily Paws ' pet wellness and demeanor editor . " written report indicatethat toxoplasmosis does even more ; it shorten overall anxiety and diminishes fear of potential dangerous situations . "
Toxoplasmosis commonly does n’t make malady , Stregowski adds , but it mostly will affect beast who are unseasoned or immunocompromised . So perhaps this mouse caught the disease from eat something — pith , dirt , or even cat tail — out in the natural state .
Or maybe this black eye and this guy are really bud ! We can at least dream .
