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Crow and kitten: Unlikely friends

Here's an old piece of video that's still worth crowing about -- from the PAX network series Miracle Pets, which premiered in 2001.

In this segment, narrated by Alan Thicke, a couple shows and talks about the unusual relationship that blossomed between a stray kitten that appeared in their yard one day and the crow that showed up with him.

The motherless kitty was about three months old when it first showed up, and the couple watched (and videotaped) in amazement as the crow went about feeding the kitten worms and protecting it. When the couple eventually took the cat into their home, the crow would stand outside and wait for it to come out.

The video was posted to YouTube about a year ago -- after a man came across it while going through his mother's old VHS tapes -- and it's gotten more than 4 million views since.

Posted by John Woestendiek at 7:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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This is adorable!! Thanks for posting this. It definitely brightened my day!

Posted by: Christina | May 5, 2008 12:27 AM

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Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a beta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin. She, Leo and Pumpkin live in Baltimore.