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# This Owl and Cat Have a Beautiful Friendship

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## Melissa Locker


Sep 16, 2014 6:07 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Sep 16, 2014 6:07 PM UTC

Know that[ old bedtime story](http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171941) about the owl and the pussycat who sailed away in a beautiful pea green boat? This video is like a prequel to that song.

The camera captures an owl and a cat just chilling with each other like two good friends with nothing to do on a Tuesday night. According to[_The Telegraph_](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/pets/11099229/Cat-and-owl-are-the-unlikeliest-of-friends.html)_,_ Cleo the owl and Forbi the cat struck up a friendship when they were young and impressionable and didn’t think it was weird to be friends with an animal that is normally your mortal enemy. They kindled their relationship thanks to sharing a home and an owner, Andre Costa, a Brazilian biologist, and now the two critters have become inseparable inter-species BFF. Since he posted the [original video](https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=853007738052199) of this moment on Facebook on September 7, it has been shared more than 124,000 times.

It’s a beautiful display of an unlikely friendship that we could watch all day, while waiting for them to sail away under the light of the moon.

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