An adult male interacts with animals, including a German Shepherd puppy and a small kitten, indoors with light-colored furniture and neutral curtains.

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One tiny meow wins over Jessie

Name: One tiny meow wins over Jessie
Uploaded: 2023-02-06T14:00:10Z
Duration: 1 min 16 s
Description: Jessie, a German shepherd puppy, has a problem. Her dad is cuddling a tiny tabby kitten, and she would very much like a turn.

Jessie, a German shepherd puppy, has a problem. Her dad is cuddling a tiny tabby kitten, and she would very much like a turn. more

She sits as close as she can get and watches his hand. Every stroke that goes to the kitten is one that is not going to her, and her face says so. She has the sad puppy eyes, and she uses them.

A young German shepherd puppy sits on a bed and looks down at a person's hand beside a colorful pillow. A headline runs in white letters across the lower third. — Jessie sits close and watches the hand that is busy with the kitten.

When looking doesn't work, she tries licking him. When that fails too, she gets down to kitten level, as if the trick might be to get as small as the kitten. None of it wins her the lap, but she never pushes in or makes a fuss about it.

For a puppy this young and this excited, keeping calm while someone else gets the lap is no small thing. So she settles for watching from the side.

A black and tan German shepherd puppy looks off to one side near a window with curtains. A headline runs in white letters across the lower third. — Jessie settles for watching from the side while the kitten gets her dad's attention.

Then the kitten makes the first move. She lets out one tiny meow and steps closer to the puppy. Jessie forgets about the hand. Now the kitten is the interesting thing.

Jessie towers over her and looks down with a kind of careful curiosity. There's nothing rough in it. Her paws are already huge and the kitten's are tiny beside them, and Jessie seems to know exactly how gentle that means she has to be.

The kitten learns something too. A dog this size turns out not to be anything to run from, so she stays right where she's and lets herself be looked at. Two babies, one already far bigger than the other, getting used to the idea of each other.

And then her dad remembers he has two hands. One lands on the kitten and the other on Jessie, and the standoff is over. Her head goes down on his lap, her tongue comes out, and she wears the look of a dog who has just won something.

A German shepherd puppy rests her head on a seated person's lap with her tongue out. A headline runs in white letters across the lower third. — With one hand on each, the standoff ends and Jessie melts into her dad's lap.

Her ears haven't yet decided which way to point, and her tongue seems to be along for the ride. She'll grow out of both soon enough, and the kitten will grow too. For now there's one lap and, at last, enough hands to go around.

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