Real-life Tom and Jerry were caught on tape playing the ultimate game of cat and mouse in the backyard of a building.
Smartphone footage shows the pair trying to outsmart each other, similar to Hanna-Barbera’s popular animated duo, in the city of Nanning, in China’s southern Guangxi region, near the border with Vietnam.
At the beginning of the video published on 25th December, the cat carried the rodent in its mouth before it suddenly dropped it on the ground.
But when the feline laid down a moment later, the rat rushed back to its hole in an attempt to escape, before the cat stormed in the same direction and intercepted it.
It then gently gripped the rat with its teeth, and carried it back to where it first left it. But the little grey rat made a second bid to escape the same way.
When the cat caught it once again, and brought it to another part of the yard, the rat tried to climb up a plastic broom and hide.
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The clip left social media users amazed after it was posted on China’s version of TikTok, Douyin. They were unable to hold back from commenting.
Douyin user ‘@cousin’ said: “Just like my husband, he neither loves me nor lets me run away.”
Then ‘sugar’ commented: “I’m just curious why mice don’t bite cats, but bite people instead?”
And ‘Nothing more’ added: “Just a dish on the plate.”
The video was liked more than 116,000 times and shared another 88,000 after it went online on Christmas day.
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Story By: Georgina Jedikovska, Sub-Editor: Simona Kitanovska, Agency: Asia Wire Report
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