Here’s a great picture of a three-layer love fest. I almost wish there was a tiny flea on the rat just to make things even better. Best. Picture. Ever. I especially love that it wasn’t staged, the photographer just happened across this freak occurrence.
will shetterly
There are apparently several people who do this little show and take tips from passersby. One was in Bisbee, Arizona for a while.
As the economy gets worse, there may be more.
Snappy
How ’bout a flea on a rat on a cat on a dog on a tiger on top of Roy Horn?
GailW
Let’s imagine there is a tiny flea on the rat, just to expand the cuteness.
jodie
hi! can someone please tell me the breed/breeds of the dog? thanks y’all!
Richard
a gnat on the rat on the cat on the dog would be more appropriate than a flea
Ashley
@Jodie: It looks like a rottweiler/labrador mix. Doesn’t quite have the head of a full rott.
Briannana
By the looks of it, I’d guess that k9 is a rottweiler lab mix. 
Cute
laly
How about…
A flea on a gnat on a rat on a cat on a dog on a sidewalk in a city on a continent of a planet in a solar system in a galaxy of a universe…
This makes me feel like a flea on a…
mother theresa
A dog with a cat atop it, with a rat atop the cat, with a flea atop the rat — that carries the plague organism — yeah, that’s the ticket.
vonskippy
If you believe that wasn’t staged, I happened to acquire a famous bridge that is having tough financial times and can be purchased for practically nothing (that’s right almost NOTHING).
Contact me at Imthesuckerthisminute@ptbarnum.com
Geekazoid
I’ve seen this sort of animal grouping for quite a while now. Must be someone out there raising their pets to do this specifically.
Gerry
Not staged??? This guy does a street act and has been on TV numerous times…..
The Slapster
For the love of all that holy, it wasn’t staged by the freakin’ PHOTOGRAPHER. Literal grammar nazis, worse than Illinois nazis.
Alex
Wasn’t this on Neato before? Lemme see … yes! They’re Booger, Kitty and Mousie who perform for their owner Greg Pike for tips.
Becca
This act is from Santa Fe, New Mexico. A favorite for locals and tourists alike, local business owners paid for his vendor license after the police kept kicking him off the plaza.
jodie
thanks to those that chimed in about the breed of the dog! mucho appreciation. i asked b/c i have an australian shepherd that is way bigger than she’s ‘supposed’ to be. i think you’re all right about the rottweiler part. every once in a while i’ll look at my girl and think maybe she’s got some rott in her – but her features are more delicate, but she’s twice the size (110lbs) that a normal aussie shep would be. she’s a rescued dog – so it’s just a matter of curiosity. thanks again for the info!
ted
Slapster, that’s not an example of grammar nazism.
A grammar nazi would have pointed out that the last sentence is a run-on sentence, where two independent clauses were joined with no punctuation or conjunction.
Yes, the picture was not staged, but the action occurring in it was staged. At first glance, the article seems to imply that the entire activity was happenstance.
Decline and Fall
Those animals and their owner were in Bisbee, AZ in 2005-06 when I lived near there. He made money by asking people for money when they took pictures of his dog-cat-mouse pyramid. Nice guy, but he seemed unstable.
H. D. Schmidt
Yes, and yes, it seems to me that America is not showing that kind of spirit towards the world!
Martha O.
I feel sorry for this guy and his siblings:
(Gregory Pike) has a psycho-abusive Mother and has been an unfortunate beggar since his release from Federal Prison in the early 1980?s, and since his Crack-Cocaine (and other?) arrest(s) more recently. He is severely paranoid and is understood to refuse to openly give his mailing address to even his family members.
Interestingly, Gregory Pike had a very distinguished Brother who had recently raised at least 2 Foster daughters and put one in College, and who was working towards his PH.D.(Gregory’s only professional Brother – not Gregory himself) – before this particular brother of Gregory was forced to flee the U.S. only because of a known wrongful-conviction 25 years ago only suddenly and unlawfully punishing his harmless Brother (wrongfully punishing Gregory’s only professional brother 25 years after-the-fact, and his brother nearly committed suicide 3 years ago).
This is being mentioned because the apparently jealous Gregory Pike ‘did nothing to prevent/when he could have’ the horrific false-conviction long ago of Gregory’s only professional in their psycho-warped family).
So before you judge ‘Gregory Pike’ – the Dog, Cat, Rat man… please think of what the influences he must have had which put him in that lifetime Bum-like situation, therefore what he’s done to some of his family sustaining his dangerous paranoia. Gregory certainly isn’t the primary person to blame for his obvious & evident short-comings in life; it is widely believed that Gregory’s Mother was never supposed to have any children due to her family history of mental illnesses, and perhaps [his mother] should have been locked-up instead in the local Psycho Farm.
However, Good job to Mr. Gregory Pike, considering what he had to start with in his unfair life.
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