Have you ever done something really amazing and then you can’t remember how you did it? This is today’s problem for Kitten Miri, who executes a perfect forward roll by accident. Time for Uncle Maru to step up and show her how to do it on purpose.
But Miri still has a long way to go before she can be as exciting as Maru, who can go all “Hulk Smash!” on a paper bag.
Nobody puts Maru in a corner, unless you put a box there first. Then he’ll put himself in a corner.
Maru Meets the Monkeys
Many people are used to seeing cute forest creatures in their backyards from time to time. Playful raccoons. Elegant deer. But Maru sees monkeys invading his back porch.
As everyone knows, when you’ve got a monkey invasion underway, there’s only one thing you can do: build a snow fort.
Submitterated by Andrew Y.
Snow igloo is so cool! >:3
XD Maru looks very interested in his monkey neighbors
Love the snow igloo – I think it’s a first in the Mugu household.
Maru was so cute tearing up that bag so his big, fluffy head could fit. š»
Hana isn’t always so lady-like – what a good girl protecting her family.
I hope Kitten Miri never grows out of chattering at birds.
They get monkeys in their backyard?!?! No fair!
You said it! Iām indignant!
I realize this is very provincial of me, but I can’t quite wrap my head around living somewhere where wild monkeys come in your yard. Yes, the Japanese Macaque is native to most of Japan, but in your YARD? Not a national park, not a game preserve, but just everywhere? In residential neighborhoods? Yes, people in the rural US have bears in the backyard and in Alaska moose make it to downtown in the cities, but where I live the only diurnal wild mammals are squirrels. If I looked out the window and saw a monkey I’d have a heart attack. And call animal control while waiting for the ambulance. I had no idea they wandered around loose where people live in an industrialized country like Japan. I’ve speculated before that she must live in the outskirts of a city or in a small town (to be able to afford that much land) — now I wonder if she’s all the way in the countryside. But then she wouldn’t have a fence, would she? It would explain all the Amazon deliveries, though, if she’s miles from the nearest store.
Actually if you go to some parts of Florida you can find plenty of monkeys in residential areas. They’re not really supposed to be there naturally as they were brought over in the 1930s as a tourist attraction by guy running a tour boat operation. Now their population has exploded and they have been found in residential areas.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/florida-rhesus-monkeys-herpes-running-wild-invasive-species.
https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/new-feral-monkey-sightings-on-first-coast-raising-concerns-awareness/77-30f22413-ad36-4f76-b64a-19c6dbb36e6b
I’ll be darned. I guess an environment that can support iguanas and anacondas can handle monkeys too. Florida really is its own place. The continental U.S.’s little taste of the tropics. I also guess any animal will try to come into populated areas if nothing’s stopping it. Now some entrepreneur can start selling monkey traps at the Florida Lowes. Thanks for the links. The first one wanted me to make a membership, but I got to see the second.